Just finished watching the game.
1) Loved how we aggressively attacked the paint all night long. Hit some threes and midrange jumpers but gestated where we need to: on the inside.
2) Rui and Reaves are playing their way into D-Lo’s money. Making a lot of tough choices this summer, potentially.
3) AD needs to play like this the rest of the season, however long it goes. The defense, rebounding and forcing his game into the paint are all big “must haves”.
4) Loved LeBron’s response to Brooks’ clowning. Guess any kind of nutshot gets you tossed these days. That’s fine, what I liked was how poised the Lakers have stayed and gotten under the clown tactics Memphis deploys. Talk gets you a little mileage in the regular season but it’s cheap in the playoffs.
5) Ja caught fire but his team couldn’t ride up. More and more this reminds me of when Philly and LA met in the NBA Finals and AI willed them to one history altering game. Ja wont be enough unless some other guys do, too.
If I have to choose between Ja Morant having to shoulder the scoring load while we shut down the rest of the team I would go with the former. There is no way he can dominate for a full 48 minutes much more a whole series. He is already showing some signs of discomfort in one of his legs. The Lakers just have to hold serve and not let their guard down.
Yep!