OUT: Rui,CW. Lakers with their usual terrible start were so-so in Q2 and then
folded in Q3. The bench did OK in Q4, but not great. O was decent, but BHing,
RBing and D (esp perimeter) sucked. 7 guys in DFs and LBJ 1 AST short of a DD.
109-127 Lakers lose by 18, but it was worse than that.

FBP: 8 vs 9; PIP: 44 vs 48; POT: 18 vs 28; SCP: 11 vs 15.

Game Dbl-Figures Leaders:
Player Pts FG% 3P% FT% RB AS BL ST TO PF PM EFF
Russell 19 (50 /43 /50 )/ 1/ 6/ 0/ 2/ 3/ 2/ +2/ +0
Christie 14 (50 /33 /83 )/ 7/ 4/ 0/ 0/ 2/ 2/ -2/ +0
Davis 13 (55 /0 /100)/ 5/ 1/ 2/ 1/ 3/ 4/-24/ +0
Reaves 13 (57 /67 /100)/ 1/ 6/ 0/ 1/ 3/ 2/-23/ +0
Mays 12 (83 /100/0 )/ 1/ 1/ 0/ 1/ 0/ 0/ +9/ +0
Prince 11 (40 /38 /0 )/ 6/ 2/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 0/-30/ +0
James 10 (27 /0 /57 )/ 5/ 9/ 0/ 1/ 4/ 1/-25/ +0

Next games following:
Game 40 LAL at UTA: Sat Jan 13 18:30 -- B- Delta Center
Game 41 LAL vs OCT: Mon Jan 15 19:30 -- -- Crypto.com Arena
Game 42 LAL vs DAL: Wed Jan 17 19:30 -- -- Crypto.com Arena

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Quarterly Laker scoring leaders/notes (pluses OR/ST/BL; minuses TO/PF/oOR):

Q1 - Slow start again foe LA, 4 TOs, mediocre D - shooting 50/33/67% vs
56/36/100%; pluses 0/0/1; minuses 4/3/2. Prince 8, Reaves/Davis 5.
25-36=-11Q.

Q2 - Once again LA killed on TOs/oORBs - shooting 46/25/71% vs 44/14/71%;
pluses 3/2/2; minuses 5/7/5. Hayes 6, James 5, Russell/Davis 4. 27-30=-3Q.

Q3 - Worst Q yet - Lakers down 27 in a fruitless effort - shooting 42/33/70% vs
59/71/100%; pluses 3/4/0; minuses 5/5/4. Russell 8, Reaves 5, Davis 4.
26-39=-13Q (78-105=-27).

Q4 - Well, at least our bench beat their bench - shooting 63/63/40% vs
37/27/100%; pluses 1/2/1; minuses 3/4/2. Mays 12, Christie 9, Russell 5.
31-22=+9Q.

H1 - TOs/ORBs killing Lakers - shooting 48/29/70% vs 50/29/80%; pluses 3/2/3;
minuses 9/10/7. Davis 9, Reaves/Prince/James 8, Hayes/Russell 6.
52-66=-14H.

H2 - Q3 terrible, but Q4 the bench got 9 back - shooting 53/47/60% vs
49/44/100%; pluses 4/6/1; minuses 8/9/6. 57-61=-4H.

FG - Lakers terrible in most aspects, the O was OK, but everything else sucked -
shooting 50/38/64% vs 50/46/91%; pluses 7/8/4; minuses 17/19/13.
109-127=-18G.

Team scoring by Q (FG%/FG-AT includes 3P%/3P-AT):
Lakers Opponent Lakers Opponent
Q FG-AT 3P-AT FT-AT FG-AT 3P-AT FT-AT FG% 3P% FT% FG% 3P% FT% LAL OPP
Q1 10-20 3-9 2-3 14-25 5-14 3-3 50 33.3 66.7 56 35.7 100 25 36
Q2 10-22 2-8 5-7 12-27 1-7 5-7 45.5 25 71.4 44.4 14.3 71.4 27 30
Q3 8-19 3-9 7-10 13-22 5-7 8-8 42.1 33.3 70 59.1 71.4 100 26 39
Q4 12-19 5-8 2-5 7-19 3-11 5-5 63.2 62.5 40 36.8 27.3 100 31 22

H1 20-42 5-17 7-10 26-52 6-21 8-10 47.6 29.4 70 50 28.6 80 52 66
A3 28-61 8-26 14-20 39-74 11-28 16-18 45.9 30.8 70 52.7 39.3 88.9 78 105
H2 20-38 8-17 9-15 20-41 8-18 13-13 52.6 47.1 60 48.8 44.4 100 57 61
FL 40-80 13-34 16-25 46-93 14-39 21-23 50 38.2 64 49.5 35.9 91.3 109 127

Team stats by Q (RB includes team RBs):
Lakers Opponent Diff
Q AS RB OR ST BL TO PF OR AS RB ST BL TO PF AS RB OR ST BL TO PF
Q1 9 10 0 0 1 4 3 2 7 12 3 1 2 2 +2 -2 -2 -3 +2 +1
Q2 9 15 3 2 2 5 7 5 5 16 3 0 2 4 +4 -1 -2 -1 +2 +3 +3
Q3 5 9 3 4 0 5 5 4 6 14 4 0 4 7 -1 -5 -1 +1 -2
Q4 10 13 1 2 1 3 4 2 5 9 1 3 4 3 +5 +4 -1 +1 -2 -1 +1

H1 18 25 3 2 3 9 10 7 12 28 6 1 4 6 +6 -3 -4 -4 +2 +5 +4
A3 23 34 6 6 3 14 15 11 18 42 10 1 8 13 +5 -8 -5 -4 +2 +6 +2
H2 15 22 4 6 1 8 9 6 11 23 5 3 8 10 +4 -1 -2 +1 -2 -1
FL 33 47 7 8 4 17 19 13 23 51 11 4 12 16 +10 -4 -6 -3 +5 +3

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NBA Final Box Score:

Team 1 2 3 4 Total
Phoenix Suns 36 30 39 22 127
Los Angeles Lakers 25 27 26 31 109 - Final

PLAYER POS MIN FGM-A 3GM-A FTM-A OR TR AS TO ST BS PF PTS P36 +/- EFF
Kevin Durant SF 32 7-12 2-5 2-2 0 5 5 1 3 1 0 18 20 +15 +26
Grayson Allen PF 30 2-8 1-6 0-0 1 5 3 0 0 0 3 5 6 +32 +7
Jusuf Nurkic C 28 3-6 0-0 3-4 4 12 2 2 1 0 2 9 12 +29 +18
Bradley Beal SG 32 14-21 8-10 1-1 2 6 4 3 1 0 3 37 42 +25 +38
Devin Booker PG 34 11-22 2-6 7-7 0 5 5 3 3 0 2 31 33 +20 +30
Eric Gordon 23 2-11 1-9 0-0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 +1 -1
Bol Bol 17 2-3 0-0 2-2 2 6 2 0 2 2 1 6 13 +9 +17
Udoka Azubuike 05 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 14 -6 +3
Josh Okogie 12 2-4 0-2 1-2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 15 -3 +3
Chimezie Metu 08 0-0 0-0 4-4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 18 -6 +7
Jordan Goodwin 05 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 -7 +0
Yuta Watanabe 05 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 -7 +1
Keita Bates-Diop 05 1-3 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 -7 +0
Nassir Little 04 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 27 -5 +2
Drew Eubanks DNP - INACTIVE_INJURY
Damion Lee DNP - INACTIVE_INJURY
Saben Lee DNP - INACTIVE_GLEAGUE_TWOWAY
Theo Maledon DNP - INACTIVE_GLEAGUE_TWOWAY
Totals 240 46-93 14-39 21-23 13 51 23 12 11 4 16 127
Percent 49.5% 35.9% 91.3%

Fastbreak points: 9
Points in the paint: 48
Points off turnovers: 28
Second chance pts: 15
Biggest lead: 32
Technical fouls: 1

PLAYER POS MIN FGM-A 3GM-A FTM-A OR TR AS TO ST BS PF PTS P36 +/- EFF
Cam Reddish SF 09 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -5 -1
LeBron James PF 24 3-11 0-4 4-7 0 5 9 4 1 0 1 10 15 -25 +10
Anthony Davis C 32 6-11 0-2 1-1 0 5 1 3 1 2 4 13 15 -24 +14
Taurean Prince SG 28 4-10 3-8 0-0 1 6 2 0 0 0 0 11 14 -30 +13
Austin Reaves PG 30 4-7 2-3 3-3 1 1 6 3 1 0 2 13 16 -23 +15
Max Christie 25 4-8 1-3 5-6 0 7 4 2 0 0 2 14 20 -2 +18
D'Angelo Russell 27 7-14 3-7 2-4 0 1 6 3 2 0 2 19 25 +2 +16
Jarred Vanderbilt 30 2-5 1-3 1-4 3 9 2 0 2 0 0 6 7 -1 +13
Jaxson Hayes 13 3-3 0-0 0-0 1 2 1 2 0 2 6 6 17 +1 +9
Skylar Mays 12 5-6 2-2 0-0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 12 36 +9 +14
Jalen Hood-Schifin 05 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 +4 +0
Dylan Windler 05 1-1 1-1 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 22 +4 +4
Maxwell Lewis 00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 +0
Christian Wood 00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 +0
Colin Castleton DNP - INACTIVE_GLEAGUE_TWOWAY
Rui Hachimura DNP - INACTIVE_INJURY
Gabe Vincent DNP - INACTIVE_INJURY
Totals 240 40-80 13-34 16-25 7 47 33 17 8 4 19 109
Percent 50.0% 38.2% 64.0%

Fastbreak points: 8
Points in the paint: 44
Points off turnovers: 18
Second chance pts: 11
Biggest lead: 1
Technical fouls: 0

Lead changes: 2
Times tied: 0
Officials:
25: Tony Brothers
50: Gediminas Petraitis
83: Andy Nagy
Venue: Crypto.com Arena - Los Angeles, CA
Attendance: 18416

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NBA Q3 Box Score:

Team 1 2 3 Total
Phoenix Suns 36 30 39 105
Los Angeles Lakers 25 27 26 78 - End of Q3

PLAYER POS MIN FGM-A 3GM-A FTM-A OR TR AS TO ST BS PF PTS P36 +/- EFF
Kevin Durant SF 26 6-10 2-4 2-2 0 4 4 0 3 0 0 16 22 +20 +23
Grayson Allen PF 27 2-8 1-6 0-0 1 5 2 0 0 0 3 5 7 +29 +6
Jusuf Nurkic C 28 3-6 0-0 3-4 4 12 2 1 1 0 2 9 12 +29 +19
Bradley Beal SG 29 12-19 6-8 1-1 2 6 4 4 1 0 3 31 38 +22 +31
Devin Booker PG 29 10-20 2-6 7-7 0 3 4 2 3 0 1 29 36 +25 +27
Eric Gordon 16 1-3 0-2 0-0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 +3 +2
Bol Bol 13 2-3 0-0 2-2 2 5 2 0 1 1 1 6 17 +11 +14
Udoka Azubuike 05 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 14 -6 +3
Josh Okogie 07 2-4 0-2 1-2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 26 +2 +3
Keita Bates-Diop 00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 +0
Jordan Goodwin 00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 +0
Nassir Little 00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 +0
Chimezie Metu 00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 +0
Yuta Watanabe 00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 +0
Drew Eubanks DNP - INACTIVE_INJURY
Damion Lee DNP - INACTIVE_INJURY
Saben Lee DNP - INACTIVE_GLEAGUE_TWOWAY
Theo Maledon DNP - INACTIVE_GLEAGUE_TWOWAY
Totals 180 39-74 11-28 16-18 11 42 18 8 10 1 13 105
Percent 52.7% 39.3% 88.9%