Lakers Coach Luke Walton Makes Huge Admission After Wizards Blowout Loss

The Los Angeles Lakers lost the game to the Washington Wizards. The team went down 128-110 in the US capital, and John Wall scored 40 points. He had 14 assists, too. Bradley Beal had 25 points and 12 rebounds. LeBron was limited to season low 13 points on five-of-16 shooting as Caldwell-Pope’s 25-point game was wasted. What does head coach Luke Walton think about this?

JaVale McGee missed the game due to his flu, and rookie Wagner had his longest night on the floor so far. He had season-high 12 points on five-of-seven shooting in about 17 minutes. The Lakers played bad, and Walton knows that his team fell below his criteria.

“Not a lot of good to take from that other than the lesson of, you don’t show up to play in the NBA, you will not win. Whether it was the back-to-back, I don’t know what it was. But we did not have the proper energy to win an NBA game tonight. Give Washington credit, those guys were short handed – as were we – but they found it and brought it to us,” Walton said.

“We never really got going. I thought Moe and KCP were individually the only bright spots we had. Hopefully we learn from it. We move on and try to finish out the road trip with a win.It’s hard. It can be done a lot of times in the NBA you can find a team go down big early and find that run, find that energy. We didn’t do that. We tried different rotations, we tried to zone,we tried small, we just didn’t have it. It’s unfortunate but it happens in an 82-game season. Hopefully it doesn’t happen too often for us. We learn from it and move forward.”

“We’re a team built on energy and depth. We didn’t have either.Our energy level, getting here late night, whatever the case we just didn’t have our energy. Obviously we didn’t have our depth. Four out of our top 11 guys, two not with the team in BI,and Do, then JaVale was a late stretch and B. When you’re trying to expend a lot of energy and you don’t have a lot of bodies, it was just tough on us. We’ve got to get some rest. We’ve got two days so there’s no excuses. I watched the game before we played, they put up 144 points so we’ve got to be ready to defend for 48 minutes,” LeBron said.