The Los Angeles Lakers topped their embarrassing defeat to the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday by losing to an even worse team two days later.
The Lakers lost 110-105 to the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night to drop to 29-31 on the season. Their bench was particularly putrid, led by Rajon Rondo’s poor game. Rondo shot just 1/6 and turned the ball over three times in 16 minutes. He had a -10 along with many other bench players, who combined to shoot 3/14 in the game.
After the contest, Lakers analyst James Worth said Rondo was “detrimental” to his team during the game and said it didn’t look like Rondo was mentally plugged-in.
"It just seems like there's some type of virus going on with this team right now."@JamesWorthy42 & @geeter3 discuss tonight's loss. pic.twitter.com/plT8GH1cix
— Spectrum SportsNet (@SpectrumSN) February 26, 2019
It’s hard to argue with Worthy’s analysis based on how badly the Lakers bench played against Memphis. Over his last five games (Lakers 1-4 in the span), has just 22 assists compared to 19 turnovers. For his career, he averages 3 assists for every turnover.
The Lakers are running out of time this season and have just 22 games left to improve their record so they can make the playoffs.
