Luka, Lakers keep rolling | Steph goes for 40
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What happened in the Lakers vs. Knicks game?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, the Lakers are hot, winning their eighth straight. And we're going to talk to Benji Ritholtz from Nick's Film School about the Knicks side of that game last night after the break. And the Warriors win another one with Jimmy Butler thanks to 40 from Steph Curry. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Morning. Another awesome night in the NBA. Actually, we had one really great game to end the night. That's all you need. That's all you really need. It's true.
Yeah.
I mean, we're going to manufacture other things to talk about, but... Man, what a game at the end of the night. The Lakers won their eighth straight game by beating the Knicks in overtime. And we got to say, Luka and LeBron, what a duo, man. Their numbers in this game, pretty incredible. You get two guys with this level of playmaking. And this level of scoring. And then you've got Luka Doncic grabbing all these rebounds. And you've got LeBron with, what did he have, 10 assists or 12 assists? No, excuse me, 8 assists last night. Luka had 12 assists. LeBron grabs 12 rebounds. Luka had 7 rebounds. You basically have two guys... who are a threat for a triple double in every single game. And that just doesn't feel fair.
They are two versions of the same thing, right? Which is like just these heliocentric offenses that can run everything through them. And LeBron has now added the cool wrinkle of being able to be excellent off of the ball. The catch and shoot three point shooter. Yeah. The catch and shoot stuff like he hit two massive threes in that fourth quarter to help the Lakers get that lead back. There's a lot of screening stuff that they do where they'll have LeBron in the short roll and he'll make a bunch of plays out of that. They'll throw him in the post. So LeBron versatility aside, these are two guys that can generate offense at such a high level for the Lakers that they can go on these runs. And we saw we were texting it, you know, while the game was going on.
Second quarter, Lakers were bad. Like there was no one else that could hit a shot. Austin Reeves, I thought, struggled throughout this game, just wasn't himself offensively coming back from that injury. But they found a way to still get things going in that second half. Part of that. was Dalton connect. I thought he hit some huge shots, finishing that third quarter, entering the fourth quarter, just being a release valve for the Lakers offense. And that's what LeBron and Luca need, right? They can be all creators in the world, be the best creators they can possibly be, but they need guys on the other end to hit shots. Gabe Vincent did that tonight. Dalton connected that tonight and LeBron himself.
also did it as well.
Those were the only guys that hit shots by the way, it was Kate Vincent and Dalton connect. Cause that was part of the Lakers problem in the second quarter. Their offense just ran flat. You know, their defense in this game, I thought did a, did a pretty good job of, of containing Jalen Brunson is until late. Yeah. Jalen Brunson puts up 39 in the game. And then he had to leave with, he sustained an ankle injury. So we're going to get tough with more on that over the weekend. You know, we'll have more on that Monday. Yeah. But for the Lakers, this is their eighth straight win. They're the two seed. This team is getting quality minutes in places that I didn't expect. I mean, Jackson Hayes, who started this little, we're not going to call it a leap, but this little step forward that he's taken this season. He started it early on in the year. He looks like an absolute player for them. And I think that's thanks to Luka Doncic and his pick and roll mastery.
yeah it's so easy to play with luca i mean man he can get any guy who can run and jump and just be a solid screener like a lot of easy buckets and that's that's what happens with jackson hayes i think he's been all right defensively too just doing his part uh as a rim protector for the most part i think one of the interesting things for me is like they found a way to be versatile
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