Lakers are 5-4 (Den included) when AD doesn’t play. 4 wins against a lottery Wolves and Thunder teams. And beating the Bulls in a nail-biter. It took multiple OT wins in a stretch of games to beat bad teams. In the 3 games AD hasn’t played at all, the Lakers are held to under 100 points. Miami’s defense is #9, the Pistons and Nets are 20th and 26th in defense. Losing to them wouldn’t be a concern if they scored over 100. But they didn’t.
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February 21, 2021 1 Comment
What’s worse, is we’ve been seeing all of these problems since the start of the season. Too much of giving the ball to LeBron and AD and clearing the side while everybody else stands around. Now that we shooting like crap, teams are going to copy the Heat and double LeBron and pack the paint every time down, daring us to hit an open three. We got 45 good lucks from deep last night and it wasn’t because of our great offense. It was the Heat giving us what we can’t do well, which is shoot from distance. Look for a constant diet of that coming from every team. How about some ball and player movement and stop the iso LeBron offense on the wing. We don’t have willing and capable shooters to beat the doubles and paint packing that we’re going to see every game.