Postgame Interview | LeBron James reacts to Lakers close 2023 with a dud, fall to Pelicans

Postgame Interview | LeBron James reacts to Lakers close 2023 with a dud, fall to Pelicans

Scores with 34 points in a losing cause he’s in the locker room with Mike well at least there was no um toe on the line not in the line tonight no none of that none of that all my thre is behind the line no there you

Go yeah you kind of made sure uh Lebron just trying to zoom out for a second you know you’ve been in the league for the 21 years obviously uh there there are excuses that can be made right in the regular season you can talk about schedule you talk about back Tob backs

You talk about injuries But ultimately there’s also the whole your record is what it is um so where where you at on that as you try to you know take this team now into the next year and and I’m sure you you know would like to be more

Than just 500 at this point well for sure for sure you know and uh but it is what it is it is what our record is and we have to uh we have to figure it out and get better for sure tonight’s game uh did you feel like

It right in that first quarter like CJ gets loose for the 53s you guys were switching some um then then in zone definitely we’re not one team that like to play from behind we’ve been in that position a lot in this year especially in the first quarter um but we still was

Able to to get back into the game um but they they they did a good job you know you give credit what credit is Du they get did a good job of of exploring some things that we had going on defensively you guys will be able to remove one

Element that’s been working against you the last month uh as you turn the calendar I think 11 out of the next 12 are in Los Angeles how can that help uh at the in the same breath though how can that that can’t kind of fix everything

Well I mean it can help in the sense of just uh you know giving oursel an opportunity to not have to travel as much but it can hurt in the sense of where you start feeling comfortable because you’re at home and uh so we have to understand

That yes just because we’re home don’t mean we could just like relax now you know um definitely feels better to be in your own bed but at the end of the day um we still got to go out and compete cuz teams are going to come into our

Building you looking to do the same thing they’ve been doing uh with us being on the road so you know how are you feeling today uh any better uh no around the same uh the flight last night did not help obviously you know I was getting then we didn’t

Get to the hotel last night till like 3:45 you know so um you know it was a rough day you know just trying to recalibrate and get ready for the game but happy I was able to go out just try to make some some plays happen for my

Team I know is AE team at this what did you think about Austin back with you guys start of the third seemed like he got into a rhythm you guys were able to link up bu play did you like that look and that field Austin’s great Austin’s great and

Uh I like Austin no matter where he is obviously it’s always great to be on the floor with him no matter if he’s coming off the bench or if he’s starting you know whatever I just love being on the floor he makes plays so um you know it’s

Always good during the stretch the tournament ended there guys in and out of line of obviously the travel’s been with The Travelers has that prevented you from having many take like substantial takeaways that you can take back home with you that you can apply F during the home stand

No last question you said last night you guys were quote fighting for your asses right now because the Western Conference and really the NBA is kind of so crowded and standing are because of that is it is it hard to not get discouraged by the stretch because you kind of let up some

Ground that you had built earlier um and just how do you view the challenge of there’s a lot of parity in the League this year so you’re going to have a bunch of you know Knights that they’re going to take your best yeah I mean I’m not worried about what everybody else

Has got going on obviously it’s a lot of great teams in this league it’s a lot of people fighting for jocke for position but I can only worry about us and um you know I guess I got a small sample size of what we can be when we’re whole um

But I have more of a larger pie of what we look like where we’re not and know so that’s a discouraging part right there you know but um you know no excuse because everyone goes through injuries and everybody goes through tra and things of that nature this league is

Built on that so we just have to figure it out all right appreciate a look at the first five games of the New Year all home games for the Lakers a match up 1987 yeah remember when I threw a pen at brez and he started bleeding watch it

Austin have scored 20 points for the E time this month he’s now speaking with Mike in the media a soft guy and a Hardy all right Austin just wondering where you’re at with this whole difficult stretch since the inseason tournament final and clearly things are going to

Lighten up a little bit in January but how do you guys think you handled it not just record wise and where do things need to get better um yeah I mean I’m I’m a super competitor uh it don’t matter you know what it is you know saying that every like speaking on

Competitiveness every time I play spades on my family everybody’s end up mad at me so like it don’t matter what it is like we could go play golf we could play basketball we could play baseball like I want to win and that’s the main goal at

The end of the day wins losses is why you play the game you want to win and as a team I believe that’s you know what our goal is um to do is win and you know since the end season tournament we’ve been struggling um Health you know injuries

Sickness um you know we’ve kind of had some bad fortune there but at the end of the day what happens to everybody and we got to look in the mirror and you know see what we can do to be better uh what I could do to be better and you know just get

Better last year you went through that the stretch of really much of the Year trying to climb out of a hole you know now you’re you’re still at 500 but is there does urgency start to kick in knowing how difficult it was to climb out and to sustain the energy as you got

You know maybe to the Conference Finals like how how does that start to play out as you get back into this January stretch here um you know I would like to think that the urgency regardless should be there and I feel like it has for the most part

Um we just haven’t done enough to win you know regardless of what our record is if we were 24 and 10 or whatever the case is we should walk on the court every night with a sense of urgency to win the game and do whatever we need to do to win the game

And going forward that’s what we’ll do uh know like you said last year it was tough to dig oursel out of that hole and um you know we’re in a better spot right now than we were last year but you know we’ve got to you know change and figure it

Out time for little access 360 Rob what do you got for us um this 360 boils down the hustle place it’s the little things Al that mean so much and right in this in this 360 we’re going to show you how it meant more to new all and Pelicans

Than it did right here on this free throw you got a box out you got to put body on body Vendo doesn’t put body on body on herb herb tips it out look Lu Z okay we can get this we got one two three Lakers in there we can get this oh

No we don’t out the herb herb out the tiny dog tiny dog everybody touches on this play oh we get the block shot yeah we got some defense yeah let’s get back one two guys you get no you get it no I’m going to get it Marshall goes in

Points in the paint you got but you do all right now this is a one that you got a you got great rotation box up you know I’m going let this one slide because you know he just got got pushed on the basket by a stronger guy all right get

Back everybody get back oh nope foul you know you can’t foul a guy who can’t that’s one of the things about hustle plays and these hustle plays probably came due to the fact that they got smacked by 42 in the inseason tournament so that’s why they hustle like this they

Also become that much more important but on the second night of a back toback you’re also a little bit more tired so they become that more challenging yeah I’m sure New Orleans coach said that look these guys got in 3:30 4:00 we had the marching band out there playing real

Loud let’s get them let’s jump on them stay on them get the hustle balls get the 50/50 balls and wear them down and that’s looks like that’s what happened after the break we’ll hear from e fore our Middle Lane Tower is under attack speech Speeech our Slayer Lane Tower is under attack and Slayer have appeared our Slayer Lane Tower is under attack to you have defeated an enemy our Slayer Lane Tower is under attack Ally has been defeated the iron defense line has disappeared send in the ballista our Dragon Lane Tower is under

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Postgame Interview | LeBron James reacts to Lakers close 2023 with a dud, fall to Pelicans