In the morning, after the loss in the Minnesotsky Timberwolves, they bounced them from the play -off, Los -angles Lakers had several questions to answer.
During the press conference of the postszon on Thursday morning, the head coach of Lakers JJ Redick and the Director General Rob Pelinka answered many questions about what went wrong. But one comment from Redick is already raising his eyebrows.
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The first year, the coach mentioned in his entrance remarks that in this off -season the Lakers’ composition “should get the form of the championship.”
“We have ways to go to the list, and, of course, there are people who were in a phenomenal form, there are, of course, there are others who could be in the best form. This is where my mind immediately leaves, ”said Redik.
Redik did not mention a single player, in particular, when he made this comment. But it’s hard to hear and not think about the guard Lukes Luke Donchich, whose conditionality was called into question in this past. When Donchich was sent to Lakers as part of a transaction with a blockbuster with Dallas Maveriks, the reports indicated that Dallas’s concern that Donchich was not in uniform, along with the upcoming expansion of Supermax this summer, brought the general manager Maveriks Niko Harrison to trade.
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But the comments of the radical about air conditioning are especially strange, given its contradictory choice in game 4, so that all its beginning in the second half without replacement. Redik abandoned this strategy in the game 5 – Donchich, Lebron James, Rui Khachimur and Austin Reeves played about 40 minutes in loss on Wednesday – but not earlier than leaving the press conference after the reporter questioned the choice.
On Thursday, the reasons for eliminating Lakers Redik and Pelinka were wide. Pelinka specially mentioned the team in need of the center and some additional protective presence. In the context of Donchich’s trade, who sent a large man to Anthony Davis to Dallas, this is a somewhat ironic team – what James hinted at his press conference of postheims on Wednesday.
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“There are no comments,” James said with a smile, then added, “my boyfriend announced that he needed, and then he left next week, so I did not receive any comments.”
James notes another serious question for the Lakers going forward: the 40-year-old striker, how he does it every year, said on Wednesday that he wants to spend some time to reflect on his basketball future in the off-season. After the victory in the Lakers championship in 2020, the last five years of James’s stay in Los Angeles have not reached expectations.
But the attention of the radical also indicates the possibility of questions about Donchich. The guard scored an average of 30 points in the postson, ahead of the rest of his team. Nevertheless, the combination of Donchich and James in Lakers No. 3 could not withstand Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert and growing forest courtyards.
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Despite the disappointing result, Pelinka held a strong one at the press conference on Thursday both about trade and the decision to hire Redick on the eve of this season.
Within a few months that passed after the Donchich sending to Los -Angeles, Harrison was subjected to protests by fans, chants of “Fiery Nico” throughout the city, even threats of death. But after the acquisition of Donchich did not turn the “Lakers” into a super -commander, which everyone hoped, there are some who begin to come to the image of Harrison’s thinking.
Maurs themselves still have many questions to answer after leaving the playing. But Lakers loses this in the near future, which also raises some fears at this end of the transaction.
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