Jay Jay Redik, in general, spent the successful first season as the head coach of Los Angeles Lakes. However, on Sunday, he made his first major decision, which caused significant criticism. With the Lakers, defending the Minnesotsky Timberwolves 2-1 in his series of the first round and most of his list of struggle, Redik decided to use the same five players (Lebron James, Luka Donchich, Austin Reeves, Rui Khachimur and Dorian Finni-Smith) for the entire second half. They created a 12-hour leadership, but ultimately lost the game partly because the players seemed to end with gas at the end.
The radish was the first coach of the game for the game that had ever used only five players in the entire second half in the playoff play, and since the Lakers lost, the decision, of course, became controversial. After the game, 4 Redik explained that “it was not planned. But we just made a decision in the break. ” Currently, he probably heard about this choice over the past three days, and when he was asked about it on the eve of the game 5 on Wednesday, he lost this especially well.
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The exchange began with a reporter asking Redik if he relies on assistants to coaches, making these decisions.
“When you watched the film that you remember your mental process at the moment, adhering to the five with which you are stuck in the fourth quarter the other day?
At this stage, Redik interrupted the question.
“You say this because I’m inexperienced? And it was an inexperienced decision that I made? ” Redik asked. “Do you think I do not talk with my assistants about the replacements every time -out?”
The reporter jumped back from there.
“No, I just think that many coaches rely on their assistants in these situations …”, he said, before interrupting the radish again.
“Like me. Every time. This is a strange assumption, ”Redik answered, before abruptly getting up and leaving the press conference.
Redik-is not only the chief coach of the first year, but also by any NBA coach, since he spent the period between his game and coaching career working in the media. The issue does not directly solve this inexperience, but the radish took it as a subtext.
Whether it was conceived or not, is incomprehensible, but the radish of irony showed his inexperience as he coped with this. Even if he feels that the criticism he received is unfair, a matter of criticism from outside is only part of the coaching in the NBA. In this way, the radish suggests that criticism reaches him. This is not the fact that the team that the team probably would prefer that his coach is projected to increase in the game for liquidation.
This whole series will be learning for Redick. Lakers hopes that he can be their coach for a long time. There will be even more bridges in front of him. But his game in the game 4 eventually damaged the Lakers, and how he decided what they received was less than encouraging Lakers away from elimination.
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