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Dave McMenamin
El Segundo, California – Los Angeles Lakers coach, JJ Redick, said on Monday that it was the “best practice we had in months”, while prepared for match 2 of her first round series with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The first-year coach admitted, however, that the Lakers had approached their days off preceding the playoffs with the same vigor, then maybe they would not have appeared as flat as during the defeat of match 1 of 117-95 on Saturday.
“We could probably have been able to do some additional fray,” said Redick on Monday.
Redick said that the Sunday film session to review La Défense which allowed the Wolves to shoot 21 for 42 on 3 points in the opening of the series. On Monday, he said that the Lakers “played live for a very prolonged period” to tackle the Los Angeles offensive.
“I hope we can simply repair our wrongs,” said Lakers goalkeeper, Austin Reaves on Monday. “We played badly, they fired the ball very well. They are obviously a very good physical team. We have been able to match this. Tomorrow, it will be a different story.”
Reaves was limited to 16 points on a 5 shot for 13 and recorded more than less than 25 in 37 minutes.
“S — TY,” said Reaves about his performance after examining the film. “I was not myself. What reason I don’t know. But I just have to go there and be myself, play my game and have fun doing it.”
Redick underlined the overall lack of organization of his team as a major factor contributing to 27 points in the Wolves.
“I think that several times you would hear this word and then you would think:” Oh, it is the call of appeal who calls a piece “”, said Redick. “No, it’s just all the normal things that we try to do and when we do it, we are really good. Being organized is screening. Being organized is going to the appropriate spacing. Being organized is to fill the corners after brands and failures. It is organized.”
Defensively, the Lakers were particularly burned by Minnesota making 3 in the corners. According to Geniusiq (including the regular season), the nine corner points of the Wolves were tied for their second game this season (including the regular season). The nine of these brands came on kicks, which took into account the second largest number of corner 3 from kicks in a eliminatory match by any team since the start of the players followed in 2013-2014. And these turns 3 were often wide open, because the Wolves had an average separation of 8.6 feet between their shooter and the closest defender of the match 1, by genius.
Lakers striker Dorian Finney-Smith said that part of it had returned to a lack of defensive recognition.
“Try to get guys out like Naz Reid,” said Finney-Smith on Monday after Reid scored 23 points and went 6-9 deeply in the first game. “He will not draw too much draw 2.
Finney -Smith also admitted that he had allowed his personal offense – or his absence – to dictate his defense after scoring only 3 points on a 1 for 5 shot in match 1.
“I have to be a little more active,” he said. “The last match, I allowed not to touch the ball to play with my energy and I had to be better.”
In the days that followed the disappointing start, had to try to rationalize what happened after the Lakers were able to win so many games filled with pressure on the section to guarantee the head of the West Conference 3. Redick described the difference in physics between the Lakers and the Wolves an “aberration”.
Reaves said it was simply “unusual problems”. And the analyzes supported it, the Lakers pulling only 1 for 8 of the Luka Doncic passes, according to ESPN Research. The solitary assistance of Doncic was much lower than its average in a career qualifying series of 7.8.
In the end, the Lakers will have the chance to win a match on their field on Tuesday until the series.
“It is an alarm clock in the sense that we have to prepare each possession,” said Reaves. Adding Redick: “We just have to do a lot of things better, and it starts by playing harder and being organized.”
