Not much went right for the Lakers in their opening night contest.

They had a third quarter collapse, their new big man Deandre Ayton couldn’t find pick-and-roll chemistry with Luka Dončić and they easily lost 119-111 at home.

With plenty of things to fix, it’s hard to know where to start. However, one aspect that Gabe Vincent doesn’t think is a concern is teams targeting him on defense.

After Lakers practice on Wednesday, he encouraged teams to “go for it” and try to beat him 1-on-1 in the post.

Well, the problem is that the one team the Lakers have played so far tried that and found plenty of success.

Jimmy Butler went right at Vincent and scored 10 of his 16 points when he was the primary defender. No other Lakers defender was scored on more by one individual player than Vincent wa

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