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Speaker 1: You're at the volume heavy Thursday. Everybody of all of

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Speaker 1: JJ Reddick is the brand new head coach of the

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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of different angles I want to come

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Speaker 1: you can't chill your way through the season. You have

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Speaker 1: build out, attention to detail. That is what will carry

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Speaker 1: I think there is a challenge there when you're looking

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Speaker 1: at Lebron James and it's like, dude, you're JJ Redick.

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Speaker 1: When I was playing, you know, when you were playing

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Speaker 1: in the same stratosphere as me. Like, there's a certain

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Speaker 1: Lebron and demand a lot out of him? Will he

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Speaker 1: at all those guys That I think is going to

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Speaker 1: be the hardest part. But again, as long as he

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Speaker 1: has Lebron's support, I think that's gonna be key. Lebron's

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Speaker 1: gonna have to stand behind JJ to help him hold

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Speaker 1: the offensive end of the floor, I do think this

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Speaker 1: is a job that JJ can succeeded. The main thing

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Speaker 1: is the last thing I put the coach. It certainly

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Speaker 1: plays a role here. I thought Darvinham did a lot

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Speaker 1: to hurt the Lakers in the regular season last year

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Speaker 1: in terms of just rotation stuff. But for the most part,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers' main issues are personnel related. They're not athletic

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Speaker 1: enough in the back court. They do not have a

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Speaker 1: to high level and be a plus offensive player. That

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Speaker 1: player does not exist on the roster like they beyond

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Speaker 1: Lebron and Ad so like, Honestly, the main driving force

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Speaker 1: is going to come down to what they do with

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Speaker 1: those three draft picks, what they do in free agents,

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Speaker 1: next month to tinker with the roster. So like, at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, like we can talk about

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Speaker 1: JJ all we want, and I like him as like

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Speaker 1: a long term coaching prospect with this Los Angeles Lakers team,

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Speaker 1: but they're gonna have to hit some home runs in

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Speaker 1: the offseason to give this Lakers a team a chance

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Speaker 1: to compete going into next season. And I'm really curious

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Speaker 1: to see whether or not they can give him the

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Speaker 1: horses they need to succeed, but again to kind of

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Speaker 1: put a bow on it all. Yeah, there's risk involved,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't think that was an avoidable part of

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Speaker 1: this process. Yes, experience is important, but not at the

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Speaker 1: expense of talent. I think JJ is talented and freaky competitive.

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Speaker 1: Give me a talented and freaky competitive guy in a

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Speaker 1: job like this ten times out of ten, I think

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Speaker 1: he's gonna find a way to figure it out and

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Speaker 1: be successful. All right, guys, that is all I have

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Speaker 1: for today. As always, as sincerely appreciate you guys for

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Speaker 1: supporting the show. We'll be back tomorrow to go over

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Speaker 1: the five biggest takeaways of the postseason, as well as

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Speaker 1: to do a mailbag. I'll see you guys though the

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