Lakers Hire JJ Redick Reaction: Why “success feels inevitable” for LeBron James & LA | Hoops Tonight

Lakers Hire JJ Redick Reaction: Why “success feels inevitable” for LeBron James & LA | Hoops Tonight

all right welcome to Hoops tonight here at the volume happy Thursday everybody hope all of you guys are having a great week so far well JJ reck is the brand new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and so we’re going to take 101 15 minutes here just to give my initial Impressions on the hire you guys know the drill before we get started subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don’t miss any more of our videos follow me on Twitter _ jlt so you guys don’t miss show announcements don’t forget about our podcast feed wherever you get your podcast under Hoops tonight and then keep dropping mailbag questions in the YouTube comments we’re actually going to hit a mailbag in tomorrow’s show so I’m going to be grabbing questions from this video as well as the video we did on Tuesday kind of wrapping up the NBA Finals so drop questions in the comments we’ll get to them in tomorrow’s mailbag all right let’s talk some basketball so there’s a bunch of different angles I want to come at this from but I want to start from the perspective of risk because there’s going to be a lot of focus on JJ’s lack of experience and all of the risk that comes with that and the reason why I have an issue with that is there’s a risk no matter who you hire in this coaching field it’s kind of the reality like ideally you want to hire a coach that has great amount of experience a great amount of talent and aen track record right but those guys tend to have jobs right there was one of them that fake came available or maybe like it seemed maybe a leverage play not really that serious of an option right in Dan Hurley he had you know lots of experience proven track record you know this big personality obviously one of the most uh respected basketball genius is in the world right but he has a job right now right like those guys aren’t just sitting around waiting to be hired and so no matter what direction the Lakers had gone there was risk let’s go for a former head coach let’s go for someone like James bgo or Kenny Atkinson well those guys had mediocre prior stops there’s no guarantee that they’re going to just come into the Lakers and have a ton of success oh what about these longtime experienced assistant coaches well there’s plenty of examples in NBA and NFL history of guys who were successful coordinators or successful lead assistants that transitioned to a head coaching job and then struggled there’s a certain amount of risk there as well there was no option it was an unavoidable part of this process that the Lakers would encounter some risk when they chose a new head coach and so JJ obviously fits that bill but I didn’t think that that was something that they could avoid this the focus on experience experience is important but not at the expense of talent like if you were look at checking boxes and all the different things that you look for in a head coach right like I want a certain amount of competitiveness well JJ has that like what kind of person would give up their Kush media job to take over being head coach of the Lakers which comes with much more uh a much heavier workload much more travel much more pressure much more criticism why would you do that to yourself and your family it’s because he’s obsessed with basketball it’s because he’s a psych competitor something that has driven him to all of the success that he’s had as a basketball player give me talent in competitiveness any day of the week they’re going to find a way to succeed JJ has the competitiveness I do believe he has I do believe he has the talent I think he’s a very bright basketball mind I think he’s obsessed with modern NBA offense and all the different intricacies that make uh especially five out offense work as we know with the Lakers they shifted to five out last year and there were some Growing Pains early in the year but they really took off the second half of the year and I even think there’s another level that they could get to on that end of the floor so by virtue of JJ’s competitiveness and his desire to learn everything there is to know about five out offense I think he’s going to help that offense get to another level so like he’s got the competitiveness I I personally believe he has more than enough in terms of natural talent for the job there’s a personality piece and there’s going to be some Growing Pains there for sure because I think that JJ’s a really competitive guy right and and obviously there he’ll butt heads with players from time to time and it’s not going to be a perfectly seamless transition but if you surround him with an experienced set of assistance and as long as he has the Buy in of LeBron James who’s the most experienced star in the league I think that process over the next few years can be smoothed over but in general in terms of the core piece of it I do believe JJ’s personality is big enough he’s got enough Aura in the long run to be a very successful head coach and so honestly as I look through it and it’s like competitiveness you know personality and Aura talent and experience like obviously he’s lacking in the talent and experience part but I think he has a chance to be really really good in the other three areas and so again like experience is important but not at the expense of talent and you can supplement experience by surrounding him with experience right like we see this with players too it’s like you take the 2012 Thunder you add a Derek fiser you add a Kendrick Perkins it’s like th those guys aren’t the dudes actually doing most of the heavy lifting but it just provides the veteran presence that helps those guys navigate that environment the same thing goes for the coaching staff as long as JJ has experienced Minds that he can lean on through the process when he who can confront him and be like hey like when you communicate this to that player like I had this happen to me 3 years ago you know maybe next time try this it seems to resonate better like you’re right about what you’re thinking but we just got to work on the delivery you know whatever it is like all of those processes can be smoothed over by virtue of supplementing him with experience and again I put this in my note T give me Talent Plus competitiveness like it it just because someone’s in in over their head for for a certain job doesn’t mean they’re incapable of succeeding in that job sometimes it can be a little int intimidating and intense upfront but once you break through and learn is as long as you have the talent as long as you’re competitive and work hard enough the success to me feels inevitable and so I I I think that there’s a lot less risk here than uh than what is what than what would be what it would appear like on the surface giving the available candidates that are out there get ready for a night full of big fights and big action it’s UFC 303 and it can be even bigger jump in on all the action at draftking Sportsbook the official sports betting partner of the UFC it’s super easy for 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virtue of this report but you know uh I’m a big believer that ball and player movement is important we saw what happened with Dallas right they were an elite offense for three rounds against specific types of matchups but a couple adjustments from Boston and their offense completely fell apart and it was in my opinion in large part because of a lack of ball and player movement like as long as they had Shooters spacing in the corners but Boston didn’t have to help off of them that Dallas couldn’t get consistent quality looks right it was a lot of iso it was a lot of over-the-top pullup jump shots right like to me Ballin player movement in the five out context is more resilient offensively in the later rounds especially of the NBA playoffs and the Lakers made a switch to five out last year they made a lot of progress on that end of the floor but they can still get a lot better there was even in the postseason in particular there were a lot of moments where the Lakers got away from their five out attack and ran a lot of just like spamming pick and role and things along those lines having a coach that is kind of like in I mean this in a complimentary way like a nerd like kind of who will geek out about the all of the different elements of modern 5 out offense and there’s a bunch of different ways to look at it right there’s like sets that you run to begin possessions there’s the way your natural five out motion flows after the defense uh deals with whatever first action you run there’s off Ball action there’s counters and things along those lines that’s going to be vitally important for this Laker team especially because they play a lot of non-shooters guys like Jared Vanderbilt guys like and Anthony Davis right so like I I actually think JJ has the potential it’ll there’ll be some Growing Pains but because of his obsessiveness with that side of the ball I think he can do a lot to help the team get to another level on that end of the floor the my main concern and the main thing that I think JJ is going to struggle with at first but I think he’ll learn and get better at in the long run is the accountability piece accountability was the biggest weakness of this Laker team what that means to me is like accepting mediocre results and refer like remember when Darin ham would refer to things as like oh we’re just in a marathon guys like we can’t overreact to every win and loss like we’re just trying to get through this grind and it’s like no you have to attack the regular season in order to have postseason success that is a fact I pulled this stat for the uh pod that I’m doing tomorrow on the five biggest takeaways from the postseason 12 of the last 13 NBA champions had a top four regular season record and the one team that didn’t was the 2021 Milwaukee Bucks they had the seventh best record and they were a dominant regular season team in the previous seasons and that was that funky covid season when guys were in and out of the lineup if I remember correctly Brook Lopez missed a ton of time in that season so like NBA history tells us you can’t chill your way through the season you have to attack everything from day one of training camp establish habits build out attention to detail that is what will carry you to play Championship level basketball down the line that comes down to JJ he is going to have to ride those guys in terms of their attention to detail every single day of practice every single game every single time out he’s going to have to be really diligent about how how often he holds those guys accountable in order for this team to get where they need to go and I think there is a challenge there when you’re looking at LeBron James and it’s like dude you’re JJ reck I when I was play you know when you were playing in the league you were a player that wasn’t even in the same Stratosphere as me like there’s a certain level of like will JJ be able to look at LeBron and demand a lot out of him will he be able to look at Anthony Davis and demand a lot out of him will he be able to look at all those guys that I think is going to be the hardest part but again as long as he has LeBron’s support I think that’s going to be key LeBron’s going to have to stand behind JJ to help him hold these guys accountable but as long as that attention to detail is there and they continue to make strides on the offensive end of the floor I do think this is a job that JJ can succeed in the main thing this is the last thing I put the coach is certainly plays a role here I thought darham did a lot to hurt the Lakers in the regular season last year in terms of just rotation stuff but for the most part the Lakers main issues are Personnel related they’re not athletic enough in the backourt they do not have a starting caliber player that can both defend on the perimeter at a high level and be a plus offensive player that player does not exist on the roster like they Beyond LeBron and AD so like honestly the main driving force of whether or not the Lakers have a successful season is going to have is going to come down to what they do with those three draft picks what they do in free agents what they do just over the course of the next month to Tinker with the roster so like at the end of the day like we can talk about JJ all we want and he I I like him as like a long longterm uh coaching Prospect with this Los Angeles Lakers team but they’re going to have to hit some home runs in the off season to give this Laker a team a chance to compete going into next season and I’m really curious to see whether or not they can give him the horses they need to succeed but again to kind of put a bow on it all yeah there’s risk involved but I didn’t think that was an avoidable part of this process yes experience is important but not at not at the expense of talent I think JJ is talented and freaky competitive give me a talented and freaky competitive guy in a job like this 10 times out of 10 I think he’s going to find a way to figure it out and be successful all right guys that is all I have for today as always I sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show we’ll be back tomorrow to go over the five biggest takeaways of the postseason as well as to do a mailbag I’ll see you guys then [Music]

Jason Timpf reacts to the Los Angeles Lakers hiring JJ Redick as their next head coach. Jason discusses the risk factor of hiring Redick, how he will work with LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and why “success feels inevitable” for Los Angeles.

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