Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakersnation.com live postgame show, The Lakers.

Handover Game 5 to the Houston Rockets, 99 to 93, a lot to get into as to why the Lakers just did what they did.

And this one is the series now in big, big trouble for L.A.

Could they become the first team in NBA history to blow a 30 series lead?

We've got a lot to get into.

I'm Trevor Lane.

Joining me is Anthony with Toronto.

Anthony, certainly not what we wanted to see from the Lakers in this game.

A lot to consider here for why the Lakers just did what they did against Houston.

I didn't, Houston did some good things, but a lot of this I thought was the Lakers just shooting themselves in the foot.

What did you take from from this I thought was the Lakers just shooting themselves in the foot. What did you take from this game and how the Lakers managed to punt this one away?

Yeah, I thought that it was just a ton of self-inflicted wounds.

They got off to a good start, right?

Obviously, first quarter, they played with a lot of intensity,

a lot of energy. I thought on the defensive end, it was the first time we saw them really get into

Houston that way since game two. And it felt like, all right, maybe they found this again. And,

you know, this is what it's going to look like. Second quarter, same kinds of problems, the unforced errors, the turnovers.

And then I thought they stopped generating open looks.

You know, I don't know exactly where that turn is rooted, but you could see just sort of, it was almost just real methodical, like, you know,

offense and not a lot of, like, crispness to it and a lot, not a lot of guys getting into

the teeth of the Houston defense to try to playmake. It was just a lot of, you know, all right,

I got the ball, what should I do with it now? And there wasn't any playmaking there. And I thought that lasted basically for the rest of the game where they struggled to get to get good looks. And when they did, it felt like they turned down too many of them. Yeah, there were a number of times where we saw the, especially I think of, you know, Rui, the pump fake and then go into the 15 footer.

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