The pizza analogy of JJ Redick will induce hunger, accentuated by LA’s dominance

After a the fast start of Luka Doncic and the Los Angeles Lakers against the New Orleans Pelicans, it would lead to a 133-121 victory on Sunday night, giving the team its sixth straight victory. Although it is The Lakers are without LeBron James due to a left leg injuryDončić and company did the job, even though the selector JJ Redick believes there is more to achieve.

Los Angeles got off to a hot start, leading New Orleans 46-27 after one quarter on record, but the Pelicans would find a way to make the game competitive enough, despite being without Zaun Williamson, Trey Murphy, Herbert Jones and Jordan Poole. With Los Angeles at 15-4, Redick said the team “should be proud” of the early results, but used a pizza analogy to show there is “room for improvement.”

“It’s nice to sit here and be 15-4 and say, ‘Oh, the results are great,’ and we should be proud to be 15-4 after 19 games,” Redick said. “It’s a great start, there’s a lot of pieces of pizza left in the box that we can still get, like there’s a lot of room for improvement for our team, which is positive for me.”

“There’s a lot of pizza left in the box that we can still get, there’s a lot of room for improvement for our team, which is positive for me.”

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JJ Redick on the Lakers with two separate stretches of 7-2

As it is The Lakers had a 14-4 record before the Pelicans gameit featured a pair of 7-2 runs for the team, where the final game of each of those runs had similarities, as Redick pointed out. Starting the season 7-2, Los Angeles lost by 20 points to the Atlanta Hawks on Nov. 8, who were without Trae Young, among others, a situation Redick did not want to relive.

“We challenged the guys before the game,” Redick said. “We started 7-2, we’re 7-2 in the last nine games. The last time we were on a 7-2 streak, we played Atlanta, right before the game, a bunch of guys are out. So it’s kind of like, you know, Zion’s out, Trey’s out, Herb’s out, Poole wanted us to get off to a good start. So we wanted to get off to a good start. I thought we did that.”

Either way, the Lakers are looking to make it eight straight on Monday night against the Phoenix Suns.