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At this point, the Lakers will take every win they can get, as they simply have found the Thunder to be the puzzle they cannot solve no matter what. And after the game, head coach JJ Redick lauded his team for getting up good enough looks to the point of winning “expected score”. “We won expected score so it was good enough to win,” Redick said, via Oh No He Didn't on X (formerly Twitter).

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Dave McMenamin: “JJ’s been nice; we were ass” - Marcus Smart on how the Lakers were coached by JJ Redick in Game 1 vs. how the Lakers players executed in Game 1

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Dan Woike: Jared Vanderbilt suffered a dislocation of his finger, JJ Redick says. Some teammates are refusing to watch the play. Horrible luck for a player who has been very important behind the scenes and who adds an on-court toughness that they need.

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Oh No He Didn't: JJ Redick on the shot quality tonight: "We won expected score so it was good enough to win"

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Benjamin Royer: “The game never felt out of reach until the very end,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said, adding that he felt the Lakers managed the OKC runs well in the 108-90 defeat in Game 1.

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Dan Woike: “I don’t think there was a turning point. …When we made gameplan mistakes, they hurt us” - JJ Redick says

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Lakers Daily: JJ on Austin: "He didn't play well, but he's gonna bounce back. He's a good player."

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Clemente Almanza: JJ Redick on Lakers assistant Scott Brooks: “For weeks, I was hit up by 20-25 NBA people that I gotta hire Scott Brooks.”

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Ayton averaged 11.8 points and 10.8 rebounds in 31 minutes per game in the Lakers’ first-round series, mostly out-playing Rockets center Alperen Şengün. Nikola Jokić, Karl-Anthony Towns, Jayson Tatum and Şengün were the only other players to average at least 10 points and 10 rebounds in the first round. “DA’s had a great season. He was instrumental in us getting past Houston,” Redick said. “I think his … his, like, baseline of who he is every day for the last two, two and a half months has been awesome. And I know his teammates, certainly the staff, we’ve all embraced him all season long. Again, he’s the person that changes our ceiling the most.”

New York Times

[Starkand] JJ Redick was asked about the key when it comes to playing through contact against the Thunder: "They don't foul, so the whistles aren't gonna be there. You accept that going in. They don't foul."

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Dave McMenamin: “I've got to be more diligent than I normally am. I like my timeouts, I like going into the fourth quarter with four timeouts, I like having two in the last 30 seconds. I don't think you have the luxury [vs. OKC]” - JJ Redick on needing to call timeouts to dull Thunder runs

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Dan Woike: “We couldn’t learn a lot from three of those games because we were God awful,” JJ Redick says of regular season matchups with OKC.

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Dave McMenamin: Luka Doncic, getting up shots Monday. When asked about his availability for Game 1, JJ Redick said, “no update.”

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BasketNews: The Lakers are set to face the OKC Thunder in the next round, but the wildest stat is that both head coaches, JJ Redick and Mark Daigneault, are the exact SAME AGE as LeBron James (41) 🤯

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