{"id":133687,"date":"2024-12-05T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133687"},"modified":"2024-12-05T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:05:57","slug":"were-all-embarrassed-skidding-lakers-lose-by-41-in-drubbing-to-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133687","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re all embarrassed\u2019: Skidding Lakers lose by 41 in drubbing to Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MIAMI <em>\u2014 <\/em>Following a 41-point drubbing by the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"66\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nba\/team\/heat\/\">Miami Heat<\/a> and their sixth loss in eight games, the principal parties of the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"89\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nba\/team\/lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> locker room took ownership of their recent skid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m embarrassed,\u201d coach JJ Redick said. \u201cWe\u2019re all embarrassed. It\u2019s not a game that I thought we had the right fight, the right professionalism. Not sure what was lost in translation. There has to be some ownership on the court and I\u2019ll take all the ownership in the world. This is my team and I lead it and I\u2019m embarrassed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"dxRvkEThnxpMbhcr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nba\/player\/lebron-james-dxRvkEThnxpMbhcr\/\">LeBron James<\/a>, who broke out of one of the worst shooting slumps of his 22-year career to make his first 3-pointer in five games, said he agreed with Redick\u2019s postgame assessments and defended the coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not on the coaches,\u201d said James, who had missed 20 straight 3-pointers before making one in the second quarter. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely on us, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"YhDofdcmUKoYKV18\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nba\/player\/anthony-davis-YhDofdcmUKoYKV18\/\">Anthony Davis<\/a> \u2014 who scored a season-low eight points on 3-for-14 shooting and was often lumbering up and down the floor \u2014 blamed himself. This marked consecutive games that Davis set a season-low in points. He had previously scored a season-low 12 points in the Lakers\u2019 29-point loss to the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"78\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nba\/team\/timberwolves\/\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate losing,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThe way we\u2019re losing, we\u2019re playing bad, blown out. I\u2019m not playing well individually. It\u2019s an accumulation of things and it\u2019s frustrating. \u2026 And it\u2019s on us. It\u2019s on us players, to be honest. We\u2019re getting the schemes. The schemes are on point. But we just gotta go out and do it and execute \u2019em. But I just gotta step up for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The loss dropped the Lakers to 12-10. They\u2019re ninth in the Western Conference after opening the season 10-4. In four of their six losses over this stretch, they\u2019ve lost by 20-plus points. Their average margin of defeat over that span is 21.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not a sense from me that we\u2019re together right now,\u201d Redick said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what we say in the huddle. Doesn\u2019t feel that way. Doesn\u2019t feel that way. And, again, we\u2019re in a tough stretch. And we\u2019re all trying to find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the third time the Lakers were outscored by over 20 points in the second half, with the third quarter, in particular, being the low point. They were outscored by 22 points in the third quarter on Nov. 23 against <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"82\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nba\/team\/nuggets\/\">Denver<\/a> in Los Angeles, by 18 points on Nov. 26 against the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"91\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nba\/team\/suns\/\">Suns<\/a> in Phoenix, and then by 16 points on Wednesday against the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d James said of Los Angeles\u2019 second-half woes. \u201cWe got to figure it out because it\u2019s definitely embarrassing, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"nz3UBZ8kykifep4y\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nba\/player\/tyler-herro-nz3UBZ8kykifep4y\/\">Tyler Herro<\/a> was atop the Lakers\u2019 defensive scouting report given he leads the Heat in scoring (23.7 points per game entering Wednesday\u2019s contest). But he shook loose in the third quarter, scoring 21 of his 31 points, including making seven 3-pointers as the Lakers appeared disinterested and uncompetitive defensively.<\/p>\n<p>Herro\u2019s outburst propelled the Heat from a 17-point halftime lead into a 33-point lead entering the fourth quarter. Redick said the Lakers weren\u2019t executing the game plan they went over at shootaround, before the game or at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having trouble right now on both ends with like base-level gameplan stuff,\u201d Redick said. \u201cIt\u2019s odd. It\u2019s very odd. And I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s the travel and the lack of practice time. \u2026 You can\u2019t really make adjustments if you can\u2019t execute the base level coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers conclude their four-game road trip in Atlanta on Friday. Redick said he plans on meeting with the players \u2014 including some individually \u2014 and the coaching staff to try to figure out a way out of their recent nadir.<\/p>\n<p>James said he views the team\u2019s next film session as an opportunity for the group to have some of the difficult conversations they need to have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we squash it, for sure,\u201d James said. \u201cAnd just see when you\u2019re individually f\u2014ing up and you\u2019re trying to rely on everybody else to cover for you, I think it starts on individuals first. All of us have to take accountability. It\u2019s great to see it on film and address it right there \u2014 right then and there. And then go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Required reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>(Photo: Joe Murphy \/ Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5971095\/2024\/12\/05\/los-angeles-lakers-41-point-loss-miami-heat\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2014 Following a 41-point drubbing by the Miami Heat and their sixth loss in eight games, the principal parties of the Los Angeles Lakers locker room took ownership of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133687\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}