Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome to the Lakers Nation.com live postgame show The Lakers,

take down the spurs, making now five in a row for L.A. The Lakers get the job done. It wasn't

pretty. It was a grind of a game, not a lot of rhythm to it, a lot of fouls and a nervous finish at the end.

My goodness, just when it looked like the game was finally secured and the Lakers had won it,

then suddenly it wasn't.

But ultimately, when the final dust settled, the Lakers had the victory.

My God. I think I lost some time off my life on the close of that one.

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and review. A great way to help out the show. So final score 118, 116. The Lakers get the win.

Not the easiest game.

It was not an aesthetically pleasing game, let's say.

The Lakers offense, which has been really cooking lately, not so in this game.

A lot of struggles for the Lakers offensively.

We can talk certainly about the impact of Victor Wembeama. Some poor shooting, uncharacteristically poor shooting from Luca Donchitz at certain stretches. No Austin Reeves was certainly noticeable in this game. No LeBron James, of course, as well. But you know what? You know what the mark of a good team is? It's when you don't have a good night. And the Lakers did not have a good night. I thought this was not one of their better games played on the season. The Lakers did not have a good night. And you still find a way to win. They made mistakes. They made a mistake at the very end. Marcus Smart on the inbound pass gave the ball back to the Spurs. Lakers

up to smart so eager to get the ball inbounds stepped on the line while

inbounding the ball with just 1.2 seconds left, gave the Spurs a chance to tie the game. Jake

Laravia committed a foul on the inbound pass then, put Champany on Julian Champany on the free throw line.

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