“The impossible” reaction “impossible” on a compressed Lakers schedule

Los Angeles – When Los Angeles Lakers The court left after their loss in Milvaukee on Thursday, they just finished the heavy part of their schedule that saw them the game in eight days in eight days. They played that part of their schedule without two starrings in Lebron James and Rui Hachimuri, during which Head coach lachers JJ Redick Laminated Lack of exercise The team must acclimate them again on the line.

In the middle of that difficult part of the schedule for Lakers, the team decided to sit a few players In loss of up to dollars, including Luke Dončić, Austin Reaves, Dorian Finnei-Smith and Jarred Vanderbilt. They are all upgraded to available for Saturdays on Saturday Lakers against Chicago Bull, including James and Hachimura.

But after losing dollars, JJ Redick was 100 percent, honestly on his contempt for chalkors who have such a compressed schedule, especially when referring to a modern NBA game.

“I don’t think it’s a game that exists in modern NBA today and a modern NBA device … You are not built to play six games in eight nights,” Redick said. “That game just doesn’t let you play six games at eight nights. It just is not possible.”

Redick was sazila seasons 2010-11 when he was with Orlando magic, in which the entire NBA played a compressed schedule of 66 games. He admitted that if his era in the NBA looked more on today’s game, he could not play such a compressed schedule.

“I lived through the year of locking … And did I want to play all 66? I would usually like, yes, but then I was like F ** k No, I just played 65 games in 92 days,” Redick recalled. “This is impossible and it was easier to play then because there wasn’t that many movements and there weren’t so many spaces and you didn’t have to cover as much as the court.”

During the time of Redick as an ESPN analyst and podcast host following retirement, he They often drew the IRE players from the past Because of its championship of today’s NBA games through its times. After losing the Bucks, Redick praised today’s players so that they could withstand a narrow schedule in the middle of change in the game in court.

“What our guys just went through, it’s hard. And the old heads will talk about how physical either in the 80s and the 90s, it was okay,” the revick continued to continue. “But the level of physical and in our game and the way the court must be covered and all movement and things, I am glad to be on the other side.”