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Dave McMmenamin
Second, California – when Lakers star Doncic He recently returned to Dallas and was honored by his former team with video, acknowledged that there was one clip that hit him most: his victory in the game 3 Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy gobert last year’s Western Conference final.
Doncic opens its first playoffs series with Lakers on Saturday against Wolves in the game 1 (20:30 PM ET, ABC) and said it will welcome 7-Nah-1 Gobert, who is trying to protect him again.
“Since I came to the league, I like to play pick-and-Roll,” Doncic said on Thursday in my first comments about the first round of the series. “I like to get me a center.”
Coach Lakers JJ Redick said that Gobert’s status as a four -fold NBA of the year forces Doncic to enjoy it more when a large man of Minnesota is switched.
“He thinks there is no man in the world to guard him,” Redick said about Doncic. “So I think he takes it seriously, especially the match.”
Redick and Lakers were deliberate to take all wolves seriously because they use this week to prepare for Play -off.
The team gathered on Tuesday to watch Golden State Warriors–Memphis grizzlies Play-in tournament game in Cosm Los Angeles, absorbing theater. In front of this game, players received the Lakers from their coach teaching.
“JJ has turned into a motivational speaker,” the Lakers guard Austin Reaves said. “I asked him how many times he practiced it. He said zero. He spoke from the heart.”
Asked about the Redicka report, Lakers reservation Gabe Vincent He said that everyone must be ready to increase their intensity.
“It is a season when he transfers things to another level, and I think it just explained the importance of it,” Vincent said.
Redick clearly spoke in the same language as Doncic, whose diameter of the 30.9-point scoring in Postseason is only 33.5 Michael Jordan.
“I like big games,” Doncic said. “Play -off is a fun time. Everyone plays 100%. It’s just fun to be out there.”
Although Doncic has changed teams since last spring, he recognized changes in trading Karl-Anthony to New York Knicks for Julius Randle and Donte flutnzoAlthough it is still guided by its own scoring machine Anthony Edwards.
“It is obvious that they have added two people who can really play and have ants,” Doncic said. “They have a lot of people who can play, a lot of people who can protect. So they are very, very interesting.”
They are also hardly the type of loser that one would expect from a typical match 3 in the first round.
Minnesota went 17-4 during the last 21 games to end with 49 wins, just one less than LA and now Lakers will try to beat Wolves four times in a series of seven games.
But Doncic says he believes that the Lakers has the right team that advanced around and farther.
“I think we have a great team,” Doncic said. “We have people who are willing to go to war. Everyone stays together. Chemistry is high. I think we certainly have a chance (win the championship).”
