LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers were expected to score a win on Tuesday night against a Luka Doncic -less and Kyrie Irving -less Dallas Mavericks side. They failed to do so in embarrassing fashion as the shorthanded Mavs ended up blowing out the Lakers at American Airlines Center, 118-97.

JJ Redick often thinks about a quote from an HBO miniseries on World War II that aired in 2001. "There's a scene in ‘Band of Brothers' where they're in the trenches and one of the soldiers, who's really scared,