On Saturday evening, the Los Angeles Lakers came crashing back down to Earth with a blowout road loss at the hands of the Atlanta Hawks to end their brief winning streak. Making matters especially embarrassing for the Lakers was the fact that the Hawks were without their top four leading scorers in this game due to injury, and still had no problem making easy work of Los Angeles.
After the game, Lakers big man Deandre Ayton got 100% honest on what he felt went wrong for the team in the loss.
“Really, probably leaving those guys underestimated, not keeping those guys account,” Ayton said, per Gautam Varier of Fadeaway World. “Forgetting about them that this is the NBA and those are NBA players… I feel like we were just behind the ball a little bit, and they killed us in transition

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