‘Lakers can’t win EVEN WITH LEBRON AND AD PLAYING’ 😳 – Windhorst on Lakers’ loss | NBA Today

‘Lakers can’t win EVEN WITH LEBRON AND AD PLAYING’ 😳 – Windhorst on Lakers’ loss | NBA Today

For the last two days we’ve talked about it we have debated whether or not the Lakers current home stand it feels like a make or break stretch well guess what it is safe to say that last night’s performance it was not how they wanted to start off their 2024 Tate

Particularly because LeBron James and the Lakers hosting the heat without Jimmy Butler in this one Dwayne Wade and attendance taking in the action the first quarter here Lakers down early I mean the turnover hasn’t that been the story of the Season Lakers down early they have never really thrown the first

Punch and guess who took advantage of it all of the perimeter Shooters of the Miami Heat absolutely the Miami Heat once again Tyler hero gets out in transition passes it ahead to Kyle Lowry HZ has been such a bright spot one of the most fun stories but look 24th game

Trailing at the end of the first quarter most in the NBA what’s going on here it has not been a good story for Los Angeles the fourth quarter here Brian Anthony Davis this was one of the rare good moments where felt like okay the Lakers going to make a comeback well the

Lake the Heat played so much Zone the only antidote was to go to ad because they were four of 30 on threes ad had 29 Points 17 rebounds five blocks in this one the Lakers still trying to claw back Tyler hero yes sir oops check that

Robinson 13 points to heat back up in this one Anthony Davis LeBron James not a fan and there were different accounts of what the diagnosis was for the Lakers let’s start with Darin’s I can’t find anyc consistency until we get healthy it’s as simple as that I mean we got to

Get healthy we got to get healthy guys got to and once you get healthy you guys got to get back in Rhythm and we got find a cohesive unit dealing with different guys being in and out of lineup that frequently it’s it’s damn near impossible toine uh

Uh a rhythm we’re more than talented enough to go win games we have enough depth we have enough skill Um we got to figure it out the whole lineup thing isn’t an excuse uh we got high level IQ guys who who know what we should be doing in know what they should be doing individually and what we should be doing as a team on both ends of the

Floor H so it sounds like all three folks see something a little bit different here but here’s what we know the Lakers are now just 2 and eight in their last 10 games it’s tied with the Spurs for their fourth worst record in the NBA during that stretch with only

The Pistons the Hornets and the Nets being worse that’s not exactly the teams you want to hear Brian what is the most concerning part of this Lakers loss for you well you know they were talking about you know having injury issues but the started their 19th different starting lineup yesterday they started

One guy was Nikola yovic who was in the G League a couple weeks ago Hae hakz who’s a rookie the Lakers were starting their 10th lineup but look at the heat the heat are above 500 they’re competing even though Jimmy Butler was out again and that’s the thing like you will never

Hear the heat complain about not having enough that is the way they are they are structured and so you look at the Lakers and yes they’ve had injuries absolutely but they have not been able to have any consistency and that’s the thing Eric spoler and the Heat have a system that

They play the Lakers haven’t been able to develop that and I think the frustration has been yes they’re frustrated when they see teammates go out due to injury everybody would be frustrated for that but they also haven’t been able to get back to the way they played last year and that’s what’s

So fascinating has darham has changed starting lineups over and over mostly due to injuries but sometimes due to just trying to search because he can’t find anything that works he’s not gone back to the lineup that they use in the playoffs last year which is D’Angelo Russell Austin Reeves and Jared

Vanderbilt they’ve only that’s what’s Wild to me they’ve only played three minutes of that lineup yes and you know yes Vanderbilt has been hurt for a lot of the year but Russell Reeves James and Davis have been healthy I mean I’d almost argue that one of the most

Concerning things about all this is that LeBron and AD have been playing ad’s been playing through knickknack injuries LeBron’s been playing through all kinds of stuff if those guys were missing a bunch of games you could say well look you’re missing your hall of famers the Lakers have been generally healthy with

Their Stars not with their role players with their stars and they haven’t been able to find a formula that works and they’ve kind of abandoned the formula that did work a year ago I miss y’all well I’ll be down because Tuesday you remember when I was talking about LeBron James going quiet

In the group text he went quiet just a minute ago he didn’t speak to reporters he left so that means he’s not talking anybody in the organization and that just comes from experience with me playing with LeBron and knows what he what he’s thinking look when I’m watching LeBron last night he looked

Fatigue right he looked fatigue and Wendy I want to give you love on this because you you had said this at the beginning of the Season can he sustain this now all of a sudden Dolvin ham moves him to the point guard position and you can see his energy it was just

Like H not getting back on defense right and I keep preaching this if you have a Elite perimeter play you’re going to beat the Lakers for the most of this season LeBron and AD have done exactly what you needed from him right even given that the Lakers it feels like I

Was just watching it feels like they’ve lost that Fear Factor versus their opponents like teams are going out there and just balling taking moments making highlights what are they do I mean the problem is is that that’s it comes back to the original question is this a make

Or break time for the Lakers this home stand yeah it absolutely is and it looks like it’s breaking them just because you’re not seeing that iteration of what you know the the blueprint that they had the consistency in lineups the defense the defense was not there they have an

Existential problem Leica because this team these assembled guys generally have gone to the Conference Finals have won the inseason tournament so if you’re Rob pinka you’re like look I know it’s in there right I know that we can be an elite defensive team I know that my

Stars can lead us to victories I know that we have depth but then 35 games is not a small sample size 35 games is a lot especially if your stars are playing and you’re under 500 because your guys can’t make a shot because your defense

Is okay good but it’s not a lead anymore because your offense in general has falling off so if you’re Rob palinka you’re like what what do I have here do I have this team that I saw in December kick everyone’s behind I saw in the

Spring or do I have a flawed roster the core of that though is are they just underachieving or do they not have enough and I can tell you I I walked into crypto.com Arina yesterday as one of the Lakers front office members was leaving and I said and he said we played

Like a word I can’t say on TV and I said well what should I say but what should we be talking about tomorrow he said that that we played like that and so that’s what I don’t know I don’t know that they have enough see I don’t think

They know either that’s the problem they don’t know whether it’s a an unfixable roster or that they’re just not playing well and it’s it’s it’s hard it’s hard especially when they believe in it and they have results and the results are not just from the spring I think the

Results are from last month I think you’re on to something Wendy and the only that makes sense in my mind because they’re 28th and three-point makes and sometimes when you start a season so poorly you start believing that we’re not that great of Shooters and guess what that becomes the consistent thread

You know that perk you want to like nip things in the butt in the first 10 or 15 games but what we’re seeing is that they’re embodying an identity that is an issue a weakness and that’s the truth four for 30 like that doesn’t really happen in this modern day NBA but

They’re consistently getting the same results and the only thing that comes to my mind is that this thing has become a part of their head and it just is something they can’t get out of you know what I’m noticing I’m noticing a bunch of guys that got paid and is not being

The same caliber player that they were last year when they were actually playing for a contract D’Angelo Russell Jared Vanderbilt ruy hamar yes Austin Reeves has played well in stretches but just think last year they were actually playing for something they were playing for their livelihood and again the great

Kevin Garnett used to always tell me I always look at the Young fellas to see what they’re going to do after they get the bag and when I’m watching these guys right now they look comfortable they look compactive and they look satisfied well it just feels like also in the

Western conference right there just is we’ve talked about it time and time again there’s just not any room for error I wanted to get to some break breaking news from our senior Insider Adrien WJ narowski on Golden State’s Draymond Green he’s been suspended indefinitely since December 13th but W

Is reporting he’s expected to return to the Warriors facility in the coming days here now NBA Commissioner Adam he has the final say on the reinstatement timeline but WS reports that there is a belief that green will have satisfied the League’s requirements to return once he is deemed properly ramped up to play

So they’ve certainly missed draymond’s present the Warriors they are currently 11th they Trail the Lakers by mere percentage points for that final playin spot so these were the two preseason title favorites they’ve clearly underwhelmed perk through the first 10 weeks of the year what team do you have

More faith in the Lakers I’m all I’m always gonna have faith in LeBron James and I damn sure have faith in Anthony Davis the way that he’s playing right now I mean when you think about the Warriors the only person we can point at and we talked about it on yesterday’s

Show is Steph Curry right Steph Curry but no when you have Braun and you have ad you still got hope and I I think that gives them the slight Edge look both of these teams are in bad in bad situations right now as far as where they at and

Not playing well but I got more faith in the Lakers than I do in the Warriors I agree with what you just said about LeBron but I still think it’s for me it’s the Warriors because during this stretch where both teams have struggled I think the Warriors have been able to

Find a few things they find Brandon psky they found Jonathan kaminga can play an expanded role they have found ways that they can get things to go plus I know they’re getting Draymond back the Lakers don’t have anybody there’s no there’s nobody coming off the bench to help the

Lakers there’s a there’s a little bit of a formula for the Golden State Warriors because when Steph scores 30 I think they like have a 70% chance of win of winning if LeBron scores 30 or 80 scores 30 we still are looking at 500 results also so that’s more of a conundrum is

This the are y’all talking about the same team that Steve cerr was just talking about a few days talking about they have to find their identity and gr are you talking about the team that you don’t think any of them are playing no no no no no but I’m talking

About guy that you’ve been covering your entire life that you know when you put it like that you put me in a tough spot know damn it you’re right I just I I like the problems you know are less scary to me than the problems you don’t know and the Lakers

Problems we’re all sitting up here and ringing our hands and trying to figure it out and that’s what scares me is that we just can’t put our finger on It

Kendrick Perkins, Chiney Ogwumike and Kendrick Perkins join Malika Andrews on NBA Today to react to the Los Angeles Lakers’ 110-96 loss to the Miami Heat and the breaking news that Draymond Green is likely to return to the Golden State Warriors in the coming days:

0:00 Lakers-Heat recap
1:18 Lakers’ postgame
2:05 Most concerning part of the Lakers
3:55 LeBron James and Anthony Davis
6:24 Are they underachieving or are they not enough?
8:15 Woj on Draymond Green
8:58 More faith in Lakers or Warriors?

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