Austin Reages consolidated this campaign as the third star of the Lakers, behind teammates Luka Doncic and LeBron James, and contributed heavily to the team that achieved 50 victories during the regular season. What is the secret behind his success? The player says that JJ Redick was a key factor.
The truth is that the young guard had a breakout season this year and turned out to have what is needed to become an All-Star talent in Los Angeles. His coach is well aware of this and decided to give him a greater attacking responsibility. “It was great … I told him it was the nicest that I played basketball in a long time.
“Every day I went to work, I enjoyed going to work. It wasn’t like it was as if” Ah, I have to do this again. “They made it fun every day,” he acknowledged during a recent interview with LAKERS NAME. ”The 27-year-old on average 20.2 points per match, after 73 performances in the regular season.
When he talked about Redick’s biggest assets, he was praised his high standards. “His intensity, his healthcare factor is almost higher than that of anyone, if not high than that of anyone. He would be the first to tell you, I am sure he said it publicly that he wishes him to do a few things differently in that series,” Austin shared.
The point guard then added: “He holds himself to a high standard, and that is all you can ask for a coach, everything you can ask for a player, to keep yourself responsible and do what you think is the best that can help us.”
However, not every team in the purple and golden schedule played as well as he had hoped under JJ, because Gabe Vincent recently expressed repentance for his bad displays during the play -offs. In the last month of April, he only made 35.7% of his shot attempts and only 30.8% went out of the arc.
“I was happy to play and get injured for a whole year after last year, only playing a handful of matches,” said the Nigerian athlete. “It was great to be there all season. I had a number of pieces where I found a good rhythm, but I would like to have had more impact in this series.”
