The Los Angeles Lakers 2024-2025 NBA Season

[Retroram52]

Fundamentally, when your "other" players are repeatedly clanking wide open shots like last night, that is a prime indicator the Lakers ain't gonna get past Minnesota. If they lose both games in Minnesota, the series is done and it is just a matter of when the Wolves will win Game number 4.

 

[shopson67]

Fundamentally, when your "other" players are repeatedly clanking wide open shots like last night, that is a prime indicator the Lakers ain't gonna get past Minnesota. If they lose both games in Minnesota, the series is done and it is just a matter of when the Wolves will win Game number 4.

In a glass half full slant, I would suggest that the Lakers have plenty of room to improve as those shots will start falling. Now that they are re-engaged defensively, I don't see them losing 2 consecutive.

 

[Retroram52]

Well, the glass half-full/half-empty slant is really based in a fallacy. In reality, a glass with some liquid content of known or estimated volume shares the glass with environmental air content because the glass is a container of known or estimated volume. So a glass that is half full of a lquid is also hal full of air. The person who chooses to myopically focus on one aspect of that volume-based container is ignoring the reality that I just explained.

So to remedy the issue of the Lakers missing shots when presented with the wide-open opprotunity many times and improving their game on both sides of the court is to actually achieve the better playing approach and make those shots when called upon.

Afterall, the Lakers (and everyone else in the NBA) have been trying to get better all season and those that actually achieve betterment have made fundamental changes to their behavioral approach to the game and the issues they have had.

To then explain that those shots will start falling when they haven't most of the season (because then the problem would not be an issue) is simply ignoring the reality that the Lakers have players masquerading as good playes when they are simply fundamentally not very good.

That is why some teams win series and some teams go home early.