Who Is To Blame For Lakers' Playoff Struggles?

Lakers Nation Podcast

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Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Trevor Lane and Ron Gutterman take a look at where blame should land for the Lakers failure in the Playoffs and untimely end to their season. Is it on JJ Redick? Rob Pelinka? LeBron James? Austin Reaves? Luka Doncic? We sort through it all....

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0:00.0	Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.
0:04.7	The Lakers season has unfortunately come to an end.
0:08.0	Who is to blame?
0:09.7	I'm Trevor Lane.
0:10.5	We're going to talk about that today.
0:11.9	Bounce around a lot of different topics around the Lakers, JJ Reddick,
0:15.6	Rob Polank of the future, LeBron James, Luca, and a lot more.
0:19.6	Austin Reeves, maybe, yikes.
0:21.7	Rough series for him.
0:22.9	Joining me is Ron Gutterman.
0:24.7	Ron, how are you doing?
0:26.3	Doing good.
0:27.2	Obviously a little bummed that the season ended so abruptly,
0:30.3	but lots of break down from this series and where they go from here.
0:34.8	Okay, so the series didn't go the way anybody wanted it to.
0:38.5	The Lakers falling in five games to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
0:42.4	I looked at the series as one where the Lakers just, they couldn't get out of their own way.
0:46.3	They just kept tripping over their own two feet.
0:48.4	And Rod, I mean, to put a bow on game, but we talked about game five a bit in the post
0:53.2	game show last night,
0:54.2	everything. But to kind of put a bow on game five, if you weren't going to win that game,
0:59.3	that's it. You're done. Like, you're not going anyway. If you can't win a game in which your
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