Luka Doncic struggles as Lakers win streak is SNAPPED vs. Pistons | NBA Reaction
Jason reacts to the Los Angeles Lakers’ winning streak being snapped against the Detroit Pistons and explains why he’s not worried at all despite the one bad game from Luka Doncic and LeBron James.
All lines provided by @hardrockbet
Follow Jason Timpf on social:
Tweets by _JasonLT
https://www.instagram.com/jtimpf15/
Follow us on social media:
https://www.instagram.com/hoopstonight/
https://x.com/hoopstonite
https://www.facebook.com/hoopstonight/
@hoopstonightjasontimpf
Learn more about the Volume:
https://www.thevolume.com
#nba #nbaplayoffs #nbafinals #nbahighlights #nbabasketball #basketball #sports #reaction #rank #ranked #ranking #lakers #losangeleslakers #lukadoncic #lebronjames #austinreaves #pistons #detroitpistons #cadecunningham
26 Comments
💯💛💜
The rules are not applied evenly .Austin was fouled on the back court play. OKC is allowed to mug appointments and Shai gets calls without contact
Nuggets are coming for the Lakers and the 3 seed. I'm predicting it now. Had the Nuggets had any kind of health luck this year they'd be 10 games in front of the Lakers at this point. Even with the disastrous number of injuries they're still in position to finish in front of LA. Last game (game 72) was the first time the Nuggets had their rotation intact since Nov. 11 (game 11)! Now that everyone is back I'm predicting they'll go on a run. They'll be favored in virtually every game going forward including the last two games of the year v SA and OKC because both teams will have clinched the top 2 seeds and will be sitting everyone. Lakers fans have had their fun but reality is coming.
AR needs to work on strength in the offseason.. He gets torched too much on Defense.. Bro’s a liability when teams up their physicality
Lebron still going to win finals mvps this season.#5-6
I learned lakers play worse against young athletic guards. Pistons I saw as well. Sucks that the two best teams in the west have the best young guards 😅
A pass?! For getting fried by a Cade-less Pistons team? Your best player shot 11/29 and Daniss Jenkins was the best player on the floor last night. The pistons being physical can’t be the only takeaway from that performance.
NGL.. Detroit was playing defense like they were down 3-1 in the finals. 😂😂 What team is picking up 94 feet starting from the first quarter right now? I could bet anything they won't play their next game that way. Teams just see the Lakers and play way harder than the average player does on a Monday night regular season game lol
9:51 and that's why young teams can rack up wins during the regular season because older guys are not going to do that for 82 games (or however many they wind up playing). They'll ramp it up around this time of the year and empty the tank in the playoffs.
The refs gotta call it even if they gonna play like that they have to let us play like that to thats the problem
Lakers are too Luka dominate. He needs to learn to get other teammates involved.
I am surprise you didnt mention that Marcus Smart was out. That really affected their point of attack defense. That is why the guard got off. JJ has no quickness on the bench that he trusts.
Against teams like the Pistons, Lebron should become the primary offensive weapon. He can match their agressiveness and phsyicality… Luka and especially Reaves struggle in such situations… it should be Lebron then Luka… and Reaves should play less minutes with Vando playing more high intensity minutes
Luka likes to give up corner 3s… he watches the shooter go through the entire motion, while keeping his distance and keeping his hands down…. when he is not scoring, he needs to play more defense, or the lakers need to give maybe 5-8 of his minutes to Vando… increase defense when offense is lacking
You are underrating Detroit!
Are the Pistons really young? Obviously the core of Cade, Ausar, and Duren is young, but look at who played for them yesterday: Tobias Harris, Duncan Robinson, LeVert, Heurter, Green, Reed… none of these guys is young. Cade, Sasser, and Stewart weren’t available, and Holland played all of 5 minutes.
The physicality stuff is just stupid. Being a “hard nosed defensive team” just means you’re allowed to play trash basketball the whole time. Then if the other team tries it, they get called. Nobody wants to guys who can’t really do anything but hack be allowed to just get it away with it. I love basketball, but its just not physical like that.
Reeves can’t guard anyone.not worth max contract
Yes – 32-7-6 is really struggling. And Lebron's 12-9-10 is really good on the night. GTFOH.
All this Lakers talk…when they play any top 5 team in the playoffs they'll get cooked!…2nd round exit at best!
I saw Luka grimacing as if he pulled something in the first or second quarter. I find it starnge no one is talking about this. You could also see the likes of Austin looked completely ragged, my guess lots of fatigue after those epic schedule. Which is very encouraging because we matched their physicality.
Hawks West
Man it must suck to have to actually watch teams play defense.
Cade can do more than Shai. Cade rebound and assist not just score. And play defense.
Detroit is mid
Every instance of defending you mentions there should have been fouls, the refs gave this game to the pistons. I’m tired of the “defensive stopper” players given free reign to foul every play