Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

The Lakers season has unfortunately come to an end.

Who is to blame?

I'm Trevor Lane.

We're going to talk about that today.

Bounce around a lot of different topics around the Lakers, JJ Reddick,

Rob Polank of the future, LeBron James, Luca, and a lot more.

Austin Reeves, maybe, yikes.

Rough series for him.

Joining me is Ron Gutterman.

Ron, how are you doing?

Doing good.

Obviously a little bummed that the season ended so abruptly,

but lots of break down from this series and where they go from here.

Okay, so the series didn't go the way anybody wanted it to. The Lakers falling in five games to the Minnesota Timberwolves. I looked at the series as one where the Lakers just, they couldn't get out of their own way. They just kept tripping over their own two feet. And Rod, I mean, to put a bow on game, but we talked about game five a bit in the post game show last night,

everything. But to kind of put a bow on game five, if you weren't going to win that game,

that's it. You're done. Like, you're not going anyway. If you can't win a game in which your

opponent misses 43 pointers, like could not hit a three to save their lives. They made seven all game.

If you can't win that game, you're going home in very short order.

Yeah, I think with each fourth quarter collapse in this series, not really counting game five, but game three and four, you kind of, at least I started to feel like,

hey, this team just doesn't have the guys to win this series. You know, when they went down three

one, I kind of thought of it as over because JJ effectively told me it was over by playing

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