With their big three out, Lakers fall in preseason game to Warriors

San Francisco – The Lakers entered the training camp in the hope of finally establishing chemistry between the stars Luka Doncic, LeBron James and Austin Reaves. But the trio has not yet seen the court together. On Sunday, they all stayed on the bench during the defeat of the 111-103 Lakers against the Golden State Warriors at the Chase Center.

With Doncouic (REST) ​​and James (glute) already released, Reaves was rested Sunday after a first week already full of the training camp. The fifth year goalkeeper had the highest workload of the team entering the first pre-season match that took place after three days of training. He scored 20 points against the Phoenix Suns as one of the rare offensive light points during Friday’s defeat.

Without their best offensive game leaders, the Lakers obtained an elevator from goalkeeper Gabe Vincent, who made his pre-season debut after hearing a knee injury. He collected 16 points and five assists while the Center Deandre Ayton, which scored only a point on two shots during the pre-season match on Friday, scored seven points, all at the first quarter, with seven rebounds.

“We came with more intention,” said Vincent compared to the defeat of Lakers 103-81 against the Suns on Friday. “We were more concentrated. Obviously, it’s different with these three not playing. These are a huge part of our team and everything we do. But the next man. “

After their first two pre-season games, the Lakers have a week of training until their first pre-season game at home against the Warriors on October 12. Coach JJ Redick said that Although Donic should rest for the first two pre-season games after playing in Eurobasket with his national team, the Slovenian superstar should always play before the official respect of his season in October.

It remains to be seen if James, who has been sheltered from training camp practices, due to nervous irritation in his buttocks, will play in pre-season. Upon entering an unprecedented 23rd NBA season, James is on a slower rise calendar than in previous years, said Redick.

The Warriors adopted an equally cautious approach with their aging superstars while Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler III and Al Horford were all limited to half. Curry, 37 years old, has always scored 14 points in 15 minutes, draining five of the seven shots on the ground and attracting noisy cheers of an almost complete prosecution crowd when he posed an acrobatic stroke by contact and pointed out two finger pistols in the basic ESPN camera.

Redick described the challenge of obtaining an appropriate assessment of his team in a 48-minute pre-season match when his best stars were released, but after the opening of the pre-season on Friday, he was looking for a better organization in attack at the start of the stopwatch, playing with pace and more physics.

“We must be more physical to open,” said Redick before the match. “We must be more physical with our screening. This does not change depending on who is in the programming, so that we can build this.”

“Championship Habits” is one of the three pillars that Redick preached tirelessly during the training camp, as well as championship communication and the form of the championship. He said he would judge the latter partly by if the players sprint in defense.

The Lakers were upgraded 23-5 in transition Sunday and 42-11 with two pre-season games.

With the exception of a 10-0 Warriors race to finish the second quarter and a section of almost six minutes to start the third quarter in which Golden State pushed a seven-point lead at half-time in a rout of 23 points, Redick declared that the overall competitiveness was “much better” than against Phoenix. But the next challenge will be to deploy this effort consistently.

He follows a recent theme that Redick presented to the team: Kaizen, the Japanese word for improvement.

“You just have to improve at 1% every day,” said striker Jake Laravia, who collected 10 points and three assists. “And it goes hand in hand with winning the day. We thought that when we were playing Phoenix, we did not do it. Today, we thought we had a good amount, obviously, still not the result we wanted, but we are working in the right direction.”