March 6th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Utah Jazz - 30-36
We have won three in a row, simultaneously torpedoing our draft pick (three games ago, we were in 7th, half a game out of 6th, now we're 10th) and making Lakers fans everywhere very upset. It's up to you to judge whether or not that's worth it.
I'm not gonna list too many details here, because the last game we played was against Utah, so it's not worth really writing out too much of the information. What I will write, however, are some of the details surrounding the Utah game.
We won it, 115-112, after being down 19 points early in the match. Utah shot 37% from deep in the game, but what really killed them was Donovan Mitchell being taken out of things. Jrue was his primary defender for most of the time, although he did see others occasionally (most noticeably that Kenrich Williams switch that led to the late offensive foul), and that led to Mitchell - who has averaged basically 29ppg since January 1st - being held to 19 points on 33% shooting, and 1 of 9 from deep. That is painful. It's always worth noting that although he had 9 assists, he had 6 turnovers, which isn't a brilliant ratio.
Essentially, we won because we turned it on later, and the Jazz faltered, scoring less points than the last every quarter: 33, then 28, then 27, then 24. There may be an outside reason for this: the Jazz were coming off another game the night before, a game in which Mitchell played 39 minutes and which came down to the wire against a brilliant Milwaukee team. After they've had some rest, this might be a little different.
Let's see how it goes! The team has shown that they are really capable of tearing it up despite getting interrupted by Anthony Davis, who is selfishly forcing his way onto the court every game just to shrink his own averages for some reason, and it's been fun to watch even if my inner tanker is upset by it. So let's go out there and #DoItBig!
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Originally Posted by Mythrol
