Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane. The Lakers just wrapped up practice. And afterwards, head coach J.J. Reddick, Austin Reeves, Jared Vanderbilt, and Rui Hutchamura spoke to the media. And I think they had some really interesting and important things to say, gave us some insight into what the team's thinking. Scheme-wise, some big updates on the injury front as well.

Are they actually being held back by players like LeBron James not being available to be out there

and practice with the team?

Plus the return of Marcus Smart.

Some really exciting things about him.

And JJ Redick gave a very blunt assessment of the team's transition defense. We'll get

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All right. Before we get into these, this is all being done right to the side of the practice floor.

So there are basketballs bouncing in the background.

I did what I could to try to clean that up as much as possible.

But just bear with me.

Here, the most important thing, we got to start with JJ Reddick talking about the injury front.

This season of no games, that's kind of a focus.

Get back into the gym with the fellas.

Just treating this week like training camp.

That's really what it is.

You only have three days and then you have two games.

You know, you want to make sure there's at least enough put in that they can still play a basketball game and not play pickup.

This week is really more, this is our training.

Let's do the latest update with some of the guys.

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