Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - LeBron Quiet, the Lakers Go Cold, Lose Big in Game 4, 115-96

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Lakers get blown out in game four in Houston. Is there any reason for concern as they head home for game five 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 checking out Locked on Lakers, Brian Kemenackers, Andy Kemincki, Andy. We were kind of wondering what would it look like

Starting point is 00:00:33 if the Lakers offense went cold and Houston started hitting some shots. And the answer is 115 to 96, the blowout loss in game four. Because that's essentially what happened. The rocket shot making improved significantly. The Lakers offense went pretty cold and particularly from three point range, where they had five on the night. And a couple of those came late from Dalton Connect. and Nick Smith.

Starting point is 00:01:05 And so that was basically two, three-pointers before garbage time. So you combine that with 24 turnovers, Andy, and it was not hard to see why the Lakers lost game four pretty big. They will head home for game five on Wednesday. So look, it's hard to win four straight in the playoffs against anyone. And this, though, was kind of like that game, I think we were all expecting to see at some point in the series where the Lakers struggle to score

Starting point is 00:01:42 and Houston finally manages to hit some shots. I mean, to be honest, it was actually a continuation of the second half of game three, which the Lakers managed to win, but mentioned after, when we were doing our post game, even amidst all the celebration and the holy bleep what just happened and the truly, you know, odds-breaking win that the Lakers managed to have, it started hitting me over the course of that second half,

Starting point is 00:02:09 where the Lakers scored under 40 points. I couldn't help but wonder if they were starting to butt up against the limits of what they could do offensively without Luka Donchich, without Austin Reeves, as JJ has even acknowledged, like, the playbook can only be so big, like, the premium on execution is so high because you're not working with your full bag of tricks. And in a lot of ways, this felt like a continuation of that second half combined with the fact. And this was also something we mentioned that if nothing else, we were curious about.

Starting point is 00:02:47 The Lakers played an overtime game in game three. They are the older team. They had basically 48 hours in a turnaround. And several key players, including LeBron James, played 40. minutes, like 40 plus very hard minutes. And we had wondered if there was going to be some type of you know, byproduct or a ripple effect for this game, particularly against a team like the Rockets, which for all of their struggles, they are younger than the Lakers. I mean, put it, even beyond the desperation factor and trying to stave off elimination and all that, they are built for that type

Starting point is 00:03:26 of turnaround more than the Lakers. So in that sense, It's not necessarily shocking, just off the bat. I don't think the problem was a lack of effort at all. I don't think the problem was complacency. I don't think this was taking it for granted, not worried. We got three. It was none of that. They looked fried from basically the minute this game began.

Starting point is 00:03:48 I think that's true. I mean, I agree with that part of it for sure. I mean, the question of, you know, kind of reaching the natural limit, I think they were kind of at it from the beginning. The difference is, you know, you go back to game one especially, and then in game two where the shot making was still good, but they compensated especially by a little bit better work on the offensive glass, and they knocked down the turnovers in game two.

Starting point is 00:04:22 But Houston's defense, Houston's offense in those first two games are still really quite awful. And so in this one, like, you know, the Lakers just looked a little bit more like I think people were worried they would look periodically in this series. I know I was where like, geez, you know, like if they just,

Starting point is 00:04:42 they're going to struggle to hit some shots, you can't kind of space people out, you know, you can't get the ball up the floor because you're just running out of it. Like they couldn't spring LeBron in ways that they did earlier in the series. You know, there's a lot of time, with LeBron, who had nine assists against eight turnovers,

Starting point is 00:05:00 was faced up against Houston's defense, whether that was to bring the ball up, whether that was to try to score. They just, they lacked rhythm throughout. The only guy that they really had any kind of consistency offensive was DeAndre Ate, and it was thrown out of the game in the third quarter on a questionable flagrant call. I mean, questionable.

Starting point is 00:05:26 questionable. I questioned it. No, I mean, this was beyond questionable. This was ridiculous. Like, it was absolutely ridiculous. There was a sequence where Aiton was defending Alper and Shengun in transition. Clearly, his arm slipped while defending Shengun hit him in the face. Like, I would have had no problem with it being called a flagrant one.

Starting point is 00:05:53 It should have been a flagrant one. Absolutely. Right. That's my point. I would have had zero problem with it being a flagrant one. I don't think there was even a hint of intentionality, but that's letter of the law. Flagrant one would have been totally fine. A flagrant two for that is straight up nonsense. Like it, to put this in perspective, like how again, no intentionality, they pointed out during the NBC broadcast, this was the first. ejection of DeAndre Aiton's career. This is his, I believe, his eighth season, the first time he's ever been ejected. So he should be a type of player who would be afforded the benefit of

Starting point is 00:06:37 doubt, given there's no history. If anything, D'Andre Aiton has been criticized for not being physical enough his entire career. Like, this is not a guy that has a track record of reckless behavior like that or cheap shots or, I mean, the refs were just overzealous in general. Like they tossed to do thero with like a minute and a half. That was all just, you know, reaction to what happened like in Denver, Minnesota. Like, it was a blowout game and you're just like trying to keep people, trying to make sure nothing escalating. He's a second round rookie.

Starting point is 00:07:15 He doesn't have disposable income for some BS ejection like that. That is, I guess, a separate question. But that one, I think, was pretty clear what. they were trying to do. And perfectly honest, I think the first one was a little bit of that as well with the Aiton thing. I mean, it didn't, it didn't, wasn't going to matter in terms of the outcome of the game. And, you know, if anything, it might have extended the amount of time that the stars played,

Starting point is 00:07:41 which quite frankly was about five minutes or at least too long for my tastes. But, you know, the point of the point of it is just, too, that the, the Lakers could not find any, they couldn't get a jump shot. You know, again, you had two, three point two can made three pointers before the, before garbage time. You know, Dalton Connect came in and had two. Nick Smith had one. Obviously, neither one of those guys are playing in, in normal circumstances.

Starting point is 00:08:13 And, you know, that's just not going to cut it. And on a night where the rockets finally figured out how to hit a three-pointer, they had 12 of them. You know, they were 12 of 30. you're not going to win a game where you're minus 10 in the turnover battle, 2014 turnovers for the Lakers, and then minus seven, but functionally minus 10 again in the three-point battles.

Starting point is 00:08:44 Like that's just not going to cut it. So I think fatigue had a lot to do with it coming off the overtime. I think there was some natural regression. Houston was bound to have a game at some point where they had some shots. I realized they've been awful in this series offensively, but it was, you know, they're an NBA team. And like the law of averages to some degree dictates that they're going to finally have a game where some shots go in.

Starting point is 00:09:13 It's not even just law of averages. Again, if you go back to game three, the second half of game three, Houston shot 47% from the field, which obviously is not incredible, but compared against the standards of what they had done up to that point, it was actually very good. It was the first game where Alpern Shungun, Amin Thompson, Javari Smith, Jr., all had 20 plus points on efficient shooting.

Starting point is 00:09:42 Shangoon at 33. It is not a coincidence that once IME Adoka decided to actually play Reed Shepard with the starters, you know, an actual point guard, somebody to organize the offense, that the offense grew more functional, even if Shepard himself did not have a great game in game three. He was much better in game four. But Houston had been trending incrementally from the second half of game three towards, I think, what we saw in game four, just in terms of very incremental. I mean, again, but it's all relative. Like, they need to be moving in that direction from, from, their perspective. Like it had, I think, been getting better, which was part of the reason why

Starting point is 00:10:25 the whole collapse was so unfathomable. They finally had their proverbial bleep relatively together, and then they blew it like that. Yeah, I mean, I guess. But I mean, I don't want to get too deep into game three again. I just, it's, it's, it's, it's one of me. I'm just talking about why some of this wasn't surprising to me. That's all. Yeah, I just don't see a lot of, I don't, I'm not really connecting it to game three that much because I didn't think Houston's offense was I could in game three, in game three either, even in the second half. But it, what's, well, let's talk next about carryover, because, again, it's the playoffs you always get, even within three nothing lead, you get a little nervous anytime you lose a game.

Starting point is 00:11:11 Like, oh my, is this mean something? And I will lay out and something we can talk about over the course of the week. A loss for the Lakers is a little bit more concerning even going back home with 3-1 than it might be in a normal playoff

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Starting point is 00:13:43 he gave it a go in warm-ups on on Sunday and did not play wasn't really clear by the team, wasn't feeling 100%. The Lakers with a 3-0 lead did not need to push him. And especially with Kevin Durant not playing in game more again on top of it.

Starting point is 00:14:02 Right. Kevin Durant is probably unlikely to play, it seems, based on the reporting that we've seen, you know, about the type of injury has is a multiple weak sort of injury. It is the playoffs. People treat these things differently, round-clock therapies and all that kind of stuff. So it seems unlikely he would play in game five, but the longer the series goes on, the more likely he does play.

Starting point is 00:14:31 But the Lakers are still kind of the team that people were worried wasn't going to be able to be competitive because they were missing too much talent. I think you could see second half offensively in game three. This is where I completely agree with you. They scored 30, you know, what was it? 38. 38. Yeah, 17 and 21. And so, like, that's bad.

Starting point is 00:14:56 And in this game, the offense, you know, obviously didn't crack 100. So, you know, they are a weaker team up 3-1 than most would be. that said, I actually think they're going to win game five. So I do not think the Lakers are going to panic. I do not think anyone should panic. But it is important to take care of business in game five. Yeah, absolutely. I have the same feeling that they are going to win in game five as well.

Starting point is 00:15:30 I really do think the quick turnaround from Friday to Sunday played a big role in this. I don't want to take anything away. from Houston necessarily because I do think their last six quarters they have been getting incrementally better in this series if for no other reason that I think Imea Doka's putting out lineups that make more sense over the last two days. And if you play lineups and rotations that make more sense, you often get better results. And I think some of these younger guys on Houston are just getting more comfortable with the playoffs in general, especially a guy like Reed Shepherd who has a rookie barely played at all in Houston's first round series.

Starting point is 00:16:13 I think they lost to the warrior. I don't remember who they lost to, but they lost in round one. And Shepard barely played. They probably also are getting somewhat used to not having Kevin Durant out there, who was not just a big part of their offense all season. At times he was the only part of their offense. But I do think that the Lakers having three days in between, game four and game five will be incredibly important for them, particularly for LeBron.

Starting point is 00:16:43 Like, you know, we mentioned before 10 points on two of nine shooting. His second basket did not come until the fourth quarter. He went from basically early in the first quarter till around the 8.30 mark of the fourth quarter without hitting a basket. He was struggling to finish layups. He smoked two or three layups. minimum. He was turning the ball over while posting up. He was turning the ball over, you know, getting stripped facing straight up. I remember he had a baseline jumper that he didn't just miss.

Starting point is 00:17:20 He hit the side of the backboard. I mean, he was just exhausted and it makes sense. He's 41 years old and played 45 minutes in game three. I think, though, LeBron will look much more like he has for the majority of this series in game five having had a few days off i think a lot of those guys you know luke canard has looked a little bit more tired over the last couple of games or the very least has struggled a little bit more they've certainly picked on it a lot more in game they have but i also think luke canard isn't used to this type of role and this type of usage i'm saying my point is too like he's doing more and was being attacked more, which takes more out of you.

Starting point is 00:18:08 I mean, like, there was a lie out, a lot going on. Some other, to put in perspective, just this type of game that LeBron had, like how much I really do think fatigue played a factor from Will Gilleri, who covers the Rockets for the Athletic, tweeted out, the Rockets have forced LeBron James to turn the ball over eight times in each of the last two games. It's the first time in LeBron's career. He's registered eight plus turnovers in back-to-back.

Starting point is 00:18:34 playoff games from ESPN. LeBron finished game two versus Houston with two of nine field goals. The last time LeBron had two or a few made field goals in a game. I think they meant game four, by the way. Game five of 2014 Eastern Conference finals at Indiana. No other members of this current Lakers team were even in the league then, which again, reflecting the fact, LeBron is old to be doing this.

Starting point is 00:19:04 He's been doing, it should be noted, an incredible job to this point. Like what he had done from games one through three is nothing short of remarkable and unprecedented. But I really do think that caught up with him a lot. Caught up with the whole team, but I think LeBron in particular, it really caught up to him. Well, I think part of this, though, is not only did I think the workload and the minutes kind of catch up with him, but I also think the style caught up with him. Like the Lakers weren't able to protect him in the ways that they had in the first two and a half games. You know, even in game three, you know, LeBron got a little bit of support down the stretch

Starting point is 00:19:52 and Marcus Smart was making buckets and, you know, Rui hit a couple big shots and all that kind of stuff. And, you know, outside of a pretty quick start to the game, I think they were up nine to four, you know, which again only kind of reinforces how much they were dominated after that. You can just see like the the rockets were very, very physical with them, very, very aggressive. Because the rest of the team wasn't really getting loose, there was no reason to sort of back off and make, you know, I think the rockets are very interested in making another team, another player beat him. But also, too, making it hard for LeBron to find those guys. and set them up. I mean,

Starting point is 00:20:33 perfectly honest, not, you know, there's a reason why, obviously, but like in the five minutes that Brani played in the first half,

Starting point is 00:20:40 he actually had an easier time getting the ball to people because, you know, it was, they weren't spending so much time, like, beating on him and getting,

Starting point is 00:20:48 you know, Bronny was able to get in the pain and make some passes around. Like, there was none of that space for LeBron. So the Lakers have to figure out how to counter these things. And with,

Starting point is 00:21:02 This is why it's going to be so huge, hopefully to get Reeves back in game in game five. To your point about this may be being kind of run the course of what they can do, I think they're just the limitations of having the ball handlers that they have available if people aren't hitting a lot of shots. If the shot making isn't that good, they just, it's not working. Like there's too much ball pressure, there's too many turnovers. there's not enough activity and all that kind of stuff. You need somebody like Austin Reeves to help shake that lose.

Starting point is 00:21:38 Yeah, absolutely. And maybe when we come back, we can talk about the situation with Austin. I know on Twitter at Cam Brothers, I had tweeted out that I was not shocked that Austin didn't play, particularly once it was announced or reported, I should say first, Sham Serania from ESPN that Kevin Durant wasn't going to play. I thought at that point I would have been really surprised.

Starting point is 00:22:02 if Austin did, just because you want to make sure you are being as cautious as needed and not put Austin at any risk of a setback or recurrence. I saw some Laker fans upset by this and wanting to have Austin out there. So we can talk about that coming up next. Did you feel the same way? Basically, that once Katie, it was known he wasn't going to play the odds of Austin, also sitting, were pretty high. Yeah, there are two ways I think you could look at it.

Starting point is 00:22:39 The first was exactly how we've described it. Like there's no reason at all with a 3-0 lead to push it. Your chances of winning go up significantly without Durant in the game. They're also reading the same reports. They know full well that the type of injury that Durant currently has, unless people are just kind of smokescreening this, makes it reasonably unlikely that he will play in game five. but at the very least, if he does play, he'll be limited in game five.

Starting point is 00:23:11 And so, you know, the need to push Austin is pretty, pretty low. That said, too, I do think it was probably viewed independently. I think they didn't necessarily look at it and say, well, Durant's not playing so we can hold out. Austin, I think it was. Austin warmed up and didn't quite feel right. And everybody then looks at the context of 3-0. Whether Durant plays or not, I think 3-0 is the sort of most important aspect of this, where they can just say it's not worth it.

Starting point is 00:23:58 And they have a lot to think about now, because now you actually do need to think about the potential for another series. And you're certainly not going to beat, presumably, Oklahoma City, without a healthy Austin. Like, if you have any shot, it's got to be everybody available because Luca is still going to be a question mark for that one. So I think they were playing it safe. But there was Durant not playing certainly didn't add pressure to the need to. Well, that's really what I'm getting. I mean, the three, first of all, Austin's health is like really his health and is it smart for him to do this?

Starting point is 00:24:36 Does it, you know, nothing's ever guaranteed, but does it feel safe to do this? Like that is obviously priority one, particularly in a world that is as perfect as it can be. There is no more perfect than up three oh. So there becomes even less of less of a need to even convince yourself to take what might seem like more of a risk. because you are up 3-0, and then you add Kevin Durant not playing, and you feel even less of an urge to try to push the limits on this, because it does the Lakers no good if Austin, particularly in this game, like I'll tell you right now, given the results, I'm glad Austin didn't play, because it would have been an absolute waste.

Starting point is 00:25:20 Like if there was any concerns whatsoever, this would have been a wasted game for Austin to return because he was not going to turn the fortunes of this in the slightest. But if they need to make sure that they feel really certain this is the time that they and Austin, everybody, the doctors are all on the same page. And if there are any concerns, particularly with another three days for Austin to continue to recover before game five. And at this point, I would probably be pretty surprised if he didn't play in game five. Like the way this has been tracking, like there's only so many times you can be a game time decision with no reports of a setback before you just expect someone to play.

Starting point is 00:26:05 I would be kind of surprised at this point if he didn't play in five. But I have some Laker fans I saw upset at him not playing because they just felt like this is the opportunity to knock the rockets out, just put this series to bed. If say you don't win game four, game five, there's the potential for somebody else getting hurt. And that is true. Right. But there's always a reason. Which is why I think Austin would have played if he went out in warmups and said, I feel great.

Starting point is 00:26:38 I think they'd have played him. But he didn't. And so you can't risk hurting your player that you've waited on at this point now for the end of the regular season, for the first. you know, three games of the postseason and that you now expect to need in a second round series that you're going to be, if you think you're going to be, you know, you weren't favored to win this one. Wait till the next round. Like, you can't, like, it just doesn't make any sense. I mean, I get why I get the idea. I don't, that's why I think had he been able, had he been pain free or whatever the measurement they're using. Had he passed the test.

Starting point is 00:27:21 he'd played. But there was just no need to force him into a situation where it does. Lakers get the extra day between game four and game five. So they will not, I doubt they'll even practice on Monday to watch tape and, you know, stay off their feet. You get Tuesday off as well, and then you don't play until 7.30 at Wednesday night. the Lakers need that extra time. We've reached that point in the series

Starting point is 00:27:54 where you don't need to be going hard at practice. You just get guys off their feet. And look, Houston's going to understand what the deal is in game five. But we've said, you've got to make them prove it multiple times. Can you come out and hit 40% from three point range again.

Starting point is 00:28:21 Can you bottle up LeBron and, you know, Kinnard and those again. You know, DeAndre Aitin's had quite a lot of success. Can you figure out a way to stop him? And now you add, hopefully,

Starting point is 00:28:36 Austin Reeves into the mix here with another offense. Like, this is going to make the Lakers offense and shot generation that much better. Speaking of the offense, you just knew that this was, not just a game where things were not going well for the Lakers,

Starting point is 00:28:52 but just what a strange game. You know, we mentioned Aiton's ridiculous objection, a Duce Thero being ejected. Like, he had barely been in this game. And you could tell he's just like, wait, what?

Starting point is 00:29:04 Like, me? I do, there was a minute, like, I'm just going to try to dunk the ball as many times as I can in my five minutes. And he had one hell of a dunk to start his minutes. But there was one point in, I believe it was.

Starting point is 00:29:19 I can't remember if it was late in the third or early in the fourth, but Jared Vanderbilt had three or four baskets in a row. And you heard the NBC broadcasters say, and in the category of things I did not expect to hear during Lakers Rockets, quote, they continue to go to Vanderbilt. Like, that's when you knew that this game was just getting wild. It's one of those things, too, because like earlier in the game, Yeah, I'd mentioned, you know, Brony, who I think, again, played actually pretty well in his, in his limited minutes in like the part of the game that was, you know, consequential for the, you know, second straight game.

Starting point is 00:30:02 I did some good stuff in that, in that first shift. And but like one of the, the good plays that he made was penetration and kick to the corner. And the corner shooter was Vando. and in that moment, Vando missed the rim. Basically, I think he grazed the back end of it. It looked like,

Starting point is 00:30:25 oh, well, that's kind of like what you would expect in the way things are going and all that kind of stuff. So it's just the Lakers, the Lakers need to,

Starting point is 00:30:37 especially without Austin, they are in a position where they need to either have higher end shot. making or cut down on their turnovers significantly, ideally both. And the other thing, you know, is like, you know, they got to, you know, Dalton had Dalton, Thiro, and, you know, there was some garbage time. Maxi got to the line twice. Dalton got there twice.

Starting point is 00:31:11 Therow got there one. They only shot like 15 free throws in the part of the game that matters. So like if you're not going to get the line Well they were too busy turning the ball over They couldn't get to the line They literally didn't get the ball up there And I was to get to the line But like so they had two

Starting point is 00:31:26 I don't know the lousy job in this game But I'm not putting that on them No I mean so like in the first segment I was kind of laying out all this I'd forgotten Free throws so like okay add that 24 turnovers as a team That that's not going to cut it You had two three pointers until garbage time

Starting point is 00:31:45 that's not going to cut it, and about 15 free throws. Also, not going to get her done. When you do all of those in one game, you're actually, it's kind of amazing. They got to 96 in some way. I mean, to me, first and foremost, most of all the things that you mentioned,

Starting point is 00:32:02 is just cutting down on the turnovers because the shot making, I think, can and will be better. I think they're still going to struggle on some level just because, without Luca and maybe without Austin, we'll see, but for the time being, they're missing two of their best shopmakers anyway. But the turnovers are doubly problematic because, A, they rob the Lakers of possessions, and B, they create Houston's by far best way to score. Like, Houston

Starting point is 00:32:34 scores the best, most proficiently easiest. There's not even a close second when they are pushing off Laker turnover. So if they just cut down the turnovers, that will, it won't solve all the problems, but it will alleviate many of them. Yeah, I agree. You know, so look, I mean, what makes the playoffs fun is that when you win, you feel like, all right, we got it. Like, we own this.

Starting point is 00:33:05 We got this series. And the minute you lose, you kind of freak out. Like, you get nervous about stuff. You don't, you know, you don't want, you don't want these series to go on any long. longer, but as bad as game four was. And Andy, it was not good. The Lakers are still up 3-1. They need to win one more game.

Starting point is 00:33:25 They have two of them at home, and their second best player is on his way back. Really quick. Just got an update from Lakers' media relations, quote, schedule update. Game 5 between Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets is set for Wednesday, April 29th, which we already knew at 7 p.m. Pacific time. That's the part we did not, and it will be televised on ESPN. So that's what we're looking for game 5. I guessed 7.30, but I was off by a half hour.

Starting point is 00:33:54 That is a half hour less of rest that LeBron is going to be able to get between game 4 and game 5. We'll see if it makes a difference. If he looks a half hour more tired. This is how the league you know they're trying to make this thing seven games or extended as long as they can. They're depriving LeBron of that extra 30 minutes. Or they're trying to keep the rockets out by giving Durant a half hour less to recover.

Starting point is 00:34:19 I guess it all depends on. It's really right. It depends on, I guess, where you believe your conspiracy theories and where you get them from. This is the only league, by the way, where that level of conspiracy theory actually will catch on online. Oh, of course it will. Don't aggregate us, man. Yeah. Someone is getting screwed here by the league.

Starting point is 00:34:40 I'm just not sure who yet. Lock on Lakers on YouTube is where you can hang out with over 38,000 subscribers to the channel. We'll be back a little bit later on Monday and obviously getting everybody ready for Wednesday's game 5. Still no reason to be concerned, no reason to panic, lots of reasons to feel good. The Lakers are up 3-1, even with this loss in game 4 of you to ask anyone going into the series, would you be comfortable, would you take a 3-1 lead coming into game five? You'd say yes. So this is where we are.

Starting point is 00:35:18 Lakers have a great opportunity. Actually, I think you would have said for who? Right. Laker, wait, with the Lakers have a 3-1 lead? What happened? Yeah. So plenty of reasons to feel good and still feel confident going into Wednesday, and we'll get you ready for it all week.

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