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Darvin Ham needed roughly eight months between the offseason and regular season to land on his starting lineup. JJ Redick needed two months on the job.<\/p>\n

Throughout recent years,\u00a0Lakers\u00a0head coaches have kept starting fives close to the vest, to say the least. Both Frank Vogel and Ham gained reputations for never revealing their starting lineups until it was absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n

JJ Redick isn\u2019t following that mold.<\/p>\n

Despite being nearly a month away from the first game of the regular season and still a week out from even the start of training camp, Redick has already landed on his starting five. And on top of that, he\u2019s already willingly sharing it publicly.<\/p>\n

Redick appeared on\u00a0\u201cThe Lowe Post\u201d podcast with Zach Lowe\u00a0on Tuesday and, when asked if he had settled on a starting lineup, he simply…revealed the lineup. What a novel concept!<\/p>\n

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It\u2019ll be the starting five that went 23-10 last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, there goes a preseason storyline. And, to be clear, the lineup he is referring to D\u2019Angelo Russell, Austin Reaves, Rui Hachimura, LeBron James and Anthony Davis.<\/p>\n

To be fair, there may not actually be much to debate about that lineup. The only realistic change that could be made is inserting Jarred Vanderbilt for Hachimura. However, if reports are to be believed, Vando might not even be ready from the jump this preseason, which pretty much makes the decision an easy one.<\/p>\n

After spending last summer talking about continuity and then not leaning into that last season, the Lakers are, at the very least, going to ride that continuity this season with this lineup. In those final 33 games, only one other lineup \u2014 the Pacers starting five \u2014 played more minutes together in the entire NBA.<\/p>\n

The Lakers found ways to leverage their size with that starting five and it\u00a0really ignited Hachimura as well. The\u00a0team also found success with that group\u00a0in games LeBron sat out as well.<\/p>\n

Now, the starting five struggled in the playoffs against Denver, but the likely hope is that a season of playing together and figuring out how to correct the weakness will only make them stronger.<\/p>\n

And even when they struggled, the Lakers led for the vast majority of the series as well, so the struggles weren\u2019t that great in context.<\/p>\n

This is also just a general change for the Lakers, too, as it\u2019s been some time since fans have known what the starting five would be heading into the season. You\u2019d have to go back to the 2020-21 season after the Lakers won the title to have a year in which the team entered camp and the season aware of what it\u2019s starting group would look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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