JJ Redick Destroys Patrick Beverley's James Harden Comments
During a recent segment of First Take, former LA Clippers guard JJ Redick called out Doc Rivers, saying, "I've seen the trend for years. The trend is always making excuses. Doc, we get it. Taking over a team in the middle of a season is hard... But it's always an excuse. It's always throwing your team under the bus... There's never accountability with that guy."
This sparked a back and forth between Redick and Patrick Beverley, who took turns responding to one another on X (formerly known as Twitter). Beverley, who also played under Rivers in Los Angeles, and is again with him as a new member of the Milwaukee Bucks, defended his coach from Redick's comments.
Taking this conversation to his podcast, Beverley called out Redick again, saying, "Should [Doc Rivers] be accountable and be like, you know what? Let me get JJ Redick off James Harden. If I’m being honest, he should have started Jamal Crawford."
Wasting little time, Redick destroyed these comments from Beverley, pulling the defensive data from that 2015 series to prove that his defense on James Harden was not the reason the Clippers blew a 3-1 lead:
Even without these numbers, Beverley's comments made little sense. Not only did Crawford play poorly in that series, but Houston's comeback in Game 6 came predominately with James Harden on the bench.
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