The Lakers took down the primary seed within the West – the Thunder and LA star Austin Reaves has spoken in regards to the upset win.
“Yeah, it’s large. They acquired one of the best document in basketball I imagine and with the place the standings are, you may go from third to I imagine eighth within the snap of a finger. So for us to return in right here and play such a very good staff the best way we did tonight is massive and hopefully we will proceed that momentum into Tuesday.”
OKC have been 34-5 at house on the season earlier than the loss. With the playoffs solely days away, it was a big win for the purple and gold and Austin Reaves actually took some positives out of it.
“Yeah, anytime you play like that, no matter who you’re enjoying, you may go watch that stuff and see what you may construct on. There wasn’t too many chaotic possessions for us on offense, and defensively we didn’t have too many breakdowns. I really feel like we saved these to a minimal tonight. I believe we saved them off the free throw line rather well and we paid consideration to the main points tonight and simply performed a very good sport.”
Protection was key to the win, and regardless of the Lakers considerably lacklustre D in latest video games, it was nowhere to be seen this time.
“Defensively, we have been locked in after which clearly it helps whenever you shoot rather well from 3 too. However I believe it began on the defensive finish. Locked in, getting stops, operating after which once we slowed down, we acquired into stuff that labored for us.”
Because it stands, Luka, LeBron and Reaves are questionable for the second matchup in opposition to the Thunder on Tuesday.
The Lakers have a back-to-back sport in opposition to the Mavericks the following day, in Luka’s first sport again in Dallas for the reason that commerce.
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