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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

thanks.

That just shows our team is old. we lose our edge exponentially throughout the game.

IMO it's inconsistency whether it's on defense/offense/energy/focus/player rotations. And I would say the reason for this is because we're a championship team that just went to the finals 3 straight seasons.

I think those numbers might be a little skewed, at least in terms of 4th quarter production. How many times have we sat our starters in the 4th quarter and watched our bench lose large leads?

I'd be more concerned about those 3rd quarter trends. We should be coming out of the gates and putting our foot on the gas, but instead we are letting opponents get back in the game and losing leads. There's no excuse for that, and I don't think fatigue or age have much to do with it. They are not coming out of the locker room mentally prepared and/or the coaching staff is doing a poor job of making adjustments.