Will the Lakers fix their offensive woes in time? It seems like if Kobe isn’t scoring 40, the Lakers offense can’t do enough to win. Kobe has scored 38 points in his last two games combined. Before his last two games he had scored at least 40 points in four consecutive games. Meanwhile, Pau Gasol posted his season high in points scored with 26.

The Lakers are now 1-5 on the road, and going into tomorrow’s game against the Magic, 1-3 on the road on the second game of a back to back.

The defensive intensity is nice for the Lakers, but against certain teams they’ll most definitely need to score. Teams like Miami are going to put up points regardless, and when they go 9-18 from 3-point range like they did tonight, it’ll only expose the poor offensive strategy for the Lakeshow. That allows huge leads like the one Miami had tonight, which at one point was an embarrassing 23.