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LOS ANGELES (AP)—In the what-have-you-done-lately world of the NBA, the answer for the Los Angeles Lakers is nothing.
They trailed most of the game before rallying briefly in the fourth quarter only to lose their fifth in a row, 120-106 to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night.
“The measure of success is what you’ve just recently accomplished,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. “Right now, we’re back in the middle of the pack.”
And if they’re not careful in their final two games, the two-time defending champions could freefall all the way to the fourth seed in the Western Conference.
The Lakers haven’t lost this many in a row since 2006-07, when they dropped seven straight in the last season before Gasol joined the team.
“I’m surprised,” Jackson said about the Lakers’ rapid decline. “We were complacent a little bit. I told them yesterday at practice I didn’t think we’d be able to turn it around in one game.”
“Maybe it puts us in the situation where we have to, and we haven’t been in that in a long time,” Lamar Odom(notes) said.
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