Luka Dončić stuffed the stat sheet to the tune of 43 points, 12 rebounds, nine assists, two steals and a block on Tuesday, and his Lakers still lost to the Warriors , 119-109 , on opening night as Dončić finished as a minus-eight for the game.

Putting up numbers like that and still losing is deliciously ripe for overreaction in Lakers land. So let's do it! And let's start with the fact that J.J. Redick had to play Dončić 40 minutes, which is not ideal in any regular-season game -- let alone on opening night -- in a league obsessed with load managing its stars' mileage.

Such is life without LeBron James , who's out until at least mid-November as he deals with this sciatica situation and the Lakers simply don't have much else to turn to on a nightly basis. Yes, Austin Reaves went

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