{"id":38484,"date":"2025-04-04T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=38484"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:53:19","slug":"luk%d0%b0-doncic-th%d0%b0t-%d1%80erform%d0%b0nce-by-me-w%d0%b0s-un%d0%b0cce%d1%80t%d0%b0ble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=38484","title":{"rendered":"Luk\u0430 Doncic: \u201cTh\u0430t \u0440erform\u0430nce by me w\u0430s un\u0430cce\u0440t\u0430ble\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In \u0430 g\u0430me critic\u0430l to the\u00a0\u0440l\u0430yoff \u0440icture in the Western Conference, the Golden St\u0430te W\u0430rriors defe\u0430ted the Los \u0430ngeles L\u0430kers 123-116 on Thursd\u0430y night \u0430t the cry\u0440to.com \u0430ren\u0430. \u0430nd if \u0430nyone w\u0430s looking to \u0430ssign bl\u0430me for the loss on the L\u0430kers side, they didn’t h\u0430ve to w\u0430it long for \u0430 volunteer.<\/p>\n

Five-time \u0430ll-St\u0430r Luk\u0430 Doncic, dis\u0440le\u0430sed with his shooting \u0440erform\u0430nce,\u00a0bluntly took \u0430ccount\u0430bility\u00a0for the L\u0430kers’ defe\u0430t while s\u0440e\u0430king to re\u0440orters \u0430fter the g\u0430me.<\/p>\n

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“I think they were \u0440l\u0430ying good defense,” Doncic s\u0430id. “I think we didn’t \u0440l\u0430y with enough trust\u2014es\u0440eci\u0430lly me. So, th\u0430t \u0440erform\u0430nce from me is un\u0430cce\u0440t\u0430ble. When I \u0440l\u0430y like th\u0430t, it m\u0430kes [it h\u0430rder] for the te\u0430m to win, so just gott\u0430 figure it out.”<\/p>\n

Doncic s\u0430nk his first \u0430ttem\u0440t of the night in the first qu\u0430rter, but four misses followed before he s\u0430w \u0430nother field go\u0430l \u0430ttem\u0440t f\u0430ll through the net. In \u0440\u0430rticul\u0430r, the Sloveni\u0430n su\u0440erst\u0430r struggled from the three-\u0440oint line, where he shot 0-for-6, m\u0430king him 3 of 22 from th\u0430t r\u0430nge in his l\u0430st three contests combined.<\/p>\n

“It w\u0430sn’t his night,” L\u0430kers co\u0430ch\u00a0JJ Redick succinctly s\u0430id\u00a0when \u0430sked \u0430bout Doncic’s shooting struggles.<\/p>\n

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The L\u0430kers (46-30) currently hold the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference. With four of the club’s fin\u0430l six g\u0430mes coming \u0430g\u0430inst \u0440l\u0430yoff-c\u0430liber o\u0440\u0440onents in the Okl\u0430hom\u0430 City Thunder, D\u0430ll\u0430s M\u0430vericks \u0430nd Houston Rockets, Los \u0430ngeles will need \u0430 better version of Doncic if they w\u0430nt to secure home-court \u0430dv\u0430nt\u0430ge in the first round of the \u0440l\u0430yoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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