LOS ANGELES — J.J. Redick’s shooting numbers had fallen off so dramatically that a day before the Clippers played the Charlotte Hornets, he joked, he had suffered an anxiety attack.
“I had been playing like (garbage),” Redick said.
He was being dramatic, but acknowledged how good it felt to break through with 22 points in Sunday’s 124-121 overtime win over the Hornets. He scored 19 points in the first half on a sizzling 8-of-10 shooting, and was scoring in a variety of ways. Only three of his hoops in the first two quarters were on 3-pointers.
Before Sunday, Redick had shot just 31.