How Will JJ Redick Handle The Scrutiny That Comes As Lakers Head Coach? | 7/8/24

How Will JJ Redick Handle The Scrutiny That Comes As Lakers Head Coach? | 7/8/24

yes Paul I have a snarky new poll question snarky who is more likely to be coaching in the NBA in three years Dan Hurley or JJ reick dang we just got back from vacation we got to Crank It Up not being so nice that’s a fair question and snarky as hell okay so who’s coaching in the NBA in three years more likely to be coaching in the NBA three years from today JJ reic now if you said four years then maybe I just don’t know what’s going to happen with the Lakers post LeBron I I mean it’s still a a great mystery of what JJ reck is going to do because they’re not really adding anybody I mean they Dalton connect is probably going to play some he better be able to play some but they didn’t really do anything in the offseason so now you’re saying our big offseason acquisition is our head coach who’s already empowered anth Davis that the team is going to be his which it it sounds nice to say that and I’m sure Frank vogle said that and Darin ham said the same thing to Anthony Davis you want him to take ownership it doesn’t turn out that way because it’s still LeBron LeBron’s running the team he proved that got his he got everything he wanted but in three years from now what do the Lakers look like and what’s the impact of JJ reic that’s what I would be curious about so three years is that’s an attorne the Lakers wild yeah it’s like dog years because everything is going to be magnified everything that JJ reick does everything he does and doesn’t do it it’s talked about there’s no other team except for the Cowboys where you have this kind of pressure I mean Mike McCarthy basically has to say hey I’m kind of a puppet here uh what do you want me to do I can’t imagine JJ reic saying uh wait what do you want me to do he’s going to go in and want to be his own man Mike McCarthy I think when you sign up for the Cowboys you realize it’s you’re not really the head coach but the scrutiny there everything every single thing you do is scrutinized and I think that’s where it’s going to weigh you have to have a personality that will almost fend that off like you’ll have a protect coding around you and JJ judging from how he played to when he was on ESPN you know he that the criticism got to him and he would react to that and you can’t do that with everything that happened Mike McCarthy basically goes okay and then that’s it doesn’t have to say anything JJ it feels like he’s going to say something and then that’s when the media is going to go oh okay cuz you’re going to hear Hey when’s When’s bronnie going to play Hey is brony going to be called him hey uh Austin Reeves didn’t play well you know what about Brony you’re going to get this constantly and you got to be ready for that and I don’t know if you can prepare yourself now he was under the microscope at Duke every game but in the NBA he wasn’t because nobody really cared he was a nice player for a long period of time but you know he was the college player of the year when he was at Duke and Duke is on TV all the time and every body focused on that now with the Lakers it’s on steroids man it’s it’s just not a great job because of everything it’s tough enough to win now you have one of the great players of all time trying to win one more title now you have the son of one of the greatest players of all time who is going to have to get some minutes here or why isn’t he getting minutes at what point does LeBron James say Hey you know maybe put bronnie in for some minutes I if you’ve already manipul ated this like where do you stop where you go I’m not going to get involved in his playing time really cuz it feels like everything has been orchestrated here that’s why it’s just so difficult and you’re in the west where the teams got better in the off season the Lakers did not unless you say this is a significant upgrade because if JJ reick was that great why didn’t other teams go after him I thought Detroit was a better job to learn how to coach in the NBA or Cleveland I thought that those would be two better teams this is star power this is you know you are back to Pat Riley they want you to be Pat Riley looking good on the sideline looking like a head coach sounding like a head coach former player you know all of this stuff I just that would wear on me after a while and if you don’t win yeah ping I I’m most fascinated to know about JJ reic on draft night where was he how was he told about the draft plan was he involved did he have any in any way not VTO power obviously not but is he just along for the ride in the draft room well with bronny he had to be I would assume so because I’m sure as a coach you’d say I want the best player to help our team well dton connect I would think that JJ would be involved in that I would hope that he would be involved in that bronny I don’t I don’t I think that was just like all right we’re getting him yeah that’s it it’s like you know the Christmas gift you already know what it is and you’re like all right we’re getting that gift that’s it it’s already done don’t even wrap it I already know we we getting right and a guy like reck also probably is very aware of how he got this job and how it kind of fell in his lap for different reasons not not saying he didn’t deserve it because his basketball ability or knowledge but like he got this job by due to his relationship with LeBron James well Mike shashki was one of the Consultants there so shashy helped him there’s other elements yeah but I don’t know if he can coach I mean Steve Nash couldn’t coach one of the great players of all time didn’t get another opportunity this was handpicked you know the Stars wanted Steve Nash I didn’t know if Steve kerk could coach Mark Jackson like guys Doc Rivers just it depends on the team that you’re on yes Mark let’s just hope the 56 and 57th pick don’t turn out to be the Joker other than that it’ll just go away cuz who’s really putting a lot of stock into the 55th pick in in the NBA draft you guys could have had that guy instead of bronny James yeah it’s just it’s going to be suffocating it’s going to be nauseating because it’s going to be all about bronny uh Lebron on the floor at the same time should he be out there nepotism is LeBron helping him get playing time and you know LeBron did say something I found interesting and I and I think he’s very he’s being very truthful about this and that is criticism gets to LeBron but he said not to bronnie I don’t know if people really understand bronnie he doesn’t care I actually cared a little bit when I came in I wanted people to like like me and some of the things that people were saying about me it kind of bothered me early on in my career I let it get to me r doesn’t he doesn’t give a he’s like the complete opposite of his dad like me personally when I was coming up I had no choice I literally had no choice I had to make it out like I had no choice I had to make it out for me my mom my family bronnie has all the choices in the world so it’s like a whole another people don’t understand how hard that is in the commitment for him to be coming out of heart surgery less than a year ago for him to be able to to be in the NBA that’s the kid is he’s special but he doesn’t care he doesn’t it doesn’t bother that’s LeBron with Dave McManaman of the mothership but understand this or realize this LeBron was first generation social media it was just coming out when he was coming into the league so it was all new and wait a minute people got a voice and they’re very critical you can see the comments there well Brony James is second generation social media he knows what this is all about he’s been aware of this he’s been criticized on social media he was born famous so he’s grown up in this LeBron didn’t and LeBron you know these athletes always say well I don’t read what people write or I don’t hear what PE they do they do um I hear it secondhand or third hand I don’t want to read it because nine people can say hey I love the show the 10th person could say you know what when are you retiring yeah and then you fixate on on that one so I I just I’m not interested in it we we do it until somebody says that’s it then you’re done but until then you do it and LeBron has let things bother him um but Brony when he says he doesn’t care I believe it he probably doesn’t care but it’s because he’s grown up in this fish Pole

Dan Patrick wonders what type of impact the Los Angeles Lakers new head coach JJ Redick can bring to the franchise as well as how the former player will handle all the scrutiny that comes with being the head coach of the Lakers