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The Los Angeles Lakers are reeling after back-to-back blowout losses. After losing by 29 points at the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday, the Lakers were hammered by 41 points at the Miami Heat on Wednesday. The loss in Miami left Los Angeles coach JJ Redick saying he and his team are embarrassed.

"Has to be some ownership," Redick said after the Lakers dropped the sixth game out of their last eight. "You can splinter, and it's easy to not want the ownership, particularly when it's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed. We're all embarrassed. It's not a game that I thought we had the right fight, the right professionalism."

Redick went on to say he owns the way his team performs, while not letting the players off the hook either.

"There has to be some ownership on the court, and I'll take all the ownership in the world. This is my team and I lead it and I'm embarrassed. But I can't physically get us organized. I can't physically be into the basketball. I can't physically talk and call out [switches] and physically call out coverages," Redick said. "And by the way, I'm not blaming players. It's not. I own this, but going to need some ownership on the court as well. ... There's not a sense from me that we're together right now."

Lakers veteran superstar LeBron James said he agreed with Redick "100%", but added, "It's not on the coaches. It's definitely on us, for sure."

All-Star center Anthony Davis was willing to shoulder a lot of the blame himself, while expressing belief in the Lakers as a team.

"I have the utmost confidence in this group and this coaching staff," Davis said. "I personally just think it starts with me. If I play better, then guys play better. I definitely take accountability, especially the last couple of games. Just not being there for the team on the offensive end."

Via Dave McMenamin/ESPN

Let's see if they feel that way after a week. Let them lose two more games. The tone will change.

They waited too long to make the necessary roster upgrades. If you are the missing piece here do you really want to come into this situation midseason when they are collapsing? I would not.

Dan Hurley must feel pretty thankful for declining this job.

Coach said it's not the players. The players say it isn't the coach. So who is it, Jeanie?

TheCage4 wrote:Coach said it's not the players. The players say it isn't the coach. So who is it, Jeanie?

It's always the players in an outcome like this

they need bronny...

There's the message, JJ. You could only solve this by playing Bronny 30+ minutes and making him a starter too.

puja21 wrote:

TheCage4 wrote:Coach said it's not the players. The players say it isn't the coach. So who is it, Jeanie?

It's always the players in an outcome like this

It was Westbrook's fault, then Vogel's fault, then Ham's fault... maybe this is just how good this roster is, and has been for the past 4 seasons.

So really, it's the fault of Lakers fans for expecting the Lakers and Lebron to be perpetually relevant. (I'm not saying that that is a bad thing, just unrealistic.) If Lakers fans want more they need to blame the front office, but I don't know where that will get them either.

We know Bron was at the Diddy party.

Pickled Prunes wrote:

puja21 wrote:

TheCage4 wrote:Coach said it's not the players. The players say it isn't the coach. So who is it, Jeanie?

It's always the players in an outcome like this

It was Westbrook's fault, then Vogel's fault, then Ham's fault... maybe this is just how good this roster is, and has been for the past 4 seasons.

So really, it's the fault of Lakers fans for expecting the Lakers and Lebron to be perpetually relevant. (I'm not saying that that is a bad thing, just unrealistic.) If Lakers fans want more they need to blame the front office, but I don't know where that will get them either.

i just meant in any historic blow out like this, the players (in that one game) have quit.

Coaching can't make up 30 or 40 points

puja21 wrote:

Pickled Prunes wrote:

puja21 wrote:
It's always the players in an outcome like this

It was Westbrook's fault, then Vogel's fault, then Ham's fault... maybe this is just how good this roster is, and has been for the past 4 seasons.

So really, it's the fault of Lakers fans for expecting the Lakers and Lebron to be perpetually relevant. (I'm not saying that that is a bad thing, just unrealistic.) If Lakers fans want more they need to blame the front office, but I don't know where that will get them either.

i just meant in any historic blow out like this, the players (in that one game) have quit.

Coaching can't make up 30 or 40 points

I knew what you meant, and you were correct. But the situation as a whole is a result of poor roster management.