As part of their first road trip of the season, the Lakers traveled to Oklahoma City for a match-up on Sunday afternoon.

However, after a fast start, the Lakers fell behind big and were never able to comeback, falling to the Thunder,

After a fast start, the Lakers fell behind big before a frenetic fourth-quarter comeback to take home the win.

Julius Randle is still very good

For as putrid the Lakers’ offense was at times tonight, the brightest spot was Julius Randle. Randle came out on fire in the first quarter and while he cooled off a bit, he was still the best player on the court on the offensive end for much of the game.

Randle finished with a stat-stuffing line of 20/9/3/3, but he was the lone Laker who was efficient on the night, finishing 7-for-10 from the field and 6-for-9 (nice) at the line.

The Lakers’ offense struggled again

Against Utah on Friday, the Lakers struggled on offense. Tonight, it was much of the same as they shot 40 percent from the field, 21 percent from the three-point line and 34.8 percent on uncontested shots. None of those are good!

Pair that with 21 turnovers and you get an idea of how things went wrong.

The good sign is that the Lakers did create a lot of open looks and the offense is doing it’s job. If the shooting improves, the Lakers will be in, and win, more games. However, it’s more likely we get something like the last two games where they hang around, but can’t get the breakthrough.

Russell Westbrook is good at basketball

Few players can control a game from all facets like Russell Westbrook can. The #FutureLaker finishing with a line of 33/16/12, destroying the Lakers in the pick-and-roll all night long. While he only had 12 rebounds, many of them came late and in big moments, and Russ slammed the door shut on the Lakers late in the fourth.

Fortunately for Laker fans, we’re roughly three years away from Westbrook in a Laker jersey.

Fan Takeaways

A new part of our recap will be getting YOUR opinions. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @LakersOutsiders where we’ll ask for your takeaways at the end of the game.

They have an idea of what to do, they just need to put together more consistent games. Those are the growing pains.

— AJ (@CrazyLASports) October 31, 2016

Terrible finishing effort but played against maybe the best guard in the league rn. No injuries and a good showing fro JR.

— Jeremy (@Jeremyr327) October 31, 2016

They lost KD and we drafted the next KD, so who really won?

— Big Bonga Brand (@TenPercentNinja) October 31, 2016

PnR D is bad. Gotta cut down on TOs…. lotta fight in the kids though. #GrowingPains

— Albert Aguilar (@Tha_Real_Albert) October 31, 2016

made it too easy for Westbrook. Battled for 44 minutes. Then the wheels fell off.

— Robert Kester (@RTK1602) October 31, 2016

OKC had 18 or so, but we missed a lot of open jumpers and always relied on long shots. OKC took ofs reb and easy baskets

— Antonio Laccetti (@antoniolaccetti) October 31, 2016

Russell Westbrook is very good

— #Moss2020 (@AlecKAZAMM) October 31, 2016