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Michael Hinrich, AKA Michael H, has been a Lakers fan since his 5th grade basketball coach, who had played with Wilt Chamberlain at Kansas, turned him into a Wilt fan and Lakers fan when Wilt was traded to L.A.
Another expat from the LA Times Lakers Blog, where he met LakerTom and Jamie Sweet, Michael’s stream of consciousness writing style and savvy intelligence is refreshing and invites conversation and response.
As far as day jobs, Michael has been a councilor, truck washer, bank V.P., and semi-professional writer who just published his first novel. He currently works part-time designing greenhouse systems and just enjoying the good life in Hawaii.
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After swapping out Dorian Finney-Smith for Jaxson Hayes in the starting lineup, the lineup of LeBron James, Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves, Rui Hachimura and DFS played the rest of the way.
It’s a move that literally hasn’t been done before as Redick made history. But with the Lakers facing a must-win situation, an extra day of rest between Games 4 and 5 and a bench still lacking in production in the first half, Redick rolled the dice in a big way.
“No, it wasn’t planned,” Redick said postgame. “We just made the decision at halftime.”
The Lakers had their best quarter of the series in the third period with the lineup and led seven with five minutes remaining. But whether it was a mixture of his team running out of gas or the Wolves executing at a high level, the Lakers faltered down the stretch again, losing by three to fall behind 3-1 in the series.
“It’s not a planned thing to play five guys an entire second half,” Redick reiterated. “We asked them at the beginning of the fourth quarter, we told them we had two extra two timeouts, if you need a sub, let us know. Those guys gave a lot.”
Asked if he was second-guessing the decision in hindsight, Redick pushed back and said he wasn’t.