Luka Doncic, Los Angeles Lakers fall to Brooklyn Nets
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NEWYORK--A obviously irritated Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick didn't care that his group was lost three starters, counting whiz LeBron James, after Monday's 111-108 misfortune to the Brooklyn Nets.
The players who were accessible didn't play up to the team's standards.
"I think it was a exceptionally low-level communication diversion for our group," Redick said. "I do not think being short-handed is an pardon for how we played ball tonight."
Besides James, sitting out his to begin with diversion since supporting a strained cleared out crotch against the Boston Celtics on Saturday, L.A. was without beginning center Jaxson Hayes (knee), beginning forward Rui Hachimura (knee) and key save Dorian Finney-Smith (ankle).
The Lakers driven by as numerous as 15 focuses early, and their defense held Brooklyn to as it were 16 focuses in the to begin with quarter on 31.6% shooting.
It all went downhill from there.
"I think it was fair an generally attitude fair to take easy routes this evening," Redick said. "Need to be a great group? You need to win in the NBA? You got to do the difficult stuff. We couldn't indeed pass to each other. We couldn't enter our offense, running ball screens actually at half court. Better believe it, that's going to conclusion up in a turnover. I do not know what we're doing."
Luka Doncic, when inquired around Redick's feedback of the team's communication, took obligation for the loss.
"When JJ said [that] around communication nowadays, that was vital," Doncic said. "That's my blame and we ought to have done superior at that."
Doncic logged his moment triple-double as a Laker with 22 focuses, 12 helps and 12 bounce back, but he shot 8-for-26 (3-for-10 from 3) with five turnovers.
Doncic says he has seen as well numerous times to number all through his career -- but he fizzled to choose it separated appropriately against Brooklyn.
Austin Reaves, L.A.'s other essential playmaker other than Doncic with James out, too neared a triple-double (17 focuses, 10 helps, 8 bounce back) but shot 3-for-14.
"I fair thought I played unimaginably awful," Reaves said. "That's, truly, you know, around as much as I can say almost that. It's baffling not making a difference your group win. When Bron's out, I got to be way better and I wasn't. That's one of the reasons we lost."
Los Angeles gotten key commitments from a few part players, with Gabe Vincent venturing into the beginning lineup to score his most focuses as a Laker (24 focuses on 8-for-12 shooting and 6-of-9 from 3); rookie Dalton Knecht scoring 19 focuses; and two-way watch Jordan Goodwin scoring 17 focuses off the seat, hitting a career tall five 3-pointers (in six endeavors) with eight rebounds.
"I think I ought to have made a difference more," Doncic said when inquired almost the trio of Vincent, Knecht and Goodwin. "But they all played incredible. We got to have the same attitude moving forward. Wounds are going to happen and it's got to be a next-man-up mentality."
The Lakers' two-game losing streak, combined with the Memphis Grizzlies' three-game winning streak, has them fair a half-game up on Memphis for No. 3 in the Western Conference standings.
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