Los Angeles Lakers: 3 takeaways from Lakers loss in season debut

The Los Angeles Lakers officially have one game in the books and an ugly loss to the Los Angeles Clippers 108-92 to start the 2017-18 season.

All of the hype that followed the Los Angeles Lakers and Lonzo Ball all summer finally came to a head on their opening night. The game did not go as well as fans had hoped or probably as well as the Lakers thought it would. Lonzo Ball was smothered the entire night and was barely able to get off a shot. DeAndre Jordan made Brook Lopez look irrelevant when he is a promising big man and veteran to the Lakers.

Did I mention that Patrick Beverley was on Lonzo Ball like white on rice?

Lonzo Ball finished the night with just 3 points in 29 minutes played on 1-of-6 shooting, his only make coming from a 3-pointer.

Lob City looks to be remaining quite intact even with the departure of Chris Paul during the offseason. The Clippers appeared prepared and in no mood for the antics of a young Lakers team to show them up for the first game of the season. They were heavy in attempting 3-pointers as a team going 12-for-33 hitting 36.4 percent of their attempts, the Lakers hit just 4-of-16 from beyond the arc.

While the Los Angeles Lakers were trailing by 30 points late in the game, lessons were learned as the Clippers refused to take their foot off the gas.

Here are 3 takeaways from the Lakers loss in their season debut.