Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - How Can JJ Redick Build a Long Career With the Lakers? Plus, New All-Star Game Format!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, everyone, welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Thursday. Brian Keminetsky, Andy Kaminetsky. How can J.J. Reddick build a long career with the Lakers at a time where no one, even coaches that win, seem to last. That's next. You are Locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked on Podcasts network. Your team, every day.

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Starting point is 00:00:54 and wondering whether or not JJ Redick is going to be able to build himself a long career in Los Angeles, because right now, Andy, it is a cold time for NBA coaches. It doesn't matter if you win or not. It doesn't matter if you're an hour and a half before you start the playoffs like Mike Malone in Denver. It doesn't matter if you just made the Eastern Conference finals like Tom Thibito in New York. Or if you just signed a contract for $11 billion like Mike Boodenholzer, you're getting canned. There is no patience around this league right now.

Starting point is 00:01:29 Yeah, Tom Fibito, it was, I think, pretty surprising even in this climate that Tom Fibito would end up getting fired by the Knicks. He still has, you were talking about money left on the contract. I believe you have something like $30 million left on his deal, which, as I've said many times, I aspire to reach a place where I'm getting paid tens of millions of dollars to quite literally do anything else other than show up to the work of the people cutting me that check. It really is the American dream.

Starting point is 00:02:03 Oh, that is what we should all aspire to. but, you know, the situation with Tibbs, obviously, you know, Tibbs has been a polarizing coach in terms of, you know, a certain degree of stubbornness, certain degree of lacking, you know, lacking modern principles of the game, the proclivity for going with very short rotations, not just in the playoffs, but over the course of the regular season, you know, the grating, barking voice that I think sometimes people have nothing else imagine would wear on other players. And, you know, as these post-mortems are coming out,

Starting point is 00:02:40 your hearing reports of some clashing might be overstating it, but some disagreements between him and Carl Anthony Towns, between him and Mikhail Bridges. But none, and, you know, and Tibbs has never been seen, I think, as a perfect coach. But at the same time, this was the first conference finals that the Knicks have been to since 2000. And you, you, could, I think, I was about to say you could argue, but I don't know who would debate it. This is the most sustained progress the Knicks have made in the 21st century as a highly dysfunctional laughing stock franchise. So it is jarring to see Tibbs fired, you know, on the eve of, you know, being at worst the fourth best team in the NBA. Right. I mean, they mean like within

Starting point is 00:03:34 And what was it, like a day? Right. That said, though, this is coming at a time where Mike Booneholzer, again, not everybody's favorite coach has been polarizing, was likely on the verge of getting canned before he won a title with the Bucks. But he did win a title with the Bucks, which for them was the first time in 50 years. And he got fired on the heels of a season where he went 58 and 24. Mike Malone just two years ago brought the Denver Nuggets their only championship and franchise history.

Starting point is 00:04:09 Granted, he got a 10-year run, but still, he gets canned right before the playoffs begin. Taylor Jenkins gets canned right before. I forgot about Taylor Jenkins. You're right. Oh, I'm not even done yet. I'm not even done yet. Canned right before the playoffs begin and one of the best runs Memphis has had. Mike Brown fired on the heels of bringing the kings.

Starting point is 00:04:32 Back to relevance after a, I mean, even soft relevance, they have not had this in a long time. Again, Mike Brown, not a perfect coach. He's been let go by many organizations. But again, the kings have not been this good in a long time. And we're going to talk specifically about JJ Reddick and all of this. But it's worth noting he is employed by an organization that fired Frank Vogel, what one season two seasons removed from a championship. And, you know, Darvin Ham, while his second season with the Lakers had a lot of issues,

Starting point is 00:05:11 including losing a locker room in ways that I'm not sure could have been overcome. Both of us were skeptical about it. It doesn't change the fact that he had two seasons with the Lakers, both of which he made the playoffs, one of which he made the Western Conference finals. Tough world, man. It is. So with Greg Popovich, you know, officially stepping down. in San Antonio.

Starting point is 00:05:34 Obviously, as the year started, he was still, even though he wasn't on the sidelines, the longest tenure coach. You can name the two longest tenured coaches in the NBA. That part's not hard. You want to do it? Cur and Spolstra. Kerr and Spolstra.

Starting point is 00:05:48 Other way around. Spolster then whatever. It doesn't matter. But Spolster was hired in 2008, and Kerr was hired in 2014. Do you know what the third longest tenure, coach currently in the NBA is. Either Ty Lou or Rick Carlisle, I'm guessing.

Starting point is 00:06:07 It is Ty Lou is fourth. Third, beating him by about a month, is Billy Donovan. Billy Donovan was hired in September of 2020. He's been with the Bulls that long? He's been with the Bulls that long. But like the point is, the third most tenured coach in the NBA was hired in, in, in, in, in, 2020, September of 2020. Ty Lou was hired in October of 2020.

Starting point is 00:06:37 I mean, it just dawned on me that if the, if the Lakers had not fired Frank Vogel, he'd be like the third, he would be the third longest coach in the league. I'm looking it up here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and now thirteen, once New York hires a coach, 13 organizations have hired their coach since the start of 2024. And so, you know, and I know, I mean, it's a hard business, but I mean, my word. So all but three since 2020.

Starting point is 00:07:21 And, you know, I just noted since 2024. And the question that I, that really got me thinking is, you know, Mike Malone, he lasted longer in Denver than I remembered. It was a longer, he was 10 years. And that is hard to do, even in good times of the NBA, 10 years, the long time. And to hear that same voice and stuff like that. But like you start thinking about what went wrong. And then you start thinking about Tibbs and what went wrong.

Starting point is 00:07:49 And it got me thinking like, you know, the Lakers, when they hired JJ Reddick, have talked about him as their Pat Riley is, you know, with all of these things as a guy who is going to be with us for a long time that we want to build a program with. They talk about him, quite frankly. I mean, I think most teams think about their coach as somebody they think will be there for a long time. But, you know, like you would talk about somebody you want to become Eric Spolstra or Steve Kerr or some of a mainstay in the location where they are. And it got me, so how does he do that? What qualities are most likely to undermine his ability to become that coach?

Starting point is 00:08:42 And I'm not talking about, you know, it turns out he's just not very good at. Like Luke Walton, I think, to some degree, it just turned out like he wasn't as good at it as it seemed like he should be. I don't think he was as bad at it, but he was more ordinary. I think then the Lakers did, to be fair to Luke, start actually making more progress in the kids era than I think people actually remember. I'm just stating like his first year coaching the kids, the team jumped by 10 wins, which is not in about 10 wins,

Starting point is 00:09:19 which is not insignificant. And then the following year jumped by another 10 wins, which again, not insignificant as a jump. I'm not making the case that the Lakers still should have Luke Walton employed because there were also areas in which you saw, particularly offensively, he was not a particularly creative or gifted coach. I'm not sure he was the right coach for the moment that they were entering once LeBron ended up joining the team.

Starting point is 00:09:51 But you look at Frank Vogel. for example. And, you know, Vogel, we've said this, all these coaches, like, there are very few you're going to name that are perfect. But Vogel was clearly never their first choice to begin with. You know, he was, I think, their fourth at best. At least. At least. Right. And, you know, I think some of the issues Vogel had down the stretch of his last season with the franchise gave Rob Polinka the sort of permission structure and the opening to find someone that he felt like was more of his guy to begin with that ended up being Darwin Ham. But this whole situation with Tibbs and the general instability there seems to be with

Starting point is 00:10:36 coaches, even coaches that are enjoying success, obviously made us think about JJ. Not that either one of us thinks JJ is on the verge of losing his job. Oh, God, no. But he's an organization that has not been a good. been shy about letting go of their coaches at the drop of a hat seemingly more before they look inward at their own front office and, you know, maybe. Well, problem.

Starting point is 00:11:03 So after the break, let's answer the score. Like what, assuming, let's stipulate for the sake of the conversation that JJ's got the chops as a coach. The X is a nose, he'll grow into it. The adjustments that he might not have made this year, he'll learn over time, that he's got the basic chops. What are the qualities that would prevent him? What does he need to change or do better at to allow him to have a Mike Malone 10-year run in L.A.? Because that in this day and age would be the exception of the rules. Get to it next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by

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Starting point is 00:12:46 I think for me, when I think of J.J, the parts like we talked about before the season started, like regulating the. the blood pressure aspects of being a head coach. Like this basketball sicko stuff, you lock yourself. It sounds great. But if you want to be somebody who lasts a long time, you need to learn how to regulate your intake of the job and how you separate it. So that is an aspect of it that I think comes internally.

Starting point is 00:13:29 that could keep him from doing, you know, the work as well. When you're gripping that tight, you don't see stuff around. You send it only be able to see what's right in front of you. And I, to me, that's a place to start as a place where if JJ wants to have a really long career in one place, um, that, you know, that's an area of, of improvement. There are others that I can think of, but I wanted to start with that one. It's funny that you bring up the notion of clinging too tightly and I'll swing it back to JJ in just a second. But it reminded me of how the sons now on the heels of they've hired a coach, Jordan Ott,

Starting point is 00:14:12 former assistant coach with the Lakers for a couple seasons. I'm part of, I believe, the Darwin Ham regime. But the hiring came on the heels of an internal letter from Matt Ishbia, the lunatic owner of the Phoenix Suns. And part of the letter, you can't believe how cheaply Matt Ishpia is giving away those stereos, Andy. He's crazy. I have said it many times talking about Matt Ishpia,

Starting point is 00:14:46 that dude is an effing loon. But anyway, part of the email, quote, let me start with the most important part. The Phoenix Suns will do things very differently than other NBA franchises. I will be extremely active in the decisions and management of this organization on and off the floor.

Starting point is 00:15:04 While I won't be reviewing film designing offenses or running the draft room, quite the concession, Maddie. I will be deeply involved in ensuring that basketball operations like every other area of our organization is performing at the highest level. I'm aware that this approach is different

Starting point is 00:15:20 than most NBA franchises. I'm not the conventional NBA owner, no bleep. And I don't want to be. I've tried running the typical NBA playbook, hiring the experts, signing the checks, and getting out of the way. And none of us were happy with the outcome. Making the playoffs two out of three years and owning one playoff series is not good enough

Starting point is 00:15:38 for this franchise in this community. JJ Reddick is sitting on the sidelines of a game smoking a blunt compared to the grip that Matt Ishpia seemed like before he was exercising. I was going to say that this was Matt Ishpia. witnessing was hands-off Matt Ishbia. Like Matt Isbia hiring a new, like not an exaggeration, hiring a new coach every effing season you've owned this team, that's the hands-off version of Matt Ishbio? But this is relevant to one way, you know, we'll get some more reasons.

Starting point is 00:16:17 More things that it's a loon. He's probably a good business person. I don't know how I made it is my hedge fund guy. I'm not sure. but he was clearly good at that, but that does not mean you're a good NBA owner. This, though, if you're looking for reasons that JJ could have a longer career,

Starting point is 00:16:36 it's in L.A. It's the opposite. Well, it's all of this. I mean, like, say what you will about the Lakers. This is not how they're run. There are times when I wish Jeannie would be more forceful in what she does, that she exert a little bit more control. quality control, hold people like specifically Rob Palin.

Starting point is 00:16:58 If you're going to have such a really, if you're going to have that small a circle, those people have to be held to an impeccably high standard. And, you know, I don't know. I think Rob rightly feels quite comfortable in his job and maybe should. Right. And it shouldn't necessarily all the time. But if you got to choose between the Jeannie Bus way of doing it and the Matt Ishbio way of doing it, give me Jeannie Bus every day.

Starting point is 00:17:23 you know, and Sundays. You know, it's like, and then the next level of that is if you're going to have a long tenure, you need to be able to have a good relationship with the other, with basketball operations. And it's both, you know, the security of Rob Polinka, I think certainly helps J.J. Reddick, you know, to, or could help J.J. Reddick in certain ways, especially since, J.J. speaks, Rob. They have what seemed to be very similar viewpoints on management. I'm not going to say basketball because I'm not sat in on conversations between them, but in terms of their

Starting point is 00:18:10 perception of how modern leaders work, how modern organizations operate. Like, you know, they came from the same consulting firm. And so, That, I think, helps JJ. If you're looking for a way that he's going to have the kind of runway that he needs to develop into a really good coach, it's a good setup for him, if nothing else. He theoretically has the runway. I mean, Rob described him and Darwin is very much on the same page and very much aligned in partnerships and yada yada until they weren't. So, you know, it's been one year. But Darwin didn't speak the same way.

Starting point is 00:18:51 and have the same approach as JJ does in terms of bridging those. I think some of those. I'm going to be honest. I think that's a bunch of superficial BS that won't matter one way or the other. Oh, I think superficial BS matters a lot more than you might think. No, no, no. I think Rob enjoys some of that stuff. I'm just saying I don't think that's necessary.

Starting point is 00:19:15 I think that's just how both of them speak. And it's honestly how I think most people in the world of leadership. ship now speak. They're all just doing corporate tech bro speak. That's how they don't. I agree with you. And I don't think it means, you know, it gives JJ a hammerlock on the job forever because he's, he speaks, you know, speaks Rob's language. But I do think it adds to the level of comfort and potential synergy, which at the least buys him time in rocky or in rocky situations. Maybe, maybe I need to see it to believe it. We're one year in. More on, give me, give me some of your thoughts on, you know, what aspects of

Starting point is 00:19:51 of JJ's, you know, after a year of it where you feel like this needs to change if he wants to have 10 years. We'll get into that coming up next. Do want to remind people that today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can get $200 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. Real quick before we get to JJ, I don't know if you saw, but Adam Silver on one of the Fox Sports shows confirmed that the next All-Star game is going to be. USA versus the world, which a lot of people have been calling for, basically, the American-born

Starting point is 00:20:32 NBA players versus the foreign-born NBA players during the All-Star game. He did add, though, quote, I'm not exactly sure what the format will be yet. I paid a lot of attention to what the NHL did, which was a huge success. Commish, I'd like to offer you my suggestion. The format is the American-born basketball players play a game of basketball against the foreign-born NBA. basketball players. That's it. Don't overthink it. Don't try to add bells and whistles. Don't try to add some new twist. Just have them play basketball. Then log off, pay no attention to what anybody inevitably bitches about that they don't like and then keep the same format for multiple years.

Starting point is 00:21:18 So it actually looks like you're happy with the product. And therefore, that confidence that you project in the product might, maybe might, might start getting people to complain about it less. But the one thing that gets people to complain about it all the time is when you keep switching up the format every effing year, which just confirms the idea that it's terrible. Just have them play basketball. Don't overthink this. And you're going to need to work through that in every because you've trained us all to do this. You're going to need to work through that first couple seasons where people keep complaining. because that's what we do.

Starting point is 00:21:56 Yes, I agree with you. What is there to figure out? Play basketball. Jesus. There's little stuff. There's like, you know, if you have to come up with a certain amount of international players,

Starting point is 00:22:06 a certain amount of American players, like how do you make sure there's equity and who's named an All-Star and who's not? Like, none of this is stuff that I'm terribly concerned about as like a person who counts all-stars. But like, all-star games,

Starting point is 00:22:18 as far as I understand, like, count, like they're part of these things, you know, of the equation. and things that I think they're still part of the equation of what impacts like potential contracts. But if nothing else, they're part of how we view people from a legacy standpoint, X amount of all-star teams, never.

Starting point is 00:22:38 Mike Conley never made an all-star team until he did. But like, you know, that's what we look at guys. So that part is at least a conversation, but the rest of it, you are spot on. If it sucks, pretend it was good and do the same thing next year. I mean, you know what? The NFL isn't worried about the fact that they're playing flag football during their pro bowl. Because you know what? They are telling us it's great.

Starting point is 00:23:03 You know, but the flag football thing did improve. Like the NFL, the one game that the NFL was struggling with was the Pro Bowl. And so they were like, you know, we're just going to make it a flag football game. We're not going to pretend anymore. And I don't even think they watch it. I think they invite those people out there to Hawaii. And then like everyone from the league leaves and just was like, you know, if there's no game, someone will tell me.

Starting point is 00:23:31 I'm not sure they're even there at that point. Just have them play basketball and get out of the way. As far as JJ, though, I thought JJ did on balance a very good job during the regular season. You know, he had to navigate essentially three different rosters over the course of the season, the one that began this season, the one. that was in between Delo getting traded, DFS coming on board, but before AD and Max were sent out. And then the Luca era, which included a lot of absences between Luca, LeBron, Rui, Jackson, Hayes,

Starting point is 00:24:07 occasionally, Austin, like Gabe, there was a lot of guys in and out of the lineup. And I thought JJ managed to do a pretty good job juggling a lot of that. I think he did a very good job getting a lot of buy-in for a lot of the principles that he wanted to do. and the general accountability and attention to details. During the playoffs, though, a lot of what JJ did well, I thought, devolved. And that's a learning lesson for any rookie coach. The playoffs are different. Chris Finch is a very good coach.

Starting point is 00:24:37 So it's not shocking that he could outcoach JJ, even if you think he had more to work with. That said, JJ, I think if he wants to make sure that he gives himself along a runway as possible through his coaching, You have to accept that you can't control everything. And I think JJ was trying way too hard to control all of the uncontrollables. And by doing that, I think he actually limited the amount of buttons that he could actually push because he decided very quickly, very loudly and very transparently, half of these buttons, I don't even want to push him. I'm not even going to try to push him.

Starting point is 00:25:17 And it's like you can't win a playoff series basically. pushing one button. You can't do it. I would say, I agree with you. And I think I, I, you know, because I, I, I defended the no subs thing probably more than some other people did. And I certainly understood it, if nothing else. I, you know, they were close to getting, you know, getting away with that. I think I understood even I mean I don't even think his logic behind getting guys off their feet and resting as much as possible before game one was dumb I mean I think most people were like they're going to get

Starting point is 00:25:58 tons of right I mean just they just we're missing something and the players you know jj took a lot of responsibility for that you know obviously that's a lot of that's on the players too but you learn and I where I my last thing for I think where where j jay needs is he needs to get better at some of the sort of management stuff in terms of how he talks to us, how he so maybe talks about players. Like there's a, that sense of of being offended when someone questions what you're trying to do and why.

Starting point is 00:26:41 I think need, you know, there needs to be a little bit more of a step back. I don't want to say humility because I'm not sure like when you're done with it. I mean, he might go back into the coaching room and think, you know, that guy. I wonder, Mason raises a good point. But to the degree that he is enamored with his own smarts, it's something you need to get passed really quickly if you want to have a long career. Because you don't, you have to be confident in what you do. and not always willing to be like that's the thing that I like most about the fourth quarter thing

Starting point is 00:27:22 or the you know the second half thing is say what you will it's a bold decision to commit to and he's the first coach to do it in the play by player in the playoffs so yeah it's bold it's bold one way to you know and had he sub somebody out you know two players out for 90 seconds each it wouldn't have been really that much less bold it just would have been something that didn't make headlines. I like that he is willing to take big swings that expose him. He's not stupid. He knows, I mean, he might not be thinking about it in the moment,

Starting point is 00:27:58 but he certainly knows if I don't make substitutions in the second half of game three, then we lose. People are going to blame me for losing that game. He knows that. Game four. I'm sorry, game four. He's not stupid. He knows that.

Starting point is 00:28:15 And he did it anyway. And I don't think he did it because he wanted the other side of that, which is, oh, my God, what a brilliant guy, JJ Redick is. He just, this is the decision I'm making. I'm willing to take the heat for it and all that's good. But as long as you are willing to accept both the questioning of stuff, because you have to have to be able to get along with media. It's part of it. It influences the working conditions that allow you to be successful in the NBA. When things get toxic between the coach and the coverage, the coverage changes.

Starting point is 00:28:59 The locker room starts to change because the players are being asked different things. It becomes more confrontational, becomes more pressure ratcheted up on it. It's not good. And so I think that was a relative weakness of, JJ last year that he'll get better at, but you have to be open to people questioning you and really take, not necessarily us questioning him, but like, you know, players, other guys on the staff, whatever it might be. You have to be open to that stuff. Yeah, I don't, I mean, to be fair to Jay Jay, I'm not sure how closed off he is. I'm just, well, I was, I was going to say,

Starting point is 00:29:33 to be fair to JJ, I genuinely don't know how much he did or did not question either suggestions or for lack of a better way of putting it doubts, either from his assistants or from players. Like I never heard anything about JJ being resistant to that sort of stuff. And JJ talked up all the time how he would seek out feedback from players, from his assistants. And I'm going to take him at his word for it. I mean, JJ talked.

Starting point is 00:30:07 This is, I, you know, just copped to the same thing. It's hard to know exactly what it is. All I'm saying is like, because I think he's a good coach. I think he had a good season. I think he's going to get better. But we're talking about like, what are the little signs, like little things that you see that, hmm, I wonder if that, you know, that goes. I'll give an example.

Starting point is 00:30:27 I'll give an example. And I talked about this when it happened in real time. And I said in the moment, I didn't because it was an exchange between me and JJ, I was not in any way put off or offended by JJ doing this. I actually thought it was funny and very JJ, but it's very much how JJ often gets around questions that he doesn't want to answer or will try to spin the question

Starting point is 00:30:56 when he made the decision to start playing DeAngelo Russell off the bench. I asked JJ if he had had a discussion with Delo before the season began about this just being a possibility for Delo, because if nothing else, it's something I know people covering the team had talked about, and it happened in Darwin Ham's final season as well. Delo went back and forth between starting and coming off the bench, and I asked, like, just did you talk to Delo about this at all heading into the season as a possibility just so if his role changed, he could be prepared for that.

Starting point is 00:31:33 And JJ got into, and JJ does this sometimes, a semantical debate with me, saying that he doesn't consider coming off the bench a role. To which I said, well, players do. I know enough players. I've covered this league long enough. They consider that a role. Delo, I can guarantee considered his role changing. Whether JJ considers it that way and for what it's worth, I'm. I'm willing to bet as a player he damn sure did.

Starting point is 00:32:07 Like that's disingenuous and that's getting into the semantics of what a role is when JJ knows exactly what I'm asking. And he could have just said yes or no. And because that's really, that's really what I was asking. Is this something? Because JJ, the reason I asked him this is because he talked about heading into the season being very clear about roles with all his players and which I think is great. I think that something coaches should do, and you and I really praised JJ for doing that.

Starting point is 00:32:39 And it seemed like everybody had a very clear idea of what they would be doing. And, you know, JJ did that on a few different occasions. And again, I'm not offended by any of it. I actually think it's kind of funny. I just think it's a waste of his own time. It's a waste of his own time. But like I said, if it goes the wrong way, it's fine when you're winning. It's fine when things are going well.

Starting point is 00:32:58 And things get worse. If you have a bad season, a tough season, whatever it is, that sort of thing. goes from kind of charming. And then that's kind of what I was getting at. Like you see those little signs of personality traits. You know, Tibbs ultimately just burns out players. He burns out organizations. Mike Malone, it's actually kind of a miracle he lasted 10 years in Denver.

Starting point is 00:33:23 I mean, it probably helped that he just, you know, they were so building on. Then they got so good. He's a really good coach. He's a great coach. But he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, can see how a Mike Malone era would just need to end. It's just, it's too much. And like in, it gets too intense.

Starting point is 00:33:41 He's too intense. And Tibbs is like that. He just burns out rosters. And, you know, it's cold to do it after the Western, Eastern Conference finals. But like, the end was coming at some point.

Starting point is 00:33:52 Because it just, he's not a coach who can stay in one place long enough. If you look at Spow, Spow is intense. Spow has, you know, like a program. But it's like, pop. It's we do things a certain way, but it's not prescribed in like it would be in a college program.

Starting point is 00:34:13 It's like we have a culture. We have a way of doing things. But I as a coach, I will coach my roster this way one year. I'll coach it that way another year. He's got a great relationship with the only front office voice that matters. Steve Kerr has always been a very open-minded coach. I to some agree. He's had the luxury of playing with Steph and being able to build things around Steph for this, you know, for as long as he has. But I think, you know, he has a style and an ethic and a front office. Okay. That kind of backs up into what he is doing. And I think that that's why I mentioned the relationship with Rob as being so important and why those little things like language matter because you have to be lined up and doing things in a way where your vision of basketball

Starting point is 00:35:07 lines up with management's vision of basketball. And when those two things don't, even if the coach's vision isn't bad or even wrong, the coach loses his job. Tyloo has always been very adaptable. And he's also one of the longest tenured coaches. Right. Rick Carlisle is really good. Rick Carlisle is a really intense dude. So, you know, that would be something that could make it, but like, you know, successful,

Starting point is 00:35:31 smart, adaptable, things like that. Let us know what you think about JJ and how he could carve out a long career leave comment in the comments section of the YouTube page. Locked on Lakers on YouTube's, we're going to hang out with our 35,000 subscribers.

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