Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - LeBron Scores 38, But Turnovers/Luka's Illness Doom Lakers, Lose 116-104 to Wolves

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, everyone. Welcome to Locked on Lakers for Saturday. Special playoff episode, Brian Komenetsky, Andy Komenetsky, Lakers suffer a brutal game three loss to the wolves. Will it cost them the series? That's what we'll discuss next. You are Locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Your team every day.

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Starting point is 00:01:30 we learned that Luca Donchich was suffering from a stomach ailment and it wasn't one of those like, hmm, I wonder really. No, you could tell. Like, he looked awful. My wife, my wife, who was not a basketball fan, walked by the TV, saw Luke on TV and said,

Starting point is 00:01:47 what's wrong with him? You could just tell something was wrong. I tweeted out at Cam Brothers and I was not kidding. There was a lot of the responses I got from people took it like I was being sarcastic, joke and I really wasn't. You could tell that Luca felt like bleep this entire game beyond just it was clear in his face it was all that he did

Starting point is 00:02:11 not bother to ever argue with the refs yeah like i mean like really he was conserving his energy to just get like his dead ass through this game he just felt so bad as like i don't even i don't even have the energy to argue like he really truly you could tell just felt horrible and this became very clear to, the wolves could tell that Luca felt terrible because increasingly over the course of the game, they were targeting him defensively in ways that I don't think have been effective in game one or two. We've talked about like Lucas defense, I think has been somewhere between fine and pretty good. But tonight, you could tell he just, it was difficult for him to get through possessions. So there was that. And, you know,

Starting point is 00:03:04 Despite that, you know, again, sort of a limited game from Jackson Hayes and Jared Vanderbilt's with five fouls and some really inexplicable plays. And just it was a mess of a game for the Lakers that included 16 turnovers felt like more and a tremendous amount of Minnesota points off of those turnovers. despite all that, the Lakers had a chance to win this game and arguably should have won the game based on, you know, if you just stop doing stupid things, you win the game. And they just couldn't stop doing the stupid things. And it is a shame because a 38 point, 13 of 21 night from LeBron James, 5 of 9 from 3. point range, 10 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, two blocks, that's going to go down in a loss. That was a LeBron game for the ages for the most part.

Starting point is 00:04:04 And the Lakers didn't take advantage of it. It was ultimately a total turnover was 19, not even 16, and they gave up 28 points in the process. You combine that with seven missed free throws, and there was so much in this game that the Lakers were just their own worst enemy. And like there was a sequence in the game. that in the fourth quarter felt like a summary of the Lakers night in one sequence, 522 left in the game.

Starting point is 00:04:40 Lakers play incredible defense and force a near 24-second violation on a missed three-pointer by Dante D. Vincenzo. Rui Hachamora gets the rebound, gets it to LeBron. LeBron's moving up court. But then the ball is stolen by Jaden McDaniels, who gets to the rim. McDaniels, 30 points in this game. He was very strong in the fourth quarter. At that point, the Lakers, I mean, excuse me, the wolves are up 102.99.

Starting point is 00:05:08 Lakers not staying out of their own way. And the reason that I actually bring up this sequence is specifically because it was LeBron's only turnover of the night. He seemed like he just dropped the ball. Right. Like with all the time that he spent handling the ball, he had just won this late into the fourth quarter. Like LeBron was so good in this game. Like he was fantastic. But even he, with the night he was having, could not avoid being a part of this mess. Like, like it was the

Starting point is 00:05:44 theme of what was causing the mess. It was, you know, we can say it's it really is even the free throw shooting, which looked like it was going to be the kind of thing that it was like, oh my God, like, yeah, he's having this incredible night, but he can't make his free throws. By the end of the night, he hits 7 of 10, which is pretty good. You know, is 8 of 10 better, 9 of 10. Okay, fine, but I'm not picking. Like, it is, it is bothering me so much that we can't look at this game as a, oh my God, what do we just see night from the Brown?

Starting point is 00:06:17 Because the Lakers lose this game, 116, 104 again. And it was, I'm going to give Luca, you know, a bit of a pass here because again, my wife walking by the TV, yelling, you know, looking at what's wrong with him, and she'd see him try to play defense. And her only advice was, throw up on him, throw up on him. I was like, that's not a terrible strategy. But like, you could tell he was pretty close to that. He actually missed the beginning of the third quarter.

Starting point is 00:06:46 I am assuming because he had some business to take care of before he got back out. He came back in pretty quickly. But it's just the, you know, Austin Reeves broke. out of his shooting slump from from outside he hit five of 113s but not from it but then he reverted inside he actually seven of 18 right he was seven of 18 on the on on the night did a lot of good stuff to keep them in in the game but also had some terrible turnovers but like you just start looking around the rest of this you know lebron stepped up for some of that stuff that Luca couldn't do a r was at least better in this game and my god it was a waste

Starting point is 00:07:28 land after that. Rui, I think at five points in the first few minutes of the game finished with eight. He's still passing up shots. Whether it's because of the mask or whatever, he is passing up a lot of

Starting point is 00:07:44 shots that the Lakers cannot afford to have him do. He was part of a, you know, really probably the final moment where the Lakers were still in it. Rui was involved. He got looked initially like he was going to, you know, drove the lane was going to go to the line on a foul from Anthony Edwards. It ends up being reviewed

Starting point is 00:08:02 and turns into a turnover on Rui. And that was sort of the end of the game. But Rui was non-existent after a quick start. I mentioned Jackson Hayes, again, barely played, didn't have much of an impact was a minus 13 in nine minutes. DFS wasn't very good. I don't think Vanderbilt was all over the freaking place and not necessarily in a good way. I thought Vincent was okay doing his job, you know, defensively. Jordan Goodwin had some nice minutes. And I thought Jordan Goodwin was pretty good. But, you know.

Starting point is 00:08:37 But if Jordan Goodwin is like your fourth best player, you're in some trouble. Right. He only played 12 minutes. It's like the rest of the gang. It wasn't even so much that they weren't scoring, Andy. It was that they were sort of doing inexplicably stupid things. The amount of stupidity and just bad basketball, uncharacteristically bad basketball from the Lakers in this game was kind of stunning.

Starting point is 00:09:07 The entire first half, I think we might have texted about this. I was talking a couple people over the course of the game. I don't remember who it was you or somebody else. If you were watching this game with no score, like you just couldn't see the score, you know, no matter, you know, you would have thought Minnesota was winning by 15. To me, it felt that way. It didn't mean.

Starting point is 00:09:28 To me, it felt like that, well, because of the turnovers, because of the mistakes, because of the easy buckets that Minnesota was getting going the other way, you know, yes, the Lakers would kind of make a run. And, you know, but if you chose that moment to go, you know, toast a bagel or something like that and you came back a minute or two later, you kind of like missed like, overall, I just felt like the Lakers were playing so poorly or was wondering how they were staying in. They get in the third quarter. I mean, they stayed in.

Starting point is 00:09:59 I mean, just real quick. That's the thing. A lot of this was just LeBron was that good. Third quarter comes. And it's like, my God, this is a terrible quarter. But they kind of close it a little bit. And they go down in the fourth quarter. You're down by two points.

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Starting point is 00:11:31 It's just, it's so frustrating because, you know, I don't want to get it totally into the idea. If you are clearly the weaker team and you have an opportunity to win a game and you don't, that almost always costs through the series, I don't necessarily know who the weaker team is here because these games, again, this score is a little misleading. These games have been pretty even. and I don't think you can look at one team and say they're clearly better than the other.

Starting point is 00:12:03 But that said, now the Lakers have put themselves in another position where they got to win. They now have two sort of must-win games. They've already put themselves into that situation. And the turnaround here, you would think, is going to be more challenging for the Lakers than the Wolves. you've got sick Luca who is you know probably needs judging by how he looked on TV is going to need another day of flu you know kind of fluids and rest just to kind of maybe get back to normal and anybody who's had like a bad stomach flu or something like that knows it you don't just like wake up the next day and you're like okay here we go lebron used up a lot in game three a lot to try to carry the lakers through this win. And game four is at 1230 Pacific on Sunday. So they went from huge gap, long break, long break to about as fast to turn around as you can possibly get in the playoffs. I hear what you're saying. That's also the playoffs. Like that's just the way this stuff

Starting point is 00:13:13 works. And to be totally honest, LeBron has tended to play better with like one game of rest as opposed to five. So in that, obviously played better and looked better and moved. JJ Redick talked about that after the game, moving better in this game. So it's just a quick turnaround. It's a quick turnaround. But at the same time, like this is the deal.

Starting point is 00:13:34 And LeBron, like, it is obviously an absolute, like, travesty to see LeBron put up 38 and 10 and the Lakers not win. But at the same time, like the idea of LeBron having to expend a lot of, lot of energy. Well, I mean, again, it's the damn playoffs. So like to some degree, this is the deal. Like, and again, that's not to in any way downplay what a waste this was. I'm just saying like, you're going to, you're going to have to. LeBron would be really tired regardless if the Lakers managed to win this series. It's going to be wearing on him. Like, we're for sure. We're done with this is going to be tiring on LeBron. It's not for me at least. Well, it's, it's not a, it's not

Starting point is 00:14:19 question of, you know, giving him a pat on the back and an ad of the way. It's not even not. I'm just saying I consider it baked into the cake at this point. But that's the point is it's baked into the cake. And so that's potentially something that could make the Lakers going into a must win game in a weaker position than you would like them to be. It's not a question of, you know, does he deserve sympathy for it or empathy or race or whatever? It's just if you're trying to forecast what's happened, what could be coming in game. for, I would say advantage wolves who very much could, I would assume,

Starting point is 00:14:54 can kind of smell some blood in the water here, an opportunity not to deliver a knockout blow because the series isn't going to end on Sunday, but to put themselves in an incredibly strong position. They are in a bet, that's my point, is they are in a better position because

Starting point is 00:15:10 LeBron has to have a quick turnaround. Luca is going to be still flushing the, you know, the virus from his system. That's my point. Sure. I guess in that sense, yes. I just, at this point, I just sort of consider the wear and tear on guys. Like if, if LeBron being, and then we can move off this, but if LeBron being too taxed after game three, because he had to lay it out on the line, this team isn't going far.

Starting point is 00:15:37 That's my point. They're not going anywhere. It doesn't even have to be too taxed and we'll get to the rest. It just is he 5% less? Then they're not going. The margins are so thin in the playoffs. That's why you needed to win this. stupid game.

Starting point is 00:15:49 Right. And so you have game four that if you are essentially playing with house money at that point, because you've got your split in the playoffs. But you understand my point. You have your, I understand that I don't agree with it. In Minnesota, you had an opportunity to put yourselves in a position where you already had it and

Starting point is 00:16:07 then could, you know, get greedy and try to go up three one and finish it in L.A. in game five. And they screwed it up because, and I will give Minnesota credit here. This is not the Lakers just throwing the ball all over. the place. There was a little bit of that.

Starting point is 00:16:21 Minnesota, some of the turnovers, a good, good portion of them were based on pressure from Minnesota and the Lakers not responding to that well. But a lot of it was just them doing dumb things like under their own basket. They, why, you know, turning the ball over under your own basket multiple times. They didn't do, they weren't bad on the glass compared to Minnesota in terms of the overall rebounding battle, but they were very bad at hanging on to rebounds. when they really needed to. They also, it's ironic in a game where they scored the most points in this series

Starting point is 00:16:57 and had their best overall field goal percentages, percentage from behind the arc, but they went back to a lot of ISO-heavy, not moving the ball, not running sets, and I think that played a big role in their playoffs, or excuse me, in the tournament. The last, what was it, the last? Last four minutes, 30. But the last five minutes of the game, they scored five points. The last four, 37, they didn't score a bucket. They had one point on Austin Reeves free throw.

Starting point is 00:17:32 And again, it's ironic to say this in a night where they were actually making more shots, but a lot of the shots they were making were difficult. And, you know, they also missed some shots that were well generated. I also thought Rui, I think DFS a little bit, they were passing up some shots as well. But they fell back into some of their bad habits offensively. And you cannot do this against a Wolves team that is really built well to break down a team that isn't going to move the ball and is going to do like a lot of dribbling, a lot of ISO work. You know, it's funny, that three that Luca hit right before the half, where he spent a lot of time pounding the living bleep out of the ball. He ends up hitting this three.

Starting point is 00:18:22 And I tweeted out like me watching Luca pound the bleep out of the ball. You know, move the ball, Luca, me after Luca hits the shot. Luca, you magnificent bastard. But you can't. There was, there wasn't enough of it. And look, I mean, the, he while clearly fighting it to say the least, you know, the Lakers made enough shots and did some stuff, you know, he finished with eight assists. You know, there were moments where the ball moved and in the action was pretty good.

Starting point is 00:18:55 I just, overall, there was, and I don't like, I don't like when people over, kind of, gloss over mistakes that the star players make and just rip too deep into the supporting cast because like you know your support your your best players need to be your best players luca obviously was in no shape to try there was like a little stretch in the fourth quarter where he kind of came alive a little bit and you were like it was almost like he looked at j jane's like i've got five minutes in in me like five really good minutes in this game where i can be be Luca Donchich. When do you want them?

Starting point is 00:19:44 And it looked like he was going to get into that mode. And I think, you know, there were two or three stoppages of play. Minnesota called a few timeouts and that kind of killed, I think, there. It, they made, like, Vanderbilt tonight in this game, game three, it made a couple good plays in the first half. But, like, if you're not going to be somebody who can affect a game. game offensively. You just can't do as many, make as many bad plays as he made in the second half of this game. You just can't. If you're not going to contribute on that side, you've got to be

Starting point is 00:20:21 bulletproof on the other. And, you know, I don't think DFS responded with a particularly strong game. I was, don't think Rui played a particularly strong game. I thought Rui had some good, I thought Rui had some very good possessions defensively. Defensively, yes. The Lakers actually as a team, I didn't think we're that bad defense. I mean, got away from the way. Until the fourth quarter. The end of the particular last six or seven minutes of the fourth quarter, but it's also really hard to play seven minutes of defense when you, you know,

Starting point is 00:20:51 when you literally can't let the other team score. When their offense stops operating, you don't get any points in the last six minutes of the game, basically. You're putting an enormous amount of pressure on your defense. The wolves splits through three quarters in this game were 46 from the field, 30 from behind the arc. their fourth quarter splits, 54.5% from the field, 55.6 from behind the arc. Anthony Edwards, seven points, three rebounds, two assists in a block.

Starting point is 00:21:21 He was phenomenal. Jaden McDaniels, three of three from the field, eight points, two steals en route to 30 points, also phenomenal. But like, the control and the stamp that Ant had in this game overall, 29 points, eight rebounds, eight assists, two steals, but in particular, in the fourth quarter, he was just terrific. Let's talk a little bit about,

Starting point is 00:21:46 look forward a little bit to Sunday's game four and what maybe might change, if anything, because the Lakers, they got to win. So that's next. So this is probably a good night for me not to be writing a newsletter because we're very angry. We don't do them on weekends,

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Starting point is 00:23:08 this is the type of game that can cost you a series. There's no question about it. That is not me being overly dramatic. No, I mean, they're down to one in a series. Like, to me, one of the dumbest debates that you can ever have in the playoffs is at any point in the game when people ask, is this a must win game? To me, in the playoffs, they're all must win. Like, all wins in the playoffs, all games in the playoffs, they are precious. There is no such thing as, I guess, maybe unless you're up 3-0 in a series and clearly the better team, there's no such thing as an insignificant loss.

Starting point is 00:23:54 There's no such thing as a throwaway game in the playoffs. They're all crucial. So, yeah, this is a really, really big deal. It is quite self-evident that they have to win this game on Sunday because being, down 3-1 against a team that you've yet to consistently solve, it does not feel like you're just going to figure out the permanent solution, game five, three games in a row. Yep. I mean, look, for starters, what can you do?

Starting point is 00:24:32 You can try to, and LeBron pointed this out after the game, we certainly spent the first segment talking about it. You can't allow, like both teams went to the line the same amount. you know, Minnesota shot 21 free throws, the Lakers shot 20. So like, you know, those kinds of things are, are pretty level. Lakers hit 17, three-pointers. Minnesota hit 13, but Minnesota was at 36 percent. The Lakers were at 43.

Starting point is 00:24:56 So certainly an advantage there for the Lakers, but it's not like Minnesota was terrible from three-point range. And the Lakers were like 58 percent. They had a good night. But, okay, the difference in this game is the Lakers shot had seven, And I mean, honestly, Minnesota's three-point shooting was pretty backloaded. It was the fourth quarter. Fourth quarter, but those really counted. I know that. I'm just saying for most of the night, they were not, they, again, they shot 30% from behind the art for the first three quarters.

Starting point is 00:25:26 They had, the Lakers took 78 field goal attempts. Minnesota took 91, a plus 13 in field goal attempts. And that doesn't even start to account for the quality of some of those attempts because you're, working off turnovers. You're doing it. So it's like if you get it's turnovers aren't bad just because they offer the opportunity to score. That in itself is bad. You got to do an extra possession.

Starting point is 00:25:55 You got to like all those things just to stay where you were. You, you have robbed yourself of an opportunity to score. Every time you have a possession where you don't shoot, you are, you are shooting yourself in the foot. Like you can't. You can't give a good team 13 more cracks of the basket and expect to win.

Starting point is 00:26:19 It's just, I mean, I don't know what else there. How much more analysis this game requires than that. There is actually one big one, 56 to 26 points in the paint for Minnesota. The Jackson Hayes thing is becoming a problem. Like, it's becoming clear that he is not. He's not playable in this series. He's not playable in this series. And I think JJ truly wants to play Hayes.

Starting point is 00:26:48 He can't do it. He gave Hayes a little bit of run towards the end of the first half and then immediately took him out. Two minutes at the beginning of the first quarter, about two and a half minutes at the end of the second quarter. Right. And without Jackson, you lose any semblance of traditional rim protection. And look, the Lakers actually, I think all things being equal and realistic, they manage seven. blocks in this game without Jackson Hayes registering any of them. I think in terms of the defense was for three quarters, the defense was not bad, especially considering how often

Starting point is 00:27:23 they were defending turnovers. I think in terms of like low men rotating over, you know, trying to make things happen in the paint defensive. Like they, they did a very good job there. There were several instances where I thought LeBron or Rui or DFS. Vando did a really good job crowding that area. Jordan Goodwin had a phenomenal play where he tied up Anthony Edwards under the basket just through pure hustle and wanting that. Yeah. But this is where you really cannot turn the ball over in your own restricted area. Like that's where a lot between the points off turnovers and, you know, points off turnovers leading to fast break points or just turnovers right next to your own basket. Did Van Nu do it twice?

Starting point is 00:28:12 I think, at least I think he did it twice. That's like, you know, if this were football, that's like fumbling on your own eight-yard line. Like you're going to give up points at that point. And I will say this too. And I, Jordan, not just because Jordan Goodwin played well, I thought, in this game, but also because if Hayes is going to start maybe even playing less than he already is, you do have to start a count. counting for rebounding, and Jordan is a very good rebounder for his size. But it's, this is where I worry about guys, like, and I don't want to take anything away from Hayes' regular season because he really played well, and he was a really important player for

Starting point is 00:28:58 the Lakers. But playoff basketball, the level precision that's required is 10, 15% higher, and the level and the speed that things are going and the, you know, the level of effort and energy from everyone goes up. And Vanderbilt has some of the same problems. When we were previewing, yeah, I remember when we were talking to Jackson Gatlin about the Rockets games, the Lakers were playing, host of Blockdown Rockets. One of my things that I was at least wanted to see, like what happens in the playoffs, is the Rockets are a team that win a lot based on just outtrying teams, like to their credit,

Starting point is 00:29:36 like just playing incredibly hard. everybody plays incredibly hard in the playoffs. So Vanderbilt, for example, some of his helpfulness is mitigated. And so you actually need him to make good plays. And if Hayes isn't going to be playable, Vanderbilt has to be. And he's not playing well.

Starting point is 00:29:58 And they're not getting much out of him. And we've seen this as an issue with Vando before. And there is value to being a guy who's really helpful in the regular season and might not be able to help you in the postseason as much. But the problem is, like, what are the Lakers doing game for? Okay, maybe you play Jordan Goodwin a little bit, but that makes you even smaller. Like, I don't think there are a lot of adjustments that the Lakers can make other than, you know, you just have to be cleaner with almost everything you do.

Starting point is 00:30:28 A lot of this is the Lakers just executing better. Like they have to do a better job executing the controllables. I think Vando is doing certain things well. There are times when he's disruptive. He got five boards. The problem is he's picking up so many fouls so quickly that JJ, if he wants to try to have Vando available at certain times, he has to take him off the floor. So sometimes it becomes a matter of not even so much what he's doing on the court as

Starting point is 00:30:58 why he's taking himself off the court. You know what I mean? Like there are times where he just has to avoid the foul. like he only had one turnover in this game. Like I just mentioned that because you had brought that up before. Goodwin makes them smaller, I guess, but I think he plays bigger than his size. He does. But I think that's helpful.

Starting point is 00:31:17 Sure. Absolutely. As much as, again, the Hayes thing is a thing at this point. We can all officially agree on that. They gave up 28 points off turnovers. if they cut that down in half, they win this game. You know what I mean? Or they say instead of missing seven free throws, you know,

Starting point is 00:31:45 they only miss three or four combined with don't give up an insane amount of points off turnovers. Or don't give up the extra opportunities. It's not even like 100%. That's, again, it's what makes this. And Wolves fans, you know, the rain, I know, the wands fans love to. pop up on the board and all that kind of stuff. It's like, it's like, it's part of the fun.

Starting point is 00:32:08 It's not, it's like, it's like, it's not that I don't think the Minnesota played well. Like, I think they did. I'm sure they're probably looking at going like, man, we didn't do this, this, this, this and this. And we, you know, won the game anyway, feeling good about themselves. We've said from the outset that the wolves are a good team. We've never taken them lightly. The Lakers, if they don't do like, like Lakers have done and had a lot of games this where you're looking at it and going, they don't look great, but they're playing clean.

Starting point is 00:32:39 They're keeping the, you know, keeping the, you know, the turnovers are limited. They're hitting their free throws. You can make, you can make up for a lot of mistakes if you don't turn the ball over and you hit your free throws. And they, it's like, you're sitting there watching and you're like, okay, let's see if they can go three possessions without a turnover. And you're like, like, you're like, flip. you're like the guy flipping the OSHA calendar at work,

Starting point is 00:33:07 like this many days without a workplace accident. And like the Lakers just kept flipping that thing back to zero. It was so incredibly frustrating to watch because the game was still there despite all of theirs. And they left the door open for a guy like Anthony Edwards to take it over at the end. Yes, he did. You know, if they're up by six or seven, as they certainly could have been,

Starting point is 00:33:32 with four or five minutes left in the game, it's a totally different thing. Anyway, and then too, you got to make your layups. You got to, you know, you got to hit, you know, a couple there. A lot of the game they were making there, okay, that's got to go in, threes off good ball movement and stuff. And then they stopped. You know, it's just, you know, no, I'm annoyed.

Starting point is 00:34:00 Better win on Sunday, Andy. Absolutely. better win on Sunday. Locked on Lakers on YouTube is where I can go hang out with 35,000 subscribers to the channel. It's where you can band together and wipe the slate clean

Starting point is 00:34:15 heading into Sunday's game. You know the Lakers are going to be playing with their hair on fire. And they've pulled out games like this before. So we'll see. What else do we usually say? Sign up for the stuff. Anyway, we come back on Sunday,

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Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - LeBron Scores 38, But Turnovers/Luka's Illness Doom Lakers, Lose 116-104 to Wolves

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