Lakers must be in ‘championship shape’ next season, JJ Redick says

El segundo, calif. -After seeing his team stumble when it mattered most in the Fourth Quarter during its 4-1 FIRST-ROUND SERIES LOSS TO THE Minnesota Timberwolves, Los angeles lakers coach jj redick point to improved player conditioning as a must heading in the next season.

“I will start with the offseason and the work that is the request in an offse to be in championship shape,” Redick Said Thurs in a News Conferred to the Lakers 2024-25 Season. “And we have a way to go as a roster. And certainly, there are individuals that would be in Phenomenal shape. We have to get in championship shape. “

Redick Did Not Single Out Any Player By Name After La Was Outscored 127-85 By Minnesota in the Fourth Quarter During The Series, But It is Widely Known That One of the Knocks On Luka doncic On his Dallas mavericks Trade Him was the 26-year-old Star’s Struggles with Weight and Conditioning.

Late-game execution was one of many ways the no. 6-seeded wolves dominated the no. 3-seeded lakers.

“Maybe this is hard sometimes for a coach or a player to admit this: we list to a bett team,” Redick Said. “That’s just the reality. We did.”

After Redick Benched La’s Starting Center Jaxson hayes Four Minutes Into Game 4 And KEPT HIM OUT OF THE ROTATION IN GAM 5 as Minnesota’s Rudy gobert Piled up 27 points and 24 rebounds in the clincher, the lakers’ Lack of Big Men was obvious.

“I think when you make a huge trade at the deadline where you are trade your starting center for a point guard, of course significant ISSUS with the rooster, and we see some, and” Rob Pelinka, Lakers President of Basketball Operations and GM, Said of the Doncic-For-Anthony davis Trade. “We know this offseason, one of our primary goals is going to be to add size in our Frontcourt at the center position.”

LA Attempted to Acquire 7-Foot Center Mark williams from the Charlotte hornets Just before the Trade Deadline, but the Deal was released after Williams failed to pass a physical examination with the lakers.

“There’s Nba Rules That Prohibit us from speaking to a particular translation, but I’ll say in General, it’s very clear and it was clear then … this roster needs more size and need a center,” Pelinka Said. “That’s a very clear and obvious by -product of trading potentially the best big in the league to dallas to get a point guard.

“The Trade Deadline and the moments up to it to allow you the request time to explore every single single unturned Stone to Our Roster. We just did the luka trade. Now we do. “

Pelinka says he knows that Lebron jamesWho has a player option to return to la for an nba-resord 23rd season in 2025-26, will be monitoring how the lakers use that time to improve the team.

“I think lebron’s going to have high expectitions for the roster,” Pelinka Said. “And we have to do everywhere we can to meet those. But I also know that whatever it is, He’s Still Going to Give 110 Percent All Night, Whether that’s Scoring, Assisting, Defending, Rebenging, Leading. We know that’s always going to be 100 perce, and that never wavers. “

Though Pelinka Predicted an Offseason Rife with Player Movement Around the League, and Sounded hopeful that it would be aid in his pursuit of new personal, he made it clear In Parting with: James, Doncic and Austin rays.

“The level of confidence in austin reaves, lebron james and luka doncic is at an all-time high still,” Pelinka sa. “I think those three guys have increased promise playing together.