When it’s going well for a basketball team, there’s an ease in which they operate, the rhythms of offense and defense smoothly flowing back and forth with resistance at a minimum.
And when it’s going like it is for the Lakers right now, there’s only spurts of that, like a quarter-mile of paving every so often on a cobblestone highway.
The bumps right now are severe – a win over the Clippers, like LeBron James predicted, not fixing all their problems. But one thing is really going right.
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Anthony Davis, playing some of the best basketball of his Lakers’ career, scored 41 points, including 20 in the fourth quarter, to help the Lakers hang on against Toronto for a 132-131 win.