Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Reaves (Career-High 38 Points), LeBron Push Lakers Past Nets, 102-101

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Starting point is 00:00:48 as I like to say, Andy, the only thing worse than narrowly than winning one of the worst games the Lakers have played in, I don't know, 40 years is losing one of the worst games they've played in 40s. That was a tremendously. awful basketball game. But behind 39 points from, I'm sorry, 38 from Austin Reeves and 29 from LeBron James,

Starting point is 00:01:17 it was just enough for a 102 101 win over the visiting Brooklyn Nets. I really wish Darwin Ham was still coaching the Lakers. It's a hell of a team over there. Just to hear him say, it's a hell of a ball club they got over there.

Starting point is 00:01:34 A whole ball club. 27 Nets team with no Cam Johnson, no Cam Thomas, and no boy on Bogdanovitch. Like, these are the moments where you miss, Darwin. Like, I mean, my Lord, this was an absolutely horrendous basketball game to watch. I mean, just absolutely the worst thing you would see on your television this or any Friday night, just miserable. I mean, it's it's like his career

Starting point is 00:02:13 high, like I really hope he scores 39 at some point in his career because I don't want his career high to be associated with this bolt leap. I mean, in all honesty, like, it's tarnished in a lot of ways.

Starting point is 00:02:32 It's really like, I wanted to put a fork in my eye. It was just like, I'm obligated to watch these things. But like, my God, if I- Like, I almost called David Locke and quit just so I didn't have to watch the fourth quarter of this game. I played in an extremely deep and competitive fantasy league. And, you know, dudes there trotting out in this game.

Starting point is 00:02:58 I mean, credit Brooklyn for playing hard. They just lost by, I think it was it 58 to the Clippers the other night. I mean, and they played hard. You know, you've got a lot of guys who are trying to show they can be NBA players. And all of that, and DeLo comes back and he has a nice game, although he missed the potential game winner, which would have just been, I can't even begin to describe the mood of Lakers fans if DeAngelo Russell had hit that game-winning shot. But he played a nice game, other than that.

Starting point is 00:03:30 I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. He deserved to hit the game. winner more than the Lakers deserve for him to miss it. I think that's fair. Yeah. But he had 19 and 8 with five three-pointers, needed six. But the, also, too, he wanted that game winner so bad.

Starting point is 00:03:50 Oh, so bad. Because you may have noticed a score that's 102, 101. It was not necessary for him to put up a three at all. One way or another, Dilo was either going to win or lose that game. Yeah. And let's see, let's be honest. Ultimately, Brooklyn is just fine with the results. Oh, totally.

Starting point is 00:04:09 I mean, employee of the month. Everybody. Gets his picture on the wall. If you want to talk about a guy that's fitting into the culture right away. Anyway, look, there's not, Anthony Davis didn't play in this game. He had a flare up of the planter fascia issue that's been bugging him. soar before the game. Lakers out of an abundance of caution, as J.J. Reddick called it,

Starting point is 00:04:37 kept him out of the game. Dorian Finney Smith, still away from the team celebrating the birth of his son. Both of them are expected to play on Sunday against the clippers, according to Reddick. The Lakers are going to have to play significantly better than they did in this one. So look, I mean, you know, Jackson Hayes got hurt. during the game. He hurt his shoulder. He finished the game.

Starting point is 00:05:07 He did. So he's in and out and his sword uncomfortable the Lakers are short. Big men. Trey Jemison made his debut in this game. And I think we got an idea of why the scouting report is what it is.

Starting point is 00:05:21 Plays hard. Not super duper skilled. Very big and strong fellow. You know, I if there's anything you take away from this game and other than sadness gratitude that it's over you know just

Starting point is 00:05:45 having your faith in humanity shaken I am still very concerned about the Lakers offense like they you know LeBron this is a night where the big two in this particular case really stepped up. Lakers got what they needed

Starting point is 00:06:05 from their star players in terms of point production in terms of efficiency. AR was 13 of 23. LeBron was 12 of 17. So like that part of it, they got absolutely got what they needed. But they only had one

Starting point is 00:06:23 other player in double figures. I'm sorry, Gabe got there by the end. So two other players in double figures. Ruey got to 10. and Vincent got to 10. Dalton Connect, 18 minutes, had two points. He missed all three of his three pointers. He is, I believe, at about 15% since the hot streak, as we call it.

Starting point is 00:06:47 But the Lakers had 102 points in this game. 67 were from LeBron and Reeves. They got 35 points from seven other guys combined. there's there's really just not you know like I I I'm telling you I'm not going back and chat you know sometimes I mentioned the other day like sometimes you go back and rewatch a game which I'm not doing that this time I'm not doing that I watched it once not watching it again but like you know this was a game where you one way or another you need more than 10 points or you want more than 10 points from ruy who only had 10 shots in the game

Starting point is 00:07:32 You know, the Lakers didn't get a lot of shots put up. And, you know, Max was 2 of 13. That didn't help. 2 of 13 from Max Christie. And then, you know, Vincent gave you the 10 points that ultimately you kind of want from them or hope you get it. But like literally that was it from the bench. Dalton had two points.

Starting point is 00:07:57 They looked from the beginning of this game completely out of sort. They, I know Brooklyn only scored 101 points, but the Lakers offense, I mean, the Lakers defense in this game. It's not good. I mean, the offense was not good either, but like, to some degree, I guess, I mean, I guess you could say to some degree, you write off the bad showing on both ends without Anthony Davis. He's their best player. But, I mean, from the minute this game began, the Lakers just looked very out of sorts. And, you know, Reeves, the career high 38, I believe 15 were in the fourth quarter. Like, it even took LeBron and Reeves to a while to really get going in a way that felt like,

Starting point is 00:08:46 I don't even want to say the game was controlled because it was too close throughout most of this game to ever truly feel like the Lakers had it under control. Like, I'm not going to lie. There was a part of me concerned that they were going to lose this game. Oh, yeah. Like, there are times when the Lakers play poorly against a bad team, but you don't necessarily feel fear as much as you fear or feel aggravation. This was a game where it was feeling set up for the Lakers to have their perhaps worst loss of the season. Like, it really felt that way for a lot of it.

Starting point is 00:09:32 I wasn't totally convinced that they won the game. I waited and counted to 30 before after DeLo missed that shot, before I was willing to say the game was over and that they won. I mean, both a competent team, I know Brooklyn was, you know, in 23, 22, 23, so it looks like the defense is good. And at times it was. But, like, I texted you early in the game. like I think it might have been Jalen Wilson

Starting point is 00:10:01 through one of the I said well that's the worst Alleyup pass I've ever seen like they blew up a three on one by throwing a 98 mile an hour fastball that was intended to be an alleyup pass like four minutes later they threw this actually someone threw an alleyup that was even worse than that one like a competent team

Starting point is 00:10:25 would have beaten the Lakers tonight And Brooklyn plays hard, but like they got a bunch of guys with both cams out. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, they, they don't have an NBA caliber roster. They had 17 turnovers in this game. I think maybe three were forced by the Lakers. I mean, it was largely them just doing stuff where you're like, what the F, man. Like, what are you guys doing? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:01 And just in the, I know Redick talked after the game just about switching and how it screwed up their team. And I think, okay, fine. But I, this is a, this is devolved into a really bad offensive team. And, you know, that is true when they're at full strength. You know, you get more of a cushion because you've got Anthony Davis there. and it's true when they're not. And if there's a place where I am disappointed in the way the team has sort of evolved under JJ Redick,

Starting point is 00:11:39 it's this because the quality of the offense that they seem to be able to execute, call it for whatever reason that you want, is low, very low. And it's gotten worse over time. where you expect things to get better. And so, you know, this was an example of, like, they just, they ran so many possessions where I couldn't, I don't, I don't know if they were supposed to run action. What action, if there was, you know, kind of planned freelance,

Starting point is 00:12:10 where I just, I have no idea what they're doing. And then you get to the personnel question of how much offensive talent do they even have on this team, especially when AD doesn't play, which is a second issue. And again, looking at the trade deadline, It's not good. Yeah. I will give them a bit of grace in the sense that without AD,

Starting point is 00:12:34 you lose so much of, if nothing else, a theoretical anchoring force offensively. Like, you can't, everything you're looking to run inside out or inside period goes away. So in that sense, like, however deep they are right now in terms of, running JJ Reddick's playbook as well as JJ wants, at least half or more is eliminated without AD being there. Like in terms of just the options, what you're going to be looking to do. Like,

Starting point is 00:13:12 because you can't run anything through Jackson Hayes. And if you think you can't run anything through Jackson Hayes, let me introduce you to Trey Jemison. I mean, like, and I'm not trying to pick on this morning. Right. And Rui's not somebody that you use as a, no, focal point. And not in that way. You can get the ball down to him and let him do, but he's not somebody you run stuff through because he's not a good passer. He didn't have four in this game, though. You did. And he had that one in the game the other night. Dude, that was an incredible pass. The lefty passed to LeBron for the three. That was an amazing pass. But really what I mean by that is it really does reinforce some of the holes. that they have

Starting point is 00:13:56 sure like the lack of there's not a lot of there's not a lot of secondary scoring here there's zero secondary playmaking um and and and ball handling you know at the beginning of the game they were giving austin fits just put a lot of extra ball pressure they just they don't have a lot of means to personnel wise to to get at some of this stuff um anyway um let us never speak of this again this horrible horrible basketball game they won they are 22 and 7 We can come back Sunday night and talk about the Clipper game. And we'll all get a fresh start having pretended that this never happened. And so, yeah, we'll see everyone after the game.

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Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Reaves (Career-High 38 Points), LeBron Push Lakers Past Nets, 102-101

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