"Austin Reaves, who like Knecht had never met Morris before becoming teammates in February, said Morris pulled him aside during one game last month to give him advice on how to better handle ball pressure by backing up closer to half court to start pick-and-roll actions with opposing bigs, creating more space to gain an advantage.

“He’s just constantly talking in game. I think he has a very good IQ and there’s been a couple situations where he’s dissected the game from the bench and come to me about what I could do to be more effective,” Reaves said. “…It’s just little things like that he sees within the game but I think he does a good job of vocalizing them.”

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“LeBron needs help, too. Everybody just think he knows everything,” Morris said. “Yeah, he knows the game a lot, but for him, he can use a guy that’s, ‘Yo, did you see that right there? You can do this.’ Yeah, and that’s me. I can say, ‘Look. Bron, get your ass back. Look, you got to run back too.’”

The list of people who can credibly do that with James is short, and as they age out of the league that list shrinks every season.

Morris is one of a few left in the game. And while James is out with a groin injury over the next few weeks, the Lakers can lean on Morris’ ability to connect with younger players, like Knecht, too."

“I’m not scared,” Morris said. “…I do the same thing with Luka, same with Kyrie Irving. It doesn’t matter. Because at the end of the day, I feel like that would make them better. The same way they would do it to me to make me better.. You know what I’m saying? If I’m wrong about something, tell me I’m wrong. Don’t just let me say the wrong s—, you know what I’m saying?

“And the league just doesn’t value it.”

Going to be a strange game tonight with so many people out.

Should still get the job done if Luka plays

The important of having a seasoned vet at the end of the bench especially one with championship experience

JJ Redick said the Lakers were too “unorganized” and players weren’t in the right spots or getting to those spots quick enough in the second and third quarters vs. Boston. He said his messaging got lost in translation and took accountability saying that’s on him.

Alex Len starting that’s crazy

Goodwin was a good find, go in hustle, and make a three here and there

his rebounding stands out to me more than anything

Yeah that’ll be important for this team with no center

Would really like to get this W got a tough schedule and No Bron for two weeks

Exactly lol

Niggas really lost

Reaves what in the f*** wigga

Losing to the Nets in big 2025

Yeah this team gonna slide a few spots in the coming weeks. S*** is embarrassing

Way to waste that timeout on the previous inbounds play you clowns

JJ Redick said it was a “low-level communication game” for the Lakers. He said that being shorthanded isn’t an excuse.

“We just wanted to take shortcuts,” Redick said. “… Just shortcuts. You want to be a good team in the NBA? Want to win? You have to do the hard stuff.”

Horrible loss, how the f*** Reaves and Luka played that bad with nobody and I mean nobody capable of guarding them

Luka Doncic when asked about JJ Redick calling out the Lakers’ lack of communication on offense tonight, said: “That’s my fault”

Luka Doncic credited the Lakers' role players for stepping up tonight and said he needed to be better.

Austin Reaves:

"I just thought I played incredibly bad. That's really about as much as I can say about that. It's frustrating not helping your team win and when Bron's out, I gotta be better and I wasn't. That's why we lost."

Yeah, the loss was on him and Luka