Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

AR and Luka need to be better bottom line. AR can't score after the injury and Luka needs to get into better shape And stop with the lat game turnovers

 

Len is so bad, even Shanghai would say “no.”
Jemison has shown flashes, but wasn’t good enough tonight.

 

Luka was even worse: 8-26!

 

Lakers lose in Brooklyn 111-108 without Lebron, D F-S, Jaxson, and Rui. Who knows to what extent AR is still ailing. Luka's hip/lower back is nagging him.

I was wonderin' if we'd still get yet another lull of dark times with this team after all that great D, going 17-4 over 21, etc. The loss to the Bags was one thing, but AR and Luka not being able to score, all the injuries, starting Len at C: we are in for a mini-Dark Era, I think. This was supposed to be the one obvious win on the road trip. But no...

Lakers jumped out early, played a decent 1st Q and led 29-16. So far, so good, so...they apparently stopped communicating on the court:

From McMenamin's write-up:
"I think it was a very low-level communication game for our team," Redick said. "I don't think being short-handed is an excuse for how we played basketball tonight."

Luka took responsibility:
"When JJ said [that] about communication today, that was important," Doncic said. "That's my fault and we should have done better at that."

AR also took responsibility:
"I just thought I played incredibly bad," Reaves said. "That's, really, you know, about as much as I can say about that. It's frustrating not helping your team win. When Bron's out, I got to be better and I wasn't. That's one of the reasons we lost."

(quotes sourced from HERE)

Now: MIL and DEN and I don't wanna seen Len. Mo Bamba just signed a 10-day with the Pels and we couldda used him.

What a drag this was.

Lakers lose to Brooklyn when their fans were mostly rooting for us. Luka hit a 35 footer with 11 secs left to cut it to 2, Nets timeout. I thought we might force OT, but Clowney got free and dunked for the and-one and that was that.

Luka, with back probs (I'm not even gonna mention how excess FAT can exacerbate such things): 8 for 26.
AR: 3 for 14.

The only reason we were in it: Gabe and Goodwin: 11 for 15 from the arc. AR at least got to the line and was 10 for 11 there.

The team needs 3-4 days off, but ain't gonna happen.