It’s a good day

Aloha,

The Lakers continued their strong play last night against a good Pelican team. It wasn’t as much about the win as it was how we won. The Pels are 8th best defense in league. They had been on a roll and had beat the Clippers on Wednesday holding them to 106 points. Even with AD limited due to foul trouble we dropped 139 on them, with all 5 starters scoring 20+ points.

We all know that DLO is a streaky scorer and he was definitely on last night. But even when he’s not hitting his shots you have to stay with him and that opens the floor for others. We are 0 and 5 in games DLO missed. It seems his mind set has changed since he came back into the starting line up. He has been much more aggressive on the offensive end, which volume scorers need to do, make or miss. We definitely need this level of aggression the rest of the season to have a chance.

For me the biggest thing was the body movement. We had 32 assists and a big reason for that was players were moving and not standing around watching LeBron and AD operate. LeBron had 13 assists and he will find you if you are open. Rui was the biggest beneficiary of that movement. There is no reason why we can’t continue moving like this. This group has several starts together now and I’m hoping they continue to gel.

The news about signing Dinwiddie was huge. We desperately needed depth at PG. I was bummed at the trade deadline that we didn’t find any. But we probably could not have done better Spencer in a small trade anyway. And he didn’t cost us anything. He is a solid vet and will definitely help.

It appears that we will have Cam back after the break which is more good news. His perimeter defense has been missed. I’m hoping that we can get Vando back before the playoffs. His elite defense and rebounding could really help this team become very dangerous in the playoffs.