Luka Doncic becomes real on the Lakers record in the game 4 Loss vs. Timbervolves

Minneapolis – The Los Angeles Lakers They are sitting where no team of NBA wants to be in the playoffs. It stared at the wrong end of the deficit 3-1 series, which is where to follow Lakers Their loss 116-113 in Minnesota Timbervolves in the game 4. JJ Redick’s chief coach decided to go with great changes in the second half, which Luka Doncic addressed after the game.

The first change was to replace Jakson Haies for Dorian Finnei-Smith to start the third quarter. The second change was playing that line Dončić, Finnei-Smith, Lebron James, Austin reacts and Rui Hachimura all 24 minutes of the second half.

No other player Lakers entered during the second half, which may have asked questions about a possible tired lower part. But after losing Laker, Luka Dončić was unshakable that fatigue was not a problem in the fourth quarter, at least it should not be.

“These are playoffs. Fatigue should not play any role in that,” Doncic said. “We played a lot of minutes, but it shouldn’t play a role. I think they just executed at the offensive end during the last minutes.”

When Redick decided to go with the same five players in full half, he became The first NBA coach in the playground of playing in the game. And whether the fatigue or was not a factor, Lakers still had a chance down part.

After the wolves rose forward, 111-107, Lakers hit three points in three points, one of Ready, and one of Finnei-Smith, to return them at 113-111 with a little more than one minute. Even after the wolves continued again, the Lakeshers fired overtime, but reacts “try three points excluded.

After the game, Redick mentioned that the players themselves did not have a problem playing the whole half.

“It wasn’t planned to play five guys the entire half,” Redick said. “We asked them at the beginning of the fourth trimester, and we told them two extra time, if you guys gave a lot … and everyone is in it, and they are all in it, and they are all in it.”

Down extinction, there were several Calls that did not go to the way of a rushBut that sometimes happens. In the end, the wolves were made and the doctors did not. They are now faced with an elimination game while returning home to Los Angeles for the game 5.