Laker starters just scored 137 of 142 points
Only 5 pts from the bench
What is the record for fewest bench pts in a regular season?
Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401810815
Kennard was paying tribute to Gabe Vincent tonight.
This might be the first Lakers game Ive seen where he just couldn’t make shit
Still makes consistently good reads out of the short roll and has great gravity. Good pickup
His first meh game since the trade
Kennard, Rui, and Hayes have been carrying most of our bench scoring but Hayes was out, Rui started in place for Smart who was out with injury, and Kennard had a rare bad shooting game.
When you take Hachimura out the bench and Kennard has a rare off night, the bench’s production is non-existent
Also no Hayes for easy lobs from Luka
Our bench is ASS
Luke how they massacred my boy
first time?
This is like the 7th season in a row
No. Not the first time…
whispers it’d make the most sense to have LeBron off the bench
Doesn’t really matter who starts but the bug 3 shouldn’t be on the court together much
Whispers back…. They are a +6 net rating (higher now) since Jan 1st
I found a thread from 10 years ago that showed a cavs vs bucks game where the bucks bench scored 0 points
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200601040MIL.html
LeBron with a third of Cleveland’s points as expected
thats not even the best part.
Lebron played 45:42 and its just a regular ass game in january
The 2000s was a special era man, the stars were working like dogs
And LeBron specifically was basically like the old line about Peyton Manning, “if he’s out, we’re fucked and we don’t practice fucked”
TIL Mo Williams and Toni Kukoc were teammates. Also, Donyell Marshall was ahead of his time
Thats nuts lol
Holy shit lol
There’s that curry early cater game where the team only had 4 available players after one of them fouled out, surely that is also 0
Mfers gonna blame Luka for statpadding when he’s keeping them afloat
Would bring a tear to Tom Thibedeau’s eye
Tbf bench had I think like only 12 shot attempts combined, most of which went to Kennard but he had an off night.
We also didn’t play very deep into the bench.
The bench was that bad?
We were missing Smart, Hayes, and Maxi. So the rotation went weird this game lol. Add a rare off night from Luke
Usually Rui gives us 13-15ish off the bench, but he started today, Hayes gives us 7-8ish but he was out and Kennard gives us 10 usually, but he had an offnight. So yeah, it was up to Jake Laravia and Vanderbilt to score
vanderbilt laravia and kornet lol. edit: kennard not kornet
Bro saw a fat white guy in Timme and thought it was Kornet LMAO
LMFAO i meant kennard but thats funny as fuck
Wish we have Kornet.
I mean we got the worst bench in the league so not too surprising
Only one ball, and the 5 starters tonight very much prefer putting the ball in the basket over any other stat, so it’s not too out of the norm for us when Rui starts
These guys are going to get run into the ground in the playoffs.
Fuck dem bench
This has been a problem since the Russ trade they had a game in 2024 where the bench only scored 2 points.
GABE VINCENT outscored the lakers bench.
It’s gonna be interesting to see how far this will get them in the playoffs
Totally sustainable
Totally lebrons fault.
With this fact it should also be mentioned that they won.
Maybe it’s harder to win with this stat, than to achieve it.
Not sustainable at all
5 bench points in a game also isn’t sustainable
Thats what my point was
Without Luka they lose this game by 20
Exactly bench is dogshit
Sounds like stat padding from the starters. Unselfish players would have let the bench score more.
There is no way this is going to be sustainable in the post season.
That’s with Rui starting and Kennard shooting bad. With Smart back, Rui/Kennard/Hayes will put up more points.
Obviously, but it’ll be fun to watch Luka go nuts
I think the lakers have the fire power to win in the first round as a three seed and if everything else goes the way it’s expected I’m really interested in seeing how Luka will attack Wemby and the spurs defense.
We’ll see. You guys and the Spurs will run us off the court with your depth, but I’m hoping we can beat the Nuggets or Wolves to exorcise some playoff demons
Spurs have 0 playoff experience. Don’t think it’s such a given.
Thunder would beat the Lakers in 4. Nuggets probably also
Lakers are 3-2 against the nuggets since the Luka trade and one of the losses was a punt game with bronny starting
Honestly, I don’t see how any team will beat a healthy Spurs in a 7 game series, including your Thunders. No offense.
They don’t have a closer
Surely you haven’t ignored inaugural Clutch Player of the Year De’Aaron Fox?
Except Fox loves choking in the playoffs
I can see you’re not a coaching genius like JJ. The solution is obvious, just play the 5 starters all 48 minutes.