“It’s Lakers basketball”. This is the expression used by Anthony Davis to qualify this action where Russell Westbrook throws himself on a trailing ball, to then serve LeBron James which sends Davis to the dunk. It is an action symbol of the performance of the Big Three of the Lakers, which compiles 87 points, 25 rebounds and 26 assists!
“I feel like tonight is the most complementary and the best game the three of us have played together on both sides of the pitch,” believes LeBron about his line with Davis and Westbrook. “We were all three in the same rhythm. We all felt that we had an impact on the game throughout the game. »
Author of a monster performance (51 evaluation!), Davis has a thought for his coach, who returned for the first time to Milwaukee. Despite a failed start to the season (2 wins, 10 losses), Darvin Ham and his players have always stood up, and they are rewarded.
“Without having said it before the match, we wanted to win it for him” Davis says. “As we come here only once a year, we wanted to get this victory for him and it feels good. What I mean is that it feels good when your coach does everything to put the players in the best possible condition, and it’s a way to return the favor. »
The almost perfect match: 32 passes for 4 lost balls
For Davis, it was a “collective effort”. “We played 48 full minutes, standing up to them, taking hits, but we resisted their series”.
For Ham, difficult to be more satisfied since his players have won in Milwaukee, a stronghold of the NBA, but they have put the way. So clumsy usually, they finish 11 of 26 from 3-pointers. They won the rebound battle, and we know how complicated it is against Milwaukee. All for a rare assist ratio: 32 assists for 4 stray bullets. If usually criticized, Westbrook delivers 11 passes for no lost ball!
“We want it to be perfect, and excellence is to get closer to 100%” concludes the Lakers coach. “But there’s always going to be a little unforeseen thing or something that happens that keeps you from achieving perfection. But I will settle for excellence every day of the week, even twice on Sunday. »
Next opponent of the Lakers, the Wizards to challenge Kristaps Porzingis.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Anthony Davis | 18 | 34.2 | 56.9 | 23.8 | 82.0 | 3.5 | 9.2 | 12.7 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 26.3 |
| lebron james | 14 | 35.3 | 46.8 | 32.4 | 72.1 | 1.5 | 7.1 | 8.6 | 6.3 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 25.8 |
| lonnie walker | 17 | 31.5 | 47.7 | 36.3 | 84.4 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 16.6 |
| Russell Westbrook | 19 | 28.0 | 39.9 | 31.7 | 70.7 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 7.2 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 15.0 |
| Austin Reaves | 20 | 28.8 | 54.0 | 39.7 | 90.9 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 10.9 |
| Thomas Bryant | 6 | 14.6 | 74.2 | 25.0 | 64.3 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 9.3 |
| Dennis Schroder | 7 | 25.3 | 39.6 | 33.3 | 88.9 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 8.4 |
| Troy Brown, Jr. | 17 | 26.2 | 43.7 | 32.7 | 100.0 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 7.8 |
| Kendrick Nunn | 18 | 13.9 | 36.4 | 29.1 | 88.9 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 5.8 |
| Wenyen Gabriel | 18 | 13.8 | 61.3 | 27.3 | 81.8 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 5.4 |
| Patrick Beverly | 15 | 27.0 | 26.8 | 23.4 | 82.4 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 3.1 | 4.2 |
| matt ryan | 12 | 10.8 | 30.6 | 37.1 | 80.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 3.9 |
| Max Christie | 10 | 11.2 | 39.1 | 43.8 | 75.0 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.8 |
| Damian Jones | 11 | 7.4 | 47.6 | 0.0 | 70.0 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 2.5 |
| Juan Toscano Anderson | 12 | 10.5 | 40.0 | 18.2 | 80.0 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 2.2 |
| Scotty Pippen, Jr. | 2 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
| cole swider | 1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
