There was a singular moment in the Lakers’ 143-120 loss to the Sixers that not only encapsulated the team’s porous defensive effort of late, but Luke Walton specifically pinpointed after the game.
“There’s a lot of things leading to (the poor defense). Tonight they had 70 points in our paint,” Walton said on Spectrum Sportsnet after the game. “There were times (Joel) Embiid just drove the ball the length of the court and dunked.”
As seen in the aforementioned play, Joel Embiid (who scored 37 points on only 16 shots) simply collected the loose ball and strolled up the middle of the court en route to an uncontested dunk.