Following the Los Angeles Lakers' 108-86 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Luke Walton said he wanted to see more passion and fight from Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram while LeBron James recovers from injury.

The Lakers are 1-5 without James on the season. 

"They're trying, but they're young. At some point, we need more passion. We need more fight. And that's not scoring more. That's more diving for loose balls, communicating loudly, grabbing [rebounds]," said Walton about Ball and Ingram. He added that "until we get healthy again, you got to play in this league with some passion and fire. It's hard to win in this league when you are healthy. So you need to double that effort when guys are down."

Tyson Chandler echoed Walton's assessment that the team needed to play with more effort.

"I think we've got to have a little more sense of urgency when we step on the floor and just compete, to be quite honest...competing in every spot, competing for every minute. Competing at every possession, we can't afford to take possessions off at this point. We've got to make it a dire situation. We've got to play that way," added Chandler.

Ball agreed that he needed to step up his game in James' absence.

"We're down a lot of scorers right now. I've got to pick up that load. Obviously I didn't do it tonight. I got to pick it up tomorrow."