Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

well hes the one saying hes been watching/studing the tapes

 

Bingo!

 

Lakers led 63-53 with 1:50 left in the 2nd Q, then played the worst basketball we've seen in a loooong time in losing to DEN, 127-102.

2nd straight loss at home to a team on the road in a BTB.

What went right: nothing

What went wrong: everything after 1:50 of the 2nd Q: stopped playing D; AD out of rhythm, tentative, terrible really. If you told me this guy was a front runner for the MVP and I hadn't seen him play all year, I would watch this and think you must be on ketamine or something. He sucked. It's been a long time, but he made like a sheep and played baaaaaad. (Badly.)

Lebron with 6 turnovers.

Unfocused, lazy passing. Lakers stopped boxing out and got hammered on the boards. If there were two Lakers under the basket on a Nuggets miss, you can bet the one Nugget got the ball and put it in. Lakers didn't get back on D. A lot of the time they didn't even get their hands up on D. Not sure what happened after 63-53 but you have to do everything within your powers to NOT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN.

I think they should fumigate Crypto just to get the stench of this game outta there.

The Nuggets win their 13th of the last 14 against us. Yea, they have our number but I really think the Lakers were absolute crap in the final 26 mins of this game.

I'm not one of those fans who sees a guy have a bad game and call for him to get traded for picks, but I'm gettin' there with D-Lo, whose game looks awful this year. No sugar-coating it. He's been really, really lousy.

The 3rd Q is now a psychological problem for the Lakers. Not sure if it's on JJ, or to what extent, but something has to be done about the focus, planning, and energy coming out of halftime. DEN outscored us 37-15 and the 4th was garbage.

I got out my crystal ball and swami hat immediately after the game. I dimmed the lights and chanted words from the Upanishads. Finally, Kobe, who I was trying to contact, showed up.

Me: Whoa! Mamba-man! You showed! Ya look good.
Kobe: Cut the crap. That's one ya gotta flush down.
Me: You saw it?
Kobe: Lemme put it this way: I saw enough. Flush. It. Down.
Me: I hear ya. Hey as long as I have you here...
Kobe: Mamba...OUT!

And just like that: he was gone. But he's right. Of course.