The energy between Westbrook and LeBron today is very good. Westbrook is making great assists, both to LeBron and AD. Lonnie Walker also contributed significant points by scoring a good percentage. The lack of experience and leading players is evident in Detroit. Bojan Bogdanovic alone carries the team on his back. Jaden Ivey is willing but can't get play the balls right. Despite all this, the difference is still very close. There is no Cunningham, but it wouldn't have changed much had he been. Detroit is holding up well, but the Lakers haven't lost much of the lead. Antony Davis still find easy buckets.
I wonder how Coach Ham is feeling right now because he really made some good adjustments with the team already.
He somehow asked Davis to be the starting Center of the team, a role that he doesn't want, but Davis embraced the role and is very efficient to it. Another thing is the Westbrook-Beverley beef in the past. He also makes sure that they will build a chemistry with one another. The chemistry of the team is already starting to build up already.
The only problem that I see until now is that, even though the Lakers are doing a decent job winning 6 of their last 10 games, they are still on the 12th spot. In a tight battle like in the Western Conference, every win is very important to each of them. They might be doing a great job, but it wasn't enough still.
On the other hand, some great things happened tonight.
- AJ Griffin's turnaround hoop to win the game with 0.5 seconds remaining.
- The Rockets beat the Bucks. This surprised me TBH.