The Los Angeles Lakers came into Sunday night’s matchup with the New Orleans Pelicans with one assignment and that was to win the game. A loss would really hurt the Lakers’ chances of getting into the play-in tournament which is now a three-team race thanks to the San Antonio Spurs’ four-game win streak.
- A loss in this game would hand the Pelicans the season series with only one more game to go later on this week.
- The Lakers would not only fall back to the 10th seed (Like again!), but they would only be one game ahead of the San Antonio Spurs in the loss column.
- Most importantly, the Lakers need any win they can get with the toughest schedule in the NBA to finish the season.
Wow. This might be the end folks. This ain’t it. Let’s get started on next year because they have no first-round draft pick until when? Rapture?
The Los Angeles Lakers got run out of the gym in the second half getting outscored 67-39 to lose 116-108. To warn Lakers fans that read this article, it will be the most uneven Lakers report on the internet. Why? Because this might have been the most uneven Lakers game in their long history.
There will be plenty of finger-pointing and now is the time because this season is over. Who cares if Anthony Davis comes back (Like he’s coming to get run out of the gym too!) or LeBron James continues to score at a historical rate…
Frank Vogel is the head coach of your Los Angeles Lakers. The man is running a coaching pyramid scheme.
First, he put Austin Reaves in the game at the end of the game to take pictures of Brandon Ingram taking a turnaround jumper.
Then he takes Dwight Howard out of the game and for the second straight game…and then this happens seconds later.
https://twitter.com/PelicansNBA/status/1508251953494560772
How the assistant coaches keep their cool is inspiring because Vogel makes no sense.
The good from the Los Angeles Lakers’ loss (First half folks!):
The Los Angeles Lakers had the best opening start of the season and it wasn’t close!
The Lakers were all over the New Orleans Pelicans in front of a standing-room-only crowd in the Big Easy. Why was it standing room only? See the crowd stand until the Pelicans score their first field goal. Man the Lake Show felt a little bit petty in this one because they ran out on a serious run while not allowing a basket for the first four minutes of the game.
- The Los Angeles Lakers started the game on a 12-0 run.
- LeBron James had a personal 10-0 run to spearhead the run.
- The defense held New Orleans to 1-6 shooting from beyond the arc for 16.7 percent.
- Malik Monk had 7 points in only five minutes with a ridiculous behind-the-back pass to Wenyen Gabriel for a slam dunk!
https://twitter.com/SpectrumSN/status/1508225625479286784
- The Lakers held the lead to finish out the first 12 minutes 31-23.
These reports for the last month have been scathing on this franchise for the lack of effort on both ends of the floor while getting comments (Also read: excuses!) of why they haven’t done so. Well, maybe this is just an anomaly or maybe the Lakers caught on to the concept that defense and a commitment to rebounding the ball to set up the fast break works. Kind of like what this site has been saying since (Checking the calendar) the preseason?
We’re sorry LeBron James…this was an MVP performance.
No…not the 39 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists. Somebody has to lead a bad team in scoring. The MVP performance was not completely losing your cool after setting the tone early, playing both ends of the floor and giving maximum effort for the entire 42 minutes.
The narrative of “Oh what else do you want LeBron to do?” was all over this website when the Lakers were blown out of games in the first six minutes of professional NBA games. No one bought it because the man did not try on both ends.
In this game…LeBron James did everything he could and more! Dude gets a pass.
Well, the offseason is coming in about three weeks…
Anyone else tired of watching this debacle?