Lakers allow 45 1st-quarter points, attempt 8 free throws in 123-113 loss vs Suns | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Lakers allow 45 1st-quarter points, attempt 8 free throws in 123-113 loss vs Suns | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Okay I have a whole lot to say about all that but I first passed the ball to Kean lifelong Lakers fan grew up here in laest takeaway are you about to complain or are you about to give them a pass for what you just saw yesterday well let’s

Start off with the free throws that’s what we ended with second half zero zero free throws zero attempts M damn making them they had zero attempts this is the first time in LeBron James Leed team since 2015 that this has happened the second half of a game okay it it that

Doesn’t make sense we know when you look at the the the um the double digit points we know that LeBron James is pounding down low we know that Anthony Davis is pounding down low we know uh ruy is pounding down low all of these things are happening within the paint

But we can’t get we can’t get a Ticky Tac file we can’t get a a Miss call a makeup file like we can’t get any of that you’re going to see here and tell me that the Lakers are complaining that they all they that they’re complaining now about getting files well it’s true

Though Skip it’s it’s true it’s right in front of us that’s not the reason that they lost the game the reason that they lost the game is because they simply just didn’t play well at in the second half the front the front line guys they

Did they did pretty good I mean the five starters what I mean by that is they all were in double digits in terms of points okay you look at LeBron James for instance he was 19 or 12 from the field goal 17 s Anthony Davis was 11 from 17 you start looking

At those numbers D’Angelo Russell was eight of 14 so they played well the Frontline guys the bench didn’t play well yeah they didn’t play well at all and didn’t give them necessary help and Phoenix is not chop liver let’s not let’s not forget there is a guy on the

Team named Kevin Durant and then there’s another guy named Booker okay so we didn’t lose to a team that you just SC scratch your head and go what happened here this isn’t some bad team this is one of the top teams that can potentially come out of the West so you

Can tip your hat off to that you can make all excuses in the world you know when you talk about the free throw attempts this year alone the Lakers in free throw attempts a game is six free throws differential in in a game the first in the entire NBA M okay how could

How could that not be the second half of this particular game if this was all happening during the season all of a sudden it goes away against the Sons I don’t understand that and then you say well people looking at dorwin ham and Anthony Davis all of a sudden now okay

They didn’t play well as well as they had prior to the allstar break they were playing extremely well now all of a sudden doesn’t look that way but you can’t do nothing with it now you got to ride it out you can’t do anything to the

End of the season in the summertime if you make that decision that you want to move on from either one or both or whatever the case is so raising that up right now is just a mo point is as far as I’m concerned they got to focus in on

Winning coming out of the ninth spot trying to increase into that top five spot because they’re not far off to slide into I don’t know six five six spot they what are they three games out of that spot so it’s not they’re not way off skip at all I’m not ready if you

Want me to cancel the season that’s not going to happen okay all right I hear everything you just said but don’t get me started on the Lakers and free throws don’t get me started on what I saw yesterday because I’ve told you before having covered this

League since the 70s when I covered your Los Angeles Lakers here for the LA Times in La referees will react to what they see in your aggression level from the start of a game and they will respond accordingly to it it’s subliminal it’s psychological but it’s a

Fact that over time it will happen happen that they will give you breaks at the free throw line if you create your breaks with effort and energy and from the start it is inexcusable that that team showed up for that game on national TV it was on ABC

National at 12:30 here 3:30 Eastern time and gave up 45 first quarter points to a team without Bradley Beal and if you look at the Phoenix Suns this year they have struggled offensively without Bradley Beal but they did not struggle in the first quarter yesterday because

45 is a lot of points cuz if you start doing the math of four times 45 for a game what does that have to okay they’re not ready to play they came out lifeless and deadheaded the way they have fairly routinely through the year when you least expect it when I think they’re

Starting to to get a hold of it this happens and what what damned them for the season what what indicted them for the season was in those what was it six games they played in the inseason tournament culminating seven G was it seven games culminating with the championship game against the Indiana

Pacers over those games they rank number one in the NBA in defense so I saw it with my own eyes you saw it with your own eyes you are capable of doing that they’ve been capable of doing a lot of things all year long this has what

You’re saying has nothing to do yes it it has everything to do yes it does okay so what what happened with LeBron so going to the free throw line yesterday and he makes one of four so so he’s deadhead so they just not going to call

Him anymore because he’s one of four I have given you this over time I’ve told you that he deserves more calls than he gets but his free throw shooting is still so pathetic but you also it is Kean I’m not going to give him a pass

Today because he brought it up and he said well they think the narrative is we get to the free throw line The Narrative is that that you’re right at your career average from the free throw line and it’s pathetic it’s 73 you telling me you told me once before skip you told me

They don’t call free throw I mean they don’t call files on LeBron because they don’t want him no they know he’s not he’s a lousy free throw so they don’t call okay remember back in the day when James Harden would get every call he was shoot 90% from the free throw line Kevin

Durant gets calls because he’s a care going reward you career 90% so you get ready sit up here and talk sitting up here I’m telling you what the deal is you’re going to tell me they’re going to reward you this is because you make free

Throws that all the for you do you know never heard such a how do you know how terrible it is to shoot 73.5% when you are the all-time leading scorer in the history of the leag understand skip we all understand understand that LeBron James we all we

All understand he’s not Steph Curry at the free throw line we all understand that or or he’s not even Michael Jordan at the cuz Michael shot 84% and LeBron’s stuck at 73.5 still there how do you not improve over 21 years from the free throw line and that’s what’s happening that’s why

He doesn’t get calls cuz they’re saying you’re a lousy free throw shooter I can’t believe it you really believe it no I know it I’ve been doing this for a long time this is a big deal among coaches you don’t get calls because you’re a lousy free throw shooter it’s

Happening do you know how I’ve never heard and I’ve been I probably hadn’t been involved in covering basketball since the 70s do you know how many points left on the table what have I always called him he’s the greatest driver of the basketball I have ever seen and yesterday something different though

You’re telling me about Miss free throws I’m trying to tell you about opportunity to miss the free throw he’s not getting the opportunity at least last night they did not get the opportunity to even miss the free throw so in attempts this year they’re six to LeBron’s points so

They’re sixth in attempts yes but they’re 18th in free throw percentage so Dred down by the guy who gets to shoot the most conversation about last night I know I got it you’re trying to convince me that the refs sit back in their meetings and say well let’s not call

Files on them because they’re not going to make them anyway they just know cuz they really know the game so they really I can’t believe that you said said that they’re not calling been going on for years and years and it went on yesterday because they came out and gave up 45 in

The first quarter and the refs are like if you guys don’t want to play we’re not going to bail you out that’s what happened yesterday we’re not going to bail you out they play no defense because most of the year as you know I brought up again and again little known

Fact for much of the year the Lakers give up the most three-point shots in gamees so they play little to no defense now they they moved up slightly somebody’s pulling the trigger on you and popping down threes it doesn’t mean you’re not playing defense that just means you’re not getting out fast enough

For them to knock down the threes you’re going up against a good three-pointer shooting team when you got Booker and you got Kevin Durant that’s extremely wet at the bottom of the bucket yeah and if you don’t get out in front of them guess who was extremely wet yesterday

Grayson Allen and Royce O’Neal Grayson Allen can hit threes though that’s all he basically can do remember on three-point attempts offensively they’re dead last in the league so they don’t try to shoot that many threes they’re a decent three-point shoo team if you look at their percentage but they don’t try

That many threes so what’s happening is in games like this you’re you’re going to get killed at the three-point line because they actually shot it pretty well themselves from the three-point line and made 15 4 42% okay that that’ll work but you get you can’t give up 17 17 and your average

Of allow you allow 14 if they catching and shooting and they can’t get out there that’s not because it’s lousy defense that’s because the shooter has it in his hands and it’s gone they’re not giving you an opportunity to get out there they’re spreading the floor on they’re hitting into the corners those

Are Corner threes those are that is a very difficult situation if you’re not already out there to run from the key or wherever they are lined up defensively to get out underneath it okay so Grayson Allen and Royce O’Neal go 12 of 22 from three what do you think’s gonna happen

Yes you’re GNA lose that Phoenix even without it sounds egregious because the names that you attach to the threes it sounds egregious because you don’t expect for them but Grayson Allen actually could shoot threes he’s not a bad three-point shooter he’s a good NBA basketball player he plays good defense

Okay we see you I don’t like you because of the whole attitude yeah I don’t like you that but but you know what he’s actually carved out quite a niche for himself and now he’s found a team with two big scores actually three big scores

Opport allow him to get some shot he he the same way that JJ reck was in his career find a team that’ll let you knock down open threes okay now back to Anthony Davis again as you point out his numbers yesterday look okay because he

Winds up with what did he get here he had 22 he was 11 to 17 22 played 42 minutes in the game okay unfortunately a target of much abuse on the internet and on postgame shows Yousef nurkic winds up with 22 rebounds yesterday including seven offensive rebounds and much of

That a large part of that falls on Anthony Davis’s effort to screen him off and keep him off the backboards because everybody questions uh nur’s effort and he he gets 22 rebounds against the Lakers and they beat you on the boards 51- 34 even though ad did do his part on

On his end he gets 14 defensive rebounds but he gives up seven to nurkic yeah but you can’t I can’t screen you out if I’m the individual taking the bunnies and missing them and you already underneath the rim I can’t screen you out Anthony Davis missed easy chippies that he

Should have made okay and didn’t follow his shot and so when nerkish is standing there the ball is falling in his lap okay let’s not say that ad’s not down there battling for but for the boards because that’s not the way nerkish was getting those rebounds let’s not do that

Okay but as ad said himself after the game maybe I complained too much a couple of times I did not hustle back that may be the case all right so again when nurkic gets 22 rebounds there there’s a lack of effort and energy and just just sheer we want this what

Whatever that desire is was not there yesterday that’s the case for whatever it was okay I mean what is this the third what did they come back on Wednesday what if what was yesterday Sunday so that’s four days from after Allstar break y teams are going to be

Rusty okay I watched the Clippers last night and looked at that and was like Lord have mercy okay watch Paul George Golden State regardless I’m talking about the effort of the individuals that was playing extremely well prior to Allstar break James Harden shot two for 10 from three that didn’t help taking up

The slack exactly and look at the same thing with golden state situation coming back off allar break 10 from three I look at those things I said well if you were talk about 4 days from now 5 days from now a week from now let’s have a different conversation all right and

LeBron did not play in the first game back gold state I don’t know so he’s still on All-Star break okay so how do you play a half of basketball in the All-Star Game the first half but then you don’t play against golden all allstar game is different though okay

That’s that’s just cuz you running up and down the floor it’s a different it’s just I’m shooting from half court it’s a different deal 200 what was it 400 points scored between the two team like come on so if you’re LeBron’s teammate you’re cool with him not playing the

First game out of the break after playing a half of basketball in the depends on what the situation was going into the allstar game if if we know that hey this is going to be a rest day or whatever the case may be yeah I’m okay

With that I’m I’m fine with that okay then he comes back against San Antonio they look pretty good when minyama has a big game but it doesn’t matter explain that to me because he’s playing like the MVP of the league but they can’t win a game that’s a whole another issue and

Yet then you come back after you’ve beaten San Antonio and I think here you go again and against the Phoenix Suns on national TV you don’t show up something is a Miss there something is wrong because they’re now just clinging barely to that last one in

One right n golden states a half game back yeah they’re nine but they’re not far out of five and six then they’re not far out it’s not 10 games out they feel like they’re going to challenge for five and six cuz I don’t know how many games

Are left skip I don’t know yeah um I’ll put it this way I wouldn’t want to play him in the playoffs that’s that’s what I would say okay I would not want to see matter top is going to see wherever they’re at I would not want to see them

Come playoff time okay right now Minnesota and Oklahoma City are tied at the top and I do do I think that LeBron and AD are afraid of Oklahoma City or Minnesota I don’t I don’t with Denver lurking there you wouldn’t want to have to deal with Denver Denver might not

Want to have to deal with the Lakers the second time around skip I don’t know I don’t know you don’t know feels like they owe them they they own them yeah they may they it may feel like they own them but there’s something about enough’s enough we’re not taking anymore

It’s playoff time now yeah just like they showed whoever whatever is worth for the tournament they showed you they can Elevate their game when they wanted to against Indiana or Vegas better yet let’s just the games that they played in Vegas never mind the spread out games of

The seven I’m talking about the two or three that they had to play in Vegas they showed you when the time comes on they can turn that switch on yeah okay they’re going to turn it on then from the ninth spot they turned it on last

Year from the what was it whatever was I think the last was it the last no wasn’t I think they were in the they were in the play in but what was it or did they have the plan I’m no they had a no they

Had a plan they turned it in they turned it on from the plan on last year from the plan do I think they can do similar things absolutely I believe they can okay so now we’re back to Darvin ham and on every other night it looks like

They’re not playing hard for Darvin ham and I don’t understand why because I still like him I believe in him as a basketball coach and yet they seem to turn on him and and if anything’s going to change it’s going to be him and I thought that might happen at the

All-Star break but I think jeie and Rob pinka don’t like to make dramatic big inseason moves if he’s going to be gone it feels like it’s not going to happen until after the season thanks for watching Undisputed fans do you want more highlights from the show make sure

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The Los Angeles Lakers playoff hopes continue to slowly slip away with a 123-113 loss to the Phoenix Suns. The purple and gold allowed 45 first-quarter points and attempted a season-low eight free throws in the game. Skip Bayless and Keyshawn Johnson react to the Lakers poor play, then debate whether they will slip further into the play-in tournament or flat-out miss the playoffs.

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