The bad from the Los Angeles Lakers’ loss:
Malik Monk will be on another NBA team next year…
This dude has resurrected his career that will be an inspirational story for young players that are close to being sent overseas. Malik Monk is the second-best scorer on this team and one of the only players that does not need LeBron James to get his own shot. If LeBron didn’t go crazy in this game, the spotlight would belong to Lik’ Lik’. This guy was incredible.
Malik Monk, who refuses to allow Frank Vogel to break his stride, scored 23 points and 6 assists with some of the most acrobatic shots you will ever see from someone his size.
The reports will be that Monk will be back with the Lakers next year. Sure he will if he wants a $2 million salary which is the maximum the team can give him. Sorry, the gas prices are too high and so is his stock around the NBA. There will be teams lining up to give this guy $40 million to just start the free agency process.
Enjoy him Lakers fans for the next three weeks.
The referees did one of the worst jobs of the season.
Normally referees and their calling of games come up around Lakers Nation and the staff of Lake Show Life don’t pay too much attention. But in this case, Lakers fans, have as much fun as you want criticizing this crew because they were terrible.
The first five minutes of the game, both teams were getting hacked (Particularly LeBron James!) with no calls. It’s understood that physicality should be established but they started calling touch fouls in the second half.
This play here was just awful…
ON HIS HEAD TREY MURPHY pic.twitter.com/CBVwrKx2aa
— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) March 28, 2022
Trey Murphy catches the rebound and dunks on Wenyen Gabriel and all he has to do is look at someone before receiving a technical foul? This is an embarrassment to the game of basketball. So people spend their hard-earned money to watch refs make inconsistent calls and give out technical fouls for players making great plays and not even scream in emotion?
Hopefully, these three don’t make the playoff rosters because the fans will lose out on intense and emotional basketball.
Man that third quarter…
Up until this point in the post-game report, the vibe had a blowout feel to it didn’t it? Well, the first half was all Lakers until the infamous third quarter. This team has had some atrocious defensive performances in the third quarter this season and to use a quote from Stu Lantz in the Lakers broadcast…
“We’ve seen this movie before!”
The Lake Show got smoked like a pack of Kools on the third quarter getting outscored 41-25 to go into the final quarter only up 94-90.
Trey Murphy used that dunk seen above to spark a 16-3 run to get New Orleans back into the game. After locking up the Pels in the first quarter, they got loose from beyond the arc knocking down three 3 pointers in a row.
The Los Angeles Lakers actually blew a 23-point lead in this game…
There’s this saying on the playgrounds that fits here…They don’t wanna win!