The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night, and when digging into the numbers from that game, it’s pretty easy to see a pattern.
The Lakers’ reserves combined to score just 7 points total in a 48-minute basketball game the team lost to the Grizzlies by five points. In that game, every single Lakers starter had a positive net rating, and every starter except for JaVale McGee played 34 minutes or more.
Every single Lakers bench player other than Lance Stephenson — who played just three minutes and change — had a negative net rating.