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Dave McMmenamin
Los Angeles – after Lakers She closed her last home game of regular season by routing Houston Rockets 140-109 on Friday evening to take the seed no. 3 on the Western Conference, find Austin Reaves He joked that the team campaign sometimes felt like five seasons in one.
All the rise and falls and twists and turns and the turns lasted Reaves with clarity as she looks forward to the postseason.
“I feel we could win the championship to be honest,” Reaves said.
Doncicwho earned 39 points for 13 out of 19 missiles in three quarters, agreed with Reaves.
“This is our only goal,” Doncic said about winning the title. “I think we have a team.”
Lakers made sure they would enjoy their victory on Friday evening.
The head coach JJ Redick had to turn a press conference to Kelly Green Philadelphia Eagles in front of his postgame after being soaked in the dressing room and players bombed the ice buckets to celebrate the coach of a newcomer.
“The whole dressing room is literally water,” Rui Hachimura said with a smile. “Direct water.”
Hachimura said that Redick told the team that after hired La in June, he left an increasing career as the NBA and Podcaster operator, set two goals for himself: win 50 games and secure seed no.
He achieved both on Friday.
“Only incredibly proud of our team,” Redick said after apologizing for $ 17,000 to compensate for damage that the Lakers caused carpet of the dressing room. “It is a success to win 50 games in the regular season in any year. I think especially this year, at this Western conference, it is. And it is a credit to our players. Each of the different points contributed to victory in time. Everyone participated in the winning culture.”
While Doncic appeared as the best player LA in the section, this Lakers team got to this point LeBron James Leading the journey over the past seven years.
James, who stepped out of the game after he scored 14 points and eight assists in 22 minutes, and according to Redick he is “okay” is “okay”. 22 -year -old veteran left the arena without talking to reporters Congratulated the team with a contribution to x after the game.
“Man, I wanted to say something, but it’s unnecessary at this point of my career!
Although not clear what James specifically referred to when he wanted to “say something”, the former Detroit Pistons Great Isiah Thomas criticized James for undergoing his personal training five hours before Tipoff without a shirt during the NBA TV coverage.
“Just completely, 100% against it,” Thomas said, when the cameras in the net showed James’s early routine Pregame. “I think professionalism in our NBA league has reduced so much.”
It is also unclear what the LA team will face in the first round. The Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets Everyone has a chance to secure the seed no. 6 in the west and lock in the Lakers as an opponent and this weekend is heading for regular seasons until the last two days.
Meanwhile, Lakers will travel to Portland to play most of his rotary players in his road finals Sunday, then next weekend he organizes a week off before hosting the game 1.
“The good part of the season is coming, so you have to stay ready, you have to stay locked, but it will be great for me,” Doncic said.
It will be the first time La has been opening a playoff with a home game since 2010-11, last season Phil Jackson as a coach. (Lakers were seed no.
And they will have a playoff shooter no.
“It’s not just me and LeBron,” Doncic said. “We have a great team around us, everyone helps us in many ways. So if we want to win the championship, it will take us all.”
