Check out the advanced box score from last night's 92-83 Lakers upset over the Brooklyn Nets here.
Some brief takeaways:
- Kobe Bryant had the lowest points produced of any professional basketball player that plays for the Lakers (Chris Duhon doesn't count), and was without question the catalyst for their victory. That's Kobe Bryant in a nutshell. P.J. Carlesimo said that Gerald Wallace's job on Kobe Bryant was "exceptional," and that's true, to some degree -- Kobe struggled to score through most of the night. But, well, you know.
- Brook Lopez had a monster line that, when you adjust for playing time and possessions, is roughly what his line would look like if he played 40 minutes in every game. On the one hand, it's refreshing that Lopez can maintain a high level of production even when Carlesimo stretches his minutes to his longest regulation game of the season. But on the other, he played what he called "the worst 2 1/2 minutes of his season" in the final 150 seconds.
- I'm going to contribute as much analysis to the bench mob as they contributed to last night's game.
- Three difficult numbers to look at: the turnover rates from Deron Williams, Gerald Wallace, and Reggie Evans. Evans did grab over 50% of available defensive rebounds, and overall played a fine game within his role. But he played about 23 minutes, and probably shouldn't play much more than that.
Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard and small forward Metta World Peace will both sit tonight's game out vs. the Brooklyn Nets. Howard is nursing a shoulder injury that's kept him in and out of the lineup for the past few weeks, while the inappropriately named World Peace has been suspended one game for grabbing Detroit Pistons guard Brandon Knight around the neck and striking him in the jaw.
