Lauri Markkanen's stats are down this season, but he says — and his coach agrees — that there's a good reason for that.

For the Utah Jazz, a second-consecutive matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers Wednesday night came at Delta Center and included a whole lot of home cooking. The Jazz were on fire from the start on their way to a 131-119 victory over the new-look Lakers.

The second game of Luka Doncic’s Los Angeles Lakers tenure is in the books. For the second straight matchup, the Slovenian guard was in the starting lineup to face the Utah Jazz. While his Lakers debut provided plenty of positive moments for Los Angeles fans, Wednesday night’s game seemed like the opposite.