Has JJ Redick of Lakers became a crazy scientist after the defeat of match 1 against Timberwolves? – Orange County Register

Los Angeles-Remember the advertisement of the State Farm a few years ago in which a very very carved and ruffled JJ Redick, who was at the time in the first season of his distribution career with ESPN, was in a dark room that directed the way the pick-and-roll is the Pythagoras theorem, but in reverse?

Redick lit up the way advertising occurred before match 2 of the Lakers eliminatory series against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday.

“A fun story about this advertisement, by the way – I didn’t know I was going to do this,” said Redick before match 2. “Did with (Espn’s) ‘NBA Today’, led and I said to myself:” What do you know? Let me check the script “. Read the script.

“And they made me, each grip, drink out of the coffee maker – which was lukewarm, by the way. I crossed three complete coffee makers that day. So, at the end of the shooting, I was just that … It was really me, I didn’t act.”

The subject of advertising that was released for the first time in April 2022 appeared because Redick was, jokingly, asked if it was a precise performance of him in the days that followed the defeat of the Lakers match 1 against the Timberwolves on Saturday evening.

Redick did not answer the question directly, but he admitted that he had entered the film Rabbit Hole deeply.

“I watched (explanative) that I shouldn’t have looked at,” he said. “I am like diving into the Utah offensive against Minnesota. I say to myself:” They will not play an eliminatory match in the same way. Why do I look at that? What am I doing? “”

Player

After starting the center, Jaxson Hayes only played eight minutes in the opening of the series, the first time he played a figure in a match as a starter since an early outing due to an injury in a defeat on the February 12 road against jazz.

Redick explained why it was the case and what Hayes could do to get more playing time.

“Much of this is how much … So (Rudy) Gobert played half the game,” he said. “And part of this was a little problem.

“It will be a switching program. It’s just the match. And it’s how Gobert is playing, how much we want to play our laser (alignment) compared to Gobert, how much do we want a lob threat to Gobert. So, it’s just the calculation of this.”

Old movie

The Timberwolves know the Luka Luka star star after Doncic led the Dallas Mavericks after the Minnesota in the Western Conference final last season.

But the Mavericks fell to the Boston Celtics in the NBA final, partly because of the Celtics’ ability to effectively change ball screens – a strategy that Minnesota has deployed in match 1 on Saturday.

Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said that his team had watched the film of last year’s final, but above all watched the movie of Doncic with the Mavericks to understand how they can have a better defensive game plan against him.

“Watching our film against Dallas was probably more revealing for us,” said Finch. “We let Luka control too much what he wanted to do and happen to what he wanted to do in the series. He is an incredible player. You will not really stop him. The things we have chosen last season to live were the bad things and we are not going, with discussion earlier, sufficiently disciplined and we let him go a while and it is not a good place for.”