The Lakers’ loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night was more than just the latest gut punch in the team’s attempt of making a turnaround, but also, offered up a mean case of deja vu. Although not all losses look the same, the Lakers’ defeats tend to stay strictly on script, with their latest being just the most recent example.
The first half of the contest put the team in a double-digit hole with the type of lackadaisical effort that has mostly become the norm of late. A spirited second half run was then cut down via a combination of aimless offense as well as an inability to to reel off consecutive stops on defense when the team needed both the most.