Los Angeles Lakers: 5 Lessons from win over Grizzlies

Luke Walton used that bench and corrected his mistakes

Luke Walton was thoroughly out-coached against the Spurs and I had no problems letting the world know…

Remember this…

Then my take…

"But was it the bench? Or was it the substitution patterns of Luke Walton? With Brandon Ingram out of the lineup for the foreseeable future, Luke Walton had to make adjustments to his rotation. Josh Hart is an important player on the Lakers bench. With Hart being inserted into the lineup as a starter, the bench needed adjustments. Let’s be clear. He barely used it. Outside of Tyson Chandler’s 19 minutes and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s 27 minutes, the rest of the bench got spot minutes. Michael Beasley got eight minutes spread over two halves and Svi Mykhailiuk’s eleven minutes, nobody got any run. Does anyone think that while the Spurs were hot, maybe Lance Stephenson could have made a difference? If not, do you think considering the circumstances, he could have at least tried? That’s my point."

Boy what a difference 24 hours makes. Luke Walton used his bench. Svi Mykhailiuk scored 11 points in 23 minutes. KCP got in a rhythm and low and behold…Lance Stephenson got some burn. He scored 9 points, grabbed 4 rebounds and had 2 assists.

BUT…

I’m sure we are going to see Lance again around say Thursday. The Lakers play the Rockets on TNT, but he may be seen all by himself…

TRAGIC BRONSON ALERT!…TRAGIC BRONSON ALERT!

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Love you Lance. Still got those Hornets jerseys…home and away!

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