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Gap year, huh? Who cares! No one is turning down the volume on the Lakers. No one is turning down the heat.
The scrutinizing and psychoanalyzing continues like Luka Doncic screaming at the refs — incessantly, and with impressive stamina. About as loudly too. “Our losses,” Lakers coach JJ Redick recently said, “are louder than other teams’ because we’re the Lakers.”
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Every other team in the NBA gets graded on a curve; bad breaks and reasonable expectations are accounted for in the score at season’s end.
The Lakers are a pass-fail upper-level course; they either win a championship or they fail.
They’re 37-24 but still would consider dropping the class if they could — but they can’t. So they’re forging on, trying to figure it out, their window closing and their fans’ frustration growing.
“I think it’s awesome,” guard Austin Reaves said of the bright — no, blinding — lights trained constantly on the team.
Lakers coach JJ Redick directs his team during a win over the Pelicans at Crypto.com Arena on Tuesday. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
“I think it’s one of the best — if not the best organization — in all of sports. With that comes …”
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Great responsibility? Golden opportunity?
“… honestly, chaos.”
By which Reaves meant: “If it’s good, it’s great. And if it’s bad, it’s miserable. They expect to win games, the fans do. And that’s what we’re here to do, we’re here to win and win at a high level. We know that.”
That’s why Redick signed up to come coach them, he said. “My own personal psychosis,” he called it. He swears he wants the smoke.
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“The reality is everybody is going to always have an opinion,” Redick said Tuesday before his team toughed out a 110-101 victory against the New Orleans Pelicans, who are healthier than they have been but still are 19-44. “Since pro sports have existed, everybody has always had an opinion. There’s been sports talk, there’s been barber shops, chat rooms. Everybody’s had an opinion. Now, everybody’s…
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