With every cloud there is a silver lining and although the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James can’t seem to escape the clouds, they were willing to find some silver linings in Monday night’s loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
Grading on the Lakers curve, I guess you could say that last night’s loss to the Grizzlies went better than the loss to New Orleans. There was at least a sense of hope in the final minute of the game, which the Lakers felt was slightly more positive.
“It felt different,” Kyle Kuzma said, according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “New Orleans, thought we was just hopeless out there. We didn’t really get the lead back at all, and tonight we fought. But at the end of the day, a loss is a loss and no matter what way you spin it, you still put an L in that column.”
Kuzma got to the point at the end that I wanted to touch on. It’s all well and good that the Lakers feel better about their progress, but they still lost to a team that had one five games in the past two months leading up to it.
It was not only a loss, but it was an ugly one and the kind that will sour even the most optimistic Lakers believers on their playoff chances.
