The Los Angeles Lakers suffered an awful loss at the hands of the Atlanta Hawks. Here are three takeaways.
The Los Angeles Lakers have made it to the All-Star break, and for them it is a time for reflection. Also, it is a time for reflection for the media that covers this team. Especially me.
LeBron James will come to Charlotte to play in the world’s biggest pick up game, while a lot of the roster will take a few days off to wonder how this team is below .500. Now if they were reading post games from Lake Show Life, they would know how.
The staff can’t provide content without being invested and caring about what the team does during the season. But what the site has accumulated over 57 games basically shows.
This team is not going to the playoffs the way they are playing. The Lakers look like they are playing out the string to scream.
1-2-3…Cancun!
I would like to be wrong, because the playoffs is fun to write about. Only one problem. A lot of things that have been written about the potential problems have come to pass.
Example you ask.
Look at the screen and press play.
About 30 seconds in you will see my post game after the Boston game. If you read the headline, it says that Rajon Rondo saved the season for the Lakers. Now this headline was used to make a point and Cowherd went on a rant how the Lakers stink and how the game did not matter.
But let’s think, if the Celtics win this game, where would the Lakers be at this point? Would Brian Shaw be coaching right now?
Zion sweepstakes perhaps? Oh that game mattered at the time.
Not sure about now though.
The Los Angeles Lakers suffered an embarrassing loss, falling to the Atlanta Hawks 117-113 in maybe Luke Walton’s swan song. More on that later, but at this point nobody is checking for any type of coaching at this point. If the Pelicans actually wanted to poison the Lakers locker room.
It worked.
The Lakers have done a complete back-slide to the Hawks game back in November when they were in desperate times. Remember, the Lakers should have been beaten by the Hawks in the Staples Center. The Hawks showed the NBA a new inventive way of blowing a basketball game.
It took LeBron James getting a blessing from the Heavens after blowing two free throws…
Then it took Tyson Chandler fresh off the drive from Phoenix to block Trae Young’s shot at the rim to preserve the victory.
I truly believed that Luke Walton was done if they lost that game. It would be amazing if it happens here. Classic deja’vu.
The Lakers were unprepared, listless and very lazy. Was it by design? Well stay tuned. But the Lakers blew about 50 lay-ups, gave up about 59 more to the Hawks and put on a clinic to show kids the wrongs of bad attitudes and not sacrificing.
The Atlanta Hawks are 24th in the NBA in offense, but at times (like the first quarter) they looked like the Golden State Warriors knocking down ten 3-point shots. Yeah, let me check that. 10. Which was a franchise record.
Let’s delve deeper. It’s looking bad.