The Los Angeles Lakers have been difficult to watch with Lonzo Ball out of the lineup, and both they and the Houston Rockets entered New Year’s Eve on 5-game losing streaks. Despite being without Ball, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and Brook Lopez, the Lakers mustered up an energetic performance before falling in double overtime, 148-142. In this […]
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Lakers Data Report: Rockets Game
It’s been… a while since we’ve had a Lakers data report. If you wish to see the data for any specific game, you can always take a look at the Laker Game Data spreadsheet I use to obtain the information used in these reports. But new year, new Cranjis. LA finished their 2017 year with […]
Laker Game Preview: The Houston Rockets
The Lakers face the Rockets tonight, in a battle of the losing streaks. Both teams have lost five straight. One of them will drag a six game trail of futility into 2018. Houston went from the best team in basketball to a dumpster fire over the last five games. A loss to the Lakers will […]
Kyle Kuzma Has Career High as Lakers Stun Rockets
That was fun. In perhaps the biggest upset of the NBA season, the visiting Los Angeles Lakers – who were starting three rookies due to the absence of Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Brook Lopez – snapped the Houston Rockets’ 14-game winning streak in stunning fashion, 122-116. In this installment of Laker Film Room, I take a […]
Laker Film Room: Switches Get Stitches
The Los Angeles Lakers are normally excellent at switching on screens, but the Houston Rockets are uniquely equipped to attack that. In this installment of Laker Film Room, I take a look at how Houston utilized their numerous shot creators to render that strategy ineffective, what the Lakers tried to do to counter that, and […]
Lakers Drop 5th Straight, Lose to Rockets 118-95
In a game that was likely lost the moment the schedule came out, the Los Angeles Lakers (8-15) dropped their 5th straight contest to the visiting Houston Rockets (18-4), 118-95. After arriving in Los Angeles around 1:00am last night on the heels of a deflating loss to the Denver Nuggets, the Lakers got off to […]
Preview and Chat: The Houston Rockets
Records: Lakers 8-9 (9th in the West), Rockets 8-8 (7th in the West) Offensive ratings: Lakers 105.1 (5th in the NBA), Rockets 104.1 (t-7th in the NBA) Defensive ratings: Lakers 99.4 (8th in the NBA), Rockets 103.4 (21st in the NBA) Projected Starting Lineups: Lakers: Chris Duhon, Kobe Bryant, Metta World Peace, Antawn Jamison, Dwight Howard Rockets: Jeremy Lin, James Harden, Chandler Parsons, Patrick Patterson, Omer Asik […]