STILWELL ? Rarely does a team exclusively live and live well by a unique style of play.

Sometimes, it is forced to die by it, too.

Lawrence High’s boys basketball team showed imperfections on both sides of the ball, resulting in an 80-66 loss to Lee’s Summit (Mo.) High Thursday at the Blue Valley Shootout.

It was a far cry from the 100-point outburst Saturday that had the Lions celebrating at Topeka High. The same run-and-gun style was there, but the rims seemed less forgiving this time.

For a team relying so much on the three-point shot, the Lions didn’t have it Thursday, shooting 10-of-36 (27.8 percent) from behind the arc. Against Topeka, they were 21-of-59 (35.5 percent).

“They finished by the basket and we didn’t,” LHS coach Chris Davis said. “We’re still a pretty young team dealing with the beginning of the season.”

Lawrence, in fact, missed its first 14 shots from three-point range, all in the first half. That alone put a major kink in the Lions’ run-and-gun style of play, where scoring is so critical.

And as expected, Lee’s Summit (2-1) had plenty of easy buckets thanks to Lawrence’s full-court, double-team defense. The Lions did force 24 turnovers, but the Tigers often broke the press with good poise and communication. It helped them build a lead as big as 16 in the first half and 19 near the end of the third quarter.

“I’ve never seen it,” Lee’s Summit coach Keith Miller said of Lawrence’s fast-paced gameplan. “I knew a little bit about what they did to beat Topeka. I talked to a coach at Central Methodist who runs that and asked him what hurts them.”

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One strength of Lawrence’s gameplan is that seemingly no deficit is too steep to overcome. Lawrence climbed out of a 19-point hole, and in just six minutes was back within five points after a Kristian Pope three-pointer with three minutes to play.

The shooting surge wasn’t enough, though. If the three-pointers weren’t rimming out, the free throws were. The Lions (1-1) shot just 12-of-30 (40 percent) from the charity stripe with many misses coming when the team simply couldn’t afford it.

The Tigers ended the game on a 13-5 run.

“They’re a very strong basketball team,” Davis said of Lee’s Summit, “and we didn’t react very well to it.”

David Freeman and Alex Ayre each had 11 points to lead LHS. Both hit three three-pointers.

The loss drops the Lions into the consolation bracket of the Shootout. They’ll play at 5:15 p.m. today against the winner of Thursday’s Blue Valley-Kansas City (Mo.) Center game.

“Hopefully, we start out shooting the ball a little better,” Davis said of today’s game. “If the shots had fallen early for us, it could’ve been a different story tonight.”