Rank JJ Redick's Playoff Coaching Debut

[JTMVP]

His biggest problem is that he always thinks that he's the smartest person in the room. It might or might not be true in a given situation, but the people around him shouldn't be able to sense it so clearly. Nobody appreciates an entitled, arrogant prick, and I say this as a Duke grad myself.

[Archx]

Maybe I missed this, but I heard the decision to play all 24 minutes of the second half in Game 4 was made at halftime.

Is it possible that LeBron and Luka made that decision, JJ couldn’t say no, and is now taking the blame for it?

He said he asked LBJ and Luka if they want to come out and they said they're fine, so he just went along with it. But that's the problem, players are sometimes their own worst enemies and coach has to know better. He trusted them but ANT said after the game that Lakers were visibly tired and Wolves just ran away with it.

JJ is a rookie coach who got a brutal awakening, he'll have to learn to be better and smarter next time.

I think he did a great job during the season but playoffs were quite bad for the Lakers to the point that bench was almost non existent and Hayes was in a starting lineup just for the "looks". The fact that Naz Reid had only 3 pts in the final game and entire Lakers bench had 4, can tell you a lot.

[MrPainfulTruth]

He tries too hard to be the genius that made the move noone expected. Hes like that player who cares more abotu making the hero shot than winning the actual game. In the long run you dont win with this kind of player, or coach. He is too full of himself, too much ego. You can get away with that if you have actual backing for your idea that you are a genius. I.e., several titles. He has absolutely nothing to show for so far. Acts like he was Pop or Auerbach.

[The Servant]

I’d actually call it just average.

Their roster was horrendously and comically overmatched

No chemistry after getting a complete offensive hub and losing your defensive center. Co star is 40.

Average.

[Johnny Firpo]

Regardless of being overmatched, which I don't believe.

Expand on that please. Do you think the Lakers roster is good or deep, or not without many holes?

can you please expound on you question (I'm a bit perplexed about what seems to be the underlying premises). I think the Lakers roster is better than they showed. They have 2 of the top 15 players in the world (one is top 3).

Do you think the team performed the best possible given the talent. Do you a talented coach couldnt have done better?

LeBron had a negative +- this year, didn't he? He had an awesome year for a guy who is 40, statistically surely the GOAT 40-year-old season, but I don't think he is a top 15 player anymore. They are also thin on shooters, do not have a big that complements either Luka or LeBron, and they are overall thin as well. "Best possible", surely not, because they lost close games, so in a luckier series they could be up 3-2 or down 2-3, but I don'T think JJ had a whole lot of options to go with.