LeSigh....all is forgiven with a win! Not.
This will all be for naught if they lay a massive egg against the Clippers. You need a better shooting night than 46% to beat Lob City. But, a win feels so new and was missed so let's relish this until another beatdown.
I take pride in seeing the Lakers lose, whether their squad is irrelevant or not, something about the purple and gold losing just makes me tingle in my man-parts.
While it was against Jackson and a whole bunch of Titos', two facets of the offense were admirable in their execution in this matchup...
While they only scored 11, 2 more than the opponent, fastbreak points, this offense is proven to be beautiful and quite effective if they play their game in a faster pace. Ball movement is much needed and there were about a handful of offensive sets were that point was illustrated tonight.
Also, outscoring, even again only by 2, the opponent in the paint is quite nice to see. I love the dribble drives and I love how I have been rooting for a guy who shoots unconsciously this entire season to only be replaced by a guy who does the same but makes it more than often than not. Plus there were points when Smith was on Kobe and I never would have trusted that for a millisecond if it was Waiters.
Nice little win, even if against an inferior foe. Now its time to regroup and refocus for a hard matchup in the Clippers.
Side note, anyone remotely follow Love while with the Wolves? Is this back spasm thing common for him or did it just come out of the blue this season?