The Lakers lost to the Clippers 111-106 on Christmas Day, their 4th straight defeat overall and their 2nd straight loss (in 2 games) to the Clippers. The loss leaves the Lakers in an interesting position of being the top team in the west record wise, but, from an optics standpoint, clearly behind the Clippers (and, […]
Lakers Analysis
On the Lakers Losing Streak…
The Lakers lost again on Sunday, a 128-104 drubbing at the hands of the Nuggets. Without LeBron James and with Anthony Davis suffering/dealing/playing through a knee issue in the 3rd quarter, the Lakers hung tight for two quarters and then lost grip of the rope vs. a very good Denver team. I could get more […]
The Lakers are Beyond the Burden of Proof
Six straight seasons in the lottery make you question1and very cynical about nearly everything about the NBA team you root for. Losing to that level is a petri dish for uncertainty in a fanbase; it’s the response to the poor decision making that, in the aggregate, lead to the results that torpedo you to the […]
20 Stats from the Lakers First 20 Games
The 20 game mark is usually a good time to take stock in a team. About one-fourth of the season is complete, so while the sample size is still not where we’re comfortable making definitive conclusions, it is large enough to give us real insight into what a team is and can be. So, with […]
Showing Some Love for Danny Green
Danny Green averages 8.6 points a game. He grabs you 3 rebounds a night and it takes him two games to dish out that many assists, on average. On some nights, you might not even know he played if all you did was check the boxscore the next morning. Oh, what’s that? Danny Green had […]
Kyle Kuzma Nearing Return and it’s Perfect Timing
The Athletic’s Shams Charania is reporting that Kyle Kuzma will make his season debut in the Lakers matchup with the Mavericks on Friday. The Lakers have mostly played coy when it comes to an exact date Kuzma would be back, but Kuz himself seemingly endorsed Charania’s report on twitter Wednesday: It’s easy to argue the […]
Lakers vs. Clippers Post Game Thoughts
The world is not ending, I promise. Well, at least the Lakers basketball world is not. The Lakers lost a basketball game on Tuesday night to the Clippers by 10 points, 112-102. There was a lot of hype and excitement surrounding this game — opening night, LeBron and AD vs. Kawhi and the new look […]
2019-20 Los Angeles Lakers Season Preview
Championship or bust. This has long been the mantra of the Los Angeles Lakers. When you have 16 Larry O’Brien trophies as an organization (dating back to the team’s days in Minneapolis), this makes sense. That said, when you have now gone 6 straight seasons without even making the playoffs, it is sort of comical […]
Kyle Kuzma can be the Wing the Lakers are missing
“Tweener” used to be an NBA pejorative, a descriptor used to describe players whose games slotted between two positions; players who could only help you so much because they did not fit naturally within more stringent positional norms. In today’s NBA, however, nearly everyone strives to be a tweener of some sort. Position-less basketball has […]
Laker Film Room Podcast: Anthony Davis Shines in Lakers Debut
In this episode of the Laker Film Room Podcast, Pete and I talk about the Lakers win in their preseason opener vs. the Warriors and, more specifically, Anthony Davis’ strong debut. We open up the pod talking about Davis’ insta-chemistry with LeBron James and our first impressions of Davis’ overall game. We get into some […]