Five takeaways from the Lakers’ 125-118 win over the Brooklyn Nets

Luke Walton wasn’t especially pleased with the way the Lakers won on Tuesday night and he didn’t hide his disdain. His players generally agreed.

Here are five takeaways from the Lakers’ 125-118 win over the Brooklyn Nets.

1. Julius Randle is developing into a very complete player. Here was Walton on Randle: “His ability to create for others, to get to the rim. Now he’s starting to hit that midrange jumper a little more consistently. He’s figuring out and I think starting to believe in what he can really do in this league.” Walton’s comments on Randle weren’t all good, but that was part of his frustration with a lot of what was happening with his team.

2. Not all wins are created equal. There was something off about the way the Lakers played Tuesday night. Walton noted some hallmarks of the Lakers so far this season were missing. They didn’t have the same pace, they weren’t sharing the ball as well as they like to and they weren’t having as much fun.

3. The Lakers were called for 17 personal fouls to the Nets’ 27. The free throws broke down like this: Nets, 20, Lakers, 43. That’s a huge discrepancy and could be the result of fatigue from the Nets.

4. Walton used a sub as a teaching moment with rookie Brandon Ingram. Ingram apparently had Lou Williams open and instead of passing to him, he took a shot himself. Before reinserting him in the game, Walton had a chat with him. “We had that talk, he went back in and he played great down the stretch. He would have probably stayed in longer if that wasn’t the case. but I felt like at the time rather than call a time out which we might need down the stretch it was better to make that teaching point.”

5. The Lakers get Wednesday off, which is their second off day of the week. It’s starting to become that time when a lot of teams’ development and learning comes on the fly.

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