The Lakers got here away with their fifth straight win in opposition to the Pelicans on Saturday, however issues regarded just a little shaky within the first half.
It ought to have been a simple get, given how decimated with damage NOLA was, however the Lakers trailed by ten on the half attributable to their lack of hustle in protection.
However Anthony Davis, who ended the evening with 31 factors, 14 rebounds, two steals and a block, wasn’t perturbed.
“I wouldn’t say it’s irritating,” Davis mentioned. “Simply because we perceive the place we’re, I imply that is the second evening of a back-to-back. Everyone goes by means of it. And like I mentioned, they had been making some photographs early on. We had some attractiveness early on and simply missed them. AR shot one off the facet of the backboard extensive open, like that by no means occurs. So we had nice seems to be, missed some bunnies across the rim.
“We weren’t too discouraged. We truly had some fairly good defensive quarters, and we did in the end maintain them to 99 factors, so our defensive score I’m fairly positive was good this recreation. It was offensively the place we had been struggling, we knew that crew was gonna play exhausting and so they weren’t going to surrender irrespective of who they had been enjoying. And who was enjoying for them. So we simply had to stick with it, keep related, keep collectively and in the end executed down the stretch.”
The Lakers finally restricted the Pels shot choice within the second stanza, and Lakers coach JJ Redick defined his mindset and what he mentioned to his troops on the break.
“Truthfully, our protection was good, at the least our first shot protection within the first half,” Redick mentioned. “I feel they shot 36% on their first shot, it was the 12 offensive rebounds that killed us. Made it very clear they had been going to crash at a very excessive price. And the sport was going to return down as to if or not they may get extra possessions than us. Our guys, I assumed within the third quarter, defensively had a very good mindset. We had been capable of accumulate some offensive rebounds, they ended with six, I feel within the second half. However, there wasn’t actually an adjustment defensively. It was simply get the f—ing ball, you realize? That was all it was.”
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