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Well, the Lakers answered the bell in game to the same could not be said of the Portland Trailblazers.

This would be down of epic proportions.

It was not remotely close.

And I think leaving this game, the question you have to ask yourself is what did we actually learn

in the first two games in this series?

Now, I know that ultimately the score doesn't look at roaches, even though it was a 23 point loss.

This game was not even as close as the 23 point loss would suggest because this was a pretty substantial

royal beat down by the Lakers and they were able to rest a lot of their guys.

If you just looked at the stats, if I had told you coming into this game, I said, hey,

well, Braun James is going to go for 10 points, seven assists, six rebounds in this game.

You would have been like, if you're a Laker fan, uh oh,

like if I could have looked into the future and I could have told you exactly how LeBron was going to perform.

And those were the stats.

He's going to play only 27 minutes.

He's going to go four for 11 from the field.

He's going to shoot over three from three 10 points, seven assists, six rebounds.

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