Los Angeles Lakerswith a devastating attack, this Sunday they gave the Indiana Pacers (150-145), which are the NBA team that scores the most points per game this season.
The Angelenos sealed their highest score of the campaign and also achieved their highest harvest of points in a game since 1987.
With three consecutive wins, the Lakers now face a six-game tour of the East and have settled into ninth place in the West (39-32) against some Golden State Warriors in the doldrums (tenth with 36-34) and still far from those seeking the sixth place that allows them to avoid the play-in (Phoenix Suns with 42-29 and Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks both with 41-29).
Sin D’Angelo Russell for sickness, Anthony Davis He led those in purple and gold with 36 points and 16 rebounds. “We have allowed them to score 145 points… so terrible in defense,” commented the center. “When we have a rival team in trouble, we have to defend. We don’t have to give them life. At this point in the season, a victory is a victory, but “You have to learn too.”
LeBron James added 26 points and 10 assists; Spencer Dinwiddie, as starting point guard, had his best performance with the Lakers with 26 points; and Austin Reaves He contributed 25 points and 8 assists.
The Lakers made 56.2% of their field goals, 48% in triples (12 of 25) and traveled a lot, with notable success, to the personal line (38 of 43 in free throws compared to 9 of 16 in the Pacers).
Eight Indiana players (40-32) scored in double figures with Pascal I’m sorry at the helm (36 points and 12 rebounds).
Tyrese Haliburton He had 12 points, 6 rebounds and 10 assists for the Pacers who will seek revenge on Friday when they host the Lakers on their court. The All Star made up for his poor match with two triples that threatened the local victory in the last period.
Offensive festival
The Lakers were capable of the best and the worst at the start. The face was Davis, omnipresent with 15 points and 8 rebounds in the opening quarter; and the cross were the 6 turnovers, which gave rise to 11 points for their rivals.
Indiana actually had a +11, but despite spectacular plays like a dunk by Siakam, which sent Taurean Prince and Davis to the ground at the same time, the Pacers did not go away on the scoreboard even though it gave the impression that they had been superior ( 30-36).
Stopping the bleeding of turnovers seemed a step in the right direction and the Angelenos improved in the second period, in which they were not afraid to assume the frenetic and crazy pace of the Pacers who were delighted to turn the games into a street runner.
The bet paid off for Darvin Ham’s men, who shot 63.6% in that quarter. They also took a risk with the third foul on Davis with 5.35 until the break and they did not regret it: the center was very disciplined and did not add his fourth infraction until the final stretch of the match.
With a 42-32 in the second chapter, The Lakers went into intermission ahead: 72-68.
Even better was the home team’s attack in the third quarter, where they devastated the Pacers with a run of 44-31 and in which Reaves joined Davis’ party (both with 11 points).
Only one name stood out in Indiana: Siakam, enormous as the last bastion of resistance with 19 points alone in that quarter when everything seemed to be going badly for Rick Carlisle’s team.
A +17 (116-99) at the beginning of the fourth quarter seemed like a very comfortable cushion but the Lakers cannot have a quiet night even when practically all the shots come in.
The Pacers’ second unit, with TJ McConnell as agitator-in-chief, began to close the gap little by little. The Lakers ran out of spark and suddenly, after a triple by Aaron Nesmith, they realized that they only had a +4 advantage (127-123 with 5.33 to go).
Davis and LeBron took matters into their own hands and created a +8 with only 56 seconds left that now looked almost final before entering the free throw game.
However, the Lakers still had to go through one last scare. The Pacers chained three triples in a row – in the face of a terrible perimeter defense by LeBron and company – and only with the composure of Reaves on the personnel line did the Lakers breathe a sigh of relief after an evening of voracious and relentless attacks.
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2024-03-25 06:42:20
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