Austin Reaves reveals the blunt truth after the loss to the Suns
On Monday evening, The Los Angeles Lakers have collapsed back to Earth with a loss in the explosion hands of the Phoenix Suns. Despite playing a mostly healthy lineup against a Suns team that saw Devin Booker leave in the first half and was already without Jalen Green, the Lakers turned in one of their most disappointing efforts of the season.
After the shooting guard game Austin Reaveswho had a rare night off from the field, spoke about his feelings erred in the loss.
“One of those games. We played bad, they played harder than us. It can’t happen,” Reaves said, according to Spectrum SportsNet on X, formerly Twitter.
Overall, the Lakers are still 10 games over the .500 mark at 15-5 and have been one of the more surprising (in a good way) teams so far this season. However, last year, the team had a tendency to completely spiral when things didn’t go their way early in games, and that trend manifested itself once again in the loss to Phoenix. Los Angeles could certainly use the energy and defensive intensity of Marcus Smart in this one.
LeBron James had a poor performance in this matchup, scoring just 10 points, and making shots deep in the garbage to ensure he kept his back-to-back double-digit scoring streak alive.
Either way, the Lakers will look to quickly put this game in the rearview mirror as they embark on an East Coast road trip that begins Thursday with a game against the Toronto Raptors. Los Angeles has had the fifth-easiest schedule so far this year, and while that’s not exactly a killer lineup of Eastern opponents on deck, they’ll still need to bring a much better energy than they did Monday night against the Suns.
2025-12-02 19:25:00
