“We couldn’t take rebounds. We would have taken someone to take rebounds… ”
After several seconds of hesitation, Rui Hachimura Summed in two sentences the biggest problem of the Lakers on this Game 5, while Mark Williams had fun on the social networks of the misfortunes of Los Angeles.
Dominated 54 to 37 in the battle of the rebound on this Game 5, the Lakers offered a lot of second chances to Rudy Gobert and Wolves. With his 24 sockets, including 9 offensives, the Frenchman hurt his opponents very much.
“He is very large. He is really very large ” could only recall JJ Redick. “It’s one thing when he is the only one but they have several guys who throw themselves (in the offensive rebound). They all have permission to go to the offensive rebound, with McDaniels, Divincenzo and Randle but McDaniels and Divincenzo throw themselves on almost all the rebounds so you have to take it into account. Rudy Gobert, he was just bigger than everyone. »»
But why then did you continue with this “Small Ball”, depriving yourself of Jaxson Hayes? Coach Rookie explains that this is a ” compromise “ To do, given the team’s offensive difficulties at the start of the series.
-“I am told: ‘Play a pivot’ but we couldn’t score”
“I am told: ‘Play a pivot’ but we couldn’t score” summarizes the coach, who assures that it was therefore necessary to make a choice between the attack and the rebound. “The execution (offensive) was very good in the fourth quarter. We lacked shots near the circle, a lot of 3 points. We only put 12 of our 52-point shots in the fourth quarter during the series. In addition to that, we lose two games in Minnesota with 12 and 13 additional possessions for them, and 20 tonight. Too many ball losses, too many offensive rebounds left. »»
It is clearly missing a pivot for this team, to take rebounds but also to offer pass solutions to Luka Doncic, much more easily controllable without interior passing solution on the pick-and-roll.
Especially since this style of play, without real point of interior anchor, requires a lot of effort to others.
“No comment” Laughs LeBron James when he was also asked about the question. “Because my friend AD (Anthony Davis) explained what he needed and he was exchanged the following week …”
| Shots | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | To | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Luka Doncic | 28 | 35.1 | 43.8 | 37.9 | 79.1 | 0.9 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 7.5 | 3.7 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 28.2 |
| Anthony Davis | 42 | 34.3 | 52.8 | 29.8 | 78.8 | 2.8 | 9.0 | 11.9 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 25.7 |
| Lebron James | 70 | 34.9 | 51.3 | 37.6 | 78.2 | 1.0 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 24.4 |
| Austin Reaves | 73 | 34.9 | 46.0 | 37.7 | 87.7 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 5.8 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 20.2 |
| Rui Hachimura | 59 | 31.7 | 50.9 | 41.3 | 77.0 | 1.3 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 13.1 |
| D’angelo Russell | 29 | 26.3 | 41.5 | 33.3 | 84.9 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 12.4 |
| Dalton Knecht | 78 | 19.2 | 46.1 | 37.6 | 76.2 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 9.1 |
| Max Christie | 46 | 25.1 | 44.4 | 36.8 | 85.1 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 8.5 |
| Dorian Finney-smith | 43 | 28.8 | 44.2 | 39.8 | 71.4 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 7.9 |
| Jaxson Hayes | 56 | 19.5 | 72.2 | 0.0 | 62.2 | 1.4 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 6.8 |
| Gabe Vincent | 72 | 21.2 | 40.0 | 35.3 | 71.4 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 6.4 |
| Jordan Goodwin | 29 | 18.7 | 43.8 | 38.2 | 81.8 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 5.6 |
| MarkieFF Morris | 8 | 15.5 | 33.3 | 30.4 | 83.3 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 5.5 |
| Jarred Vanderbilt | 36 | 16.1 | 48.8 | 28.1 | 55.6 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 4.1 |
| Shake Milton | 30 | 11.5 | 43.3 | 29.4 | 84.6 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 3.9 |
| Cam Reddish | 33 | 17.9 | 40.4 | 27.7 | 61.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 3.2 |
| Trey Jemison | 22 | 10.3 | 61.9 | 0.0 | 41.7 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.6 |
| Christian Koloko | 37 | 9.2 | 60.6 | 0.0 | 71.4 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 2.4 |
| Bronny James | 27 | 6.7 | 31.3 | 28.1 | 78.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.3 |
| Alex Len | 10 | 12.2 | 45.5 | 33.3 | 25.0 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| Jalen Hood-Schifino | 2 | 7.1 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
| Armel Traore | 9 | 7.4 | 31.6 | 0.0 | 28.6 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Quincy Olivari | 2 | 5.2 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Maxwell Lewis | 7 | 4.2 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
