Analyzing The Most DISGRACEFUL Lakers Loss...

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What kind of offense is this? With 3 of his teammates in the back Russell takes off against the entire Philly defense in a hilarious display of hero mode basketball that ends horribly.
This one is even worse as all the offensive game plan goes out the window and instead he dives head first in the middle of this box created by 4 Sixers and to top things off, D-Lo challenges one of the best rim protectors in the league and of course is unsuccessful.
This 44 point loss, may have been the most disgraceful Laker performance that I’ve seen.
And I gotta show you some of the preposterous things that they were doing.
The Lakers are near the bottom of the league in turnovers and boy we could see that in this game.
Watch this possession. Davis is sealing off Covington under the basket but Reaves is too busy messing around here in the corner, going nowhere, then he dribbles right into AD, gets double teamed still not getting rid of the ball, and ultimately falls out of bounds.
To add insult to injury, Pat Bev then goes and bumps him right here as obviously he’s feeling himself after the good defensive sequence he had.
Again, look- there is no play call here. Reaves just puts his head down and tries to twist and turn his way but instead gets stuck and loses the ball. Absolutely nothing happened on that possession.
And what is Davis even trying to do here, with a wall of 3 Philly defenders in front, he wanted to dribble his way inside I guess, but this move feels like something we could see in the amateur leagues and not from an NBA superstar.
This is also without any concept- Davis is acting like a point guard as he spins at half court here, and then he goes right at Embiid who’s already set and waiting for him at the rim. AD even drifts to the side making it tougher on himself and Joel swats it away for a monster block.
LA ended the game with 17 turnovers and Philadelphia had 5. And you’re definitely not winning the game like that.
The turnovers and the overall bad offense has been on brand for them as they are 25th in offensive rating. Near the bottom of the league in this category as well.
Worst of all, these 3 point looks that they missed are open for a reason.
This team is 28th in the NBA in 3 point percentage. Third worst.
Even with that in mind however, 7 for 28 from downtown is just terrible.
On top of that, they let their opponent grab 15 offensive rebounds, and on some of these, the Lakers were flat out bird watching while the Sixers were rebounding the ball and putting it back in.
This must be the easiest offensive rebound that Covington ever got as not only nobody puts a body on him, but they don’t even touch him as he gets this ball. And then Tobias Harris just walks his way inside for the layup.
And watch Batum here as he again just walks inside and gets this board and the putback.
Speaking of that, it happened again for him right here. No communication, no rotation by the Lakers, nothing. Just a guy jogging inside and dunking it.
And I don’t even know what to say about this as they literally moved out the way for Maxey to score here.
Playing it again, Prince sees that Maxey is in front but I guess he thinks somebody is there on the back line, which Lebron should come out and help but there’s no effort from anyone and Tyrese just lays it in. This is embarrassing honestly.
Speaking of embarrassing, Embiid has a 6 game winning streak on Davis, and in this game he completely dominated him. I know that the Lakers were missing some players, and sure- Philadelphia hit a bunch of threes, but the overall lack of effort and some of the inexplicably bad possessions both on offense and defense were disgusting if you’re a fan of this team.
So, Laker fans I’m sorry that you had to watch this.
But you’re not alone as Spurs fans feel a bit of pressure as well, with the entire basketball world turning against Victor Wembanyama- so you can watch that right here. Talk to you in the next one. Peace out.