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The Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers are engaged in a battle of the league’s two-worst defenses, but you wouldn’t guess the Lakers were worse if you only saw this clip of Brandon Ingram and Tarik Black swallowing every shot in sight:
BI and Tarik protect the basket on one end, leading to a Clarkson triple on the other #LakeShow ( : @SpectrumSN, @spectdeportes & TNT) pic.twitter.com/8z1S9YQyJP
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) January 6, 2017
The Lakers’ bench unit showed off a ton of activity and athleticism to start the second quarter, and Luke Walton may have found something with this frontcourt of Black and Thomas Robinson.
Harrison Faigen is co-host of the Locked on Lakers podcast (subscribe here), and you can follow him on Twitter at @hmfaigen.