Look at the effort from the Lakers on defense. Sixers with a pindown for Maxey into Bamba/Lowry screening for him. Gets Reaves in action but he *traps* the screen. AD playing centerfield, Reaves recovers to the corner to contest. LeBron finishes on the other end.
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Also, the absolute freakish athleticism shown by Lebron here to box out Mo Bamba, get the rebound and take it all the way to the other end and score over 3 defenders.
When Bron is engaged ….our defense just becomes ten times better. Our guards feel more comfortable when their leaders are communicating and doing all the dirty work.
Fantastic sequence
The defense effort was great last night, could see players actually communicating on that side
Every game is a playoff game now
Is it me or is AR an actually pretty good defender who gives a ton of effort but for some reason always gets scored on. It’s one the weirdest things I’ll see during the games. AR has a rep for being a bad defender and I legit think that makes offensive players going against him extremely confident which then leads to him getting torched by some insane shot making
It’s nice to see them actually putting the effort in on that end, even if the Sixers are struggling without Embiid they still need to get those reps in. Hopefully we’re going to do more than “dare the other team to shoot.”