What coaches and players say about roles, minutes, gameplans and development.
The defensive plan is to pressure the opposing best players while keeping the ball in front.
โPutting pressure on the other team's best players. But just doing that, but being able to keep the ball in front at the same time, not getting blow-by's... We want them to pressure but be smart while doing it.โ
Reaves says the Lakers want to model their disruptive.
โYou obviously want to defend without fouling. You want to be disruptive enough to make them turn the ball over. You just got to find that fine line to where you're not fouling too much. But heating the ball up at the same time, I think, you know, OKC does really. Those are probably top five in all defensive categories and I think 23rd in fouls or something like that last year. So, do what they do.โ
Redick still expects the Lakers to meet their standards while missing stars and depth.
โWe've had a handful of these games as a coach where you're missing star players. You're missing a lot of your depth. And I still expect to win, and I still expect us to play to our standards. And that first half did not meet my expectations, and I let them know that.โ
The Lakers botched both scripted opening plays and got off to a poor start.
โWhen you draw the first play and then you give them a second play that is a play that's been scripted for 10 days or whatever it's been and they don't run either correctly... you're not ready to play. And so, I just think that got us off to a poor start.โ
The Lakers haven't had time to cover post splits but will before the 21st.
โThe post splits, like, you've guarded that pretty well in the past... We haven't had time to go over that. We'll go over that before we play the next and we'll go over that again a bunch before we play them on the 21st. So some of that stuff was to be expected, but not being attached to bodies and point switching, that's not our defense, that's not our practice.โ
