Lakers Lose Heartbreaker, Go Down 3-1 to Wolves
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
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Summary
The Lakers suffered a gut-punch loss in Game 4, falling to the Wolves by three points after taking a 10-point lead into the final frame. Pete and Darius discuss the loss, highlighted by JJ Redick's decision to start Dorian Finney-Smith for Jaxson Hayes in the 2nd half, play that new starting group the entire 2nd half, and how that decision helped contribute to clear mental and physical fatigue of the team down the stretch. Then later, the guys discuss Austin Reaves' up and down game, Luka and LeBron carrying the offense, Anthony Edwards' great play to close the game, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.7 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. |
| 0:23.4 | What's up, Laker fans? Oh, it hurts. You listen to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, |
| 0:28.9 | joined by Darius. Lakers sprint out to like a 14-0 start to the third quarter. They let |
| 0:35.9 | go the rope a little bit at the end of the second |
| 0:37.8 | quarter as they want to do. And you wonder, a lot of times that bleeds into the third |
| 0:43.1 | quarters for the Lakers. But they come out hot. And part of it is because they start Dorian Finney |
| 0:48.4 | Smith to start the third quarter. And that group plays great. The spacing for Minnesota is really kind of flummoxed for that time being with Gober in the game. They're not used to playing that starting five. And Lakers go on a blitz. It was like 11-0, 14-0, something like that. And they stay up for all of that third quarter. They win the third quarter, 36 to 23. And what was really notable about that quarter was the same starting five played the whole |
| 1:16.7 | quarter. I was like, damn, you never see that happen. I wonder what they're going to do to start |
| 1:21.6 | the fourth. The Lakers played the same starting five, all of the fourth quarter two, becoming the first team in the |
| 1:29.3 | play-by-play era, which I think is that 96, 90-70? |
| 1:32.8 | I believe so. |
| 1:34.0 | So that's 28 years, 28 years or whatever, to play the same five for an entire half in a |
| 1:41.0 | playoff game. |
| 1:42.2 | And Lakers go from being up 94 to 84 to start the fourth quarter to losing a game. |
| 1:48.1 | Anthony Edwards is brilliant. |
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