Check Out Basketball-Reference.com for Lakers Number Crunching

Everybody knows that the Lakers are on a role with their new Gasol-ene fueled lineup. Who needs Shaq-Diesel, right? But just how good are the Lakers right now? What kind of numerical evidence can you give to support the Lakers’ offensive and defensive prowess? Where do the Lakers rank among NBA teams in terms of effective free throw rate? What king of production can Luke Walton give you on a per-minute basis? All can be answered if you look for it at the basketball stats playground called basketball-reference.com.

Right now the Lakers have an offensive ranking of 3rd and a defensive ranking of 7th, according to basketball-reference. You can get box scores really easy at this site, and you can see a ton of stats that they don’t have without a special Insider Pass at ESPN. There’s also ZERO fluff- no pictures, no moving advertisements and no sensationalist sports writing. It’s pure numbers, pure basketball stats, pure Lakers.
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Posted in General on February 22, 2008

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