The Los Angeles Lakers watched LeBron James and Bronny James get a tribute video from the Cleveland Cavaliers on Halloween Eve. JJ Redick then watched a horror show performance. The squad was a sleepwalking mode throughout a 134-100 loss in the James family’s hometown. Redick raised some alarms with a stern warning to the locker room after failing to keep up with Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell’s relentless attack.
The Lakers were down 42-23 after the first-quarter horn sounded. Redick was looking in the mirror for answers, using a very serious, somber tone in the postgame press conference.
“I think we kind of got punched in the mouth a little bit,” Redick explained. “When you play good teams, you cannot afford a lot of mistakes. We made a lot of mistakes. Simple stuff sometimes like low-man rotations, not executing our switches early. They did a lot of things that forced us into those mistakes but when you play a good basketball team you cannot make those mistakes.”…