{"id":370295,"date":"2025-12-26T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370295\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:53:15","slug":"jj-redick-rips-lakers-after-ugly-christmas-loss-we-dont-care-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370295\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick rips Lakers after ugly Christmas loss: ‘We don’t care enough’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> are struggling.<\/p>\n

With two of the most dynamic players in the league, including the NBA’s leading scorer, Luka Doncic, the Lakers’ glaring weakness is on defense.<\/p>\n

That weakness once again showed up in a 119-96 Christmas Day home loss to the Rockets<\/a>, which Houston led wire-to-wire and had six players score in double figures.<\/p>\n

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The Rockets shot 53% for the game and outrebounded Los Angeles 48-25, which lost for the third straight game.<\/p>\n

That effort caused Lakers head coach JJ Redick to call out his team after the game.<\/p>\n

“We don’t care enough right now,” Redick said. “And that’s the part that bothers you a lot. We don’t care enough to do the things that are necessary. We don’t care enough to be a professional.”<\/p>\n

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Oct. 26: The Dallas Mavericks’ Cooper Flagg dunks the ball past the Toronto Raptors’ Sandro Mamukelashvili at the American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n

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Oct. 26: The Washington Wizards’ Cam Whitmore dunks the ball against the Charlotte Hornets at Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n

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Oct. 26: The Brooklyn Nets’ Michael Porter Jr. dunks in front of the San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama at Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n

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Oct. 25: The Denver Nuggets’ Christian Braun dunks the ball against the Phoenix Suns’ Grayson Allen at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n

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Oct. 24: The Memphis Grizzlies’ Jaren Jackson Jr. dunks against the Miami Heat at FedExForum.<\/p>\n

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Oct. 24: The Miami Heat’s Bam Adebayo dunks over the Memphis Grizzlies’ Jaren Jackson Jr. at FedExForum.<\/p>\n

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Oct. 22: The New York Knicks’ OG Anunoby goes up for a reverse dunk against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

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Oct. 22: The Utah Jazz’s Lauri Markkanen dunks against the Los Angeles Clippers at Delta Center.<\/p>\n

Redick said that Saturday’s practice will be “uncomfortable,” because he’s “not doing another 53 games like this.”<\/p>\n

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“The two words of the day were effort and execution,” Redick said. “And I feel like when we’ve done both of those things at a high level, we’ve been a good basketball team. When we haven’t, we’re a terrible basketball team. And tonight we were a terrible basketball team. And that started legitimately right away.”<\/p>\n

Los Angeles (19-10) still leads the Pacific Division, and gets back in action at home on Sunday against the Sacramento Kings<\/a> (7-23), who have the worst record in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

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