The Purple and Gold refuse to lose two during a row. After relinquishing Monday's game to the soldiers, the team faced the Milwaukee Bucks for a few primetime basketballs this Thursday. Their 113-106 convert Cream City was no easy feat.
As anticipated, this was either team's game from the beginning.
The Bucks' 58 points within the paint to the Lake Show's 32 and quite double the quantity of fast-break points was proof the Lakers couldn't ride their defense to victory, instead, tonight’s game was won with other means:
One may need to be thought they were tuning certain the Lakers vs. Bucks game, but you furthermore may need to watch the feature presentation referred to as The LeBron James Show. LeBron (34 pts, 8 ast, 6 rebs) went lights out tonight. His season-high points were marked by going 6-for-10 from downtown and 13-for-25 from the sector. He made taking over two opponents and sinking the fadeaway jumper look easy — it isn't. For 38 minutes, LBJ was hungry for the lead, but quite that, he craved a win.
The Brow vs. The Greek Freak was a matchup everyone was looking forward to. because of the top two contenders for Defensive Player of the Year, it had been interesting to observe and see what each big man delivered to the table. And were Anthony Davis (18 pts, 9 rebs, 6 ast) had fewer points and rebounds than Giannis Antetokounmpo (25 pts, 12 rebs, 3 ast,) AD brought another block and another steal. But the Brow's biggest contribution was his ability to open up the ground for his teammates. He said postgame, "I think I suck immediately," — imagine?! But albeit he felt his game wasn't his usual performance, the AD said, "My aggressiveness opened the ground for everybody ."
Tonight's last key to success: the blokes from sunny California brought rain to Milwaukee, and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (23 pts) brought torrential downpours. KCP is 28-for-48 from the arc on the season, and tonight went 7-for-10. On this Thursday evening, the team tied their season-high from three and Caldwell-Pope accounted for 1/3 of the team's 19 makes from beyond the arc. LeBron said of the shooter, "We want KCP when he's hospitable shoot it when he’s closely guarded, we would like him to shoot it." Overall, with their 46.6% average from the sector, the Lakers shooting accuracy was crucial to their win.
The Lakers are 8-0 away thus far this season. This win marks game 1 of seven for the Lakers' road trip, and this is often a team that likes to play on the road. Stay tuned, Lakers Family.
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