After two seasons of being among the best defenses in the league, Frank Vogel’s Lakers are now experiencing a steep downfall on this side of the court. Clearly, since the start of the season, they have been worrying in this area.
The numbers prove it as well as the pictures: with 113.3 points conceded per game, Los Angeles is only the 27th defense in the league in average, and the 19th, only, in efficiency (110.3 points), it that is to say the points collected on 100 possessions.
Against the Nuggets, the Californians have conceded 133 points and it is already the 13th time this year, as well as the third time in a row, that they have conceded at least 125 points in a meeting…
“When you get your ass kicked, you don’t have the right body language”, admits Frank Vogel, who no longer hides his frustration, at Laker Nation. “We have to do better, in terms of effort. We started well, in terms of energy. Nikola Jokic creates problems for any defense, therefore for ours. We need to double up and they sanctioned that, they had a very big game. “
Big match of the opponent or not, the observation remains the same: the Lakers suffer in defense. It is obvious that the absence of Anthony Davis, who could return by the end of the month, weighs heavily, but the problems are deeper.
“We have to go back to the blackboard and put our defense back in the right direction”, continues the coach. “We haven’t been good lately. Overall, this is not enough. The group is new and we are trying to learn our system, our duo for everyone. Everyone learns on the job. We haven’t had a lot of training to connect this group as it would be necessary and we are working on it. We are doing our best, but it is clear that the account is not there for the moment. “
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| lebron james | 31 | 36.7 | 51.9 | 36.2 | 76.7 | 1.1 | 6.4 | 7.5 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 28.9 |
| Anthony Davis | 27 | 35.4 | 52.1 | 17.9 | 72.7 | 2.7 | 7.1 | 9.9 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 23.3 |
| Russell Westbrook | 43 | 35.3 | 43.8 | 29.1 | 66.2 | 1.4 | 6.7 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 3.1 | 18.7 |
| carmelo anthony | 41 | 27.0 | 42.7 | 38.9 | 80.2 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 13.2 |
| Malik Monk | 38 | 26.0 | 47.3 | 40.6 | 85.1 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 12.1 |
| Talen Horton-tucker | 27 | 27.4 | 40.5 | 24.1 | 81.0 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 10.6 |
| isaiah thomas | 4 | 25.2 | 30.8 | 22.7 | 72.7 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 9.2 |
| Sekou Doumbouya | 2 | 8.2 | 62.5 | 50.0 | 75.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 7.0 |
| Avery Bradley | 35 | 23.7 | 42.3 | 38.5 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 6.7 |
| Austin Reaves | 24 | 20.9 | 51.5 | 37.9 | 86.2 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 6.4 |
| Wayne Ellington | 30 | 20.1 | 39.9 | 38.3 | 80.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 6.4 |
| Stanley Johnson | 9 | 20.4 | 45.9 | 27.3 | 90.0 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 3.4 | 5.4 |
| Dwight Howard | 33 | 14.9 | 62.9 | 66.7 | 60.6 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 5.4 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 5.4 |
| Deandre Jordan | 29 | 13.0 | 67.4 | 0.0 | 58.8 | 1.6 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 4.3 |
| Kent Bazemore | 25 | 16.7 | 33.0 | 35.1 | 76.9 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 4.0 |
| Trevor Ariza | 9 | 18.1 | 52.2 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 3.9 |
| Rajon Rondo | 18 | 16.1 | 32.4 | 26.7 | 50.0 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 3.1 |
| mason jones | 2 | 4.4 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.5 |
| jemerrio jones | 2 | 7.4 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| Darren Collison | 3 | 12.4 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| Chaundee Brown | 2 | 10.3 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Jay Huff | 4 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
