Do not react excessively, but the loss of match 1 of the Lakers left a lot to be desired

Los Angeles – Repeat after me: I will not react excessively to the game 1. I will not react excessively in match 1. I will not …

But, ouch, guy.

If the Lakers third head react In this match 1 – a defeat of 117-95 against the sixth seeded Minnesota Timberwolves to open its series of qualifying series at the best of seven years on Saturday evening in Crypto.com Arena.

The superb eruption has spoiled the first opening match of the playoffs of Lakers at home in front of the fans – a closed window crowds of 18,997 – since 2012, as well as the beginnings in the eliminations of Luka Doncic.

Their recently acquired superstar was up to its invoicing as a protagonist proven in the playoffs – and devastating – bearing more than its fair share of the offensive load. Dononic finished with 37 points on 12 out of 22 shots, including by going 5 for 10 behind the arc and 8 for 9 on the free throw line.

But he had only one assist. No coincidence: the rest of the Lakers combined to go only 21 for 61 in the field and 10 for 31 of Deep. LeBron James finished with 19 points, only nine after half-time, when Austin Reaves scored 14 of his 16.

But I will not react excessively to a loss of match 1 … Even if we all watched the Lakers get intimidated on the boards and on the rim and in search of loose bullets.

And, more therefore, blossomed from the 3 -point beach; The Timberwolves made 21 of their 42 attempts at 3 points. That assaults… the slaughter, the Lakers followed by 27 with five minutes to play in the third quarter, when the Lakers dragged, 85-58.

But I will not react excessively, I will not react excessively … Even if it is now in the recruit coach of the Lakers to show us if he has a move of failures or two or 10 in him to keep his team out of another hole of this type.

Redick’s Abrain Postg. “We will be better.”

Dononic said: “We have to be better.”

And therefore Redick will have to find solutions for the exceptional length of Minnesota inside and its hot shooting outside. Yes, he will certainly have to understand how his team can stop giving Timberwolves so many good looks’ 3 – a defense that certainly does not win the championships, as some people from Dallas recently remind us.

And Redick will also have to correct mathematics on the points of the painting (which the Minnesota won by 12) and on the Fastbreak (T-Wolves by 19). And bring James and Reaves in progress. And get his team out with much more from the physics necessary by the playoffs.

“We are going to take a look at everything and decide what we want to modify,” said Redick. “… We will watch the film and see what we can do better.”

And so, no, I will not react excessively … But is it possible that we underestimated the Minnesota?

The team that reached the Western Conference final last season, then entered this series classified between fourth and eighth of the NBA as a percentage of field goals, second chance and an offensive and defensive and clear note may have been favored?

The team that ended the season on a tear of 17-4, which abandoned the fifth largest point and adversaries limited to the seventh percentage of the lowest field goals and the sixth percentage of 3 points, would this team have perhaps been important favorites?

Redick certainly sang the praises of Timberwolves in public before the series, after studying the team that made 49-33: “These are a better team than 49 victories. There are three (other) teams that are in the top 10 in offense and defense, and these are teams of 60 victories, “said Redick, with a head of the head of the Western conference Oklahoma City, as well as the Eastern Powerbrokers Cleveland and Boston conference.

He surely warned his Lakers – who finished with another regular season victory (50-32) – on this subject in private too, during a week of practice.

And yet, the Lakers – with the exception of Doncic, which scored 16 points in the first quarter and immediately passed to Rudy Gobert de Timberwolves, up to his invoicing as a living and recurring nightmare of the French center – did not correspond to the energy of Minnesota to a short period of short and without consequence in the third trimester.

But I will not react excessively to a terribly deep hole and the exodus of the fans with more than four minutes to play in the fourth quarter before the minutes of Bonny James in a defeat of the match 1 … And either the Lakers said Reaves.

“The atmosphere”, he said, “if you don’t win it or don’t lose it throughout a match. We have the opportunity to put the series on our field at home and compete for two games on their field, so you never lose the match after the first match.”

But there is another familiar playoff refrain that you have probably heard: it is not a series until someone stole a victory on the opponent’s field.

Well, this series is a blow.

As for whether the hopes of the Lakers qualifying series are? We will wait for match 2 and react accordingly.