{"id":159239,"date":"2021-11-13T05:59:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=159239"},"modified":"2021-11-13T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T10:59:57","slug":"lakers-star-rips-team-after-embarrassing-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=159239","title":{"rendered":"Lakers star rips team after 'embarrassing' loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karl-Anthony Towns scored 18 of his 29 points during Minnesota's dominant third quarter, and the Timberwolves snapped their six-game losing streak with a 107-83 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

D'Angelo Russell had 22 points against his former team and Patrick Beverley added 11 points and seven rebounds for Minnesota, which seized control while outscoring the Lakers 40-12 in the third. <\/p>\n

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The surge started with a stunning 29-4 run out of halftime, and Russell added 11 points early in the fourth quarter as the underachieving Wolves rolled to their first win since Oct. 27.<\/p>\n

Anthony Davis<\/a> had 22 points and eight rebounds as the Lakers dropped to 2-3 with LeBron James sidelined by a strained abdominal muscle.<\/p>\n

Following the woeful second-half showing, Davis lit into his team's performance, labelling the third-quarter effort "embarrassing".<\/p>\n

\"Anthony<\/p>\n

"We got to decide who we want to be. A championship team? That's not us right now \u2026 That's embarrassing \u2026 No effort in the third quarter," he said.<\/p>\n

"We sucked. No defense. Can't score \u2026 Why? I can't tell you.<\/p>\n

"What we can't do is point the finger \u2026. We have to stay together \u2026 and we will stay together \u2026 we gotta learn from the film."<\/p>\n

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"We have enough guys to win basketball games \u2026 we have to put a stretch of games – where we play our style of basketball for 48 min – together, & we live with the results."<\/p>\n

Russell Westbrook scored 20 points on his 33rd birthday for Los Angeles, which had a solid first half before disintegrating in the third and losing for the fourth time in 11 games.<\/p>\n

Towns led the Wolves' charge out of halftime, going 6 for 7 with four 3-pointers \u2014 and mocking Carmelo Anthony's celebratory 3-point head-tap gesture at least twice along the way. After holding the Lakers to their lowest-scoring quarter of the season in the third, Minnesota stretched its lead to 33 points early in the fourth.<\/p>\n

\"Karl-Anthony<\/p>\n

Anthony had three points on 1-of-12 shooting in the 19-year veteran's first nightmare game for the Lakers, who shot 11 for 44 and committed 13 turnovers in the second half.<\/p>\n

While the injury-plagued Lakers still have a winning record, their rebooted roster has already taken its share of humiliating defeats this season, getting drilled in Portland last week and losing twice to rebuilding Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

Anthony Edwards had nine points for Minnesota in his first game since dropping a career-high 48 on Golden State.<\/p>\n

The Lakers made a 22-4 run in the first quarter, but Minnesota scored 11 consecutive points in the second. The Wolves opened the second half with a 22-3 spurt and held LA without a field goal for nearly eight minutes, abruptly turning a competitive game into a blowout while the Staples Center crowd booed.<\/p>\n

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