The NBA is a make-or-miss league, and on some nights, groups will get beat just because their challenger hit a huge number of objectedto shots and relatively couldn’t missouton.
That was the story Monday night when the Los Angeles Lakers wentto the Portland Trail Blazers.
After the Lakers took a 14-5 lead, Portland lit them up like a Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, as it put in 3-guideline after 3-guideline.
No matter what L.A. attempted to do defensively, the Blazers kept striking from the outside, while the Purple and Gold couldn’t toss a pea in the ocean — at least not regularly.
The Lakers fell behind by 15 at the end of the veryfirst quarter and 19 at halftime, and they neverever captured up, falling 127-115. The videogame wasn’t almost as close as that last rating might recommend.
Although this wasn’t a really effective videogame by Davis’ requirements, he did bounce back perfectly after 3 straight substandard videogames, consistingof a extremely bad offending trip on Saturday versus the Golden State Warriors.
He went 8-of-18 from the field and scored 19 points, while likewise getting an outstanding 20 rebounds and obstructing 3 shots. He still isn’t assaulting the basket as much as he did priorto his right foot tension injury, and one can see that on the stat sheet in the kind of his 3 free-throw efforts.
But Davis is a real superstar since he likewise affects the videogame in locations other than scoring, as he’s an impressive rebounder, shot-blocker and positional protector.
Hachimura had a peaceful videogame with 8 points on 3-of-8 shooting, 7 rebounds, one help and one block in 22 minutes. He had a couple of his shots near the rim obstructed, and general the Blazers had something of a block celebration with 9 rejections.
Brown transformed 5-of-9 shots from the field to sc