Lakers gamers have been on a excessive after their thrilling 128-124 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in double-overtime on Tuesday.
With LeBron James sidelined, Anthony Davis put up 34 factors and 23 rebounds to assist the Lakers come again from 19 factors down within the fourth quarter.
Chatting with reporters after the sport, Davis stated his workforce was nicely conscious within the second that it was a manageable deficit.
“A 20-point lead on this league now, it’s nothing due to the best way the offense is correct now within the league, so high-powered that you may wipe away a lead fairly quick,” he stated.
Davis’ co-star for the night was Austin Reaves, who completed with 29 factors, 14 rebounds and 10 assists.
Reaves stated the Lakers’ merely refused to surrender after they have been down 19, despite the fact that it could have been a lot simpler to wave the white flag and begin wanting forward.
“It was a type of moments that you could possibly both flip the web page to tomorrow, prepare for that recreation or you could possibly exit and compete 110% and provides your self a possibility or at the least attempt to give your self a possibility to get again within the recreation,” Reaves stated.
It was a bruising loss for the Bucks, who have been certainly anticipating to beat a LeBron-less Lakers workforce at dwelling.
“We’ve acquired to observe this recreation, be taught from this recreation,” Giannis Antetokounmpo stated. “Watch why we weren’t in a position to get a cease. Watch why the ball wasn’t shifting down the stretch. Watch why we misplaced the sport. Watch why there was a number of 50-50 balls and we weren’t in a position to get them.”
Regardless of the discouraging end to Tuesday’s recreation, the Milwaukee Bucks are nonetheless sitting within the second seed within the Japanese Convention at 46-26, two video games away from the third-placed Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Lakers, alternatively, transfer to 40-32 and occupy the ninth seed.
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