Los Angeles Lakers Game Analysis

Kirkendoll added his third double-double of the season and his ninth of his career with 16 points and 14 rebounds. He was 1-for-4 from beyond the arc, saving the best for last on the buzzer beater. Kirkendoll narrowly missed double-digit assists, adding seven against

Westbrook, the league’s second leading player in assists, finished with 15 points, 10 boards and 11 assists for

Junior Travion Kirkendoll reached the 30-point plateau for the first time in his career, scoring 35 points on 10-for-26 shooting and hitting all 10 from the charity stripe. He scored 31 points in the second half alone on 9-for-14 shooting (5-for-6 from behind the arc).

Deonte Burton recorded 16 points. Matt Thomas had 12 points and Darrell Bowie added 10.

In the second round of the NCAA Tournament against Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Brewer scored 5 three pointers and a total of 23 points. In the Final Four, he scored 19 points against George Mason. Finally, in the National Championship game against UCLA, he made 11 points and was responsible for 7 rebounds. Subsequently, Brewer was named to the Final Four’s All-Tournament Team.

Durant went to play for his first 50 point game, scoring 51 while against the Denver Nuggets.

This is the biggest reason why the Lakers are considered to be so great. Only one other team has won a similar amount

Russell Westbrook finished the game with an amazing triple-double production of 20 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists, making the two-time All-Star Game MVP the NBA’s leader in triple-double performance.

On top of this NBA coach of the year Pat Riley stepped down. The Lakers started to struggle a little bit after all this but then got right back into towards the ending of the year when Magic got back on the court and paired with the big star Shaquille O’Neal. O’Neal put on a show in the semifinals in game 1 against the Trail Blazers scoring 46 points that marked the highest single game playoff score by a laker ever since Jerry West which was 53. The season after that they started off 11-0 going on a 61 season win and making it to the Western Conference Finals. Towards the ending of the year 1990 another big time player joined the lakers leading them onto fantastic games and

Kyrie Irving was unstoppable in the paint and behind the 3-point line scoring 22 of his 42 points. He made 12 points in the paint 1 foul shot and 9 points from long range in just one quarter.

The Lakers took ad-vantage at the free throw line in the second half. The Lakers were 12 of 14 at the line in the contest, all of them coming in the second half.

Rayshaun McGrew finished with 13 on 5-11, and Jameel Warney finished the contest with 14 points on 5-11 shooting and 8 rebounds.

Oh by the way, the 15 boards were defensive rebounds. In the process, Randle joined Vlade Divac (2-24-95) and Lamar Odom (3-25-07) as the only Lakers to post such a stat line since the 1985-86 season and the second-youngest player in the NBA to do so in the last 30 years as well.

Fred VanVleet and Shaquille Morris each scored 12 points for the Shockers. Ron Baker had 11 points.

The Lakers also signed free-agent Shaquille O’Neal from the Orlando Magic. Shaquille O’Neal lead the Lakers to a record of 56-26, averaging 26.2 ppg and 12.5 rpg. Before the 1999-2000 season the Lakers hired former Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson, who brought the infamous triangle offense to L.A. In Phil Jackson’s first season the Lakers won their first Finals since