The Los Angeles Lakers picked up a thrilling victory over the New Orleans Pelicans. Lake Show Life breaks down the wildest game of the season in Lake Show Life Lessons.
The Los Angeles Lakers have officially taken over as the most entertaining team in the NBA. They are already the best team, but LeBron James and Anthony Davis made sure that this team does not get burned with all of the possible ways the team tries to give the game away.
The Lakers won their 16th game of the season and used their 16th different way of winning it. The Lake Show Life staff found the unofficial manual (Just kidding!) and see they used reason number 7,555 in the manual against the New Orleans Pelicans.
After this game, that specific reason needs to be thrown in the trash never to be used again. The Lakers didn’t win this game, it was more like the Pelicans lost it.
After every player not named Anthony Davis played like they could taste the turkey, the defense showed up in the fourth quarter as the Lakers held the Pelicans to 21 points closing out a 114-110 win. Even that was touch and go had it not been for a game-winning steal and some clutch free throws from Davis.
Game on the line. Anthony Davis in lockdown mode 🔒🔒🔒 pic.twitter.com/iTjnzxbZTa
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) November 28, 2019
It doesn’t matter how much the Lakers can pay AD with a max deal, it’s not enough. Give the man some Executive Producer rights to Space Jam 2 or something.
The Lakers have a lot to be thankful for as they finally go home after sweeping a four-game road trip in New Orleans. They should be thankful that they go home with a sweep when they could have easily lost all four games.
The Lakers tried a new challenge against the Pelicans. The challenge on this night was to see if Davis could beat his old team by himself while being booed by every fan in the Smoothie King Arena.
The obvious plan was to feed the ball early and often to AD to dominate his old team and shut the Pelicans faithful up. For the most part, he did. Anthony Davis basically played one-on-one with his friend Jrue Holiday neck and neck in the first half.
Holiday basically abused the Lakers perimeter defenders for 25 points in the first half. AD won the head to head matchup with 27. While AD was killing the Pelicans all by himself, the Lakers were losing.
Hence the Pelicans plan. Outside of a wide-open J.J. Redick miss from 17 feet, the okey-doke plan almost caught the Lakers.
The Lakers are sliding by on the fact they have more talent than each team they beat on this road trip. Plus, it is plainly obvious that Frank Vogel is a MAJOR upgrade at head coach. He always seems to have an adjustment at halftime to turn things around.
This game shows how badly Avery Bradley is missed on the floor. The more he plays, the less time Rajon Rondo does. Zero points while being a turnstile on defense is not going to get it. While he chases assists, the offense grinds to a halt. When he sat down for the night, the Lakers started moving the ball and running their sets.
This game was so wild, Lake Show Life Lessons will be done like we are all at the kitchen table. The straight forward analysis doesn’t do it justice.