NBA Insider Gives an Update on the Lakers Having JJ Redick as Head Coach: 'Everything Has Been Going Swimmingly'

Under head coach JJ Redick , the Los Angeles Lakers have been revitalized this season. Since the start of the 2024-25 NBA campaign, Redick has led the Lakers to three straight wins. Although they didn’t get to four consecutive wins after losing to the Phoenix Suns on Monday, the team has performed better compared to previous years.

There was doubt around Redick and how he’d perform as a head coach for the Lakers . Before securing his job in Los Angeles, the former NBA player didn’t have an NBA-level experience when it came to coaching. The former Duke Blue Devil star coached his son’s fourth-grade boys team at Brooklyn Basketball Academy as a volunteer.



Redick has proven the doubters wrong, leading the Lakers to a 3-1 record early in the year. ESPN’s Shams Charania gave feedback on how the new coach has performed so far with the organization. “Everything has been going swimmingly with JJ Redick as the head coach of the Lakers and the things that the Lakers felt like they were missing the last couple years, in terms of details, structure, accountability.

Especially accountability for himself,” Charania said. Charania said that after Monday’s game against Phoenix, Redick took accountability for the loss . “You saw JJ Redick last night after the loss against Phoenix, he took accountability for that loss.

And he took that loss hard in the locker room.” The ESPN source also discussed Redick’s enthusiasm during the Lakers’ season-opening game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. According to Charania, the coach was excited for the season’s first game and requested that it start at 10 a.

m. “Redick at 10 in the morning, on game day, was so psyched and so ready for that game. He was chopping at the bit, he wished the game was at 10 in the morning.

This is someone that lives, eats and breathes basketball. Everyone on the Lakers can feel it, it’s tangible.” "This is someone that lives, eats and breathes basketball.

" — @ShamsCharania on JJ Redick's first four games as the head coach of the Lakers pic.twitter.com/f3irSYn2lF — NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) October 29, 2024 Austin Reaves revealed how JJ Redick took their first loss of the season The game between the Lakers and the Suns went down to the wire, with Phoenix protecting their home floor and securing the 109-105 win.

Following the game, it was reported that JJ Redick took the loss to heart. Austin Reaves said, via The Athletic’s Jovan Buha, that the head coach wasn’t happy after their loss. “He let out a nice little F-word, which just shows how much he cares.

His passion is on another level. You can tell every single second of every day that he’s locked into the betterment of our group,” Reaves said. LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura all spoke to how pissed off JJ Redick was in the locker room postgame after the loss.

— Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) October 29, 2024 This article first appeared on Hardwood Heroics and was syndicated with permission..