Boston-Not one thing that can frustrate Lakers in the qualifiers, but the biggest one thing raised his head on Saturday during the most expected normal season game: Liberon James and his 40-year-old body have failed to do so.
The last time it took an embarrassing step that resulted in a thigh injury, was Christmas Day 2018 – the first of the Cleacker.
Fortunately for James, he did not feel this additional pop after scoring his last field goal with 7:05 in the fourth quarter, when Lakers began to return after Boston Celkus took control of the third.
Try to extend it before going to the cabinet room and called it a night, and I pulled a late Celkus to secure the 111-101 victory at TD Park. It was not a preview of the American Professional League finals, but the game was the most expensive on the list this season, which is to renew the competition of the floors with the desire to send a message to the American Professional League world.
The plots that filled the air were replaced by the fact that Lakers depended on a 40 -year -old man with a lot of miles on the distance meter.
“It is not a lot of concern,” said James after the winning chain in Lakers was cut in eight games. “It is clear that we go day after day, look at it every day, and see whether it is better and take the appropriate measurements to find out what we need to go forward.”
James has not made much panic because, at least, he knows what a severe breed feels.
“The first thing I have emerged in my mind is Christmas Day. James said:” I was there before and I know the type of injury you deal with. “No, it’s not badly. It is not bad in this way. “
In the 2018-19 season, James ranked fourth in the West before they went to a tail where James was absent next month and ended 37-45. This injury feels like you can miss a week or two instead of the qualifying for the qualifiers.
James said: “It does not matter who is in the squad, we have to play our game,” James said. “We had young men inside and outside the squad in the majority of the year, then we had men inside and outside the squad during the past six weeks … so nothing changes.”
Austin Reeves and Garrid Vanderbilt talked about the “Next Man” line that was truly tried with acknowledgment of only one Liberation James. In theory, Luka Dončić will be the man, taking into account that the two work similarly but in different ways. The creation of the shot will achieve great success in the next term, as Lakers will have three groups of consecutive games and two hard matches from four games in five nights, followed by a week playing three games in four nights.
In some way, the rest that James needs can be directly before Lakers prepares in a separate match. He does not want to miss the time – embarrassment in locating and continuing the qualifiers – but its health is the most important thing if the Lakers team wants to challenge the finals.
He was significantly solid for the few in Los Angeles, playing 71 games last year and only lost four so far this season.
Reasonable question: Where will Lakers be when James returns? The CelTics loss put them in third place behind Oklahoma City and Denver, the pioneer in the conference, and only two of the fifth place-which means that they will not get the advantage of courts in any series if they slipped so much.
They want to stay in the first or second place, the place where most of the teams appear – but this is only if James injury is not severe and does not flow when he returns.
There were moments when James showed that he could wear her against defending heroes, and Lakers was there, for the extensions. They have defense for a long time enough to get Celkus interrogating themselves for half and they were impressive even without Jackson Hayes, and their alone who was suffering from a knee injury.
It was not prominent in performance as it was against Denver Nags on February 22, when they thwarted the best player in the game, Nicolas Gokic, on a miserable night in Denver. But it was a formula for how they played a decisive match.
Not everyone has Jayson Tatum (40 points) and Gayne Braun (31 points), who played 45 and 41 minutes, respectively, and can cause chaos on both sides. But Oklahoma City Thunder has a few large, long and wonderful species that will cause a problem if you face Lakers and Dunadic again.
For a while, Dončić night looked frighteningly similar to the American Professional League finals, which look like many satellites – with the exception of perhaps Celkus. Donnic was crowded early and attacked him defensively while Braun was once again in the lead center-flowing and arriving, and obtaining a theft for a fast and tiring diving by Dončić on the other side.
But Dončić was in the midst of the return of Lakers when they cut the lead to 96-92 with the remaining 5:06 after he achieved the lead in 22 years. For all the games that are usually jammed, Lakers showed enough of the nonsense that left one of the ideas of one of the recent victory was not many Mirage.
Dončić appears to be roaming in the shape, where he scored 34 with eight rebound balls and hit five times in 36 minutes on Saturday night.
The Lakers coach, J. J. Red, admitted that his team had a little “fog of the brain” that will be issued after the end of the first half, which led to the Celkus taking that point 22 points. Los Angeles was an additional match against Nix on Thursday evening, followed by an East East trip while waiting for Celkus.
The defense heroes were not full, but they were as complete as they were in a moment, with the return of Jrue Holiday. Even with KristAps Porziņģis still out, the Celkus does not seem to be absent from a lot of rhythm.
Brown and Tattom seemed to have arrived at the edge whenever they were satisfied, as they were looking for Donic and loved the defense while Lakers wanted to go to Horford, 38. Horford was a little better – well, much better after heating his body in the second quarter. He still showed that he could be a qualifying for the qualifiers, and it may not be good to be isolated in the hope of exploitation.
It is clear that Celkus knows who they are. Although they play with the game too much, they showed the ability to escape and hide by pressing a button.
James said: “We are not in their place, the defense hero.” They played basketball for a long time. They got a wonderful chemistry and know what they wanted to do.
We have taken a late acquisition of this season and we are still trying to build. We want to be full … so we feel that we can compete for anyone. “
James was significantly ouster but did not seem very inhibitory. He does not have to carry Lakers uniquely on his wide shoulder, as Dončić took advantage of the shoulder on his way out of the cabinet room.
It is now Dončić who must move forward in the meantime.
