Lakers Struggle Without LeBron in Loss to Nets: Game Recap

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00:00The first game without LeBron for the Lakers didn't go well.

00:03111-108, they lose in Brooklyn to the Nets.

00:07Here's J.J. Reddick.

00:09He was pretty honest with his assessment of this team's play.

00:12Yeah, I mean, I don't think being shorthand is an excuse

00:17for how we played basketball tonight.

00:21J.J., you guys shot two free throws in the first half.

00:24A lot of griping from your players.

00:26Do you think that took them out of any sort of rhythm?

00:30No, I think it was just an overall mentality

00:32just to take shortcuts tonight.

00:33We just wanted to take shortcuts.

00:36Too many, you know, they scored 20 points on us gambling.

00:39They had 16 offensive rebounds.

00:40We ball watched all night.

00:42We said no dare shots.

00:44I can't, I mean, I would go through it.

00:46They probably made six, seven uncontested threes.

00:49Just shortcuts.

00:51Don't be a good team. You want to win in the NBA,

00:53you got to do the hard stuff.

00:54We couldn't even pass to each other.

00:57We couldn't enter our offense running ball screens

01:01at literally at half court.

01:03Yeah, that's going to end up in a turnover.

01:04I don't know what we're doing.

01:07So what's great about him is that he was like

01:09one of the biggest D's ever playing,

01:12and now he's becoming one of the biggest D's as a coach

01:15because he loves to talk

01:18and just throw everyone under the bus

01:20when they don't play well.

01:21And he just comes right out and says it,

01:23just like when he played.

01:24When he played, he talked smack.

01:27Everyone wanted to kill him, but he was a great player.

01:30I mean, in college, like in college, he was such a D.

01:33Everyone wanted to kill him.

01:35In the pros, he's too easy to kill.

01:38In the pros, he's too small, but he could shoot.

01:41That was his job to shoot and then to talk smack.

01:44And then now he gets to talk smack every night

01:46because he gets his own press conference after every game

01:48and he just lets it all flow right out of his mouth.

01:51He'll call you right out and say, you suck.

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