« Does a match like this against the Celtics …? » « Non ! », Cut from LeBron James immediately, projecting himself on the question about the scope of this victory. “” It is sure not. I can feel the enthusiasm in your voice. I heard this question far too many times in my career. Absolutely not, it’s just a match He stands out.
The latter prefers to put into perspective, even if the Lakers and he can display more than one reason for satisfaction after this very authoritarian success against the reigning champions. At the end of the meeting, a word returns a lot in the mouths of the winners: defense.
« The coaches have prepared us to face these guys. They have a lot of insulation players, capable of scoring. We had talked about it in recent days “Reports Anthony Davis on the famous game plan imagined before the meeting.
« This is one of our best games, if not the best, in terms of execution of our defensive game plan. In the fact of not surreal when seeing (Kristaps) Porzingis Put several ‘Turnarour Jumper’. Because of the way we wanted to defend on them, it also required a lot of presence on the wearer, to stay in front, forcing the shots at the exit of Dribble », analyse JJ Redick.
His team actually had trouble containing the giant Latton opposite in the first minutes of the meeting at the post, in addition to undergoing the long distance from Jaylen Brown. But by changing a lot in defense, the Lakers disturbed Celtics to generate good shots.
-Apart from Porzingis, sentencing holders
« We were facing the ball by forcing them to mark us over it. That was what we wanted to do. It’s all in the spotlight of my staff of course, for having discussed that the last 24 hours. It’s all in the spotlight of our guys for having followed this plan at a high level “, Continues JJ Redick.
His team has contained the Celtics below the 100 points mark – only the 4th time this season that they did not reach this bar (four defeats) – with only 38.5% success in the shots, their 2nd worst percentage of the season. A sacred performance when you know that Joe Mazzulla’s men were playing complete this night.
Only between a clearly decreased Jrue Holiday (3 points at 1/6 shots), a Derrick White next to his Basketball (3 points to 1/5), a Jayson Tatum in small shape (16 points at 5/12) or A Jaylen Brown insisting 3-point (17 points at 7/19 including 3/9 from afar), the Celtics did not hold the shock.
Even if the start of the second period allowed them to return to 12 points. “” I did not like the way in which we started the third quarter, compared to our pace on half-terrain, it was very slow. But, as we still defended at a very high level in defense, we were able to maintain this safety cushion that we had “, Follows JJ Redick whose team will eventually win 21 points.
| Shots | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | To | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Anthony Davis | 38 | 34.9 | 52.3 | 31.8 | 78.2 | 2.7 | 9.2 | 11.9 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 25.7 |
| Lebron James | 38 | 35.0 | 51.3 | 39.8 | 76.3 | 0.9 | 6.6 | 7.5 | 9.0 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 23.7 |
| Austin Reaves | 36 | 34.9 | 44.0 | 36.2 | 84.1 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 6.1 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 18.3 |
| D’angelo Russell | 29 | 26.3 | 41.5 | 33.3 | 84.9 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 12.4 |
| Rui hachimura | 36 | 32.1 | 49.1 | 41.1 | 76.8 | 1.6 | 3.6 | 5.2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 12.2 |
| Dalton Knecht | 41 | 21.0 | 45.0 | 34.1 | 80.8 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 9.1 |
| Max Christie | 40 | 24.2 | 43.9 | 35.6 | 85.2 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 8.3 |
| Dorian Finney-smith | 8 | 23.3 | 46.5 | 41.9 | 80.0 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 7.1 |
| Jaxson Hayes | 20 | 16.5 | 64.1 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 5.3 |
| Gabe Vincent | 37 | 19.7 | 39.3 | 31.2 | 50.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 4.6 |
| Cam Reddish | 29 | 18.6 | 42.4 | 28.9 | 61.9 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 3.4 |
| Shake Milton | 6 | 9.7 | 28.6 | 20.0 | 75.0 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.2 |
| Christian Koloko | 22 | 9.2 | 58.3 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| Jalen Hood-Schifino | 2 | 7.1 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
| Armel Traore | 8 | 7.7 | 27.8 | 0.0 | 28.6 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
| Quincy Olivari | 2 | 5.2 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Maxwell Lewis | 7 | 4.2 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Trey Jemison | 2 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.5 |
| Bronny James | 11 | 2.3 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
