There’s no excuses for losing to Celtics but they had the advantage.

First of all, Lakers were coming off of an overtime win over Knicks who were playing playoff intensity while the Celtics rested their starters just for the lakers game.

Secondly, all their starters were healthy except KP, while AR coming back from an injury, Luka back problems, Rui & Hayes out.

Yes the 3rd qt was demoralising, but we were missing good quality looks. However, Lakers were running their usual regular season rotation while Celtics ran a 8 man playoff rotation. Luka put in 35 mins compared to JB and JT over 45 and 42 min. Who does that in a regular season game? And only still be up 4 with 2 mins remaining.

Without the Jordan Goodwin 6 point swing mistake we might’ve actually won.