LA LAkers Head Coach JJ Redick's Views on New Basketballs

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00:00I want you to run with the Redick thing, and he was complaining last night after they won.

00:09He was complaining and it was actually, it's more than that too.

00:12Like he comes out and he's like reading all these advanced stats and all these, like,

00:17you could just tell he's, he, all of the stuff that he did before he got the job with his

00:23podcast.

00:24It seems like he wants to, like, reinvent the wheel of coaching in the NBA and maybe

00:30that will work and God bless him if he does, but man, it's going to be painful listening

00:36to him as he tries to do it.

00:38Here he is also talking about the basketballs that they use.

00:42I don't know if he had this take when he was playing in the league, but now that he's a

00:46head coach, here's what he thought about the basketball.

00:49I'm going to send in a request for the league tomorrow that we can play with worn in basketballs.

00:56I'm not sure why we're playing in real games.

00:58I'm being dead serious.

00:59I'm not sure why we're playing in real games with brand new basketballs.

01:04Anybody's ever touched an NBA ball brand new.

01:06It's a different feel and touch than a worn in basketball.

01:10I didn't realize it until a timeout.

01:12There's a long rebound.

01:13I grabbed it.

01:14It's like, what?

01:15Why are we playing with this ball?

01:17Give the guys the opportunity to pick a good basketball.

01:22You think I'm joking?

01:23No, I'm positive.

01:24I'm neurotic.

01:25I'm positive you're not joking.

01:26Listen, it's true.

01:27Listen, I'm telling you, I play basketball every day of my life and there's nothing worse

01:36than a new basketball.

01:38You have to break them in.

01:40We never play with a new ball.

01:42They're slippery.

01:44They're not the same tack feel as a ball that's been played with and worn in.

01:49We always play with balls that are worn in until they're shot and then we break in a

01:53new ball and before you break in a brand new ball, you always play with the next guy's

01:58worn in ball.

02:00So guys show up four or five balls show up for the run, right?

02:03There's 15 guys.

02:04There's about five balls.

02:05We play with mine every day because it's perfectly worn in and then when mine is shot, they're

02:09going to go to the next guys that's worn in.

02:12They never play with a brand new evolution or NBA ball ever any run anywhere because

02:17they suck.

02:18I mean, they're just, they're slippery.

02:21There's no tack to them.

02:22You can't grab them.

02:23I can palm a basketball and walk through an airport with a basketball palm, a brand new

02:27NBA ball.

02:28You can't do it.

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