Hello, this is a lot.

It's been that time of night.

Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome in the Lakers Nation live.

I am Trevor Lane.

The Lakers fall to the Dallas Mavericks on the road.

The first game back after winning the in-season tournament.

The Lakers dropping this one.

And this is exactly, exactly what we said could not happen in the preview.

I talked all about this that the Mavs are a high volume three-point shooting team.

And if they have an outlier shooting game, well, you're pretty much done for.

And that's exactly what happened.

Now, I didn't expect them to do it like this, though.

And this is why, ultimately, I think this is a bad loss for the Lakers. And there is a

difference. There's good losses and there's bad loss. And there's good losses where you lose

the game, but you just tip your cap to the opponent. You say, okay, this is, it is what it is.

This particularly is a bad loss in part because of the context. This is the first night of a back to back for the

Lakers. Tomorrow they take on the San Antonio Spurs. You got solid performances out of Anthony Davis,

37 points, 11 rebounds, two blocks. How often are you going to get that kind of night out of AD?

LeBron James, 33 points, eight boards, nine assists, three steals, 14 to 27

shooting again. Good luck. LeBron night. And you don't walk away with the win. 40 minutes for

LeBron, 37 minutes for Anthony Davis. And you don't win the game. That was a waste. That was a waste of

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