We're 52 games into the season, and after witnessing the poor 3rd quarters of the last few games, I decided to check out the Lakers' scoring margin this year by quarter. I manually did this in excel, so I hope there's no mistakes.
Thru 26 games (first half of the season thus far)
Total Margin
1st qtr: +152
2nd qtr: +43
3rd qtr: +23
4th qtr: -7
Margin per qtr
1st qtr: +5.85
2nd qtr: +1.65
3rd qtr: +.88
4th qtr: -.27
Thru 52 games (full season thus far)
Total Margin
1st qtr: +186
2nd qtr: +119
3rd qtr: +21
4th qtr: +18*
Margin per qtr
1st qtr: +3.58
2nd qtr: +2.29
3rd qtr: +.40
4th qtr: +.35*
*Lakers have had one overtime game this year, I added the points scored in OT into 4th qtr scoring
The Lakers start off great. On the year, they outscore their opponents by an average of almost 6 points in the first half. In the second half though, they outscore their opponents by less than 1 point per game. Why is this? Cockiness? Not caring? Old age?
And as I thought, we have gotten worse in the 3rd qtr as the year has gone on.
***No charts/line graphs this time
