LeBron James Misses Another Game, 10 Turnovers for Russell Westbrook and an Epic Lakers Collapse vs. OKC

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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There's always a chance the Lakers will have a more disappointing loss than the one coming Wednesday, 123-115 to the Oklahoma City Thunder, but they'll certainly have to work hard to make it happen. With just 3:28 left in the first half, the Lakers were sitting on a 26-point lead against a heretofore winless, very young, super-inexperienced squad, and felt positioned to cruise towards victory. But cruising at the NBA level is an art form, and the Lakers aren't nearly good enough yet to have mastered it. Bad focus begat bad execution. Bad execution begat bad decisions. And bad decisions begat confidence for OKC, which was bad for the Lakers. And without LeBron James (ankle) available, they weren't able to dig themselves out of this hole. There's a lot to unpack from this loss. How far behind the curve the Lakers are in their rather complicated process of jelling? Will they have enough time to make up lost ground? What can they do to just survive games until they're whole? (Whenever that day ever happens.) Are they in a position to tangibly improve? And finally, it was a bad game from Russell Westbrook, who fell apart over the second half, then got tossed after taking exception to Darius Bazley dunking the ball in the final seconds with the game in hand. On a few fronts, this was ridiculous, especially coming from Russ. Hosts: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky SEGMENT 1: Long story short, the Lakers don't look good right now. SEGMENT 2: The different ways the lack of continuity since training camp opened is hurting the Lakers' development. SEGMENT 3: A bad game from Westbrook, capped by a really dumb ejection. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! SweatBlock Get it today for 20% off at SweatBlock.com with promo code LockedOn, or at Amazon and CVS. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to locked on Lakers for Thursday, Brian Kiminetski and Ada Kiminetski.
0:05.4	Andy, they say even the best teams will have terrible losses over the course of an NBA season.
0:11.0	The Lakers better hope they don't have too many of their worst than Wednesday's loss to
0:14.5	the hair to four winless Oklahoma City Thunder 123 to 115 was the final. A lot of disturbing
0:21.2	stuff coming out of this one, including another Miss game for LeBron James. We'll talk about
0:25.8	it all coming up next.
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1:00.3	to and thank you to those of you who already have. I suspect, Andy, the comments on the YouTube
1:09.2	channel for Thursday are going to be angry. I mean, the Lakers played an inspirational first quarter
1:17.6	Wednesday night up 41 to 19. They build the lead as long as they didn't just play an inspirational
1:23.6	first quarter, Brian. They played an inspirational almost first half with with three and a half minutes
1:29.1	left in the first half. They were up 70 to 44. That's a 26 point lead that started to get
1:37.8	chipped away as they were heading into the locker room at half time. You still didn't necessarily
1:44.2	get a sense that the Lakers were going to lose this game, but you did get a sense of all right.
1:49.1	They at least have to just talk amongst themselves in the locker room and say, all right,
1:54.6	get back to doing what was working. We're playing a winless team that quite frankly, the franchise
2:00.1	would prefer to stay that way. And, you know, no, no, no, no, no, no. Under two their credit did
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