Los Angeles Lakers: Lake Show Life’s Top 5 plays of the week

4. Kyle Kuzma shows the blueprint of how you deal with bad calls

The Houston game put the referees on blast! Up until this game, I swear I did not know that the NBA referees actually had a Twitter page! I found that out when they went on Twitter to explain this call…

You know things got bad when the NBA referees call out Chris Webber, who was doing color analysis! But what puts Kyle Kuzma on this list is that he kept playing…

"With time running down on the shot clock, Kuzma  hits James Harden with a behind the back dribble and hits a fade away 3-pointer going to his left. Yes, I know what you are thinking. Where’s the foul? Yep he got fouled and no, it was not called. But Kuzma did not let it get to him. He just kept playing."

Then this happened…

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"It would easy for a young player to be intimidated and down on themselves the way Harden played in the game. But Harden looked very bad defensively on this play. Watch how he allows Kuz to go by. This is how you take the challenge and compete. Make Harden work both ends of the floor."

Late in this game, Kyle Kuzma dribbled around Harden and dared Clint Capela to meet him at the rim. Let’s just say Capela was a little late!

These plays should have been higher…

BUT!

Kyle took his issue to social media. Even I tried to tell him to leave it alone…

Speaking of Charlotte…