Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Cold Lakers Lose Game 5, 99-93. Can They Rediscover Their Offense?

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Lakers go cold again in game five. We'll tell you why there's plenty of reason to be concerned about game six. That's next. You are locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Thanks to everybody for stopping by Locked on Lakers, Brian Komenetsky, Andy Komenetsky. There was about 12 minutes worth of optimism in Wednesday's game.

Starting point is 00:00:36 against the Houston Rockets. Lakers get out to a good start. They're up by seven at the end of the first quarter. And after that, Andy, it was all Houston. Final score 99.93. The Lakers' offense disappears entirely after the first quarter. And we're going back to Houston for a game six. And it is one that the Rockets will enter with supreme confidence.

Starting point is 00:01:00 And the Lakers less so. There were so many things about this game. that we got wrong when we were talking with Jackson Gatlin for our two-part crossover preview series breaking down what's happened, what we thought was going to take place in game five. I don't mean just because you and I predicted that the Lakers would win. That part, obviously, we got wrong. It's how they played. They did not play in the way that both of us, or at least I thought they would.

Starting point is 00:01:34 in my estimation, they did not. I thought their energy was low in this game. I thought their urgency was low in this game. I thought their focus was low in this game. They did not look like the team. We talked about them, we thought, especially with that extra day off between game four and game five. And we both gave them, I think, rightly, something of a pass for game four, the low energy because such a quick turnaround overtime, older team, we get it.

Starting point is 00:02:05 And Houston at that point is playing with desperation you can't fake. Fine. But we both said we thought with the extra day of rest, this team would have higher energy. And then on top of it, they would be looking to empty the clip and just leave everything out there, go completely balls out and look to bear. this team, not just because they want to close the series, but they don't want to play more games with only one day off in between. And they would see this as a real opportunity. And to me, they did not play that way at all. I, um, other than a couple, I'll single off before we go, a couple guys who deserve praise, because I thought a couple guys showed up, like really showed

Starting point is 00:02:56 up, not just in performance, but just approach to the. the game, but it starts with DeAndre Aiden. DeAndre Aiden was phenomenal. To me, it was the only guy who earned, genuinely earned a start to finish end-to-end gold star. You know what?

Starting point is 00:03:14 I tweeted out at Cambrothers, and this will sound like a loaded compliment because of Aten's history and his reputation. And I want to make it clear. I mean this as sincere praise.

Starting point is 00:03:30 and it should be taken a sincere praise, but I know how it'll be interpreted, or at least could be. Between game one and game five on balance, D'Andre Aiton has played with the most energy in this series, like the most consistent energy. It's a consistent energy, but a consistent performance. But I, to your earlier point, I agree with you in part in that the, you know, the focus as defined by like how well are you executing how well are you um paying attention you know really minding the details and and and nailing that stuff like they did in the first couple games um was definitely not there and you know as the game went along um the you know Houston until the very end lakers make a run you know lebron turns the ball over uh you know there are just some you know

Starting point is 00:04:30 some things are going, though you can't fall behind by 13, 14 points expect to win. I find more concerning and what I saw happening, and maybe you agree, maybe you don't. I think after that first quarter, Houston goes on a little run, they start hitting some shots. The three start falling. You get an Amen Thompson three-point or like some things. Lakers are kind of doing it right and getting the wrong result. What I found concerning was it looked to me like they were starting to bleed confidence throughout the game, where their ability to go create a shot, get the shot that they want,

Starting point is 00:05:17 their belief that the shots that they were getting and taking, they got plenty of open looks, and continue this sort of, you know, really what you want to call it, kind of leveling, out the great shooting, the regression from the great shooting at the beginning of the series. Now they're on the other end of things. But, you know, they had plenty of good looks. And to me, it looked like as the game went along, they started bleeding confidence in terms

Starting point is 00:05:45 of what they were doing, their belief that it was going to work, their confidence to take a shot, the confidence to push. All these are the things. They didn't look anything like, you know, complaining a little bit more to officials, looking more frustrated when things aren't going their way. They did not look like the team that was in command of the series. Now, earlier, now that Houston has kind of leveled out their offensive performance, Houston put up 99 points.

Starting point is 00:06:14 It was not a juggernaut performance from the rockets, but they look at least a little bit more like they know what they're doing. And the Lakers have just fallen off a cliff offensively. and I would say, I'll give them the first quarter Wednesday. So, you know, falling off a cliff in nine out of the last ten quarters. I look at this and am, I am concerned because, and this is something that we'll talk about, I'm sure, both, you know, for the rest of this show and into tomorrow. Like, we mentioned it in this, in the, in the show with Jackson.

Starting point is 00:06:54 the the lakers are not were not a typical team up three zero uh they were not the team that was favored to do they were not the team that was favored to be in that situation and they found themselves there obviously once you're up three nothing i don't care who you i got to close out the series but they they are unusually vulnerable and we're starting to see why i mean there were team, you know, because their offense is kind of capped and they're well below that cap right now. What they've done in the last couple games has been, you know, pretty atrocious. But there's their norm is relatively low. And, you know, so they either have to outperform it or hold the other team to something really, really bad.

Starting point is 00:07:53 I would agree with you about the bleeding confidence piece of this, or at least more wholeheartedly believe it as the primary thing that has me concerned. It obviously matters. But I don't think they played hard enough in a lot of ways to even earn the benefit of the doubt of confidence. You can still play harder. You can still play with more energy. You can still be, frankly, working your asses off harder than it seemed to me like they were. So many of their turnovers were just unfocused carelessness. And those are things that to me, they're not an element of confidence.

Starting point is 00:08:34 They're an element of lackadaisical approach or not bringing the necessary urgency, focus, mindfulness of the details, whatever. It doesn't mean that you're necessarily wrong. that confidence wouldn't become an issue because given where they are right now, it arguably should be. Houston, since Game 2, has been the better team in this series

Starting point is 00:09:04 other than the last 30 seconds of Game 3 and overtime. They've been the part of the game 3, but to your point, the last 10 quarters, they've been the better team. Right. And so it just was for me, again, the piece of this that I cannot get past. And I don't disagree with a lot of what you're talking about in terms of what happened.

Starting point is 00:09:28 But I expected them to come out with way more energy than they had, way more sense of purpose. Like, they would be the team. We've talked about them setting the tone of engagement. It did not feel like they were looking to set a tone of any kind of me. The crowd that the crypt was dead. It was dead. But there's a reason for that. And I'll tell you where I just sort of disagree with you and why.

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Starting point is 00:11:19 See calshy.com slash regulatory. So I don't disagree that the Lakers, you know, they didn't sustain, you know, there were times when in Houston was sort of outworking them or seemed like it at least. And they certainly didn't sustain, you know, sort of end to end what it looked like they were starting to. But that's kind of my point. Like they came out in this game. They, I think, were pretty sharp with their getting their shots. I think they were sharp with their moving well defensive. But even then they turned the ball over a lot.

Starting point is 00:11:59 Okay. Okay. I didn't say they were perfect. I didn't say they were perfect. But I said, but I think they, you know, the turnover question is a little bit different. Basically, what I'm disagreeing with you is I think they were efforting. I don't think they played well. And I think with the turnovers, you know, that level of focus, if you're counting that as sort of part of your effort.

Starting point is 00:12:25 Yes. Absolutely. But here's the thing. As the game went on, because they started off with the lead, they started off looking like they had a chance to pull this thing away. Where they went wrong, the reason the crowd was dead was because they started to, I think, panic a little bit offensively. They started to break down in their execution.

Starting point is 00:12:51 They stopped moving the ball nearly as well. They stopped moving with confidence on the floor. Shots don't go down. When you miss, you know, Houston had this problem in game one and game two. They looked like they were being outrun, out, worked out everything because you couldn't hit a damn shot. And when you start to lose that rhythm offense, when you are this inept as the Lakers were offensive, where you score 19 points in the second quarter and 20 points in the third

Starting point is 00:13:22 quarter, 39 points in two NBA quarters. It's going to look real bad and it's going to start taking away a lot of your, it's going to take away momentum. It's going to kill the crowd. It's going to do all those things. And what bothers me about that is that the Lakers seem to have no mechanism to turn it around. I think they recognized what was going on. I think they were trying. I think they had no confidence, capacity, execution, whatever it was to turn it around. And then you combine it with, you know, the Marcus Smart experience, which is always kind of a roller coaster, can include a lot of bad tournament. No, there was no upside in it on, on, on, Wednesday. And, you know, LeBron, I think, had three turnovers, but it seemed a lot like, you know,

Starting point is 00:14:17 it seemed like more. And they just missed too many, like four of 16 from the floor from Reeves. And, you know, Kinnard, did Kinnard end up with a field goal? I don't believe so. 31 minutes with no field goals. He has disappeared. Since game two, he has increasingly disappear. They hit 26% of their three-pointers and had one in the second half. Here's the part of it, though, that I would disagree with you in terms of the idea that it's purely just not seeing the ball go down, not seeing the office.

Starting point is 00:14:47 I don't think it's purely that. But I think it's a huge aspect of it. Here's why, look, obviously you're going to get frustrated when shots aren't going down. That's part, it's what happens when anything in sports, if what you're doing isn't working, except Houston's offense wasn't particularly good either. And they were still outworking the Lakers, other than basically D'Andre Aiden. And I thought LeBron was reasonable, though I now have concerns. Because remember, game four, he looked spent.

Starting point is 00:15:20 And it was like, okay, I get it. I completely get it. I'm 100% willing to give LeBron a pass, given how much he had carried earlier in the series, how much he had carried in the regular season post Luca and Austin being out. And I can still give him a pass in terms of just the effect of age. But I'm starting to grow concerned that, and this is something I've talked about the last couple seasons in the playoffs, even when I think LeBron has played well, I think as the series have gone along, he's looked more tired.

Starting point is 00:15:53 Yeah. LeBron was one of the only people could get a bucket in the fourth quarter. Yes. Eleven points in the fourth quarter of his tournament. I'm not faulting. I know. I understand that.

Starting point is 00:16:05 But I'm also sort of disagreeing with the premise. LeBron was able to get some shots to fall in the fourth quarter. He was better in the fourth quarter than he was, I thought, in the first three, offensively. It took him way too long to get going. That can be a fatigue factor as well. But then why was he better in the fourth? He's, you know, second wind, I guess.

Starting point is 00:16:23 I don't know, but the, LeBron isn't going to be as effective. If the rest, we've talked about this going in, and we've talked about it in this year, LeBron needs help. If the entire Houston Rockets offense, and they did a good job, especially early, of generating shots where LeBron didn't have to be

Starting point is 00:16:43 the first person in a possession. And I think as the game went on, LeBron took more control of what was going on because what was happening, was really bad. Absolutely. But LeBron isn't going to be effective if the Lakers can't space a floor with a three-pointer. I thought, you know, Austin got off to a good start.

Starting point is 00:17:03 His first shift was his best in terms of efficiency. You know, he had 22, I believe he finished with. Yes, he did. But, you know, on 16 field goals, he did generate a lot of their offense by getting the line. So, I mean, like, it wasn't universe uniformly awful for him. But, you know, four of six. It was very front. It was very first shift front.

Starting point is 00:17:25 Other than getting to the line, it was. Right. But that's what I was saying. That's what I was going to say. It's, you know, yes, the 13 free throws. That's a lot of possessions with jumpers that don't go in. And that is not, four of 16 is not nearly good enough. Even coming back from an injury, even playing, you know, higher minutes, facing a good defense, all that.

Starting point is 00:17:48 You, four of 16 is not nearly good enough. and LeBron, who ended up with a reasonable looking line at 9 of 20, missed all six of his three-pointers. The Lakers can't exist in this series against this defense as a sub-30% three-point shooting team. It will not work. And that's where they have been in the second half of game three through game four. And in again, they had two three-pointers before garbage time in game four.

Starting point is 00:18:20 They had one three-pointer in the second half of game five. I realize there are a lot of fans who are like, you know, stop shooting threes. We're two, three to, all these are the. This is the world we live in. If you cannot, especially against the Rockets team that you need to spread out a little bit, if you're, you know, when you don't know the athletes, you have to be able to make some. And like in the fourth quarter, Austin had a bunch of like got to have at threes.

Starting point is 00:18:50 they didn't go in. Rui, who has typically made a lot of these, some got to have a threes, didn't go in. Smart, got to have a threes. Sometimes you have to hit your shots, and they didn't. And now you combine it with your inattentiveness to turnovers. They make that run. LeBron gets stripped by Reed Shepard. Can't happen. And again, not blaming LeBron, but like, that's a critical play, critical turnover. Yeah. And, you know, bad shot selection at the end, three-pointer that clangs. Yeah, that was a... You better make it. 30 seconds or 50 seconds left, whatever it was.

Starting point is 00:19:24 It was not an advisable shot. He had an open lane. He had more time to find something else. His three had been falling in that game. But to your point, if you're going to take that shot, better make it. You have to make it. And you are correct that other guys need to be stepping up more.

Starting point is 00:19:40 Again, DeAndre Aiton was the best player on the floor by a wide... DeAndre Ate was fantastic in this case. Yes. I mean, for all of the concerns, about Aiton in the playoffs and will he maintain focus? Will he do all the things that he claims he's going to do? This series, I think Aiton has been very good on both sides of the ball. So not their problem.

Starting point is 00:20:03 Yeah, you don't really have much to complain about him. Again, it jumps off the page, so to speak, that I think his energy level over five games has been the best for this team, like, most consistent. LeBron was, I think, the second best Laker. And then from there, it was a lot of either fine but not great, not nearly enough, or guys like smart through mistakes and just carelessness and Luke Kinnard just disappearing. And then Jackson Hayes has had a few bad games in a row now. like they needed more guys to perform better.

Starting point is 00:20:47 And again, it just felt to me like their collective focus and resolve and energy. If you want to say that it was enough in the first quarter, fine, whatever. But it dropped off really quickly from the second on until the fourth when they got a bit of a rally going. Again, I think a lot of that was the way DeAndre Aitin was just killing it on both ends. But I thought they spent a lot of. lot of this game just I don't want to say sleepwalking but mall walking at best maybe I I hope you're right because if your if your interpretation of it which leans more heavily than mine to with harder work and a little more focus

Starting point is 00:21:39 the results are different We'll talk about this more in the next segment. That's not exactly what I'm saying. Okay. Well, because I kind of wish it was because my version of what they're fighting right now would be more distressing than that. So we'll get to it next. It's clear.

Starting point is 00:22:11 I don't disagree with any of the concerns you have in the pure basketball piece of this and the regression that we're seeing offensively. the way that they don't seem to be able to consistently solve the issues they're having, getting things going. Like, I completely agree with you. It's trending in the wrong direction beyond the effort issues and the focus issues that I, that I presented, just to make sure that is clear. I don't disagree with that piece of it.

Starting point is 00:22:45 That piece of it, though, is why, in part, it is so disappointing to me to, if nothing else not see them just attack things more, given the fact that they have to overcome these issues that have been clearly trending in the wrong direction. I get what you're saying. And to some degree, we're kind of saying, you know, the same things. And, you know, I think with a little different POV with a little different perspective. You know, it's there's, to some degree, a little bit of a chicken and egg thing here, too.

Starting point is 00:23:17 Like, are you not, are you failing? because you're not trying hard enough, because you're not putting in the effort because you're not focused enough, because you're not, whatever, or are you, or in that leading to miss shots and bad turnovers on, or are the bad turnovers making, you know, taking the wind and the energy

Starting point is 00:23:41 and the opportunity away? The answer is to some degree is both, but they'd be better off if the answer was just, you guys aren't trying hard enough. You guys aren't, there's not enough effort. That would be a better answer because the other end of that. And I, by the way, before we're done here, I am going to get to the positive because reasons for optimism.

Starting point is 00:24:10 Don't worry. It's a bad night, but they're, don't throw it away yet. But the problem, you know, to finish the thought, the problem is that they are being outplayed. They are being out basketballed, not just outworked. Yes. The Rockets who are not a great offensive team, but are a significantly better defensive team. I think the Lakers are really struggling with the Schengoon-focused version of the Rockets

Starting point is 00:24:44 compared to the Durant-focused version. Again, Houston's scores... Is this going to be the Katie Ewing series, the Bill Simmons, Ewing theory series? The Lakers held the Rockets to 99 points. They were not run off the floor defensively. But, you know, this has been,

Starting point is 00:25:04 as part of the reason they won these, you know, those first two games pretty convincingly and were able to come back and throw it. It's like the shot making was there. The supplementary performances from a player like Canard, you know, was 27 a game probably two, much to ask, sure, there needs to be a happy medium somewhere between 27 and one. Like, you know, if you are going to be a Laker who plays 31 minutes, you need to have more

Starting point is 00:25:36 than app point. You know, you, Jake LaRavia had a bucket. He played nine minutes. Jared Vanderbilt had a bucket. He played six minutes. You know, like they had six guys who played 30 minutes or more. And of those six, I think you can put Aiton, Aitin again, Gold Star, you know, he's fine.

Starting point is 00:25:57 I think LeBron and ultimately do the, but like they need more from Austin Reeves. They need more from Rui Hachamora. They need more from Smart and Kinnard. Like they can't survive bad games from both of those guys. In a weird way, they need more and I think tonight less from Smart. depending on how you need more than well here's the thing like it's the you know the turnovers are problematic the passing i mean it's you know it's six turnovers on the night

Starting point is 00:26:28 it felt like way more it felt like way more the lakers volume wise actually cut down considerably on their turnovers from game four to game five they went from 24 to to 15 but man alive there were some really bad ones uh poorly timed and um open you know open floor or bad post passes, things that make it easier for Houston to get out and run. And it's just the timing of these things. You've got to be sharper than they were. I just, I will say this because Lakers fans ought to be concerned. If there was ever a team that was primed to lose a three nothing lead,

Starting point is 00:27:11 it would be the team that everybody, you know, half of the country was picking to lose in five. with home court advantage. And so again, Lakers, not a typical team to be up 3-0 in a series like this. Houston suffered through

Starting point is 00:27:29 worse than expected shooting, like bad shooting variants in games 1 and 2. They've been significantly better in games 3 and 4 and still have not put up numbers that would be impossible for a competent offensive team to catch.

Starting point is 00:27:45 The Lakers were a little above water, I think in games one and two, and have been way below what you would expect just a normal team to do. So they've got two opportunities to shoot like a normal team and hit 40% from three point range and get to the line and make some shots and do whatever

Starting point is 00:28:08 and see what happens. The scary, the problem is, the scary proposition is, what happens if they do that on a night where Houston's equally hot or something like that? Like, I, you know, I don't believe the Lakers are as bad as they have been offensively in the last two games. But there is no guarantee either that they bounce back or that they bounce back on a night where Houston's not going to be shooting well. Like they put themselves in dangerous territory at this point.

Starting point is 00:28:39 Yeah. Like I said, I have concerns about fatigue. Not like I'm officially concerned with LeBron with fatigue because while he certainly looked at, better in game five than he did in game four. I expected him to be able to have more consistent burst and sort of ability to get past defenders more regularly in this game. I did. I did. I'm just telling you. Because I just don't think that, I don't think that's really the face up and blow by guys part of the game. It's not that. I understand that. I understand that. I don't expect it to look like prime LeBron. And I say this not even to.

Starting point is 00:29:17 point the finger at LeBron or make LeBron the problem, what I'm saying is if he is not closer to what I thought he would be with the extra day of rest or just what I thought he would need to be for one game with the extra day of rest as the series continues further and he's playing every other day. That concerns me now moving forward. It's it is concerning for me. And hopefully if they got if they get similar performances out of LeBron in game six and game seven. You know, 25 points, seven rebounds, reasonable turnover, you know, something better than zero percent from three point range. But, you know, broadly speaking, something on this level of quality, that can be enough. If, you know, if there is not, I will tell you this. The thing that I think people have been expecting, I expected at least one of these sort of just kind of Superman games. Like you just dial it up

Starting point is 00:30:19 one time. I think you got close to that in game two. And certainly he kind of did it in game, you know, to somebody in game three. Is there one more of those? Like, but this is what I think tonight, I think he played fine

Starting point is 00:30:35 on Wednesday. He was really nothing in game in game four. But I think the bounce back in game five was fine in the fourth quarter. was encouraging. The fourth quarter was really good. Again, you're kind of, though, missing my point, which is that fine is only fine if fine is all you need. If you need more than fine, I have concerns that they can't get that from him right now. So unless Austin really has shaken off a hell of a lot rust from this layoff, you know, because he started out, like, his first shift, like we talked

Starting point is 00:31:12 about earlier, was really good. From there, it became much more free throw oriented and he couldn't hit shots. So at that point, can you count on Austin to be able to elevate? Because if the answer there may be no, for totally understandable reasons, he's been missing upon it. Seriously thing. If that's, you know, the, if you need LeBron to carry the team, I think, you know, from game one, our basic premise has been from game one that if LeBron has to kind of carry them, like other guys are just underperforming, you need, like, as you call it kind of prime, they're probably screwed.

Starting point is 00:31:53 Right. The onus is, I agree with you. The onus is on Austin. The on. Sure. And if they, if they can't get the other. All I'm saying is it is, I don't, I don't consider, I'm not really looking at that as a viable path.

Starting point is 00:32:06 Well, all I'm saying, though, is forget it being Austin or LeBron specifically. Any team, if there are questions about whether your two best players can deliver in one game when you need them to, because the, the supporting guys, for whatever reason, may not. If there's questions about that, then you really start becoming in. in a difficult place because that's what you expect from your two best players. You expect the ability to, if you really need it for one damn game, they can do that for one game. I think I'm looking more at Austin to, because I think a better Austin's going to make

Starting point is 00:32:49 LeBron better too. Sure. But the problem in game five was- Pick either one of them. Yeah. The problem is, I'm looking at, I'm looking in, for Wednesday at least, I'm looking more to Austin than I am at LeBron. I am too, but again, I'm not, I'm not trying to make out LeBron to be the problem specifically or Austin to be the problem specifically. I'm talking about the overarching thing with both of them potentially and the situation the Lakers are in right now.

Starting point is 00:33:21 That's what I'm talking about. Sure. Like, it's not, again, I said from the beginning, I thought LeBron was. fine. I don't think he was great. I don't think he was bad. He was the second best player on this team. Like, he's not the guy that you point at and say he was the problem. My concern is, can he be the solution? Because if he can't be the solution for one game and Austin can't be, then you really start getting yourself in trouble. Sure, but I, I, I, my, I think if LeBron, LeBron, if, I'll put it this way. If LeBron gave you the same effort, if, if LeBron gave you the same

Starting point is 00:33:56 in game five as he did in game two or three. I still think the Lakers' offense was too inept to win the game. And so like, and I don't think you, I don't think, you know, I wonder, they need to elevate more as a group. I think, yeah, you can, you can point to LeBron as a concern in the sense of like, needing that Superman performance and wondering if that can happen in game six or game seven. but I mean I I feel like that

Starting point is 00:34:33 is somewhat misplayed I understand what you're saying and you're probably you're right like they may not be able to get it and if they don't get the other stuff that that option they've wasted two prime DeAndre Aten games I mean for real he was the only guy that really performed well in game four so I mean

Starting point is 00:34:54 I don't know I mean like I I will say, to your point, I do wonder if a little bit the Lakers fell into that sort of, as they were bleeding confidence in what they were doing offensively, into that hope that LeBron could save them. Like, somebody's going to do something spectacular to kind of save us. You know, Austin was, I think, game in this. You know, it's not easy to sit for however long, you know, most of a month and then turn around and go out and, and, and play in, you know, game five of the playoffs against a really good defensive team. But he needs to be there. He's on the floor.

Starting point is 00:35:33 It needs to be better. Yes. And we'll see. I think he will be better than four of 16 on Friday. But like what else are they going to get playing on the road? We'll see. So it is a worrisome night for Lakers fans. There is no question about that.

Starting point is 00:35:49 And it's going to be a worrisome Thursday and probably a worrisome Friday until they get out on the floor. They got two chances to win one game. One of them will be at home. And so the series is far from over. But I can understand why folks are not sleeping well tonight. Locked on Lakers on YouTube is where you can hang out with over 38,000 subscribers of the channel. We'll see everyone later.

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