With the Lakers following 2-1 in their series against the Timberwolves of Minnesota, and facing a 3-1 deficit (probable unsurpassed) 3-1 in the first round of the NBA playoffs, Chief coach JJ Redick made a decision: he sank to swim.
That is really the only justification for why Redick played the headlines LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura every final 24 minutes of game time, while also issued a Jaxson Hayes nominal title center for Dorian-Mm.
If that seemed a bold decision, and possible unprecedented, for anyone who sees the game, it turns out that it is because it was everything. As Guru Keurthika Uthayakumar of the NBA pointed out after the defeat of game 4 of 116-113-113 of the Lakers, Redick is the first coach to do this in the playoffs since the NBA began playing the monitoring of the play:
JJ Redick became the first coach in the game age for play in playing five players for an entire half in the playoffs.
James, Doncic, Reaves, Hachimura and Finney-Smith played the entire second half today.
– Keerthika uthayakumar (@kerthikau) April 27, 2025
The Lakers box score is quite wild as a result, with Luka (leaving a stomach flu that saw it in bed all day before!) And LeBron ending with 46 minutes each, while Hachimura and Finney-Smith played 41 each, and reas finished the game with 35. Hayes, which is bad in basketball, and that does not have the center of the interior center of Lakers, and the starting center, and ended with the starting center of the Foures, and the starting center of the Foures, and the quotas of the four. Outside the headlines of the second half he played more than 13 minutes.
With the strategic decisions of Coaching, the rules for our collective memories are simple: if you do something that has never been done before and desire, you are a pioneering genius. However, if you do and lose, it will be the second welcomed by eternity … but that is just because Alreamy decided that you are an idiot that should be stolen a few more minute minutes for Gabe Vincent ‘Did’ Did ‘Did’s Lacques Did’s Lakers Did’ Bilt or Hayt Lakers Did’s Lacquers apparently in the last five minutes of the game of the game.
That last bit is hyperbolic, since Redick is obviously an intelligent guy who has mostly done it with an unstable list after seismic and unexpected trade for Luka Doncic. But it is also sure to say that he probably did not, as a rookie coach, because falling as the first bank leader to try this in a game that his team lost in a basket to fall 3-1 in the series included in 2-2.
It is also, as journalists told the game, it is not something that planned to enter the game, but a call that made half the time and confirmed these players who enter the fourth quarter:
JJ Redick: “It’s not planned to play five [guys] The whole second half … those guys cool a lot. “
– Khobi Price (@khobi_price) April 27, 2025
Ultimately, his effort was in vain, he thought, like the bold called strategic of Redick, which means that another coach is probably unlikely to try again at any time, Oh, Oh, Wait, Tom Thibodeau is definitely the next game now now that now not now now now now now now now now legal, huh?
Well, in that case, maybe Redick can comfort yourself with the knowledge that at least it will not be alone in this club for a long time.