LOL, Dave. We may be the only ones on the blog who actually saw Bob Petit play.
5 Things: Lakers can’t sustain momentum, fall to Knickerbockers
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Thanks for the Fiver, Jamie. Never fun to have to write about a disappointing loss.
But let’s put this loss into proper perspective. First, these are not your ‘normal’ New York Knicks and Julius Randle is not the same player the Lakers allowed to walk away without an offer.
New management and a great coach in Tom Thibodaux have changed the Knicks from a perennial laughing stock to a team with a top five NBA defense. Thibs cleatly outcoached Vogel in this game. He doubled our bigs and dared us to shoot well from outside. Instead of spreading the floor, we continued to try to post up Dre and Trezz and Dennis continued to try and drive into a crowd in the paint. We played right into Thibs hands and never countered his defensive strategy.
Combine an offensively challenged Lakers team playing on the road against the Knicks, a legitimate second best defensive team in the league, and the odds should have favored NY more than just 2 points as we saw in the game. This is a formula for a blow out loss by the Lakers. Poor offense vs. good defense is a turnover machine as we saw.
Add a true All-Star player looking for revenge against the team that drafted and then discarded him and you get what we saw. Randle dominiated, the Lakers stuggled and never adjusted, and the Knicks won going away with nothing but scrubs on the floor the last few minutes.
I missed the first half. I tuned in after the 3rd quarter started, and turns out, that is where we lost the game. All I saw was endless turnovers and it
felt the game was unwatchable. Everything went south from there. There is not much for me to add here.
Great analysis by Jamie and Tom.