NBA 2018-19: 3 Talking Points as the Los Angeles Clippers come out on top against city rivals Los Angeles Lakers 

#2 Bench depth of both the teams

Los Angeles Clippers vs Los Angeles Lakers

These are tough times for the Lakers. Their best player is out and they’re heavily missing their backup point guard, Rajon Rondo. They don’t know how else to extract points from the bench. There are not a lot of options left for them.

On the other hand, the Clippers have a possible sixth man of the year candidate in Lou Williams who was the biggest factor in the Clippers win tonight. Then they have also got a lot of other quality pieces who could come off the bench and give a quick spurt in the scoring.

In today’s game the Clipper’s bench heavily outscored the Laker’s bench by 71 to 28. This deficit was too big for the Laker’s starters to cover and they gave in. They just didn’t have enough firepower to match the Clippers and their heavy arsenal of scoring options.