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Nothing goes right for Lakers, again, as they fall to Timberwolves
The Lakers can’t discover the precise beginning lineup. They will’t discover the precise model of play. They will’t discover the required effort, urgency or depth.
And, someway, they’ll’t even discover all-time low.
Sometime, they’ll run out of combat. Sometime, they received’t discover the rope. Sometime, these video games will likely be each bit as embarrassing as they’ve been beginning out.
Following horrific opening quarters towards the Phoenix Suns and the Toronto Raptors, the Lakers had been, someway, simply as unhealthy Wednesday in Minnesota.
They missed practically every part that wasn’t proper on the rim, all 10 three-point pictures failing to undergo the basket to open the sport. They waved their fingers and hung their heads as a youthful, hungrier, extra athletic group highlighted all of the issues the Lakers aren’t.
Minnesota led by as many as 25…however the Lakers didn’t give up. The group lower that lead all the best way right down to 4 earlier than crumbling late, drained and pissed off, in a 124-104 loss to the Timberwolves.
It’s not saying a lot, asking a group to carry out it’s best and most essential activity – to compete – however underneath the crippling disappointment of this season, there’s a silly optimism in the best way the Lakers preserve getting up.
It’s emblematic of what this season has been – mere moments of positivity surrounded by unsolvable issues.
After D.J. Augustin snuck baseline to attain to make it 89-85, the Timberwolves out-scored the Lakers 25-10 earlier than Frank Vogel mercifully took LeBron James out of the sport.
Second-year guard Anthony Edwards carried the Timberwolves within the first half when middle Karl-Anthony Cities struggled with foul hassle, and Cities howled and flexed late as he put the Lakers away – the massive man simply too large, too sturdy and too expert for the Lakers inside.
Cities scored 16 within the fourth to ice the sport, waving on the Lakers bench as he checked out of the sport earlier than the buzzer.
It’s the 11th-straight street loss for the Lakers this season and their third in a row. Because the All-Star break, they’re 2-9.