[Trevor Lane] The Lakers average a league-worst 22.9 wide open threes given up per game, which opponents make at a 42% clip. Last night, OKC actually generated 34 wide-open threes out of 49 total threes shot. They hit just 29% of those wide-open threes.
Case in point: the Lakers average a league-worst 22.9 wide open threes given up per game, which opponents make at a 42% clip. Last night, OKC actually generated 34 wide-open threes out of 49 total threes shot. They hit just 29% of those wide-open threes. https://t.co/OcUkjBSHeg
— Trevor Lane (@Trevor_Lane) January 16, 2024
by TheWhisperingDeath
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There is a reason why lot of these bad/average shooters catch fire and shoot like Steph Curry vs the Lakers. Its because these are NBA players and if you keep giving them wide open-3s, they are bound to get in rhythm and punish you.
THIS SCHEME is doomed to fail in playoffs. Unless Darvin changes which I have zero faith in him doing so.
This is a stat we all know to be true but that sounds really ugly when said aloud. That is not sustainable.
Stu called it in the broadcast last night. The team communication sucks on D atm. Instead of switching effectively, the person with the ball gets doubled, leaving a wide-open shooter. DLO has been great but this is a glaring deficiency on his part.
I also felt same during the IST finals, that we got lucky that Pacers chucked.
Lakers were lucky to win last night. If OKC hit their open 3’s at a average rate, they win.
Nothing will change and the problem will still exist. Trade or not. The Lakers either need to let Ham go or he needs to change his defensive strategy.
Yip. It’s why people getting excited by wins and thinking everything is fixed is ridiculous. The other team missed wide open shots. Same thing happened last time we beat them actually.
Our entire strategy is basically “hope the other team misses” and if they don’t then we lose.
I think we all saw it… the Lakers basically got lucky last night… every team has one of those games where they just can’t make shots, and the Lakers caught the Thunder on one of those nights.
I don’t think things like “data” and “stats” are real for this organization.
I miss back in 2020 when we had guys like Caruso, Bradley, Green, hell even Rondo to chase guys off the line and funnel them into the wall of AD/Dwight/Javale. That was so successful
They need to fix this or else they ain’t going anywhere
In other words we where lucky and should have been blown out! The defense scheme is not working!
This is 1000% on Ham
We got lucky
We don’t have any point of attack defender that is capable of stay in front of opponent’s on-ball guard navigating through screens, and it’s a domino effect from there. I miss The Menace, for real.
So we got lucky
Lakers practice is probably full of wide open bricks so they think this is a good strategy lmao
COACHING is our limiting factor. Even more so than health during the regular season. We are squandering an mvp dpoy level AD season and a relatively healthy Bron season because our coach is well below average. Even Vogel has this team above .500 in the top 6.
so fluky win – if the thunder hit the league average then the lakers get blown out? Ham is using smoke and mirrors to keep his job
I mentioned it the other day when they won against the Clips because we were giving up wide open 3s every possession and still won by 3pts. It’s just a crazy strategy in the current nba with all these teams willing to live and die by the 3 pointer.
That’s what i like about Trevor Lane. He is capable of finding positive and encouraging things in losses, and negative and worrying things in wins. He’s never too high or too low and he stays critical. Unlike fans who wants to trade the entire roster after a loss and then say that we shouldn’t make a trade because everything is fine after a win.
And while I’m really happy that we won, the fact that we only won by single digits when OKC missed 35 threes with a lot of them being wide open is pretty worrying to me.
But hey, a win is a win.
In other words we should have lost
This is exactly what I was saying last night when people were trying to say we played great defense cuz we held them to whatever score by the half. It shows when you’re only watching the box score and not the actual game. Our offense saw a big uptick in chemistry and ball movement, but aside from some quick hand steals our perimeter defense is still awful
Dogshit scheme that belongs in 2004
This is why the Lakers have lost so many games. They give up the most wide open 3’s per game and to add on top of that, the Lakers are 25th in 3pt % currently. In the modern NBA, 3 pts is so much more valuable than 2 pts. This team isn’t anywhere close to being a contender if this keeps up.
So Darvin’s game plan is to hope the opposing teams don’t shoot well at the 3. If they shoot remotely decent, we lose. If they have a bad shooting night, we win. GENIUS.
Why the fuck does Darwin ham defensive scheme have everyone sag off their players