The time for half measures is over in the Lakers. Now they have gotten into a big problem. The Pelicans’ home loss and the Spurs’ win there a day earlier is a mixture that places them on the brink of the abyss: tenth position, on the verge of falling, and with only one victory ahead of Gregg Popovich’s team. One of the most interesting battles at the end of the regular phase will be there. But for the Lakers it is not that it is a tasteful dish or not, in which no dilemma is possible, it is that it is a dish that they have requested. On D-Day and H-Hour they were winning big, getting the job done, and fell into the deepest of holes to bring back a degree of excitement to the Western Conference standings that we thought we had lost.
Gift of the gods who write this script. On the night of the Film Academy Awards, of excellence in the art of interpreting roles, the Lakers have to drop the Razzie. It is the parodic version of the Oscars and whose gala takes place a few days before the most important awards. LeBron James has been awarded one this year for his participation in Space Jam 2, tape in which he played himself, but it is all this template that must take him. Collective. How can a team, not the one with the most Rings in history along with the Celtics, fall so low to go from favorite to the title before the season to fight to maintain tenth place a few months later? They are the worst interpretation of themselves. And more when the series is broadcast Winning Time, which narrates the adventures of this franchise when it was everything in the 1980s. That reality is stranger than fiction is a hackneyed concept, but it is still correct in this case. The play in it will become a blessing if they can finally dispute it.
The Lakers’ outburst at the Smoothie King Center is not surprising, it actually means maintaining the trend of the entire season in the NBA. It is simply confirmation that angelenos must sweat blood to survive. With Davis still out due to injury and the ups and downs around Westbrook, LeBron James is trying to get the Lakers out of a hole that they themselves have dug and, at the moment, he can’t. The Pelicans, who are ninth in the conference table, had a great time at the start of the game and ended up winning thanks to the numerous cracks through which Vogel’s men let them slip. It’s the story of a season that, at this point, just got really messy.
116-108 below when the lakers got to be 23 up. The second part of him was a worrying lowering of arms against a team in which Ingram returned but Williamson is still missing. LeBron James’ great game, with 39 points in 42 minutes and a positive 14/27 shots, came to nothing when compared to the collective performance that led them to lose. 65 points allowed between the third and fourth periods and the fall of those that hurt.