Lakers Extremely Shorthanded, Fall To Nuggets

Lakers Nation Podcast

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Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Lakers had a skeleton lineup on hand in Denver, with LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Austin Reaves, Troy Brown Jr, and Lonnie Walker all sidelined due to injury. Things got worse when Patrick Beverley was injured mid-game, leaving LA with little chance against the top-seeded Nuggets. Is this a loss to be upset about for fans? Does it inform the team of the urgency of a trade? We discuss... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Lanky, Mommy, Florida,
0:03.0	It's four three in the win.
0:06.7	2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.
0:15.4	Hello, Lakers Nation.
0:17.2	Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com live postgame show slash podcast the lakers
0:22.8	well their win streak is snapped they fall to the denver nuggets 122 to 109 uh not the outcome
0:31.4	lakers fans were hoping for but there's a little bit of context here the lakers barely had any of their rotation players to play in this one,
0:41.4	the injury bug continuing to torment the Lakers.
0:45.0	I guess we just start there.
0:46.6	No LeBron James, no Anthony Davis, no Austin Reeves, no Lonnie Walker, no Troy Brown Jr.
0:52.4	Heck, Patrick Beverly only played in 12 minutes in this game before he got hurt.
0:57.2	You were missing six rotation players, including your two demigod-level stars that you have to get playing MVP caliber basketball to really be a threat.
1:09.5	And you're not going to have a good night when you're missing that many players. So we knew going in that this was going to be a difficult one when it was announced that LeBron James was going to be out when Patrick Beverly had his injury. It was, and, you know, of course, no Troy Brown Jr. as well. Just the depth was not there for the Lakers. So we knew going in this was going to be a difficult game for L.A.
1:30.4	The five-game win streak is indeed snapped.
1:33.4	Thomas Bryant still managed to score the ball, 17 points, 10 boards.
1:38.5	Not nearly as efficient, though, without LeBron out there on the floor.
1:41.0	Six of 14 shooting.
1:42.5	Dennis Schrooter's shooting plummeted back to Earth. Three for 13, 0 of 5 from three. He couldn't miss last couple of games. Major regression there, 14 points, four assists for him. Max Christie, the 19-year-old rookie that the Lakers drafted in the second round, got the start, scored 14 points, and he was just fine six for eight shooting two of three
2:01.8	from three the lakers may have something there with uh with him again not to say he's a
2:07.2	rotation player on a championship quality team right now he's not but i think there's something
2:11.9	there and we've seen flashes from him winning gabriel brought some energy five boards two
2:16.9	blocks nine points.
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