Austin Reaves has opened up on his profession evening that led the Lakers to a 111-105 win over Orlando on Sunday.
Reaves scored a career-high 35 factors to go together with six rebounds and 6 assists to get LA over the road regardless of Anthony Davis capturing 6-15 and LeBron James nonetheless out with an damage.
“It’s particular,” Reaves stated after the sport. “I grew up a Lakers fan, so to do it for this organisation is surreal. Typically I gotta cease and actually take into consideration what I’m doing.
“I feel all the percentages had been stacked in opposition to me, from the place I’m from. You realize, I performed baseball rather a lot, didn’t actually play basketball, solely performed one yr of AAU. However to be at this stage and this organisation, and in the end rating the final 10 factors is particular. All I’m actually completely happy about is the win.”
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Reaves’ scoring was propelled by his 18 free throw makes an attempt, 16 of which he made, and he stated postgame that he’d studied James Harden and Trae Younger to turn out to be higher at drawing fouls.
In the meantime, Lakers head coach Darvin Ham was stuffed with reward for his younger guard.
“Watching him in open health club and pickup avid gamers and what not, he didn’t thoughts taking probabilities when it comes to scoring in any respect three ranges, guarding totally different folks, some smaller than him, some identical dimension, some greater than him,” Ham stated.
“He wasn’t afraid. He’s only a flat out hooper. He simply likes to hoop. and you’ll inform that by the best way he works on his sport, which has allowed him to be what’s turning into to be, and that’s a constant high-level NBA basketball participant that’s multi-facet. Simply straight away you possibly can see his confidence, that’s the very first thing about him that jumped out at me.”
Reaves is averaging 19.1 factors per sport over his final eight video games because the Tenth-seeded Lakers struggle for a play-in spot.
