Menabolis – as Lakes I left the court at the Target Center with their heads down, the white towels were going on everywhere around them.
The crowd was doing more than celebrating the host team 116-113 Victory Sunday afternoon. Fans of 19,289 can see what was happening. They can feel what was happening.
Four games in this series of the first round against Minnesota Timberolves, Lakers did not discover what to do.
They did not discover how to stop Anthony Edwards. They did not discover how to prevent Timberwolves from their overwhelming paint. They did not discover how to prevent their opponents from seizing the offensive bounce after offensive recovery.
Now, they decreased three games to one, and another defeat will end.
Two days after stomach problems reduced him to being a spectator on the field, Luca Densic Return to record 38 points.
This does not matter.
Liberon James He contributed every dimension in the game, as he ended 27 points, 12 rebounds, eight passes, three theft and three blocks.
This does not matter either.
The Minnesota striker Timberolphs Julius Randel celebrates during the fourth quarter of his 116-113 victory over Lakers in the game 4 of the first round of the Western Conference qualifiers on Sunday.
(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)
At this stage of the season, against this particular opponent, the shortcomings excelled in the strengths, and Coach JJ Redick It does not look as if he had any answers.
“I definitely played well enough to win,” said Redik. “Give the effort to win.”
Redick complained of two late calls, and he justified him to do so, but the referee’s whistle will not be what this season will provide.
Timberwolves provides problems in reconciling LakesAnd Lakers may not have the employees needed to reverse their impotence.
In addition to Doncic and James, Edwards excelled both, where he scored 43 points in the game while also contributed to nine counterattacks and six decisive passes.
Perhaps the despair of Lakers was the best alternatives in the second half of Redak: there was no.
“We have made a decision at the end of the first half,” Redik said.
Lakers Lebron James, Top, Minnesota Timberolvs goalkeeper, Anthony Edwards in a final seconds of the game 4 on Sunday.
(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)
Beginners in the third quarter of the team-Doneswich, James, Austin Reefisand Roy Hachimura and Dorian Fini Smith Play the entire second half.
Redik said: “These men gave a lot.”
Lakers scored 36 points in the series in the third quarter to achieve 10 points in the fourth quarter, but it is expected that the gas is expected to run against the Timberolves team with a deeper list.
“These are the qualifiers,” Dungic said. “Tired should not play a role.”
This does not mean that he will not do it.
“It was difficult,” Vinnie Smith confessed.
The team’s lack of a center to the focus is more clear, like Jackson Hayes The match was not re -entered after taking his second mistake only four minutes in the game.
If Lakers must return from this three -game deficit, it will start with Doncic, who was said by Redick to cast “everything after noon” before defeating the game 3.
Densic said that he spent today between games 3 and 4, “mostly lying down.”
Today, Donsic said, “I felt better.”
Lakers began better.
In the opening quarter, they did what Redick called them to do, and who was better caring for the basketball.
They committed only one rotation in the first 12 minutes of the game, after which they were in the front, 32-28.
It was not careful in the second quarter.
Lakes gave the ball four times in the opening five minutes from the quarter. Their progress quickly disappeared, and they went to the first half with a deficit of 61-58.
Lakers deserves to be more than that, but James and Doneswich kept them in the game themselves, the two stars who were carrying the entire offensive load as Revis minutes were limited due to an early problem.
Minnesota goalkeeper Anthony Edwards shoots Lieberre James and Luka Densic on Sunday.
(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)
James and Dunchic scored 22 and 21 points in the first half, respectively. The last time Lakers got several players scored 20 points or more in the post -season match was on May 31, 2002 against Sacramento Kings.
The two players who did so: Cuban Bryant and Shakil O’Neill.
Only three Lakers scored unlike James and Dunchic in the first half: Hachimura, Viny Smith and Haiz.
Lakers opened the second half by operating 14-0, with three index by Reves extending to 72-61. They advanced to up to 12 points, only for Timberwolves against them with what they did in the entire series.
