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 […]
Lakers Analysis
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 […]
Sifting Through the Avery Bradley Rave Reviews
Training camp isn’t just the opening of the NBA season, it’s also when optimism season hits full stride. Over the course of the summer, teams made key additions to their rosters and with those additions come a great belief and flowery quotes about why it’s all going to work. Then training camp opens and we […]
Anthony Davis and Frank Vogel can be a Perfect Pairing
Having Anthony Davis, one of the league’s best players, is every coach’s dream. The NBA remains a talent league above all else and every coach will be the first to sign up for one of the 5-10 true difference makers that can propel their team towards a championship. Regardless of any potential pitfalls, that thirst […]
Is Alex Caruso the Lakers’ Answer at Point Guard?
Coming out of Texas A&M as an undrafted free agent, Alex Caruso has spent most of his NBA career in the G-League. A season with the Oklahoma City minor league team became two seasons, under a 2-way contract, with the South Bay Lakers where he shuffled between the parent team and the SBL. If Caruso […]
Lakers Roster Talk: Kuzma, Dudley the Combo Forwards LA Needs
Now that the Lakers roster is, basically, complete we’re going to start a short series of posts taking a look at a specific part of the team from an angle we find interesting. Next up, we look at the team’s combo forwards. The era of position-less basketball is in full swing and the Lakers have […]
DeMarcus Cousins Injury and the Next Man Up Who May not Exist
DeMarcus Cousins tore his ACL on Monday. Confirmations of the injury came on Thursday afternoon. I spent most of the rest of that day thinking about Cousins the person and, really, simply feeling sick for him. There are few things more sad in professional sports than to have an elite athlete’s body betray them. Cousins, […]
Anthony Davis and the Short-Long Game
The Lakers have long targeted Anthony Davis — just as nearly every other big market team has. This will sound elitist, but when a generational talent ends up playing in a small market, the big market/historical franchises lust for those players and monitor their situations with great interest at all times in order to make […]