{"id":464316,"date":"2025-10-13T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464316"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:23:04","slug":"jj-redick-downplays-lakers-chemistry-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jj-redick-downplays-lakers-chemistry-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick downplays Lakers&#8217; chemistry concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1624\">Following a <strong data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1401\">126-116 win over the Warriors<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1403\" data-end=\"1416\">JJ Redick<\/strong> addressed questions about the Lakers\u2019 <strong data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1477\">on-court chemistry<\/strong>, saying reporters were \u201cgetting a bit obsessive\u201d with the topic. He admitted more practices would help but emphasized the team is managing well.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1626\" data-end=\"1890\">With <strong data-start=\"1631\" data-end=\"1647\">LeBron James<\/strong> (sciatica), <strong data-start=\"1660\" data-end=\"1675\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1680\" data-end=\"1696\">Marcus Smart<\/strong> (Achilles tendinopathy) sidelined, Redick expects Smart to play twice this week. Meanwhile, <strong data-start=\"1789\" data-end=\"1806\">Austin Reaves<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1808\" data-end=\"1825\">Dalton Knecht<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1827\" data-end=\"1844\">Rui Hachimura<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"1866\">Deandre Ayton<\/strong> stood out in the win.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1892\" data-end=\"2124\">Ayton, in his first home game as a Laker, said he \u201cfelt the love\u201d from the crowd: \u201cIt was amazing hearing cheers instead of boos \u2014 I had a lot of fun.\u201d Redick concluded that both games and practices are key for building chemistry.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2126\" data-end=\"2169\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2126\" data-end=\"2144\">Source: LA Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers\u2019 head coach isn\u2019t worried about limited practice time during their six-game preseason schedule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"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":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464316"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464316"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464316"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}