After being killed three times by the Clippers, the Lakers lost again. Originally, losing this blameless regular season game was actually no big deal, but because the Lakers and Clippers positions were very delicate, the Pressure increased sharply as soon as the Lakers lost! Now the Clippers are 31-31, temporarily ranking eighth in the West, while the Lakers are 27-32, ranking ninth in the West. In fact, whether it is eighth in the West or ninth in the West, it is actually going to play the playoffs. But playing the playoffs is also different, if it is the eighth playoff in the West, it has two lives, the fault tolerance rate is very large, but as the ninth playoff in the West, there is no way back at all.
From the current Record of the Lakers, and the Clippers are a certain win difference, especially when this key "card position war" is lost, the Lakers are not so likely to compete for the top eight positions in the West. And the Lakers fell out of the top ten in the West is unlikely, after all, the tenth trail Blazers behind them are 25 wins and 35 losses, and there is still a certain gap with the Lakers. No matter how far behind the Lakers are basically nine and ten positions, and in these two positions, when it comes to the playoffs, there can only be one attitude: winning.
In the current situation, there is still more than a month left in the regular season, in fact, there are few games, and Davis is still absent, and it is almost impossible for the Lakers to rush to the top six in the West, the difficulty can be said to be very large, and the probability is to compete for the seventh and eighth positions in the West. In this case, the Lakers' play-off opponent is also very clear, in the Lakers' downline area opponent may be the Blazers, Spurs, Pelicans one of the three, and in the upper area of the Lakers opponent may be clippers, Timberwolves (most likely will be one of these two teams), in fact, it is not easy to play.
So the Lakers lost to the Clippers of this game is actually quite critical, winning the Clippers Lakers not only to improve the record, but also let the Clippers also lose, the Lakers compete for the eighth place in the West is still very large, the gap is not so big, but after such a game, the situation may be different. The Lakers want to rush into the top eight have to pay 200% of the effort, and the Lakers also have to look at the faces of the Clippers and Timberwolves, just these two teams have been in good shape recently, and the Lakers want to enter the top eight.
Of course, the more important thing is that the next schedule is very unfriendly to the Lakers, the Lakers have 15 games in the whole of March, of which 10 games are away, including a six-day four-game streak, the same Lakers opponents are also very strong, loners, Suns, Clippers and other teams are still waiting for the Lakers. In addition, the Lakers' six games in April are also very strong opponents, in addition to the last game of the Thunder is more relaxed, the remaining five opponents are: Jazz, Pelicans, Nuggets, Suns, Warriors. It's hard to say how many Games the Lakers can win, of course, the future schedule is unpredictable, and the next card battle is waiting for the Lakers.
The last lakers game in February will be at home against the Pelicans, which is another quite critical game, if the Lakers can't hold back, let alone play the playoffs as the ninth in the West, the ranking can fall outside the top ten, directly in the lottery area to catch big fish!