Lakers Offense This was LA’s highest CPOE performance on the year, scoring 128 points when they’d be only expected to score 112.5. We’ll focus mostly on the offense today, because there was a lot of good that came out of this game. Transition LA went OFF in transition. Here’s their shot chart: They had some […]
Cranjis' Corner
Same Faces, New Places: Lakers Usage
People change. Are you the same you were a year ago? Are you spending your time the same ways? A year ago I hadn’t even considered writing or podcasting, and used Twitter rather passivey. I’d say I’m mostly the same person but with more experience and smarts and have used my time rather differently. NBA […]
Lakers Data Report: Timberwolves Game
The Lakers data from this one isn’t pretty. The offense is nowhere near even being average, but it’s not a huge surprise considering the personnel the team is running out on the court. Tyler Ennis, Corey Brewer, Alex Caruso, Vander Blue, Ivica Zubac, and Andrew Bogut are all players you probably don’t want receiving minutes in […]
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 […]
Lakers Game Preview: Minnesota Timberwolves
The Los Angeles Lakers will look to start the new year fresh with a matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves. The two teams have finished their 2017’s in vastly different ways. The Lakers have been reeling recently, losing nine of ten. They’ve been playing the past four games without Lonzo Ball and Brook Lopez, and were […]
2017 NBA Data Roundup
We’ll that’s been fun. We’re almost halfway through the NBA season at the turn of the new year. Samples are no longer small, standings make more sense, and pretender teams have faded away. Our ever growing and updating daily Forum Blue & Gold NBA data spreadsheet can tell us much about this NBA season. Here […]
Lakers Data Report: Suns Game
This game was terrible and the Lakers offense was really bad, but the defense yet again was strong for LA and helped us earn the win. The Lakers have moved up from playing like a 31 win team to 33 after the ugly win against Phoenix. If you haven’t seen the following win projections before:
Lakers Data Report: Wizards and Bucks Games
The Lakers played their worst game of the season in their rematch against Washington according to the Forum Blue & Gold Points Over Expectation (POE) NBA and Lakers data. By a lot. They rebounded somewhat against Milwaukee to only post their fifth worst POE performance on the year. The worst game LA had played before […]
Is the Lakers Defense Due for Regression?
As Pete and Darius brought up on the latest LakerFilmRoom podcast, the Lakers’ team has been quite the inverse of what we’ve expected to see thus far. The defense has really carried the team while the offense is much lower ranked. This comes as a surprise to us all, but is it something we should […]
Lakers Data Report: Grizzlies Game
The Lakers are 0.500! And that’s no sham, because the Lakers data shows the team, based on their points over expectation and remaining schedule are projected to win 40 games this season! It’s incredibly impressive that as the season has gone on the team has continued to take steps forward and improve their overall POE […]