For the Los Angeles Lakers, this year’s season is about giving LeBron James (38), the league’s aging figurehead, one last big chance at a championship.
With a very decent record of 12:9, they are fully on course for the playoffs, even in the strong West. Of the last ones They won an impressive eight ten home games.
But the truth is that we have recently regularly lost out against ambitious teams on the playoff course. There were some significant defeats in Oklahoma (-23), in Philadelphia (-44), against Dallas (-3) and Sacramento (-15).
With 112.5 points per game, the Southern Californians have the tenth worst offense in the league, although the overall shooting rate is elite at 48.7% (5th place), but the three-point shooting rate is miserable at just 33.7% (29th place).
The Lakers also have 14.3 turnovers per game the seventh most prone team to turnovers.
Defensively they are at least average with an average of 113.5 points, the allowed shooting rate of 45.6% is the eighth best in the league and only five teams manage more blocks than the Lakers (6.0).
2023-12-05 07:57:00
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