“Lakers are in Trouble” – James Worthy reacts Lakers fall to Grizzlies 127-113 to 4th losing streak

“Lakers are in Trouble” – James Worthy reacts Lakers fall to Grizzlies 127-113 to 4th losing streak

Hello and welcome to access sportset Lakers driven by your Southern California Honda dealers Chris McGee James Worthy Robert ay Mike bresnan is down at the arena with Mike trudell Lakers lose again four game losing streak they’ve also lost 10 of 13 games drops them to two games under 500

They’re 10th in the west and it was a disastrous fourth quarter guys where the Lakers failed to score many points and Memphis ranked dead last in three-point shooting coming into this game a season High against and a season high for Memphis 2033es the Lakers were minus

39 in that category and Memphis shot 50% from three yeah that was yeah and we have an hour show the three ball was was there for Memphis tonight and and that was the game I mean you look at you know smart eight of4 Bane five of

Eight Jackson Five of eight they hit a lot of Threes but to me that I mean that that really wasn’t the game it’s like the Lakers had no answer uh for the for the effort The energy they got stagnant the ball didn’t move um you could just feel it and see

It on the faces that they they just didn’t have what it took to compete with them I don’t I don’t know what what’s going on this team right now but to lose two at home back to back after coming off a road trip um it’s it’s I I don’t know what to say

About it it’s embarrassing yeah and they’re not playing with you know with any structure and when they get in trouble they go to a complete ISO with no movement and know it’s easy to guard that and Memphis just you know just took it to him and they and they hit the

Three tonight so it was it’s just a tough loss man it’s tough and Robert feels like desperate times and they came out in that first quarter scoring 37 points building up a nine-point lead it was that 80 run at the end of the half that was a little concerning obviously

It was some deep threes but just kind of the way it looked and then a third quarter that wasn’t uh wasn’t too great but yet here here they were tied but then that fourth quarter was just no no attention to detail didn’t get the stops they needed you know if you watch

This game it’s amazing how basketball sometimes can be broken down to its simplest form and a lot of these threes they got were from defensive breakdowns and it’s like you know you know what jaw game is he’s going to penetrate and if he he hangs his hang time is ridiculous

So if you bite he’s going to find an open guy and you had you had guys knock down open threes because our Defenders suck in they sunk in too far to the basket and wasn’t able to get out to the three-point shooter you know I I said this a couple of weeks back

Where I said Triple J is not a good player unless he has John Morant because he depends on his outside shot he’s not a really good postup player but when he does knock down a shot it dictates how he plays on the inside and tonight he

Was a to hit down those threes I think all those assists probably came from jaw where he got knocked down now he’s got his confidence up he’s going to the paint and scoring so one of the things about the Lakers I know they don’t practice much but when you have games

Like this and you on a what four game losing streak M you got to go back in the lab you got to go in and practice and go over the little things I remember Phil used to make us do the stupidest little drills you know picking the ball

Up pivoting and we was like man why are we doing this because you need to go back into the lab and put the old school skills back into your head so you can do so the fundamentals can be broken down to the simp and you can do these

Fundamentals and I think the Lakers now they’re not very fundamentally sound in a lot of the things they do they got silly turnovers and they doing things that are just out of character what about the adjustments you know for me the the you have to change right through

A course of game when you see a guy like Marcus Smart hitting shots when he hasn’t hit when he’s over4 coming into the game Rob he’s Catching Fire so you got to change things you have to recognize the high Guys these guys are professionals there’s a reason they in

The NBA at some point in time they were probably for import scores whatever team they was on and so you have okay this is what we don’t leave Marcus Smart you know D up don’t switch so much on D and then as soon as Marcus smk got hot ban

Got hot you got to understand you you backing off guys you got one of the best defenders backing you up in ad you should be able to push up on these offensive players and make them put it on the floor crowd them defensively because that is the key that’s all that

Minnesota is doing that’s why they number one in the west right now because they’re crowding people forcing them off the three-point line to their shot blocker and the Lakers need to learn how to do that saw those fourth quarter numbers big game James 33 to19 yeah yeah sometimes you got to make

A a player make a a play at The Rim you know when when when players are hitting threes and they all were Jackson you know Bane they all were hitting threes sometimes when you have ad at The Rim you got to you got to make you got to

Make J or whoever make a tough shot at the rim and stay at home because the minute they left you know they depend on that and these were uncontested threes you know it just you you you stunted in so far you know six seven feet that

There’s no way you can get back so yeah I believe that if some if Jah if he’s great as he is make him make the play at The Rim sometime before you give up yeah you know all those threes they were hot not a good three-point shooting team

Coming into the game uh hopefully they didn’t rely on that and just allow them to shoot them but once they hit several you you got to you got to put a stop to it listen uh yeah go ahead r no I was I saying yeah agree it yeah there’s just

So many ways you can break down a basketball game you can break down losing streaks and losing 10 out of 13 you could talk injuries you could talk rotations uh uh trying to find the right guys to fit but there there’s definitely a theme when you look at these last four

Games and and listen this has been going on all year these last four games this is pretty incredible when you look at the lack of shooting and we’ve talked about it all Year guys it has been a concern cuz we came into this season thinking and knowing that this Laker

Team was going to be a better shooting team from three-point L it just hasn’t happened they’ve been inconsistent they’ve only shown you at ties but look at these numbers right here it’s also not only the Lakers hitting threes but what other teams are doing to them from the three-point Lane look at the

T-wolves uh minus5 that’s minus5 Pelicans hit seven more that’s minus 21 the Heat hit 12 more threes that’s- 36 and The Grizzlies minus33 that’s 309 points guys so listen the Lakers 35% to tonight you’ll take it but James 10 of 28 when another team’s 23 of

45 it’s just just it’s not going to work the three ball is is only as good as your offense is Flowing yeah I mean you’ll hit you’ll hit some but when you really need it throughout a 48 minute game your offense has to flow it has to

Have spacing and it has to be movement you have to make the defense react to something and you’ll get it if you’re isoing if you’re standing um you know for us we’re not going to get the easy threes the uncontested ones but the May the way Memphis offense flows they’re

Moving Bane he’ll he’ll pass and move they’ll set a pick for him all of a sudden he’s coming off he’s getting something uh Jos going downhill he’s going to get something so they’re constantly you know Marcus Smart they’re moving the motion they’re making the defense you know look and before you

Know it they’re popping in three so sometime we get a little stagnant we go to ad we’re not moving if if you go inside the ad what’s wrong with a scissor pick or something or split or something to make the defense the standing and not cutting you know it’s

It’s it’s going to be hard to get your threes you know uncontested and something that a little bit easier seven of those 23 were in the fourth quarter R for Memphis too a lot threes in the fourth a lot you know is you let’s be honest they ran into a buzz saw tonight

From three and nobody expect Marcus Smart to do that and then you nobody expect jiren Jackson to knock down five nobody expect Bane to no Bane maybe because he’s been hot lately but a lot of the threes you know it was some contested threes and it was a lot of

Tough threes so what I really feel like they got to do is see look that three right there you know he already had hit two at this moment be up on him make everybody need to be accountable defensely take some pride we say these guys our team is a good defensive team

Where they used to be yeah it’s because now we say we good we a good defensive team now we say okay we going to rest on on lurel and you have to go up and pressure these guys like I said defense and I I don’t I don’t see that anymore I

Just see guy like you know back in the day James was like be a arm length away they like two arm lengths away you know and so these are these are reasons that you need to get back into practice and say hey this is what we got to do arm

Length Away pressure up on the guy p in one way be accountable it’s it’s so much switching now mhm so people they look forward to switching it’s easy here he comes switch and you know you don’t have to switch all the time sometimes you fight over f stay at home you you in

Force um and you know they just were a count late on reaction you know they would set of back pick no reaction you know if you’re going to switch the time to switch is when someone hit you with a big pick and now you got to you got to

Get out and switch they weren’t doing that and they were just leaving two three seconds open uh they have they were contesting some but a lot of them were just yeah wide open threes yeah and you know I showed you those last four just because it’s been an ongoing theme

It’s the other team hitting them and you’re not so it’s it’s it’s a a double double uh shazamm right there all right let’s get you to the uh the highlights LeBron James in the Lakers facing John Morant and The Grizzlies downtown Los Angeles on a Friday

“Lakers are in Trouble” – James Worthy reacts Lakers fall to Grizzlies 127-113 to 4th losing streak