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Los Angeles Lakers: 4 Lessons from the loss to the Houston Rockets

By Ronald Agers

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 06: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers is fouled by James Harden #13 of the Houston Rockets during the second half of the game at Staples Center on February 6, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 06: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers is fouled by James Harden #13 of the Houston Rockets during the second half of the game at Staples Center on February 6, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) /
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Russell Westbrook sent a limo for the Los Angeles Lakers. Then took them out and got them a 40 piece scoring dinner.

Is there a reason why Russell Westbrook loses his mind every time he sees the Lakers coming? Even in the loss earlier this season, Russ did work in the first half before Kyle Kuzma stepped up to the defensive challenge. Well let’s just say that Kuz didn’t match that intensity in this game. Westbrook ate an extra bowl of Wheaties this morning and destroyed the Lake Show defense by himself seemingly.

Russell Westbrook lit the Lakers up for 41 points while grabbing 8 rebounds and dishing out 5 assists. Here’s the kicker here, he only hit one 3-point shot all night long. For the first time since his MVP year, he was in a complete zone. No one in purple and gold could stop him.

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1225659776882769921

Westbrook surpassed the 20,000 point plateau during the game. He joined LeBron James and Oscar Robertson as the only players in NBA history with 20,000 points, 7,000 assists, 6,000 rebounds. Pretty good company. Even though Westbrook was playing lights out, on this play the Lakers looked like they wanted to turn out the lights.

https://twitter.com/NBAonTNT/status/1225646453143420928

Feel free to stop the ball, rim protect, foul, something. This basically showed how badly the Lake Show was bamboozled the whole night on the defensive end.

It does bear mentioning that the Lakers did give up a 20-20-20 box score to Russell Westbrook last year so, let’s just say he does get numbers against this team at times. To the fans that don’t know what that is, it’s a 20 point, 20 rebound and 20 assist game. There is a very short list of players that have done it.

Wilt Chamberlain is the other one. That’s the list.

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