Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Lakers
- Updated: February 28, 2015
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We like to start our day searching the web and reading articles about our beloved LA sports teams. It’s easy to get lost in the depth of the inter web, but luckily for you we have compiled a list of the most interesting and pertinent news stories for your morning reading pleasure. For this edition, let’s dive into the news surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers.
Here is an excerpt from the recap of last night’s game:
The Los Angeles Lakers, fresh off their comeback win against the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night, looked to win three straight games; this time against a new-look Milwaukee Bucks team.
The Lakers, who sported their black and gold uniforms for Hollywood Nights, started the game on a 7-0 run. After a quick timeout, they pushed their lead to 14-6 with 4:40 left. The Lakers held the Bucks to 26% shooting to lead 24-18 after the 1st quarter. The Lakers second unit failed to stop a 9-0 run by the Bucks, cutting their lead to one halfway through the 2nd quarter, 34-33. The Bucks eventually took the lead, off a Jerryd Bayless bucket. The Bucks led by two into the locker room, 47-45.
Out of the locker room, the Bucks looked to pull away early on a 12-4 run to lead 59-49. The Lakers did not offer much resistance through a suffocating Bucks defense as they trailed 72-65 after three-quarters. The Lakers tried to change their fate in the final quarter as they cut the Bucks lead to one within the first three minutes, 77-76. The Lakers would then take the lead at 83-81, halfway through the 4th quarter. The Lakers kept the Bucks at bay and pushed the lead to 98-91 with a minute left. The Lakers went on to defeat the Bucks, 101-93.
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ESPN.com discusses the Lakers future:
“The Lakers have historically relied on their big, swinging legacy rather than the draft, often leveraging all those sunny days, all those titles and all those Hall of Famers to great effect; this is the same franchise that less than three years ago turned Andrew Bynum and a few party favors into Dwight Howard, then the best center on the planet. Their mixed opinions on analytics may be to their determent, but even quants concede there are inherent advantages sewn into those purple and gold jerseys. “I don’t know that the Lakers need to be at the forefront of analytics usage,” one analytics official told ESPN’s Baxter Holmes, before noting the advantages even a big-market team can glean from those spreadsheets.
But as one of five teams with a loss column already north of 40, it behooves the Lakers to turn to the future. Even if Clarkson, the 46th overall pick last June, isn’t in the long-term plans, developing seedlings like him could ultimately produce the type of young assets that can be flipped for the next big-money superstar in the team’s long lineage.
Byron Scott, in his own way, appears to agree.”
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