Lakers’ LeBron James reacts to handing the Celtics their biggest loss of the season
Like The Los Angeles Lakers are eyeing the trade deadlinethey are also coming off an impressive performance in beating the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics, 117-96, on Thursday night. Doc The Lakers appear to be able to add center for Anthony Davis’ request. star LeBron James He spoke after the game about what led to the positive performance.
James finished the game with 20 points on nine-of-20 shooting from the field to go along with 14 rebounds and six assists to help other teammates like Davis and Austin, who both had 24 and 23 points. When you talk to the media, James talked about how they “done” What the game plan was against Kelter according to Spectrum SportsNet.
“We had a game plan and we executed,” James said. “Most of the 48 minutes we executed. And we know it’s a great team, defending champions, great players, and they’re going to put you in situations that are uncomfortable, but you have to be uncomfortable to compete with them.”
“He just showed us that we can take over the game plan to kill ourselves,” James continued. “Like I said, our coaches gave us a game plan that they feel like is the best to help us win this game and just execute as a team.”
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As fans wait to see if it is The Lakers will trade for another starThe team can easily build on a win like Thursday, as they protected their home floor against a tough team like Boston. James would credit his outing to his “communication” and protection of the basketball.
“Just our communication was really good,” James said. “We knew what we wanted to do especially defensively, and we executed it. Offensively, we didn’t turn the ball over and they’re pretty good defensively, too. We didn’t turn the ball over, we didn’t force a lot of snaps, we were good in all aspects.”
Even with the huge win, James isn’t too high as he wants to see a team that excels in the second half of the season, ultimately leading to a championship run.
“It’s an NBA season, I don’t get too high or too low,” James said. “Stay even banned, you know, we’ve been a little bit up and down, you know, for most of the season, hopefully we’ve been up and down for the first time. Hopefully we can make the next 41 a trend of a bigger trend as well. So we’re hopefully , hopefully we learned from some of the mistakes we made through the first 41. We were kind of up and down the first, so we can use our stuff that we did in the First 41 to now the Next 41 to improve on that. You don’t have to look back and be ‘okay, what are we doing?’ We should be able to learn from this.”
Either way, the Lakers are now 24-18, which puts them in fifth place in the Western Conference with superstar Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors next up on Saturday night.
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