The Los Angeles Lakers traveled to the Utah Jazz Saturday night for the second end of a back-to-back, and despite a solid effort from Luke Walton’s team, the Lakers came up short as they fell 96-81, dropping to 2-4 on the season.
While the Lakers have a very highly touted rookie in point guard Lonzo Ball, it was the Jazz rookie guard that stole the show as he scored 22 points off the bench on 9-of-16 shooting, including a highlight putback dunk followed by a three that shifted the momentum in Utah’s favor for good.
Ball blamed the loss on himself, as he allowed Mitchell to get to the basket for the dunk and also had another rough shooting night, scoring nine points on 3-of-10 shooting while contributing two rebounds, four assists and two steals.