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The Lakers Game Analysis

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The (3-21) Los Angeles Lakers are back in the city of angels to host the (10-15) Milwaukee Bucks. Tonight’s game, the Bucks first of a Western Conference road trip, hoping to utilize the energy and effort displayed in their 108-95 upset win over the Golden State Warriors as a catalyst for success. As a matter of fact, both the Warriors and Bucks, were playing on the second night of back-to-back games, to say nothing of the weary Warriors also playing the last game of a seven-game road trip. The Lakers lead the all-time series (79-49) against the Bucks, 50-13 at the Staples Center. Los Angeles lost the two-game season series to Milwaukee (0-2) in the 2013-14 season and split the season series (1-1) in 2014-15. In their last 10 games against Milwaukee, the Lakers are 4-6 …show more content…

Lakers Head Coach has bought into the less actually equals more approach in regards to Kobe Bryant’s playing time in addition to the young players playing extended minutes and closing out games. D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle will continue to come off the bench, unless Jordan Clarkson’s ankle keeps him on the bench. Julius Randle has struggled coming off the bench, hopefully Randle will realize that he is being scouted and must alter his approach and set up in the painted area, being left-handed attack more going to his right and not settle for jumpshots. The Bucks size, length and athleticism will present a problem for the Lakers. Offensively, the Lakers need a solid performance moving, passing and cutting to make the Bucks defense work as well as find the open shot. Defensively, the purple and gold must get back in transition, stop the ball, do a solid job against the pick-and-roll play, surround Greg Monroe and make him play in a crowd, quickly rotate out to open shooters, limit the Bucks to one shot per possession, box their men out and

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