LA looks terrible with LeBron – James Worthy rips Lakers lose to Pacers 109-90; Anthony Davis 24 Pts

LA looks terrible with LeBron – James Worthy rips Lakers lose to Pacers 109-90; Anthony Davis 24 Pts

Welcome to access sportset Lakers Jo by your Southern California Honda dealers I’m Ali Clifton James Worthy Robert Ory Mike bre and Mike trell will be handling the postgame locker room in Indiana tough one for the Lakers as their five-game win streak comes to a halt currently two in one on their six-game

Road trip and it was a bit of a a tale of two games if you remember between these two teams just five days ago the Lakers get the job done here in La against the Pacers 150 145 and despite them entering tonight the Lakers with the third best offensive rating here in

The month of March big game at 12 a game their offense it stalled how about this Not only was this just the fourth time being held 100 points this season it was a season low in points at just 90 uh they’re five of 30 from Deep five made

Threes is their second lowest on the season you tip your cap maybe as Mike trell mentioned it is three and four nights for the Lakers you don’t want to make excuses that is only the reality uh but the paac are certainly capitalized yeah I mean you don’t want to make

Excuses everyone has to go through that type of schedule at some point and you know I think the Lakers mentally you know they were trying to play hard but sometimes you just you know I think being on the road uh I think it caught up with you it’s indicative to me with

The five or 30 from three they just could not get close to that and you know uh Indiana played very well they had all five starters and double figures and you know they were home yeah you know I don’t like the right off any game but

You know the fact that they won two already and they run into a little buz saw in Indiana you know I don’t I don’t want to just give it away but let’s go to the next one and see if we can get that Indiana’s a good team they play

Well at home I think when you talk about the three and four nights though you looked at the three ball as you mentioned they just look short some unar characteristic misses at The Rim yes uh maybe some heavy legs I I I I look at

You know ad around the rim he missed a lot of easy shots I look some miscues between AR and LeBron that comes from being mentally tired I I think sometime this late in season you have three games in this many nights it can weigh on you and especially when you go to Indiana

Indiana is one of those basketball towns and Indiana these guys they remember two things the last game we played against you and End season tournament so you can see they these guys come out with a lot of energy they play with a lot of effort especially TJ TJ came out that bench and

He was inspired he went at them tonight and he outscored our bench by himself so that’s one of the things you have to look at when you are tired as a starting five you need some energy from the bench and the bench for us tonight was kind of

La Lester yeah this game reminded me maybe of one in late December maybe after Lakers had already won the inseason tournament maybe early January there’s some of the same symptoms you know Lakers outscored by 15 behind the arc D’Angelo Russell not shooting well remember he was having trouble uh not

Long after the inseason tournament Lakers unable to establish themselves in the paint so a couple little symptoms that thankfully for the Lakers James they have not been around lately you know they’ve been hitting their threes DLo has been great they’ve been establishing pretty good presence in the

Paint so it’s just a one-off in my mind they’re still two and one on this road trip uh we’ll see what Phoenix does in their huge games coming up a very uh brutal schedule I’m not saying goodbye to the Lakers finishing an eighth it would have been uh a lot more helpful

Had they won tonight but still you know you take this one you throw it away as Kobe would say you flush it and uh that’s it I I I think the next game they play will tell us about this game you know I I think if they come out fresh

Again playing the way they’ve been playing the last couple weeks it’ll tell us that uh everything we’ve been saying a little fatigued maybe and you got to give Indiana credit to they were ready for him you do just to kind of capitalize on that as you mentioned all

Five starters in double figures uh Tyrese halberton had 218 and eight he had been struggling obviously trying to get out of his shooting slump that he has been in recently uh but nonetheless then you got T.J McConnell with the 16 the plus 20 Off the Bench just tough for

The Lakers uh I do want to ask just because Stu mentioned it and you guys are talking about it when you flush it you put it behind you you bounce back you have the three teams coming up Brooklyn Toronto and Washington how do you do that as a player understanding at

This stage of the game what needs to happen for you first you have to take it like that the opponents you’re playing aren’t that good they’re not even in the playoffs so you got to say hey we got to jump on this team early and we can’t do

What we did in Indiana just kind of mess around muddle around and let this team stay in and then next time you take the lead because you look at teams like Toronto Championship caliber Washington not so much but you got and Brooklyn they got one of the no tough young team

So you got to go in there with the might the right mindset and that’s the whole thing when it comes to the end of the year it’s not the physical part of it’s the mental part mentally you have to be ready for the game you got to be ready

For your opponent and know hey we’re a really good team if we jump on this team early and then we can load manage in the fourth quarter which I love because if these guys don’t do that then they have to play 35 to 40 minutes at this late in

The season you don’t want that you set the tone early too I mean I I can remember uh conversations when we would lose a game I mean we rarely lost back to back but when we did you know as soon as magic or Cooper or somebody as soon

As we got on the bus we would call attention to everybody and say look we got to take care of these next two or three we always made it uh a collective effort to remind each other we cannot stay in this mode so I I think the

Lakers are capable of that this this Laker team they’re they’ve bounced back before I think they know where they are in the standings and they have great leadership in Lebron and so we’ll see we’ll see they snap back in this next game with the type of uh energy that we

They were used to we’ll know that they’ve been on the road that third game was a little tough for them snap back yeah I mean had they not won five in a row and won a big game in Milwaukee a few days ago and followed up with

Another big game against a poor Memphis team but no ad in that game the Lakers won that one going away yeah the offense has been out of control good for the Lakers so fact that they had this output tonight okay you can chalk up to you know bad shooting fatigue uh inability

To to establish down low you say all right you know it’s been a good couple weeks for us it’s okay if I’m Darin that’s exactly I’m telling the guys hey we we we’ll figure it out in uh in Brooklyn in a few days so you guys know

Over the course of an 82 Game season you have a couple of these every now and again let’s head back to Indiana Darin ham is speaking with the media Darin you guys scored 90 points tonight which was a season low I guess what was it just an

Off night offensively or did you not like the flow of the offense or or just what did you make of of the offense overall yeah I thought we were you know running in mud a little bit um third game four nights um you know the double OT game in Milwaukee play against a

Physical Memphis Squad you come here and and it’s like the indd 500 as you know as fast as they play so um it’s a com a combination of of a lot of different factors um you know we trying to post and take advantage try to

Get work done in the paint and a lot of times you know they jamming us up different schemes showing the crowd just didn’t have a lot of pop on the offensive side of things and you know guys miss shots some guys miss shots they normally may had good looks

And just just didn’t go down and a other times you know just us trying to force our will in the post or to the paint um you know we got out of rhythm a little bit and so a lot of clock a lot of shots came up against the clock but you know

Overall you we’ve been playing some great basketball you know we we’ll get get our treatments we’ll get our nutrition our recovery going um and be ready to bounce back on Sunday you mentioned the third game and four nights and you know you put 150 on

This team not too too long ago did you see them just defensively intensity wise step up just kind absolutely you know they they had bodies flying around everywhere do a great job protecting the rim um and again we we we we missed a ton of shots we normally make uh so part

Of his defense of course and the other part is just us missing shots we normally make um but you know we knew they’d be coming out ready to go um and and they were and so we fought as long and as hard as we could and then and

Then the bottom just fell out so to speak how did you think ad was moving physically coming off of that the game missed with a knee yeah you can tell he he has some he was running with a little gingerly um it got better in the second

Half as the game wore on his body got a lot warmer uh but you know my hats off to him kids a trooper he wanted to be there for his team and he was and he gave all he could give and you know that’s why he is who he is he cares you

Guys had that that one stretch in the fourth where you cut it to I think seven I want to say um and then they went on a little run to kind of push the lead back up what what did you see kind of in that stretch that sort of turned the game

When you guys had seemed like you had some momentum just faster more pace something we we really got to lock in on when we play with pace and we play downhill toward the paint uh we’re very difficult team to stop um uh we just got to be more consistent with

That Darin what’s the the Topline item as you start to transition into that Brooklyn game and kind of get a day’s rest and start to think about getting trying to start another winning streak as you close the season you know just going back and looking at the film um

Seeing ways we can get better uh different things that we can do uh to improve upon defensively offensively and and look at the things we we’ve been doing well it won’t just be like a oneoff where we just watched this Indiana game we’ll we’ll go back and

Look at a few games we played here recently and um put together film for us to watch and again try to grow from and get better from and you know be ready to suit them up on Sunday sorry sorry D I apologize if you addressed this already um and never

Really felt like you guys had the kind of energy or juice that you guys have maybe had over the last eight or nine games um anything to that do you think I mean I guess three games in four nights I was just going to say in January like

Maybe like that this type of stuff happens is it disappointing that you guys couldn’t quite break through it was tough I mean you coming off a a double overtime win versus one of the better teams in the league team is top five easily in the league and then you go to

Memphis you know had a difficult year with injuries but still play a physical very physical brand of basketball and then you come here and it’s like the indd 500 um these guys run up and down like crazy and it’s a tough team to play uh tough style of basketball to play you

Know on the third night of a third game and four night so but you know we not going to feel sorry for ourselves you know give them their credit they played a hell of a game they’re hell of a team but ultimate twister guess who’s back shut down okayy you

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“LA looks terrible with LeBron” – James Worthy rips Lakers lose to Pacers 109-90; Anthony Davis 24 Pts