Lakers Face Harsh Reality & Critique From JJ Redick

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00:00The Lakers with another subpar performance, let's just say J.J. Redick not thrilled after the game.

00:08It's easy to not want the ownership, particularly when it's embarrassing.

00:18I'm embarrassed, we're all embarrassed. It's not a game that I thought we had

00:30the right fight, the right professionalism.

00:37You know, not sure what was lost in translation. There has to be some ownership on the court and

00:45I'll take all the ownership in the world. This is my team and I lead it and I'm embarrassed.

00:51I'll tell you what, it's real simple. He's learning the hard way. He already knew that guys play to

00:58get paid and don't care to begin with in the NBA. When you're making tons of money, you don't care

01:04about anything, the weather, winning, losing, your family, you don't care about anything.

01:09You just, they don't listen to coaches at the NBA level. They don't, they do not listen to coaches.

01:15They don't. And then they don't care if they get blown out. And he's learning now, he already knew

01:23that as a player. He already knew guys go through the motions. He already knows that guys, they tank

01:29games. When you're down 30, it's over. You know what I mean? There's a point where you're down 25,

01:35you're still in it. 30, 35, 40, it's over. And then it's, you know, it's just ugliness. Then you have

01:42to go in and face the music and talk about being embarrassed. But they got their ass beat and

01:48there's nothing he can do about it. Cause he knows now he has to see for himself that it doesn't

01:54matter if he's a coach or Jesus is the coach. There are nights that these guys just absolutely

01:59take the night off and don't even try. They don't even want to play. They don't want to sweat. They

02:04don't want to run. They don't want to hustle. They don't want to give it anything. And that's

02:09just all there is to it in the NBA. It happens every night. There's two or three teams that do

02:14it. And in college basketball, it doesn't really happen in college basketball. These

02:20kids play their ass off. They want to win.