As they had started the season with five straight losses and two wins in twelve games, the Lakers ran after their record for many months. By beating the Thunder, they finally managed to come back to the surface since, for the first time this season, the Californians are balanced with 37 wins and 37 losses.
To post 50% victory so late in a regular season, after 74 matches, we have to go back to Miami in 2003/2004. It is even the first time that the Lakers have posted this percentage since January 25, 2022…
“Now is the time to step aside rather than fight to recover this deficit”announces Darvin Ham to ESPN. “It’s a great moment, but nothing is done”adds Dennis Schroder.
The Lakers now have eight games ahead of them to improve their record and thus ensure their place in the play-in, or even in the playoffs. Because indeed, there are only two victories behind the Clippers, who have fifth place.
“We are at 50%, so it’s time to go to the other side, to have more wins than losses”, warns Anthony Davis, decisive in the victory against Oklahoma City. “It starts on Sunday against a good Chicago team. »
After this reception from the Bulls, the Lakers will take off for a five-game “road trip” to Chicago, then to Minnesota, Houston, Utah before returning to Los Angeles, for a duel against the Clippers. This balance sheet will therefore be put to the test.
“We have to approach these matches, these last eight, as we have been doing for a few weeks: one match after another”, recalls the Lakers coach. “We can’t think of finishing with a record of 6-2, 7-1 or 5-3. We must approach the meetings one by one, putting everything into each match. We will continue to act like this. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| lebron james | 47 | 36.1 | 50.1 | 30.8 | 75.9 | 1.2 | 7.2 | 8.4 | 6.9 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 29.5 |
| Anthony Davis | 47 | 33.7 | 55.9 | 26.5 | 79.5 | 3.3 | 9.1 | 12.4 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 25.9 |
| D’angelo Russell | 11 | 30.5 | 47.1 | 39.5 | 81.6 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 6.4 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 18.6 |
| Russell Westbrook | 52 | 28.7 | 41.7 | 29.6 | 65.5 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 7.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 15.9 |
| Dennis Schroder | 59 | 30.5 | 41.6 | 33.8 | 87.3 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 12.7 |
| Austin Reaves | 55 | 28.0 | 52.0 | 38.3 | 85.8 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 12.3 |
| lonnie walker | 51 | 24.5 | 44.5 | 35.9 | 87.3 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 12.2 |
| Thomas Bryant | 41 | 21.4 | 65.4 | 44.0 | 74.1 | 1.6 | 5.2 | 6.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 12.1 |
| Malik Beasley | 17 | 26.1 | 37.9 | 34.1 | 63.6 | 0.2 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 11.5 |
| Rui Hachimura | 25 | 22.9 | 47.2 | 34.5 | 72.9 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 9.6 |
| Jarred Vanderbilt | 17 | 25.2 | 55.2 | 20.0 | 82.8 | 2.0 | 5.5 | 7.5 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 7.9 |
| Troy Brown, Jr. | 67 | 24.8 | 43.4 | 37.6 | 89.2 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 7.3 |
| Kendrick Nunn | 39 | 13.5 | 40.6 | 32.5 | 81.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 6.7 |
| Patrick Beverly | 45 | 26.9 | 40.2 | 34.8 | 78.0 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 6.4 |
| Wenyen Gabriel | 59 | 15.4 | 60.3 | 29.0 | 61.5 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 4.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 5.8 |
| Mohammad Bamba | 7 | 11.5 | 41.7 | 33.3 | 54.5 | 1.3 | 4.0 | 5.3 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 4.4 |
| matt ryan | 12 | 10.8 | 30.6 | 37.1 | 80.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 3.9 |
| Max Christie | 38 | 13.3 | 41.9 | 41.9 | 87.5 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 3.4 |
| Juan Toscano Anderson | 30 | 12.2 | 50.0 | 20.0 | 73.3 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 2.7 |
| Damian Jones | 22 | 8.0 | 54.1 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
| Scotty Pippen, Jr. | 6 | 5.3 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 55.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.3 |
| cole swider | 6 | 6.7 | 33.3 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| davon reed | 5 | 4.2 | 66.7 | 50.0 | 25.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.2 |
| Sterling Brown | 4 | 6.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
