Los Angeles Lakers star guard Anthony Davis took the blame on his shoulders after they suffered a 112-108 loss against New York Knicks on Sunday. Davis feels his teammates did a good job but he couldn’t deliver for the team.
The Lakers had a chance to make it. 500 on the record but squandered their chance to have 50 win percentage for the first time since the start of the season.
Davis added 17 points, 16 rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block, but he missed 10 of his 18 field goal attempts and also missed four out of five free throw attempts in the loss.
“My play,” Davis said when asked for the reason for the defeat. “I played terrible. Couldn’t find my shot: free throws, layups, everything. The guys did their job. I didn’t do my job tonight.”
On the other hand, Denis Schroder feels it was a collective failure from the whole team. Schroder reiterated that they win as a team and lose as a team.
“It’s on everybody,” Lakers guard Dennis Schroder said. “When we lose, we lose as a team. When we win, we win as a team. But AD, he tries to be great at all times, and he has been, 90 percent of the time, great for us. … So, he can’t put it on himself.”
Davis admitted he missed a lot of shots, which led to the downfall of his team against the Knicks.
“I just missed a lot of shots,” he said. “I don’t think they did anything special. A lot of times one-on-one, they doubled a couple times. But I don’t think it was anything that carried over from Toronto.”
Meanwhile, D’Angelo Russell believes this loss is going to hurt a lot as they had their chances to claim a victory.
“That one hurt,” said Russell, who was 13-for-19 for the game after starting 9-for-10 from the field. “That one hurt for us. I think we were battling, we tried to do everything we could. We couldn’t get enough rebounds, no stops, didn’t make enough shots. It just didn’t go our way, I guess.”
The Lakers will next face New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night.
