“I’ll be honest with you, I did have one moment in that first half when we had a few possessions we couldn’t score against the zone, it’d be great to have LeBron just to throw it to in the high post,” JJ Redick had said after the Lakers’ opening loss to the Warriors, and he might be feeling the same again tonight. With LeBron still rehabbing and Austin Reaves sidelined, the Lakers fell 122-102 to the Hawks. The unexpected happened for the Lakers. They walked in confident that, if nothing else, their defense would bail them out, especially against a team that barely plays any. But, of course, that’s exactly what didn’t happen.

After the loss, Deandre Ayton didn’t hold back while reflecting on what went wrong. “ You know, seeing the counter report on clips they have had in their previ

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