James Worthy on LeBron drops 40 Pts with career best 3-Pt shooting performance lead Lakers past Nets

James Worthy on LeBron drops 40 Pts with career best 3-Pt shooting performance lead Lakers past Nets

Hello and welcome to access sportset Lakers driven by your Southern California Honda dealers I’m Gater we got big game James Worthy Derek fiser and Mike Brent joining in a little bit but first we are headed right out to Brooklyn because uh this is a treat we always appreciate it when he can uh

Spend a little time with us LeBron James joins us now and LeBron you know I always like to throw some fun stats at you so your 40-point game was the 77th time oh there they are there they are we got you back because you did that to uh there we go

Let him hug it out yes sir all work yes sir yes sir there he is all right LeBron I got you your 77th career 40-point game that ties you with the Big O I know you’re such a historian of this game the love and respect you have for all of those

That came before you how fun is it still in your 21st year to hear those kind of Milestones um you know I love this game and uh you know I try to put everything into the game and uh you know with that it gives back to me so you know anytime

I’m linked with the greats and obviously um big old was a big inspiration for me growing up and you know reading about his history reading about his play when he played the game of basketball at this high level as well so you know it’s pretty cool when I’m linked with some of

The uh alltime greats and uh you know it’s pretty it was awesome LeBron you’ve had so many vintage performances in your career this was another one the fans absolutely loving it uh this was the best three-point percentage by a Laker ever with a minimum 10 attempts you were

Nine for 10 I I especially appreciated the one over Claxton in the corner and I appreciate ad over your [Applause] [Laughter] shoulder no it was uh you know I was feeling pretty good today obviously you know shooting the ball from the perimeter and I just try to you know

Continue to put my game um at a point where I have no weaknesses out on the floor especially offensively so you know tonight I had it going you know from the from the three-point line and uh I was able to make a few for sure especially

In that fourth quarter when uh when the Nets start to make a run Bron it’s D fish man congrats on the win just a quick question I know you battled obviously keeping yourself healthy with the ankle and just at this point in your career not just physically but what type

Of mental challenges this season particularly have you faced and how have you kept yourself in a place where the team could be going in the right direction into the postseason yeah I mean that’s the most important obviously um you know health is wealth um but you know mental health

Is even more important than the physical so you know been just trying to you know stay even kill throughout this whole season it’s been a long season it feels like it feels like it’s been like three or four seasons wrapped in one obviously we had the End season tournament

Everything welcome back welcome back GV um you know so you know it’s um you know just keeping my keeping my mentor is fresh as possible like I said stand even kill no matter how the season was going if we had ups we had downs we stay right

In the middle for me mentally and uh you know I think once the head stay strong then everything else kind of Falls in place so you know with that I you know just stand stand mentally uh prepared stand and in tune with what needs to be

Done on each and every day and then giving it all on the floor LeBron uh in addition to health what’s most important to you guys you know going forward and does it matter where you land as far as standards is concerned is it how you plan more important or where you land in

The standards no I think the way how we how we’re playing you know um you know you want to try to you know be be playing at a high level going into the postseason no matter where you land you want to feel good about you know um your your

Team you want to feel in a really good Rhythm and uh and also you want to be healthy so you know it was great to have gab back on the floor tonight he gave us some good minutes and uh you know obviously he’s on minutes restriction

But we want to continue to get healthy you know hopefully we can get V back uh soon you know and um you know we go from there so you know I think it’s the most important is how how we’re playing you know uh we we’ll see where the chips

Fall where they may and then uh we we take that course LeBron we always appreciate you stopping by Happy Easter oh happy Easter to you guys man love appreciate it all it’s LeBron James uh 77th career 40o game which is seventh all time puts him in a tie with the Big

O as you see some names on their big game and we know he’s such a histor of the game and uh pretty incredible list as he just continues it seems like nightly to join some new list um also big game going nine of 10 90% from three

That tied his career high in three he the crowd wanted him to get number 10 he never got another shot at it but here’s the craziest stat big game he had 40 points on 17 shots he’s 13 to 17 not a not a shot wasted nope every

Shot calculated even those threes he was knocking down and he where he’s been able to practice a couple of days or at least get his individual Rhythm back and then come out and shoot the ball the way he did tonight so just a recognition to understand himself and and what the team

Needs and to go out and play type of game tonight is impressive as opposed to like a fifth year player who might come out and shoot 10 threes just to figure can get it it’s just experience man it’s experience yeah crazy crazy too big game I mean that could have gotten a lot

Closer LeBron had 17 in the fourth I mean cam Thomas was heating up Lakers are kind of already thinking about getting on the road I mean LeBron still has that ability to close a team out and put a team on his back when he knows it’s needed tonight it was with threes

Yeah no that’s the best part I mean of course you want the Lakers to blow him out by 4 um but that doesn’t necessarily do anything for helping the team get better uh LeBron’s ability to recognize uh Milwaukee and then you have to back it

Up the next night um with a win in Memphis and then you have that tough one in in Indiana I think that was expected how important was it for them to come out like they did in this game that was a 17-0 lead they built up a 21-point

Lead and from there they’re in control obviously they knew how critical this game was after it can swing you absolutely after getting you know two games um you know against Milwaukee and go you know and then losing to Indiana getting a Memphis win they knew how

Critical it was to expand this road trip and get the record that they’re looking for whether that’s you know 5- one or 4-2 whatever that’s going to be and they came out uh with you know with a lot of enthusiasm a lot of energy to secure

That you know start of the game that set the tone and then from there you know Brooklyn made a little run but the the the Lakers were able to you know keep keep the game you know Out Of Reach In order to to secure the win so they know

Uh you know being you know 2-1 on the trip how big this was in Brooklyn Brooklyn not really a great team they they knew they could beat him my opinion yeah you know this team has been up and down all season for various reasons but they’ve shown when either a team in a

Single game situation or during a short period of time when something has their attention or or they set their minds to a accomplishing or achieving something they’ve shown the ability to rise to that occasion so when when you start to think back over the last month or so win

A game lose a game but we’ve always felt pretty solid about the way they were playing even though they didn’t always win the games to to me this game was indicative of like they have another gear that they can go to when they need

To or when they choose to uh and it’s at that point in the season where they you know there’s not a lot of time to waste in terms of um you know just going through the motions in the game and I think for the starting group in particular you know only two points

Quote unquote from the from the bench but that collection of guys there was a lot of back and forth on the starting line of decisions throughout the course of the season so you know ruy being inserted into that lineup you know D’Angelo making that shift off the

Injury and right before trade Den line and Austin’s consistency but you know so for that group to continue to show that that’s the five that can get you off to good starts they’ve shown the ability to come back in fourth quarters and help you win games so there are a lot of

Positive things happening just continuing to get healthy uh is going to be important you know big game this starting group a of mine gets buckets I mean every single night you look at that and there’s three guys with 20 or more and it’s always a different third guy

One night it’s going to be Dow a lot of times it’s going to be DLo it could also be ar it could be ruy um I think that’s what’s so impressive about this team you saw Gabe Vincent come back tonight a big game get 14 minutes obviously there’s

Going to be some Rust he’s only played in five games this year at surgery back in early January you know you start to think about man if you can get v as well maybe you start to get that depth now you can start to believe that you can

See a path for this team maybe I mean yes for sure LeBron said if you’re playing good basketball you see a path I mean you you know you heard what LeBron said you know he’s really concerned about how they’re playing where their land is going to be wherever they land

Uh but you know getting those two players back in particular Gator uh vanderbelt and now we have gab back two critical guys on the defensive end especially vanderbelt gives you so many different uh more extra possessions steals Guy deflect guys uh you look at tonight’s game every player uh in double

Figures and plus minus they pretty active but the bench only two points but that’s something that going forward they’ll need to take a look at uh but because bench production is critical but what starting lineup that starting lineup is solid as they come I think with with you know there’s two things

That this team really does well and consistently it’s get to the free throw line and score points in the paint and those are two things that regardless of where they land and the standings like Le if they’re healthy and playing well and they’re doing those two things

Consistently yes they will have to make threes there’s no question about that you have to make threes in order to win in this league now but the that’s what in a one game situation shooting free throws and scoring at The Rim will help you win a single game

Scoring points at the rim and getting to the free throw line will help you win a seven game series so they have the recipe or or the the team that’s capable of doing it um it’s just getting there and being healthy so they can have a

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James Worthy on LeBron drops 40 Pts with career best 3-Pt shooting performance lead Lakers past Nets