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00:00You know he gets around one he gets around two he's underneath thought better of it now
00:04He wants to go up and under still wants to go up and under cannot hit it
00:09So no field goals in the first half for Reeves and at the other end Murray with two with one
00:16They're not gonna get a shot away
00:20And the Lakers will take a three-point lead into the locker room. It wasn't a pretty first half by
00:25either team
00:27So they'll both discuss some certain scenarios at halftime. Here we go, Mike
00:31All right, JJ you force several New Orleans turnovers, but had a bunch yourself. What did you see at both
00:37ends there?
00:38I thought our defense was good particularly once we went out of the zone and just went man-to-man
00:44The turnovers hurt us
00:46You know Luca did a good job there at different times just dissecting the defense with his passing and we
00:52got it
00:52We got to knock down some corner threes. We got a lot of great corner looks that out of that
00:55offense and just a little bit of a
00:57Different look as they essentially start zion and center and just sort of play a smaller group
01:01What's the challenge with that group and what can you guys do?
01:03They're just switching everything
01:04I mean the biggest thing is we got to not bring herb jones into pick and roll. I think just,
01:08you know
01:09Bring the back bring the bad defenders in that makes sense
01:12All right, let's go to break and then check back in with gator and the crew and el segundo liquor
01:18is holding it make it easy
01:21We're at halftime the new orleans pelicans in town and trailing the lakers by three at intermission 54 to 51
01:28Time to revisit the lexus keys to the game. I talked about points in the paint. Well, the pelis have
01:34a six-point advantage there
01:37Primarily because they try to operate there a little bit more than the lakers to limit zion's free throw so
01:42far
01:42So good. He's only attempted two in the game and then the bench contributions the lakers by one
01:48In that department, they've got to make sure they stay close if not win that bench
01:53Contribution mike today how the coaching staff feel about that second or that first goal or half
01:58Not bad, right?
01:59Lakers certainly could have played better could have made more of their open shots and could have taken care of
02:04the basketball
02:04A little bit better sue, but you know
02:06They did some good things defensively limiting what's a really a more high power new orleans offense than it may
02:12seem
02:12Based on their record to the 51 points in that half and
02:16They thought that there's some room for growth though here in the second and they also know that austin reeves
02:21is going to get going
02:22Not many halves where he's going to miss all of his shots over six in that one
02:25Just want him to continue to be confident take the shots that he knows he can hit
02:29Way too good of a player to worry about a bad shooting half
02:33So they expect to see some more from him in this one and you know
02:36Most likely he'll come out strong and aggressive. Yeah, I think you will and they should also make
02:39Try to set up a play for him. Don't make him do everything one on one
02:44You know it is a bit of a trend though for a are recently because he has been held
02:49Under 20 points eight out of the last nine of course that unreal start
02:55For him this year when lebron was out he and luca were basically unstoppable together bay
03:02With his back to the basket boys just trying to muscle block
03:04And then lebron comes back blocked by james
03:08He did a nice little drop step a semi drop baseline, but lebron was there to have the answer
03:16Bobby out of bounds
03:18It's a good way to start defensively challenge this call
03:22They're saying that the lakers touched it last so a quick timeout by the pelicans
03:2711 33 to go in the third quarter
03:31As the ball was awarded to the lakers, but the pelicans haven't even started still see what
03:37Is successful?
03:38Yeah, the floor the call on the floor was that the pelicans touched it last but after the replay you
03:43see it touches the left hand
03:44Of reese last so it's a successful challenge
03:49Ball will be awarded to the pelicans
03:56Again the lakers trying to uh get the broom out sweep the season series tonight
04:00You know, it's interesting. They have been known the lakers this year
04:03As most of you laker fans know to win close games and lose in blowouts
04:07Except the last four it's completely turned the tables have turned they lost those two close games
04:13Before winning the last two by wide margins over 20 each time now here
04:18They're in a fight with the pelicans the three-point game early here in the third
04:23That one is leaned into oh, zion was under there just rip it away. And then they take it away
04:28from him
04:29Lebron stripped him of the ball, but they say what hit the side of his head
04:33That's what they're saying that they hit the zion on the side of the head. Yeah
04:36Look like lebron got nothing but ball
04:39They have a challenge they have a challenge if they so want to take it here
04:44I don't think they're calling the foul on lebron. I think they called them maybe on luka luka. Yeah, luka
04:50did hit him
04:54Because lebron got nothing but ball. Yeah, and that's why lebron was so upset
04:58He figured it was going to be on him, but luka did swipe at it
05:02And hit him in the head
05:07Pelicans zion all the way scoop it up and in
05:10Straight down the middle this time when he's involved in screen and roll that wheat side defender's got to get
05:16into the paint
05:16Because he's had a free rein free lane
05:20to the room. Yeah
05:22A dozen points for williamson
05:27Lebron corner marcus smart rattles it home
05:32Now marcus smart his first points of the night
05:36And he's one for four from the field all of them have been three pointers
05:42Another reverse label you hit the deck hard didn't he it's good challenge though by eight
05:46Yeah, trey murphy the third is still down now. He's coming back the other way
05:50James fake wants to drive can't fumbles it loses it
05:54turnover lakers
05:56Very much so carrying it over whatever you want to call it
06:02Just call it illegal
06:05Dejante can only smile about that one
06:07Dejante coming down ball hand on top of it for
06:10Then it would have been a legal dribble had he not got his hand on the side and tried to
06:15control it
06:15You can dribble it high, but let it come back to you
06:20Luka magic out on top right by the timeline
06:24Wanders over now to the right wing side confronted there by zion
06:28Luka lob underneath boy, what a perfect delivery and then they nearly steal it with reeves
06:36That'll be out of bounds you want a just marvelous pass. Yes. It was by luca
06:42I mean off the dribble. He just throws it up and look at this read and look at that finish
06:47by eight nets. That's nice
06:50Eight points six boards for deandre
06:54Boy catching it then getting into the lane quickly as jones air balls it
06:59It's going to be taken by lebron
07:01Lebron is he going to go down the middle again? No, he's going to give it to a wide open
07:05donches
07:06too wide open
07:09He could knock it down luka from three tonight is two for six
07:14A little back and forth that's little on big if you will and it's a rainbow over eight that big
07:21outstretched arm of his
07:22Guys i've said it thousand times guys love to shoot going to their left
07:27If you can you want to make them go a little bit to the right where there's some help
07:31But not all the way to the rim remember trey has three fouls for the pelicans
07:35And luca gets fouled by zion. That's his second
07:42It's gonna be the first team foul on new orleans here in the third quarter
07:4759 56 of course the lakers in a stretch of seven out of eight
07:52At home and these last six in that stretch four of them against
07:58Really good teams denver twice minnesota and new york well you got to show that you can beat good teams
08:03You haven't been able to do that feast on the uh the teams that are struggling. Yeah, take care of
08:08business. Yes
08:09Three on one make it a three on two and they leave it over to murphy boy. The lakers got
08:14back now at the other end is luka
08:16So is the guy sweeping the floor
08:19And he got out of there barely barely
08:22Bop it up he's laughing too good hustle good hustle by him
08:28He heard those footsteps there there have been a bunch of boxed pre-poor
08:33Yes, that was another one
08:36It initially he started out three on one
08:39Lakers did hustle back
08:43Reeves long distance can't dial it up
08:47Bays the only one there on the weak side of the basket
08:5161 56 over seven for austin
08:54You haven't had a lead change in a while. Yeah, it's tough night for reeves
08:58No question bay boy. He should have shot it. Should have shot it. Lakers will take it. Here's a two
09:04-on-one
09:11I'll tell you what was smart was when and no pun intended go ahead
09:16They got this deal and Marcus had and he initially gave it up and lebron gave it right back
09:22You want your best finisher to be on the end lebron gives it back now
09:27You got a two-on-one with your best finisher there to hammer at home nice play by the lakers
09:37Let's get you caught up lebron another good start excellent first happen
09:42Hammer dunk just a second ago running down the middle of the lane
09:46pelicans
09:47Boy, they have really been sharing the basketball haven't they 19 on 22 is about as good as you're gonna
09:52get
09:54And then luca just eight points tonight so a little bit of a different game for him
09:57But you know, it's interesting mike talked about that right at the beginning of the tell it. Oh, that's 18.
10:02I was thinking eight
10:05He's tied with lebron with 18 also did it say eight or did I just read it that way
10:11You you corrected it. Yeah
10:15Good switch out
10:18And uh
10:19William said underneath with the easy layup or
10:22Paint points for him and for them and all of his points have been of the easy variety
10:28He hasn't had to really you know fight through a double or anything. I'll take it away by bait and
10:34Not just didn't even see him. Nobody helped him
10:36He had no idea it was gonna get double teamed and have it stolen away, and it's a three-point
10:42game
10:43Speaking of points off of turnovers the lakers have actually capitalized on 21 points off of the 14 pelican turnovers
10:51So, new orleans turns the table that time
10:56Lakers also at 18 fast rate points they're off moving lob a little bit out of the range of eight
11:03And then dodges tried to tap it
11:05Jones they pick up the basketball so bay left side right hand and eight got down there quickly to get
11:11that defensive rebound
11:14Joining the party is lebron here's that spin move of his good ball movement. He's gonna hit
11:19Not this time boy cold night for ar
11:24Over eight and over four from downtown. He'll keep shooting well
11:28You just got to keep your head up keep your confidence and you get your shot
11:32You have to you have to take it you can't second guess yourself when you're struggling like that
11:39Six and a half to play ooh bodies on the floor and they call it on zion. Oh, and he's
11:44hopping mad
11:45He wants an explanation tried to get in front of lebron on the out-of-bounds play and look at
11:51him storming around the court
11:55He's just trying to stay away from trouble right now
11:59He's
12:01And so reeves so they
12:04Let austin shoot the free throw. He's a very good free throw. Yeah before the ball was thrown in
12:10It was there was the foul so anybody on the floor at that time could take the uh the shot
12:15zion's got three murphy's got three
12:18For the lakers eight and has three those are your guys at just a bit of foul trouble
12:25We're in the third quarter third quarter action as reeves tries to go down the middle
12:29This one's poked away. It's taken by zion and he's very fortunate to get it to jones as he threw
12:35a shoe
12:37Literally threw a shoe. Yeah, he had to put it right back on
12:42Murray trying to get right around ruey
12:44Bounce corner. They got an open man out on top. We got an open man under the bucket. Yeah, they
12:49really did but sadiques
12:52It's gonna have a little string music from the outside
12:56Bay tonight has a dozen
12:59Well, the lakers nursing a one point lead they led by as many as 10
13:05And uh, new orleans is about to take the lead right here
13:08right there
13:0913th lead change tonight
13:12again turnover that's 17 turnovers for the lakers 17 ouch and we have six minutes to go
13:20In the third and the police are off to the races after the turnover as they lead 65 64
13:44Los angeles lakers on spectrum sportsman the heart of our city beats here
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26:42this game a 10-point lead they've trailed by as many as six right now they trail by two
26:54you buy jack in the box the hot mess is back as a munchie meal for jack's 75th anniversary
27:08city city hall gotta put your mic up by your mouth there you know that's the first thing you learn
27:13right stew 78 76 here we go laker fans canard laravia james ruey out there along with marcus
27:23smart and who's not out there we'll get to the five on the floor the correct five in a second
27:29here it is knocked away who's got it 50 50 no change of possession he says three two one
27:36just barely kicked it off was lebron and eight has an offensive rebound in traffic they find the radio
27:44not the way it was drawn up but the lakers had they tried their best to have their 21st turnover
27:52and let's see if luca and lebron can clean things up here in the fourth they had three mayfield goals
27:59together and eight turnovers and they're the first ones that'll tell you that underneath arabia on the
28:07floor taken by braun here he comes it's a four on three lebron is a middleman he just buries
28:14his shoulder into the defender and he's going to get a defensive foul out of it
28:20that's that transition game again uh you know you give a get a player that's not in defensive
28:25positioning and especially against lebron he's too strong lebron at the line three for four how
28:33about this right now from experian the experian app helps save you time and money get the app from your
28:38bff experience lakers have 20 turnovers pelicans have 16 and there's a whole quarter yeah how about
28:54about 10 55 to go lakers on the year an average 14 and a half turnovers just to give you
29:02a little
29:04perspective now left hand side jajonte murray still trying to get his seat legs back of course after
29:09being out but all that time boy bay's been a problem ending sadique bay especially with zion on
29:16on the bench and trey murphy you know sadique bay is going to be one of their primary scores he's
29:21got 17
29:21five and three lebron james holds on to it will scoot past now to marcus smart
29:29in the lane is eight boy he got a delivery right where he can do some damage i mean yeah
29:35i mean
29:35he's three feet from the hoop one that again it's an excellent spot to grab the pass so he's a
29:42double
29:42digit scoring with ten kind of caught up at the baseline was derrick queen lebron now trying to
29:52close him out of the corner oh murray wound up with an open shot and he hit it
29:56they just didn't come back and to close out hard enough that time and he puts the pelicans up by
30:02that many
30:05marcus smart
30:0884-81 marcus's turn rebound dj
30:13around long time deandre jordan
30:17i'm going to get a whistle and a foul minimal contact but impeding progress marcus smart another look at that
30:25he's murray shot from the three-point line
30:29lebron's closing out didn't get there in time and nothing but bonnet
30:36and zion comes back into the game so
30:40your defense has to be adjusted again out goes jordan by the way the former husker
30:47stew bryce mcgowan's back in the game
30:52well that foul was called before the ball was thrown in so again a free throw and possession
30:59by the way speaking of the huskers your alma mater they are playing the bruins
31:05across town at poly pavilion anthony heard our
31:11our audio guy is giving us because he's a bruin why you have to bring those it's because they're way
31:17behind
31:17i won't give the score though five second violation lakers denied the inbounds pass so
31:25aside from the foul that gave them the freebie point they came up a little dry on that position
31:32each team well two fouls on the lakers one on the pelicans here in the first couple of minutes
31:39marcus smart thought he was going to get a whistle instead he gets a swish out of it
31:45lakers battling for the win tonight trying to make it three in a row
31:49and continue their dominance over teams below 500 not going to be easy boy canard was all over
31:56but that's just a play like he's not going to give it up is bryce mcgowan's well there was no
32:02help for
32:02luke either as he dribbled into the pain and got an easy one back to marcus gonna play a little
32:08two-man game
32:08with lebron we're gonna see ar at the next whistle canard with nine with eight dumping it out of the
32:17post
32:17it's eight turns and scores count it oh derrick queen that time got a little bit into the body on
32:25the shot of deandre ayton and ayton has a three-point opportunity here inside and work on him a bit
32:33count the basket as ayton now six out of eight from the field 12 points eight boards nobody started
32:41more games this year for the lakers and uh ayton he's second in the nba in field goal percentage and
32:47last two home games he's averaged 16 and a half points and he's gearing up to get close to that
32:52again
32:54one point game
32:59eight and a half to play zion going one-on-one
33:05oh yeah absolutely that was the easiest one to call absolutely yeah demonstrative act
33:12yeah right there by eight especially with all the warnings going around yeah there's zero leeway
33:19i mean he gets the block shots pretty clean but he got contact with the body in the swing of
33:25the arm
33:25that's basically an automatic check yeah even before the warnings right i mean
33:32there's a heck of a defensive effort but again the whistle sounded
33:41and williamson will go to the free throw line
33:47self-control you gotta exhibit it at all times especially when you've been warned
33:53many many times not a ton of free throws tonight this will be the 14th attempt for new orleans and
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34:24drop letting him have it do we have an attendance number yet stu he's still counting yeah he's been
34:30walking on wandering i just saw him go by the third row over there
34:36holding it with one hand is luca not doing much with it now he'll go to the dribble pick it
34:42up
34:42watch lebron not going to get it to him instead he's going to get it right back on the
34:46touch pass with three with two with one dodges
34:52that was not a good possession i mean there's no movement at all in that possession
34:58ball or body
35:01let's try to get into ar and a foul is called and he's going to take a walk away from
35:07the officials
35:09first person that's his first personal foul
35:14you know it's an isolation play there the side was cleared and
35:17there's no question that that was a foul and as he reached in with the arms
35:26bright's going to go right back to the free throw line
35:31he's a happy man because his uh they converted his two-way contract
35:36back on february the 20th to a three-year deal so congrats to him
35:41against the lakers earlier this year he had a career high with 23 points
35:47shot at 18 times in that game so we know all about him
35:56that's a foul on queen yeah it is
36:04that's only their third team foul
36:08lakers are out of fouls 744 left in the fourth the pelicans lead by five by the way queen the
36:17only
36:17rookie this year to post a triple double and one of 19 in the league to post multiple triple doubles
36:24no
36:24wonder they're so high on him four three mark his corner close out all the way touch shot they knew
36:34the clock
36:35where the lakers hurt themselves by waiting so long to get in aggressive mode williamson look out here
36:41kind of it goes it goes he hits the deck boy he's he's pumped up
36:49biggest lead of the game 93-86
37:00lakers need a a timeout they need to regroup zion a 72 percenter
37:09he's played in 46 games this year third most though in his six seasons in the league
37:15up ahead for lebron
37:18yeah there's the time i needed yeah you were so right yeah they see themselves down by their largest margin
37:25eight but they still got plenty of time seven minutes 19 seconds
37:32and that was the third quarter scoring and uh leaking into the fourth that you saw
37:37how about the metro by team mobile right now and it's all about ports off and turnovers on the game
37:42recap
37:43well yeah when you've got 20 turnovers you know you're going to be giving up some
37:46easy opportunities and the pelicans have made the most of it too i mean they have
37:51increased their intensity throughout this game forcing turnovers and as a result they have themselves
37:57a eight point lead 18 000 248 we got the numbers too here tonight he finally stopped counting on yeah
38:07he just finished stew sped him up jackson hey he threw it down with one hand
38:16he turned that time and saw that there was nobody there so he got the easy basket there have been
38:2246
38:23points off of 37 turnovers tonight score
38:29rice trying to get around dodgich does can't score lucas got it now he'll start a break going the other
38:34way luca lebron with a head of steam now left hand side reads yes he's got it fresh snow from
38:41the corner
38:42that's good to see there austin knocking down that first from behind the arc
38:46that's i think that's going to pick him up and a good break luca fighting lebron who then in turn
38:52found
38:52reeves they bottle up zion again numbers going the other way here comes lebron and he can't score but
39:01a foul and he's down near the stanchion and that one smarted
39:06oh that's a nice give back to lebron by austin he had the opening but it starts with the defense
39:13of
39:14jackson hayes he plays on one end with the dunk and goes down the other end makes a play that
39:19led to
39:20the lakers getting some hoopses breeze with the triple and the defense by jackson hayes basically took
39:27the bat out of the hand of zion wilmington unable to knock it down lebron he'll get another one
39:34lead is only three for new orleans as we creep up towards the halfway point of the fourth and final
39:41quarter
39:45bakers not quite at last year's pace as lebron misses of both last year at this time they were 39
39:50and 21
39:52they're 36 and 24 right now and trying to get a workman like win over new orleans denver's up next
40:01on the
40:01road bay still has a dribble there it is raked away stolen by lebron here comes luca with the dribble
40:09all the way
40:10drop kick reeves seeks the rim and can't score for that rolled around as he got aggressive
40:22williamson you know he's trying to get to the rim and does and he's fouled offensive yeah there you go
40:27that's an offensive jack's doing a nice job i'm doing a great job and jackson hayes took it all he's
40:33guilty up in the stands he's somewhere trying to recover yeah oh i got hit the face or the head
40:39yeah
40:40hit in a few places especially in the chin
40:44and here he is back
40:51good defensive play
40:54they thinking about challenge they're gonna challenge they're gonna see if it's anything that
40:58meets the offensive fouls on review to see if it meets the criteria for flagrant and i don't think it
41:04does
41:06but they let them review it hopefully it'll just take a few seconds
41:16there's no way that's right
41:20he's got the ball in both hands coming to the rim yeah this as you're saying and you haven't been
41:27on a roll
41:29but i kind of agree with you here this should be a short review
41:33this should be short after review the play stands was called an offensive foul
41:37there is no criteria for a flagrant very easy to call l.a ball side out
41:44that's just a play where inadvertently he clips jackson hayes in the jaw
41:51there's no malice there or anything
41:56well who the lakers come out with canard smart hayes luca reeves
42:02uh the other side you got zion
42:06of course trey murphy's out there you see now you see what zion's doing now he's talking to the
42:13official in a civil way that's the way you want to do it wait to a dead ball
42:17if you have a question and a complaint go over and talk to him you know in a civil manner
42:22taking it to the basket or trying to is marcus and
42:26he's got a foul in the process earns two free throws yeah good play by smart
42:3312th year in the league former sixth overall pick by boston he's gonna have a birthday on friday
42:40when we're right back here he's going to turn 32
42:46interesting how his free throws by month and i'll wait till he shoots this one he makes it
42:52gone down every single month it just depends on how far down it's gone it's gone down pretty far
42:57yeah and i mean it uh and he was really knocking him down with consistency in february he only shot
43:0664 percent a lot depends on your free throw attempts too you know when you don't get a lot of
43:11attempts when you miss your percentage drops
43:16you know what all matters he made those two seven all right lager run they're down by one five and
43:24a half to play
43:27trey murphy he wasn't close zion great save williamson gives him a fresh 14.
43:34no i didn't hit anything oh you're right it did not you're absolutely right
43:39it sure was a good save it is up now for marcus smart two canard he's open he can't knock
43:46it down
43:47offensive rebound breeze three got it got it
43:54lakers back on top good hustle by the lake at the last minute or so
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44:08they can't answer back rebound luca and they got the shot they wanted an open look
44:14by trey murphy the third who's three for eight from downtown not up to his standards
44:29nice little surge here by the lakers as they overcame the eight-point deficit to go up
44:36by four and austin reese he may have been
44:40scratchless in the first part of the game of the going down the stretch he's making things happen a
44:45couple of threes the lakers by four
44:52which caught up on the next week we will be with you on thursday night seven o'clock nuggets lakers
44:57right back on friday abc only the nicks only appearance will be sunday afternoon a couple of
45:03big games of the timberwolves obviously they're in the mix with the lakers and the chicago bulls at
45:10home again that's your upcoming week for the lake show all right there have been 18 lead changes but the
45:17lakers do storm back on a 12-0 run right now let's see if they can keep some momentum here
45:24the lakers winning the bench battle tonight it doesn't happen often but they're plus three
45:31in that regard dejounte murray trying to attack ar with five to shoot bay drifting missing
45:38leaves rebound let's see if they keep this run going
45:52the other way murray
45:57zion is triple team so they converged on him and it was austin reese that stripped him and austin may
46:03have hurt his right arm right hand canard and reeves holding it yeah yeah he's something's going
46:12on maybe lost the feeling in it for yeah that's what he's trying to get back he doesn't call a
46:17timeout
46:17you've seen shaking it trying to get some feeling back in it i hope that's all it is as they
46:24take the
46:24the timeout to address the issue that's as scary as much as anything for austin on that shooting hand
46:32as strong as zion is they have stripped him of the basketball about four times a night three times by
46:39lebron this time it's austin who strips him as he goes up oh hit the elbow yeah that's where it
46:47happened
46:48that's the nerve that you lose all the feeling in your hand for a brief moment boom right there
46:56nothing funny about it i don't know where that even came from
47:04hopefully he'll be able to get the feeling back as fast as possible
47:1298-94 three and a half to play
47:17field goals tonight lakers shooting 46 percent only 42 for the pelicans it's a good defense
47:23tonight lakers have turned it around a good second half by austin yeah very much so he only had the
47:27two
47:27free throws in the first half but in the second half he's he's coming alive you knew you that good
47:34of a player you don't keep them down that long
47:41well remember the lakers were undefeated in this department they're still really good best in the nba
47:4616 and 5. they have lost a couple of close ones lately
47:53well can they win it here at home and when they're 18th on this floor luka
48:04lakers have nine block shots tonight nine of them
48:07turn over here by marcus here they go mark the smart the former defensive player
48:12and rob lebron he glides in in the finger roll only appropriate that uh marcus gets the assist yeah good
48:21play
48:22man a tough shot that's by zion that was tough yeah flicked it up with the wrist that's the first
48:29tough one he's had tonight williamson with 20. he's on the floor starters and double figures for the pelicans
48:36four starters in double figures for the lakers
48:40here's their leading scorer donchage he's got 22. it's put away from jackson hayes as he was looking
48:48for the delivery another look at the marcus smart getting his deal off of the jonte murray and then
48:54gets the assist on the semi lob to lebron but then nice attempt on the field goal by zion
49:03three how's that hand feel in austin just off the front of the rim and he hands off the equipment
49:09but he had to shoot that one quick to beat the clock zion
49:12no call it's something about a no call boom he went down
49:25there's a lot of contact for the whistle all right they say play on let's do it
49:31jj is adamant about something over by the laker bench he's trying to get the lakers attention
49:37luca isolated luca one-on-one luca down low can't score two free throws
49:44it's not to murray he's supposed to get one too he's not really complaining just acting up yeah yeah
49:52they know how much they can get away with now the last few minutes you haven't seen much
49:57you see the contact by de jonte and the whistle sound sending luca to the line where he's
50:04two out of three well with a win tonight the lakers will be just one back of denver
50:11in the standings when they see him on thursday a loss and obviously that balloons to two
50:19actually they'll only be a half game back at denver half came back
50:24come on back so that's gonna be a big one thursday regardless
50:31remember there's a two game set with houston who's ahead of them in the standings coming up
50:36with the lakers in about a week and a half all right here we go final two minutes
50:42let's set it up stew what are 98 about the defense now you've got to be solid
50:52back and forth he goes zion trying to move his way in
50:56surrounded and taken away zion slow getting back lakers can have numbers if they want it
51:02they're up by four under two to play and she's eye on wants to complain but he knows if he
51:09does
51:09what's going to happen quarterback in his gotcha still with it luca corner
51:21mark is smart big time yeah that was big time
51:26marcus somehow ended up on the floor i don't know how on a three-point attempt
51:32but the bottom line is it was nothing but bottom as luca drew some attention and
51:40finds marcus and marcus says let me shoot this triple
51:44tried to draw the foul on zion and
51:47immediately got up there that's what i like you might go down but don't stay down get up and get
51:51ready to play some deep i have to make him the three that three means every laker starter
51:56in double digits tonight 19 to 4 run laker fans clutch basketball yeah but it's not over we've
52:04seen this scenario many times minute and 34. do you think it's safe to go out in the water and
52:10all of a sudden that shark comes up and bites you good defense though here in the fourth quarter
52:17they've got to continue for another minute and 34. they do
52:25only one field goal for the pelicans in the last five minutes
52:29well that says a lot about what they've done here in the in the fourth quarter especially in the last
52:35five minutes by the way john john ireland has a note for you john ireland reached over to give you
52:41that note
52:41right there
52:45the former bruin john ireland i got 62 47. i got too many bruins in my ear i tell you
52:54that right now
52:57what's important is here right now lakers 105 98
53:04a stop here goes a long way murray hold on to it they'll get supply now murray gets into it
53:13zion wants to go down the middle oh they're knocking away again again again
53:18i'm gonna tell you right now zion has very small hands and that may play into how many times he's
53:24been
53:25stripped
53:27lakers in great shape a bucket could mean the demise of the pelicans
53:35luka back and forth for three
53:40that could be good night under a minute they're up by 10. don't celebrate yet no or not especially
53:47if you're going to give up an and one that's exactly the scenario where you don't give up
53:52and exactly right if you get beat give him the layout i said could be exactly i did not emphatically
53:59say it you and i both know i've seen this don't get silly i've seen this uh movie too many
54:07times
54:09you don't celebrate anything until the horn sounds and there's no time when the clock no silly fouls
54:15either again of course you could still play a little bit of the uh the clock game here and keep
54:25away that's what they're doing they will get it all the way down before they start going in are they
54:29going to play the foul game well they should have if they were going to play the foul game should
54:33have
54:33done it sooner they should have fouled it on the inbounds pass they wasted what eight ten seconds
54:42and then they end up fouling one of the lakers best free throws without question an 88 percenter on the
54:47year
54:49you've got to be decisive you tell your team look we're going to go for the steel and the inbounds
54:53pass
54:53if we don't get the steel to get the foul we we've got to try to lengthen this game a
54:58little bit
54:59at the line a guy who is having a career year in scoring this is his fifth year in the
55:08nba
55:09he'll get another one
55:12stick around post game show coming up
55:17could be a good one lakers have six blocks six blocks officially here in the fourth quarter
55:24the team not really known as a shot blocking team but they and they spread it around a bit
55:32pelicans do not have a timeout by the way so they have no way to stop it and talk it
55:37over
55:37just stop it period and now they're wasting some time on the outside long shot air ball
55:45they could have let it go well the smart thing austin did after he got it and was falling out
55:50of
55:50bounds he did throw it under the basket exactly he just said okay we'll give it back to you with
55:5410 seconds i'm not going to blindly throw it in and give you a layup jackson was there but no
55:59way
55:59for austin to know it he had his back to he had his back to jackson yeah no way for
56:05uh reeves to know
56:06it oh they're giving him a fresh 24 so that must say that there was a change of possession
56:12there's only 29 seconds left which there was yeah shot clock's going to be off any second
56:18another block shot and the lakers have it and the lakers are going to win it as they bring it
56:22up all the way to
56:23LeBron and he's just going to bring it right back out actually they're going to have to
56:28either foul or turn it over here because the shot clock is just barely ahead of the game
56:34but all right we're giving away tacos two free tacos with any drink purchased from
56:39drug in the box tomorrow just ask for the laker deal when you order valid only at la area restaurants
56:45go lakers go jack
56:48nice nice fourth quarter for the lakers very nice their regression level went up defensively
56:55after that horrendous third quarter where they turned it over what nine ten times
57:00three in a row all the starters in double digits they held the pelicans to 42 percent
57:07and 27 percent from three and they closed with a 24 to seven run
57:18that's really good stuff heading to denver
57:23that's respect
57:27lebron keep your head up stay healthy that's what you can say right there of course this is
57:32the last meeting of the year between these two lakers sweep them all four victories all four games
57:38result in laker wins
57:46lakers are now 37 and 24 pelicans dropped to 19 and 44 lakers are 18 and 12 at home and
57:5426 and 15 in conference
58:00as we wrap up the 10 games tonight in the nba you know what i like most about that game
58:07and that win
58:08was the fact that the lakers dug down deep into fourth and come back to get the win
58:14yeah and one going away all right you'll hear from the lakers on the post game show that'll do it
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