Bleeding purple and gold from the heart of Los Angeles.

This is the Lakers Nation.com podcast with your host, Trevor Lane.

Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in. Trevor Lane here for Lakersnation.com.

You're home for everything. Lakers, unfortunately, the Lakers,

well, I can't just say they come up short against the Clippers. They came up way short against

the Clippers, but maybe not a surprise given the current state of the Lakers coming into this

game, missing not your number one ball handler, not your number one and number two ball handlers,

but your first, second, and third ball handlers in LeBron, James, Dennis Schroeder, and Taylin Horan Tucker. The Lakers didn't have a player out there, aside from Alex Caruso, who was used to bringing the ball up the floor. So that was certainly a challenge tonight against the Clippers, and the Clippers also decided tonight was a night when they were simply not going to miss, particularly from behind the three point line. So this ended up being a rough night for the Lakers, certainly, but we've got a ton to talk about still. Big matchup coming tomorrow night against the Portland Trailblazers. That's going to go a long way towards determining whether or not the Lakers are in the play-in tournament if they dropped to the seven seed. Plus, we've got a new injury going on for Anthony Davis. So he had to actually leave. Tonight's game towards the end of the second quarter. So, yeah, no LeBron. Anthony Davis gets hurt. You don't have Dennis Schroeder. It was a disastrous type for the Lakers. But we are here for you. We know it was frustrating.

We're here from you.

We will hear for you.

We will get through this together.

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Joining me tonight, together in Missouri,

Matt Peralta from LakersNation.com.

Matt, how are you doing, man?

What a tricky question. How am I doing? You know, honestly, I'm okay. Given everything we

just laid out, I think we were both expecting a loss, just not in this fashion, obviously. We

kind of hope the Lakers would be more competitive.

That was not the case. And then, you know, another Anthony Davis injury to sigh about and worry

about for the next 24 hours. So that's always good, right? So how am I doing? I am doing

just about as well as a Laker fan could be doing. Yes. I mean, look, it's not a good night at all.

It's not a good night for Lakers fans.

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