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“LAKERS SEASON..GONE OFF TRACK”
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So red hot..now a dose of cold reality
The Lakers had come together in March, winning 18-of-20 games. After a winter of nagging injuries, they redesigned job responsibility. Got the players to buy in on roles, and reeled off huge wins against alot of upper echelon teams in the Western Conference.
All was looking good, and now all is looking bad.
In a span of 1-game, Luke Doncic went down with a significant hamstring injury. And later in the same game, Austin Reaves injured an oblique.
Forced to carry a heavy workload, LeBron James has had an arthritic flareup in his foot.
Those guys are the cornerstone of everything that makes the Lakers dangerous, and now they are out.
Oklahoma City promptly beat them the night Luka and AR went down, led the game by 46-at one point. Then with all three missing in a followup game, the Thunder laid a 36-pointy beating on the Lakers floor.
You look at the Lakers starting five and it is dismal.
They benched Jared Vanderbilt and Rui Hachimura. DeAndre Ayton gave them a 1-point-3 rebound effort over 23-minutes and he sat too with a (-26) point differential that night against OKC.
Some lineup that includes Jaxon Hayes, Bronny James, Luke Kennard, Jake LaRavia and whomever else is on the roster.
Shocking something so good, could go so south, so quickly.
And just ahead on the highway next week, the playoffs, as the Lakers plunge from 3rd place on a heater, to as low as 5th place on this ice cold plunge.
Shorthanded in the first round, and knowing full well there will be no Luka-Reaves for 4-to-5 more weeks, how are they supposed to cope with explosive Oklahoma City, the spectacular young San Antonio Spurs, the perennial tough guys Denver, or even hangers on Phoenix?
It has been a roller coaster of a ride for the Lake Show. Would have never thought I’d be invoking the phrase “1 & Done”. Sure looks like the Lake Show is about to be cancelled.
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