The noise also distracts from the fact that, almost a quarter of the way through his first season in the league, Ball has built up a sample size that at least allows us to make educated guesses about the player he is going to be. The Kings beat the Lakers 113-102, largely thanks to a dominant run towards the end of the first quarter. The Lakers got consistent scoring from multiple sources, just not the kind of dominant scoring to erase that 16-2 first-quarter run.