Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I am Trevor Lane. The Lakers

fall last night to the Orlando Magic by one. It was a heartbreaker, a victory that they had in

hand, and then they let it slip away. So I want to get into what happened, why it happened,

things of that nature, what we can see moving forward into the future.

But first, big shout out to Luca Rosano and Donnie Freeman for stepping in for me on the

live show last night.

I'm not going to bore you guys with all of the details, but it took four different texts

coming out to figure out how to restore internet service ended up being a problem with a physical

cable itself that had to be rerun all the way up to my house in order to make this work.

So glad that they were able to get to it early this morning and fix it.

But crazy, very, very frustrating experience.

And I can't tell you guys how, how annoyed I was that I couldn't

be on the show last night. But happy to be back in in action this morning. And of course,

let's start here. Everybody knows free throws. The biggest problem from this game by far. The

Lakers free throw shooting down the stretch is what let them down. Now, there were a lot of other things

that happened that got them to that point. But you can see 17 to 26 from the free throw shooting down the stretch is what let them down. Now, there were a lot of other things that happened that got them to that point, but you can see 17 to 26 from the free throw line,

65%. That's not good enough. Anthony Davis, you know, everybody's going to focus on AD's

miss free throws and rightfully so. Misses two big free throws late. That would have sealed the game

and instead flip the game into a magic win.

You know, as soon as he missed those, you just knew.

You just knew what was going to have.

The basketball gods do not forgive you in situations like that.

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