Lakers blow 19-point lead vs. Kings: LeBron leaves early, Fox scores career high | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Lakers blow 19-point lead vs. Kings: LeBron leaves early, Fox scores career high | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Please explain what you think happened let’s start at the top let’s just start let’s start and say what it is Anthony Davis didn’t show up to play but they’re big and sabonis did you know that that that that’s where you start at not not to mention what Fox was able to do and

Darren Fox was able to do to us he shoted 30 what did he shoot it 39 30 32 times he put it in the air and he knocked down 19 of those shots yep so when you look at the sabonis situation with the triple double he cleaned the

Glass on us had a total of 20 rebounds all right defensively he had 16 of those rebounds on the defensive end so we were not able to even get the second shot opportunities now when you say you flip the ad and it it look this is what we

Talked about all year alone the Lakers are going to go as far as ad LeBron going to be LeBron this ain’t about LeBron LeBron did his work he had 13 assists he scored 30 plus points points I mean he did his play pretty well he played well he did his job but then

Everybody else has to chip in we got nothing out of the bench ruy played extremely well he knocked down 20 plus points so all of those things happening to you against this team that have has what what has it been uh seven of the last eight I think it is that they’ve

Beaten the Lakers seven of the last eight that they beaten the Lakers prior to this game you have no answers for them you have no answers for dear Fox as I said to you before we talked about D’Angelo Russell up and down up and down

Well he was down yesterday he was he put it in the air 10 times he only knocked down three shots he didn’t from for it to be our point guard he really didn’t give us any help from an assist standpoint we already know what he is defensively he’s not a liability to the

Degree where he shouldn’t be on the floor but he didn’t help at all so when you start to break everything down you know I know people looking at where LeBron left LeBron left the game was over with they was down by 14 points his ankle was hurting he made a decision

It’s it’s over let me I I I’d rather just go in before something else seriously happens in this situation still sitting in the 10th spot got a a nice stretch coming up uh eight games the next four we got the Bucks and Timberwolves uh the Kings again at

Sacramento then we play the Golden State Warriors who just smashed uh the Milwaukee bus last night by 35 by 35 then we got the Hawks the Sixers the Pacers and then the Bucks again on the road so if we could be above 500 in them games then

We’re going to be okay anything less than above 500 them games I think it’s going to be real tough you have now fallen to the 10th spot the 10th spot you are 34 and 30 so you’re just keeping your head just above water just above 500 kesan I’ve been doing this for a

Long time and I don’t know I’ve been racking my brain this morning I can’t remember a team that I had more respect for that can be more wildly inconsistent than this team can be and we hark back to LeBron’s famous or inFAMOUS quote of couple three weeks ago on any given

Night we can beat any team in this league on any given night we can lose to any team in this league I feel like the Lakers are the classic Are We There Yet team because they keep saying Are We There Yet did we did we do enough are we

Good now now can the playoffs start no not yet not yet we still got a good ways to go and even last night was a microcosm of Are We There Yet so they came out and they flexed for me because the Kings have had their number as we

Discussed yesterday as you say it had been six out of seven they had beaten him three straight here in La now it’s four straight but the three straight at some point as you well know from your playing days finally your pride kicks in you say okay that’s enough of that and I

Thought early on silly me I thought that’s what we were witnessing I thought LeBron and Company just said okay that’s enough of this 32 to 18 late in the first quarter and it was a tour to force of Laker basketball where everything was clicking the way we’ve seen it click

Against good teams before such as the Thunder now we got some rock paper scissors going on in the west because the the Lakers can just dominate The Thunder they’re pretty good against Minnesota who lost Carl Anthony towns for the rest of the year so maybe they’ll start to struggle a little bit

But the point is Denver still owns the Lakers in close games but Sacramento owns the Lakers in blowout G they they just wipe the Lakers off the floor the the the Sacramento Kings are treating the Lakers like they’re the Wizards or the Pistons seriously they just come out and say ah

This ridicul we got this and to your point ad was he he came out with some energy some fire but they this team is the classic fire and fall back fire and fall back so at 32 to 18 they’re all having a good time they’re yucking it up

They’re having little yucks on the bench and then all of a sudden Sacramento says really watch this I’m going to make one quick point I said yesterday sitting right here Austin Reeves has been at least playing his tail off on the defensive end is he is he great on no

He’s not great but he will give you all he’s got he did actually a quietly Sensational job on dearn Fox you can laugh if you want but go look what happened the first nine minutes of the game dearon Fox did not score a single point because Austin Reeves took him as

I suggested he should try to do and shut him down until Austin got sub four at the nine well the thre minute Mark of the first quarter so with 3 minutes left Austin goes out and then comes Christie and and uh Prince came in I’m not sure who took Deen at that point

Dear promptly scores Bang Bang Bang three straight buckets and all of a sudden the second quarter starts and to your point they are off to the freaking races man they are going to run the Lakers out of their building the the score as you know in the second quarter

Alone was 44- 20 but I’m I’m looking at these shooting numbers it wasn’t just dear and fox who does Malik monk hey my God ex Laker you know once upon a time he was your guy yeah he was but even when he was our guy he wasn’t your guy

Okay okay that’s how many times have we said that and then Davon Mitchell who I loved at Baylor because he plays both ways he plays hard defense but he has got his stroke going so he makes in the second quarter he makes all three of his threes well those three we just

Mentioned those three guards go 14 of 17 from the floor and they go six out of seven from three in a quarter in one quarter well that’s a good game right that that’s like well if if if you’re going to get hit between the eyes with that kind of onslaught from three guards

Three Shooters in the second quarter you’re going to get wiped off your own floor because I think you would agree by halftime you may have just called it a night but but they’re down 15 15 you you could erase that you can but did you really I just didn’t feel it

Last night it just feels like they just got smashed in the mouth and they couldn’t get back up off the floor I go to again you know I don’t want to be the guy that blame Anthony Davis because but I go to that because when my big is not

Crashing the boards the same way defend the same way that their big is crashing boards and we’re not defending him yeah that I have an issue I take issue with that I’m not the coach I don’t know what they told him and rebounds and what to

Do and and how the rotation should go Austin Reeves at the beginning of the game you say played well dear Fox missed the shots and wasn’t taking shots or whatever the case is then all of a sudden he Subs out three minute Mark he gets cooking now now quick point of

Order when Austin came back in the game and tried to guard deer in the second quarter he had no chance I was I was going to say it ain’t nine minutes it’s four quarters it’s four quarters and I agree but but he was he you only have so

So much energy in your body he was playing as hard as he could play and he he started looking gas get it because you’re going up against a different type of athlete you’re not you you’re going up against a different type and you’re going up against a lefty so when you

When you are used to going up against righties yeah sometimes that could you know from a defensive stand Point you’re off a little bit and and that could be very cuz there not that many lefties it’s almost like having a left-hand quarterback or a left punt left foot

Punter punting the football the rotation looks different yeah right you you you’re used to closing this way all of a sudden you got to close with a totally different hand so sometimes when you see lefties they can get the best of you because you don’t you just don’t see

Them all the time there’s still no excuse um ruie played well LeBron played well again we didn’t get anything out of DLo Den Woody Christie all it’s just like in the past those guys when we played OKC everybody played well but we also went up against a smaller lineup this

Lineup is not much bigger but they’re a little bit longer just a little bit but in the end it is what it is the Lakers got a bounce back against the Bucks tomorrow night and if they could do that based on the way the Bucks played I’m

Sure they gonna come with their fire blowing out of their nose will you know I’m sure that and hopefully LeBron can play in the game and we don’t get off to a 02 on this home stretch yeah all right so I’m going to show you exactly what happened in the second quarter because

I’m going to show you if you can stomach it if you can relive it I’m going to show you 18 makes out of 20 shots in the second quarter because for some reason the Lakers played decent defense in the first quarter and then Here Comes Malik

Monk and then here we go again and then here we go again and so many people standing around they just standing around and nobody everybody watching watching let’s just watch them let’s not get back let’s give up our dunks let’s give up our threes let’s give up another dunk this is a clinic

Sabonis Davon I I mean harder didn’t even have much of a game last night but he usually kills you now dearon is on fire dearon is on fire and I think we’re getting close to Daren again nobody can guard him if Mike Brown doesn’t get enough credit if Mike

Brown doesn’t get enough credit as a coach yeah this is just we’re watching the second quarter we just saw the second quarter that’s true Mike Brown is a very good basketball coach he he he get discredited because he coached with LeBron and when you coach with LeBron a

Lot the credit going to go to LeBron even though he’s had mild success without LeBron I mean he’s a really good basketball coach and then he goes to Golden State he takes over Steve cerr he goes whatever undefeated in that little stretch that he had so he hadn’t gotten

The credit that he deserves but I’mma give him as they say I’m gonna give him his flowers because he’s done a tremendous job since taking over in Sacramento okay I concur now you brought up LeBron walking off the floor with just under four minutes left they’re

Down 122 to 108 it’s over I don’t have any problem with him taking himself out but I don’t love it because he’s done this routinely in his career his damn ankles is hurt okay but wait a second he walks all the way from the far Corner

Past the bench all the way to the locker room just go sit down with your team don’t leave your team don’t go yes you can you can don’t leave them twisting in the wind don’t do it anle is throbing okay he didn’t turn it though he didn’t

Turn it I don’t know what he turned or what he did he didn’t turn his ankle feel good it’s okay for him he’s not playing I don’t need to sit there while my ankle is throbby don’t disassociate yourself from the stench don’t don’t keep if you’re the leader of the team go

Sit with the team you just should you know it and I know it you know it and I know I’ve been hurt before I’ve been hurt before in games and the game was over with at least I thought the game was over with I wind up going into the

Locker room because I wasn’t going to stand on the sideline you’re hurt he’s hurt too that’s why this is a chronic ankle that he plays with he’ll play on Friday night he said after the game I’m going to be all right yes but when it is

Hurting and it is throbbing it does not feel good okay but again it doesn’t require immediate attention because he’s been treating it and treat treats it every day and every night the game’s over okay yeah it is without him on the floor it’s a wrap okay but it’s such a

Melodramatic walk-off like don’t don’t look at me I got nothing to do with this I’m gone you are unbelievable no well you’re unbelievable if you can defend that how can you defend that because you shouldn’t if the game is over Parts you if the game is over I don’t need to sit

There until there zeros on the clock with everybody rushing off the court and me gingerly oh you think they’re in court storm no not Court storm but all the players and everybody got to go in the tunnel I don’t need that the game’s over by the time I get actually to the

Locker the game’s over with there’s no coming back I can’t help you what am I going to do they call a time out I’mma still be sitting on the bench you want me to stand up and clap what I don’t understand that’s even if he

Dude he’s damned if he damned if he do damned if he don’t with you no if he not with mebody he sits and he has a a piece of fruit on the bench no oh that’s a problem if he has some popcorn on the bench oh that’s a problem you you know

And I know just just walk over and sit down and be with your teammates not you’re H you all got destroyed you all got destroyed you think he’s trying to separate himself separ everybody seen it he scored the dude scored 31 points man he had 13 assists okay he he shot the

Boy he was 10 of 16 why does he need he doesn’t need to prove anything like it’s drama King stuff where you you’re going to melodramatically walk off don’t don’t associate me with this no that’s not he’s associated with because he was on the floor for the majority of the game

So we all know he he played plus minus I didn’t even look three three well not bad three okay minus three yeah he played 36 minutes yep he played 36 minutes with a bum ankle like I don’t understand playing he’s been playing for weeks really been playing all year with

All year long last several years with a bum ankle he it’s kind because he’s older 21 years it’s wear and tear it’s okay for him to go to the tunnel it’s fine okay it’s fine with you I I just I’ve called him on it for years and I

Don’t like it I don’t think his teammates love it either I just don’t think it this is a Unity thing this is an all for one one for all and if you’re the leader of the team don’t leave them twisting in the wind out there just

Don’t don’t do that skip the game’s over well no it’s 122 to 108 I’d say the game is over if he ain’t playing on the court they don’t have a chance he done this in playoff games where he just with four or five minutes left he just walks to the

Locker room it’s over yeah you like that that leadership I have no problem with it man I just don’t I have zero problem with it no I do not no I don’t just cuz Michael Jordan didn’t do that doesn’t mean anything he would never think about

Doing that you stay to The Bitter End you you you stay with your guys right no yeah not when I’m hurt if I need to go get attended to I’m going and and get my ice and get what I need to the damn game is over with okay all right all right so

Where do you go from here do do have you lost faith no no no no no no I I I again they got this eight game stretch coming down the pipeline with the Bucks and the Timberwolves and the Kings and the Warriors go to Sacramento tough stretch you mentioned call Anthony towns being

Uh gone for you know I guess for the rest of the season um so you got the Bucks you saw what they look like last night with Doc as they coach I don’t know what that was timber wolves will probably look different you go to the Kings you got

The Warriors those four games you got three of of four at home three or four of those at home you do take care of that but sometimes I trust this team as much away as I do at home and I don’t understand it they don’t seem to have a

Strong homec court advantage to me uh I would say that the home court advantage is slippery it’s mixed it is mixed but they have an opportunity to make it right because they made it right against OKC this was a team that they match up well against they’ve

Beaten OKC three of four times that they’ve played them yeah this team in Sacramento is a bad matchup for whatever reason for whatever reason that maybe maybe it’s the coach and Mike Brown knows how to coach against the Lakers in their in Lebron and ad because he’s been

In the conference for so long but when I watch dear Fox against the Lakers he just looks like he’s invincible and his body language is like nobody can stop me he loves to play the Lakers Malik obviously loves to take it out on the Lakers and yet when I watch

Those same two players against Golden State in the first round of the playoffs last year they don’t look like this you you know what I mean against another team Golden State probably knows how to defend them and do certain things against them the Lakers the Lakers from a defensive standpoint of guard position

We don’t have anybody I know you want Austin Reeves to be our shut down he’s not shut down but he’s been playing pretty well yeah playing pretty well against a talent like this is not going to be good enough SK well the other night remember he blocked Jordan shot

When you were in trouble against the visiting Wizards remember that yeah but but again you’re talking about dearon Fox up against a guy who is a hard try guy he’s got a lot of hustle he’s going and eventually all of that energy he’s also sing Savvy he knows how to get

There but listen dearen Fox I don’t care who would have guarded him last night LeBron in his LeBron at age 22 you know first team all defensive player I’m not sure sure he could have stopped dearon Fox last night dearon Fox was just he he it was like give me the

Ball and get out of the way or as give me the damn he was he was two or six from three yeah that that you know he didn’t shoot that well it’s all creating but over the course of the game he dominated but I I attribute a lot of

That too is the fact that he is a left-handed I I am going to make that point that when you’re not seeing people that often that shoot with the left hand defensively your angle sometimes can be I got it but I looked this up before yesterday’s show because they had beaten

You six out of the last seven times he six six of seven now now it’s seven of eight seven of eight but but over the six of seven dearon Fox had averaged 30 a game 30 points well that’s like but the Lakers also again they don’t have a

Guard that can step up and then you say well they can switch off on him and put somebody else on him now you talking about putting somebody slower potentially on him or you’re talking about putting somebody that could potentially be a defensive guy Jared Vanderbilt could bother him a little bit

More but he’s taller and longer he’s not he’s not there yeah but I’m also not there but when you take certain guys off the court they now become an offens of liability because the most people that just play Pure defense can’t score yeah there’s not a lot of two-way guys this

Is not Klay Thompson from six years ago on the on your team you know you got a guy either he can shoot the ball and play a little hard hustle defense or he can’t shoot the ball and he plays defense so now I’m missing scoring opportunities so the Lakers have got to

Find that individual at the guard position if they plan on going long distance that can do both you know the weird thing is I still can’t write this team off I I can’t just leave them in we all right and yet not yet you know what

You’re going to wind up in the 10 speed seed you know we’ll be in the play in potentially with but but if you’re in the 10 seed that means you right now you would have to go to Golden State you know one or go home situation right you

You’d have to go play one game at Golden State to advance so who could be potentially the Suns Golden State Dallas the Lakers Sacramento they everybody’s fighting in that group but in the play in though yeah those those teams that’ll be interesting that Kevin Durant Steph Curry and LeBron James

Play it’s like the West is upside down but the Lakers body language is like we cool you know we we’re in 10th because they’re five and a half games up on Utah to stay in the playin you see what I mean like there’s no threat from behind

To knock you out of the they can’t drop to 11 unless they just collapse collapse I mean it’s still mathematically possible but I don’t see it happening yeah they not they not going to collapse collapse I just need ad to play a little bit better and 13 and giving up 20

Boards ain’t going to make happy he was low energy after the first quarter all right we got to talk Cowboys because an ex-cowboy Dalton Schultz takes a shot at what we discussed yesterday Cowboys culture that’s next thanks for watching Undisputed fans do you want more highlights from the show make sure to

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Skip Bayless and Keyshawn Johnson discuss the Los Angeles Lakers loss to the Sacramento Kings. The Lakers blew a 19 point lead to the rival Kings, led by De’Aaron Fox pouring in 44 points for the Kings. Skip and Keyshawn put the Lakers loss into perspective.

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