The Lakers are aware that they are far from planet Thunder
“They kicked our ass.” Marcus Smart summed up the matchup between the Thunder and The Lakers. The NBA champion completely destroyed the Lakers, in just one half, to win by almost 30 pointsafter 48 minutes without suspense. There is a world of difference between these two teams.
“To be honest, we were blown away. There are still a lot of matches to play and we feel that we can reach this level. But we were far from it.”, let’s assume Austin Reeves. “It wasn’t our best match, that’s clear, probably one of the worst”adds Luka Dončić. “They are not champions by chance, they showed it. We have to be more prepared.”
The Slovenian admits he wasn’t at his best in this encounter, with his 19 points on 7/20 shooting and four turnovers. Oklahoma City’s defense had a lot of work to do, but the former Dallas player forced some shots as well.
“With players as good individually as Cason Wallace and Alex Caruso, they make you disorganized. They didn’t do anything special system-wise, nothing we didn’t prepare for. We just weren’t good enough offensively.”notes JJ Redick, who regretted it “We hesitated too often”.
Austin Reeves didn’t really help Luka Doncic, with just 13 points on 4/12 shooting and no less than five turnovers. With their two leading scorers losing 9 turnovers and scoring just 32 points on 11/32 shooting, the Lakers had very little chance against the best team in the NBA.
“I wasn’t very good”admits the last, great since the start of the season until this defeat. “The team was not very good. Everyone will agree with that. When you are not good against a team like that, you have no chance. You have to run at full speed, be focused on every detail, and we didn’t do that.”
2025-11-13 08:48:00
