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Well, the Lakers answered the bell in game two. 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 what brought 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.

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 for for 11 from the field he's going to shoot over three from three 10 points seven assists six rebounds you'd have been like we're going to be down to two.

Every single Laker fan on the planet if I had told you those details you would have believed that your team was going to be in really really rough shape.

But Anthony Davis came out set the tone played pretty well but I think overall this was as much about the trailblazers being bad as it was the Lakers being good.

Finally Damien Lillard looked human only scored 18 points one of seven from outside the uh the shooting in general from CJ McCallum wasn't good.

Nurghitch was very average at best this Blazers team just didn't answer the bell and frankly looked like they were an inferior caliber opponent for the Lakers now.

We'll see whether or not this is an aberration. It's hard to really forecast anything when every game is inside the bubble.

I talked about this in hour one where it felt to me like the blazers were playing as if they already had house money where you know you hope to steal one game from the opponent on their home court.

And if you can do that and you can flip the home court and you go back to Portland tied up one one you'd be really excited except they're not going anywhere.

They're staying in Orlando and this felt like a old school NBA game when the home team can't afford to go down to and when the visiting team is already happy about having gotten a win.

And so they're like screw it we're going to end up with a split we'll see you in the in the next city.

And the same thing by the way could have happened with the Milwaukee box who came out and dominated against the Orlando magic as well.

So the end result here to me is even though the Clippers one game one.

I'm not I think the Clippers may be under more danger from the maps based on how I've seen the maps play the first two games.

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