Good morning key shock what was that in this good morning Rachel morning you were there yesterday as the Lakers introduced j j redick is the new head coach he took questions for what about 45 or so minutes.

Pretty good. Anxious to hear what you saw and what you heard. But this was how GM

Arab Palinka began by explaining why the Lakers chose J.J. Reddick.

I think an industry in general and in sports in specific sometimes it's easy to get caught up in patterns of

being in a sea of sameness and doing the same thing that everybody else is doing.

But when we embarked on this search,

it was really important for us to see if we could do something

a little bit different.

And quickly in our conversations with J.J.

it was very evident that he had a unique perspective and philosophy on basketball

and how it's to be taught.

Interesting. Okay, Rachel. and how it's to be taught.

Interesting. Okay, Rachel, your response to what Rob Polinka

launched this media session with.

Yeah, I mean, look, I actually think Rob did a great job

in this press conference conference I don't always

say that I think jJ did a fantastic job in this press conference because no shocker

the guy with the communications background won the press conference if he didn't do well

yesterday that would have been a problem.

As for the different stuff I'm not sure that's the right word because when you look at the

Lakers past five head coaches let's say.

Darvan Ham Frank Vogel Luke Walton, Byron Scott, Mike Dantoni, those guys are all very

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