Lakers, Luka Dončić fail first test without LeBron James in ugly loss to Nets, leaving JJ Redick frustrated

the Los Angeles Lakers Life began without Liberon JamesWho is he It is expected to miss at least a week to two weeks With the tense thigh, on Monday, with the loss of road 111-108 to Brooklyn window.

Luka Dončić ended 22 points, 12 passes and 12 rebounds, and the second from three times since he joined Lakers, but without James on the ground, the net threw everything in Dončić defensively and Lakers could not pay them.

It is not a very sudden development given the circumstances. These prominent stars who are bound by defenses all the time cannot do so much if other players do not benefit from the loaded defense by performing 4-on-3 on the back side.

This takes timing and rhythm, the old cliché for everyone who runs on the same page, which is said easier than doing it for a team like Lakers who added such a dominant piece as Dončić and casts a lot of the squad that did not play much time together.

Now, when you have smart and skillful players like Dončić and James on the field, especially together, you can cover up many of these “recognition of each other” that usually take time to work.

But without James – nothing about his own production – the communications that keeps The American Professional League The crime flow becomes more difficult to implement while flying with the starting assortment (Dončić with Austin Reefisand Dalton Kanchtand Gabi Vincent and Alex Lane), Before Monday night, he did not play one minute together, for each glass cleaning.

James was not only who was outside. He was Dorian Fini Smith and Roy Hachimuraalso. And when Jackson Hayes It really began to settle as the exact type of the short list of the list that could, and often divide these amazing defenses, was also out, and Len was in that spot.

However, Lakers coach JJ Redick He was not in a mood for excuses after the game. Redick classified his team’s performance as a “low -level communication game” and said, “The calendar [not] An excuse for how we played basketball tonight. “

“I think it was just a comprehensive mentality to take tonights,” Redic said. “They scored 20 points on us gambling [defensively]. They had 16 offensive rebounds. We watched the ball all night. Perhaps they made six or seven 3s uneven. Just shortcuts. You want to be a good team, and you want to win the American Professional League, you have to do difficult things.

“We were unable to move to each other,” Redik continued when he became clearly frustrated. “We could not enter our crime. The ball screens are literally running on the half -field … I don’t know what we were doing.”

Dončić, although it is very effective as a game maker and a slope, he did not shoot well with Lakers, and he did not shoot well with Mavrex Before it is also circulated. He only made eight of 26 rounds on Monday, while seven out of 10 thieves.

“[We] “I have to make better decisions. I think we started the game to do a really good job, good decisions. But then we are just a kind of giving up the rope. We felt comfortable,” Donic said.

This was a big night for Reves to escalate in the absence of James, but it was also out, as he finished 3 for 14 and 1 for 5 out of 3.

“I thought I played incredibly badly,” Reaves admitted. “When Bron came out, I must be better, and I was not, and this is one of the reasons that make us lose.”

The net (22-42) does not make life easy for anyone. They appear to have finally embraced the incentive they have to enter the rest of the road and lost seven in a row before Monday. But even when they lose a good difference, they push them to the maximum.

Within seven losing matches, 22 got up to Warriors Oklahoma was led City in the fourth quarter. It is not surprising that they overcome the Lakers team playing without James, even if he did not use your Redak and a company as an excuse, as it should not.

Because the truth is that James will be out of decent, and the next schedule of Lakers is not Cakewalk with the arrival of his next six matches against Milwoki, Denver, Phenix, San Antonio, Denver and Milwoki again.

These are decisive games, at the very least. With the loss on Monday, Lakers (40-23) fell behind Denver, who beat Oklahoma City, ranked 3 in the west (he was linked in the loss column), which is just one game on No. 4 Memphis and two over the number 5 Houston with 19 games.