The Lakers finally got .500pts, “Still not finished yet!”
The Lakers finally reaches the milestone of .500 pts, on Friday night lakers played against Oklahoma City Thunder and the lakers won the match by 116-111, the lakers take to reach this they played 74 games and but it was massive because they started the season with 2-10.
“Now it’s time, instead of constantly facing a deficit, we get to try to create a surplus, create a cushion between the wins and losses,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. “So the guys are excited about that.”
The lakers reached this point more than 400 days after and with 37-37 W/L and this started around Jan 25, 2022, when the team has a 24-24 ratio. According to sources the last time this happen when a team reach this point is in the 2003-04 season the team was Miami Heat, and in the 1983-84 season Phoenix Suns didn’t get to .500 until Game No. 82
“Big accomplishment but we’re still not finished,” said Dennis Schroder, who started in place of D’Angelo Russell (sore right hip) and finished with 21 points and six assists.”
Dennis Schroder continued
“He’s the guy who won us the game, it’s that simple,” Schroder said of Walker. “Everybody thanked him for that tonight. This is his win.”
Anthony Davis also added a few words regarding this topic
“We got to .500, now it’s time to get on the other side and can have more wins than losses,” said Anthony Davis, who led L.A. with 37 points and 15 rebounds. “So it starts Sunday. We got an opportunity to be a game above .500 against a good Bulls team.”
The Friday night game was the last home game of the Lakers of a current five-game homestand they start their road journey of 4 games, in the trip they played against Chicago, Minnesota, Houston, and Utah.
“We just have to approach these upcoming games, these last eight, like we’ve been doing since the deadline: Each game is its own entity,” Ham said. “We can’t worry about going 6-2 or 7-1 or 5-3. We just have to approach each game and dive and pour all of ourselves into each particular game. So we’ll continue to carry on as such.”
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