After defeated three times in the season, the Los Angeles Lakers have recently held a meeting, and in the meeting, the team has expressed their frustrations and also the team has made some changes in their starting lineup.
On Friday, the Loss Angeles Clippers started the game with a 22-5 run, but at the end, the LA Lakers defeated by the Clippers by 121-106 scores.
On Thursday, during a team meeting, the team aired out all the frustrations. The team was paying Lonzo Ball and Brook Lopez. The LA Lakers coach Luke Walton changed something in the team by bringing in Julius Randle into the starting five. It happened for the first time in this season. The game started with Brandon Ingram, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, rookies Josh Hart and Kyle Kuzma, and Randle. But the LA Lakers fell behind by 17 points from the beginning of the match.
The LA Lakers have lost eight of their previous nine games, and have dropped their last three by 17, 10 and 15 points, respectively.
The LA Clippers had hit nine out of their first ten shots while on the other side, the LA Lakers missed nine shots out if their first ten shots. In the first half, the score was 60-42, but that soon went to 60-48 by the Lakers. During the end of the first half, DeAndre Jordan give a long pass to Griffin, and he flew in to do a dunk, but he was fouled by Kuzma from behind on the arm. While taking a hard spill, Kuzma grabbed Griffin letting him now that Kuzma didn’t want to give a hard foul. Later, Griffin accepted the explanation of Kuzma, but after review, Kuzma received a flagrant foul 1. This was the turning point for the Clippers. After the foul, Griffin got two free throws which helped the Clippers to get 14 points more.
The Lakers opened the third quarter with a quick 7-0 run to get to within seven, but they wouldn’t see a single-digit deficit again. However, after this defeat, it seems that the LA Lakers will have to wait for more episodes like this to test a win in the season.
