Postgame Interview | Anthony Davis on Lakers’ loss to Pels: “Energy was very low” to begin the game

Postgame Interview | Anthony Davis on Lakers’ loss to Pels: “Energy was very low” to begin the game

Oh man ad we probably start on the defensive end right that’s I know where you said this team’s got to find it its identity 42 points in the first quarter from the Pelicans uh CJ was getting loose for a lot of open threes not a lot

Of help for you on the glass like like what what what did you see in kind of what’s the concern level relative to the whole back toback end of the month thing um yeah I mean like you said CJ got loose I think he hit four threes in the

First quarter or something like that uh they were killing us on the glass um I mean all the got actually shot the ball well in the first half and and then Ru goes out um I just said there going to be our biggest downfall this year just been you

Know not being able to stay healthy um you know especially coming off a back to back you know you already missing cam dowlo uh you know obviously Gabe is out for extended period of time but then you know Ruby goes down now our rotation is smaller uh you know you lose another you

Know body as far as scoring um but yeah I mean defensively we just we gave up a lot of Threes ahead 10 in the first half um you know obviously you know it’s some guyss that we wanted to shoot and they made them uh there’s

Nothing you can do about it but I think our effort you know to come out um to start and our tentativeness uh was very low just from point of CJ a lot of histories are butt naked you know and uh you know that’s tough to it’s tough to deal with you

Knew that this stretch was going to be difficult now you enter a stretch where you’re in Los Angeles for basically the whole month there isn’t a back toback until I think the last couple days of the month uh how important is it for you guys to you know get things together use

That to try to Vault up the standing sums very important um we’ve been a pretty good home team thus far and now we got to take advantage of it uh you know the role has been very brutal for us um you know we get to sleep in our

Own beds and uh don’t have to worry about to travel uh use our own resources um you know get some practice time in and you know let guys get healthy so uh it’s going to be big for us to make this this home stand um a

Great one uh and we got to take advantage of it for sure feel you have the understanding as a group um that you can actually Turn the Page and do this take advantage of this spot in the schedule here give the confidence that yeah yeah I mean like I said we just got

To get everyone healthy you know um you know you’re missing another score playmaker in DLo another defensive guy uh cam who also can score um you know rule go goes down you know we just got to get healthy you know I think we’re you know a good team and uh we shown

That we can you know beat the best teams compete with the best teams um but you look at all the best teams they’re healthy um and we’re not so uh we have a lot of confidence in this unit um little things that we can get back better as

Far as the the details but for the most part um you know when we’re fully healthy and we’re playing how we supposed to we are forced outside of Health what details do you feel like the team needs to show up during the home stand during the home Stand um yeah I mean you know uh you know I think you know just on on as far as the defensive end um our communication has better you know we we’ll talk about something and then go out and uh don’t do it um you know it’s

A lot of we’re supposed to do this but God did this or you know gods are trying to do the right thing but it’s not the right thing you know um as far as a coverage or or a scheme and those are little details that can win you win or

Lose your a basketball game so uh you know 50-50 balls you know hustle play all those things so you know we got to just be better at that and you know really lock in on our details and make sure that we do the little things and not beat ourselves since Thanksgiving I

Think it’s been like 14 games or something like that on the road like do you remember without making excuses obviously do you remember like when in the stretch like it hit you that it’s like we haven’t been home in a while when it first hit you when my wife text

Me I haven’t like I haven’t seen you in forever I like oh damn yeah we’ve been on road too long and then you think you go back and look at the schedule we have and then I think at one point I’m not sure what trip it was but they said out

Of 29 days we’ve been on the road for 25 or something like that so it’s it’s part of schedule part of NBA um but now we get all the January to you know make up ground and be home Anthony Davis guys we’ve talked about it he’s been really playing at an

MVP kind of level coming into tonight averaging 31 over his last five he posted 2010 five blocks I think the biggest thing here though the Lakers have played 34 games this season and he’s played in 31 of them rob you know uh I have a friend of mine who’s a big

Laker fan and he we talk about this all the time about tan you’ve been in the league a long time so you know it’s you know you can always find excuses and yet you don’t want to use them right and so you knew the travel was going to be

Difficult this month the inseason tournament added to all that where do you feel like you guys are at uh now as you you got through this stretch and and you go home and probably you know got to take advantage of it coming up in January yeah just ready to get home

Honestly get off the road get some days we can recover and um use our facility to the best of our ability um and then focus on whatever we got to focus on to get better are there anything things that you’ve noticed with the the lineups that you feel like have

Worked uh and the ones that have struggled more just with guys in and out like just about what this team is what the identity is what where you guys have to focus to be at your best no I don’t I don’t really think about the lineups I

Don’t care too much about the lineups it’s about being ready to play um knowing the personnel and I say that a lot uh because that’s very important knowing what we want to do when we want to do it and um I feel like if we get better with those things we’ll be better

What have you noticed about the games uh in crypto.com Arena this year at home you guys have been good there you certainly won the majority of the games there what what do you think has helped lift you there and how do you guys have to try to execute on that I mean

Obviously it’s home court um get to sleep in your own bed they have your own energy um that you can create in your home and um I don’t know just being home is different overall obviously got the whole Arena room for you so um it’ll be good to have that

Consistently and we’ll see what we can um do with it guys we only got seconds left of the show I’m really big into vision boards are you I don’t know what that is but uh so it is going to be the new year and a

Very short few hours so I would like to talk about what we hope for the why the both of you who what we hope for the Lakers in 2024 you each get one thought the bubbly I’ll go first um I want the Lakers to have a perfect rest of the regular

Season at home you know you James talks about we talk about protecting your court taking your house I think if they can do that that put us in a prime position to be fantastic I want a healthy Squad uh consistent rotation and um you know she can be a

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Postgame Interview | Anthony Davis on Lakers’ loss to Pelicans: “Energy was very low” to begin the game