{"id":475714,"date":"2025-12-24T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475714"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:32:14","slug":"redick-blunt-after-blowout-lakers-effort-and-defense-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/redick-blunt-after-blowout-lakers-effort-and-defense-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Redick blunt after blowout: Lakers\u2019 effort and defense under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1385\" data-end=\"1701\">After the 132-108 loss to the <strong data-start=\"1429\" data-end=\"1470\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Phoenix Suns<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1513\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/span><\/span><\/strong> coach <strong data-start=\"1520\" data-end=\"1561\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">JJ Redick<\/span><\/span><\/strong> delivered a blunt assessment. Asked if the team has enough players wired for physical, consistent effort, his answer was clear: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1693\" data-end=\"1699\">No<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1703\" data-end=\"1896\">Los Angeles collapsed defensively in the third quarter and now ranks 24th in NBA defensive rating. Redick stressed accountability, saying defense ultimately comes down to \u201cmaking the choice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1898\" data-end=\"2126\"><strong data-start=\"1898\" data-end=\"1939\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">LeBron James<\/span><\/span><\/strong> echoed the need for unity, while Marcus Smart admitted the responsibility lies with the players. With the trade deadline approaching, defensive improvement has become a pressing issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a heavy loss to Phoenix, JJ Redick questions the Lakers\u2019 mentality and consistency<\/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":[165],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-475714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/475714","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=475714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475714\/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=475714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475714"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=475714"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=475714"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=475714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}