The Lakers’ re-match with the Thunder was another tough one with the Lakers losing to the Thunder 107-104. The crew from lakerholics.com returns as LakerTom and Gerald talk about the game and the major news to hit today that LeBron James will be out with an abdominal strain.
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Once again, we’re only 9 games into an 82 game regular season and we’re missing LeBron James, the player without whom we have not been able to generate a positive plus/minus in over three years. So it should not be a surprise that the Lakers would struggle to win the game.
As I said on the podcast, I thought we had played well the first three quarters, building up an 80-72 lead. Then came the fourth quarter, where we collapsed with an OffRtg of 88.9, DefRtg of 134.6, for a NetRtg of -45.7, another collapse against the OKC Thunder and SGA.
Hard to win when two of your starters combine for 3 points and you’re missing the greatest player in the game. On the other hand, I thought AD and Russ had excellent games with 29 and 27 points. Other than the fourth quarter, the defense was excellent. Allowing 104 points is a good performance.
Lakers will have another week of the same. We need to focus on figuring out how to win without LeBron. This stretch could end up being a major opportunity for the Lakers to find a solution to their Achilles Heel of not being able to win without LBJ. After all, isn’t this why we traded for Russell Westbrook in the end?
They got zero stars and beat us AT HOME.