Lakers' JJ Redick responds to viral clip of him upset with D'Angelo Russell

In case you haven't noticed, Lakers head coach JJ Redick is a bit of a basketball junkie, but in a good way.

Redick has shown his fiery energy off the bench before, and we've caught him showing it more than once in less than 10 games this season. Clearly, the 40-year-old head coach is here to win games and he is serious about getting the Lakers back to where they belong.

So much so that he sometimes has to make difficult decisions, and that was evident on Friday when he decided to substitute starting player D'Angelo Russell for forward Cam Reddish.

The move wasn't easy, but he felt it was necessary at the time. Many wonder why Redick made this move, but a clip of Redick from the previous game against the Memphis Grizzlies shows a play that may have caused Redick to bench Russell.

You could tell Redick was visibly upset about the possession, and he addressed it before the Lakers' game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night.

“To be clear, some of the younger staff brought this to my attention this morning. First of all, I have to say that basketball is an emotional game for me. I am a competitive person, I am a passionate person. Sometimes you lose control of those emotions for a short period of time,” Redick said. “It's not the first time it's happened, I'll be honest with you. Maybe this is the first time something like this has happened on Twitter. But it will happen again. It can happen in two hours. That's just the reality. I think of myself as a player, now as a coach, and from watching NBA games and analyzing NBA games, I'm certainly not a zombie. This is kind of what we call people who are not passionate, not competitive and not expressive. I'm not a zombie. I don't like seeing myself in that light. When I watched the video, I actually forgot it had happened.

“But I want to make something clear, and DLo and I actually talked about this today. This wasn't directed at him. Yes, I think it came after he took a corner, but before that there were 25 plays by different players. When the three of you are on a road trip and you get to a point where you feel like you're in a ball game on the road and a game like that happens, let go of some emotions. But it wasn't directed at DLo. It was more focused on the series from two and a half quarters before. Not DLo’s shot.”

Redick is here to win games and it showed in this move he felt was necessary.

Russell has been polarizing throughout his career, and that was evident in his time as a Laker.

With Russell in purple and gold, we've seen it all: the good, the bad and the ugly. It is unclear how long he will stay here, but one thing is certain: there will never be a dull moment.

Russell could probably come off the bench for some time. In his first game off the bench this season, he scored 18 points, three assists and two rebounds in 25 minutes of play.

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