{"id":271571,"date":"2025-11-09T06:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271571\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:49:15","slug":"frustrated-redick-keeps-post-game-comments-short-after-lakers-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271571\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated Redick keeps post-game comments short after Lakers&#8217; loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-lakers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>&#8216; five-game road trip started on a sour note on Saturday night with a\u00a0122-102 loss\u00a0against an injury-depleted Atlanta Hawks team that had L.A. coach JJ Redick visibly frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers&#8217; biggest \u2014 and only \u2014 lead was by one point less than two minutes into the game.<\/p>\n<p>Redick\u00a0kept his post-game comments brief. He was asked six questions, all of which he answered in a sentence or less. The entire press conference was under two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks got off to a hot start. By halftime, Atlanta led 68-54. The Hawks extended their lead to 90-65 in the third quarter. It was enough for Redick to pull star Luka Doncic, who finished the game with 22 points, 11 assists and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Redick was asked if there was a moment in the third quarter where he knew at least the starting five wouldn&#8217;t be able to have the impact he hoped for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized that in the first two minutes of the game,\u201d Redick said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks turned to their bench as they were down three of their starting five. In addition to All-Star\u00a0Trae Young, Atlanta was without Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Nikola Durisic, Jalen Johnson and Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n<p>Zaccharie Risacher, Onyeka Okongwu, Keaton Wallace,\u00a0Dyson Daniels\u00a0and Mouhamed Gueye started for the Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>Gueye scored a career-high 21 points. Daniels had a career-best 13 assists and added 10 points and eight rebounds. It was a breakout game for rookie Asa Newell, who recorded 17 points, five rebounds, four steals and a block.<\/p>\n<p>Redick said Atlanta \u201cbrought the requisite level of effort and urgency and physicality&#8221; and alluded that his team did not.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers head to Charlotte next for Monday night matchup against the Hornets. They face the Thunder, Pelicans and Bucks before heading back to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks face the Clippers in Los Angeles on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 The Los Angeles Lakers&#8216; five-game road trip started on a sour note on Saturday night with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-271571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}