Los Angeles Lakers’ derailed season continued Tuesday after the blowout loss to the Dallas Mavericks. The Lakers, at 31-44, have the same record as the No. 10 Spurs, but San Antonio owns the tiebreaker.
Head coach Frank Vogel explained that the Lakers did not play with the right amount of “toughness, IQ, intelligence, focus and fight”. Los Angeles is No. 11 in the Western Conference with seven games remaining.
Vogel also shared a timeline for LeBron James and Anthony Davis, who were both out with injuries during the last game vs Dallas. Vogel said James and Davis will both be re-evaluated Thursday to determine their availability for Los Angeles’ game at the Utah Jazz.
”With those guys out, we’re at a talent deficit, so the focus and execution has to make up for it,” Vogel told reporters, via NBA.com. ”This is just the latest dose of adversity that this year’s team has faced. When you lose ‘Bron, OK, you have to adjust yet again throughout a season of setbacks.”
Davis, who has been sidelined since February, is targeting a return in the game vs Pelicans on Friday, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. Playing without LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the Lakers trailed by as many as 37 points vs Mavs on Tuesday.
The Lakers are 4-13 since the All-Star break, and they do not seem capable of recovering from their slump. The 82 points the Mavs scored in the first half were the most allowed in a half in franchise history since the team moved to Los Angeles.
“We just didn’t execute well enough and play with enough toughness, IQ, intelligence, focus and fight,” Frank Vogel told reporters, via ESPN. “So, not acceptable and just a poor performance across the board. Coaches, players, everybody.”
The Lakers will try to recover against another slumping team, the Utah Jazz. Jazz lost 125-121 to the Clippers Tuesday despite having a 25-point lead in the half.
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