After pathetic Game 5, Lakers approaching wrong kind of history: ‘Don’t care about s–t like that’

Mădălin Mihai

The LA Lakers blew it.  They have no killer instinct. No urgency. No desperation.  They stood around and watched each other miss shots. They struggled to get stops. They were sloppy. Discombobulated. Unfocused.  They sleepwalked through Game 5 of their first-round playoff series against the Rockets, falling 99–93 .  When they jumped to a 3–0 series lead without their two leading scorers, Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves , they were the “Cinderella story” of the playoffs.  But after their last two