Lakers News: LeBron James Breaks Down The Two Reasons LA Lost To Sacramento

The King fell to the Kings for the third time this season.

Last night, your Los Angeles Lakers lost another close game, a 116-111 bummer against the Sacramento Kings. It marked their third defeat by five or fewer points in the past four games (they won on Monday).

Following the loss, Lakers All-Star LeBron James spoke with gathered media members, while wearing what looked like a crew hoodie from the new "House Party" remake, which he executive produced (and in which he co-stars).

"No matter what is going on with me personally with bumps, bruises and fatigue, my job is to go out there and still perform at a high level and put ourselves in a position to win a ball game." @KingJames on how he's handled the workload. pic.twitter.com/J8Uo7rBpue

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James, perhaps tacitly, tried to kick off his postgame analysis constructively.

"Well we're definitely a ball club with zero room for error," James noted. "Tonight I thought we played a pretty good game. We only had seven turnovers. That's nine turnovers in two games [between Wednesday in Monday], that is amazing."

He then identified the two primary areas of concern for LA:

"We didn't get to the free throw line as much as we could have," James said. Los Angeles shot 18 free throws to Sacramento's 27 free. "We did give up [20] second chance points. Most of those came in the first quarter or the first half. But we don't have much room for error. We are limited with bodies. We played pretty much almost everybody tonight, just getting everybody a look."

The Chosen One also lamented the absences of sidelined Lakers starters Anthony Davis and Lonnie Walker IV, along with key reserve Austin Reaves:

"Until some of our big guys, some of our key guys get back... with AD, and AR and Lonnie, guys who are huge in our rotation, we have to continue how we played the last couple games. We're trying to play mistake-free basketball."