Los Angeles Lakers head coach J.J. Redick hasn\u2019t coached a regular-season game in the NBA. Yet one former coach in the league in Stan Van Gundy has already compared him to longtime Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr in the sense that they were both players in the league before they became coaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s somebody that really had to learn the game and rely on what he knew about the game and how to play it”, <\/em>Van Gundy told the Southern California News Group. It\u2019s something he had to give a lot of thought to. NBA basketball is very hard for anyone playing it. It requires a lot of work, but some guys it requires more of to be able to compete at that level. And he\u2019s certainly one of those guys. <\/em>I think you can compare him to what Steve Kerr did. I think there\u2019s a lot of similarities there.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n If Redick can enjoy even a fraction of the success that Kerr has during his tenure leading the Warriors from the sidelines, fans of the Lakers will likely be thrilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stan Van Gundy, former NBA coach, found similarities between J.J. Redick and Steve Kerr in the path they took to become coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":409922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[12781],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-409924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-stan-van-gundy"],"yoast_head":"\n