“Lakers really don’t need LeBron” – Stephen A. on Lakers rally from 19 down to beat Bucks in 2OT

“Lakers really don’t need LeBron” – Stephen A. on Lakers rally from 19 down to beat Bucks in 2OT

Hey there we’re glad you can make it for Sports Center along with Linda con I’m Stan veret we look ahead to the Sweet 16 and both the men’s and women tenca tournaments in just a bit as they get a few days off to get ready and that makes

For perfect timing for a night of critical NBA games with playoff seaing implications absolutely the Los Angeles Lakers entered Tuesday night’s game in Milwaukee in ninth place in the west two and a half games ahead of the 10th Place Warriors they proceeded to have one of the best performances of their season in

Fact their head coach put it in the top three and LeBron James he didn’t even play you sold it thank you let’s watch it’s my job Anthony Davis he played and he and Giannis four and four against each other while Giannis is averaging 10 points more per game in their

Head-to-head matchups they don’t care about that LeBron is a spe LeBron spectator Giannis aggressive against ad gets in the corner drives right at Davis for the jam setting the tone early closing seconds of the first quarter Davis this time gets the best of yan jiannis lost track of

Him Davis missed the layup but he followed it up with that one-handed Jam second quarter back to Giannis this is be going on this is the ongoing theme Giannis wide open underneath for the easy two let’s go right to the fourth quarter under three to play Lakers down

Eight Austin Reeves kicking it to Davis who played out of his mind with his 34 points Lakers down 1096 just over minutes to play still a five-point game it’s Austin Reeds 29 Points 14 rebounds 10 assists for reads Lakers within two we’re tied with 18 seconds left Angelo

Russell he’s blocked the ball is initially ruled off of Malik Beasley take a look after review it was determined that Russell touched it last so the Bucks get the ball back next Bucks possession slide out with 2.6 seconds left Middleton looking for Giannis but Davis is there for the tight

D take another look at ad’s tight defense Lakers are able to call a timeout with 8/10 of a second left and 23 rebounds in this game by the way final chance for the Lakers leaves a deep and I mean deep no good we head to overtime tied at 101 inot Lakers down

Three Anthony Davis says you know I got to finish what I started gets the shooters bounce on the three and we’re tied at 108 his ninth career 30o 20 rebound game by the way next Lakers possession Spencer Den witty he’ll hit the three the three from Den witty gives the

Lakers their first lead of the night Lakers by three under 30 seconds left onepoint game Willard driving Davis got a piece of it on the Block yanes is there bucks move it around Dame time hits the three in the corner bucks up 117 115 Mi Lakers possession 7 seconds

Left D’Angelo Russell and he’s going to be fouled by Chris Middleton free throws coming for Russell now Russell would make the First on to the second he makes it we’re to at 117 three seconds left bucks inbounding Lillard and Anthony Davis is not right now we head to a second overtime died at

117 in Lakers down two Austin Reeves back at it driving inside for two tying the game at 119 under a minute left tie to 121 Reaves hits the three Lakers find a way to win by four Davis double double let’s to him after the win a 20-point lead in this league now

Is just nothing um cu the of the way the offense is right now in the league uh so high powered that you can wi lead way pretty fast we were I think up 19 with under 8 minutes to go in the game and um

For the team we are you know we got to go ahead and wrap that up and win this game but like I said um sometimes the ball just bounces different and when you don’t um stay disciplined and do the things that go into how we built that

League you know the those leades can go away quick in this league with with the shooting that’s in the league like they did tonight yeah lard had 27 points but he also missed 20 shots in this one the buck LED this one by 19 points with 8

Minutes left in the fourth quarter it was all Lakers the rest of the way pretty much La outscored Milwaukee 53 to 30 the rest of the game The Box shot just 24% from the floor over the final 18 minutes the Lakers have won four in a row their longest win streak this season

Cas you missed the top of the show where were you the Lakers came back from 19 points down in the fourth quarter to pull off the double overtime win in thewa without LeBron it was a big night for Anthony Davis and Austin Reeds who scored 63 of LA’s 128 points in the win

Including the second career triple double for Reeves La will need to rest up quickly as they travel to face the Grizzlies on Wednesday we now welcome in Lakers reporter Dave McManaman and Bucks reporter Jamal ker from Milwaukee so first you Dave uh with no LeBron James on the road against a team with

Championship hopes what did the Lakers reveal about themselves with Tuesday’s rally well they showed that they continue to find ways to win without LeBron this is the first team that LeBron’s played on that has a over 500 record without him in a season since the Miami Heat back in 2012 2013 and

Certainly this is the second win they’ve had against the Bucks this season both of them without LeBron but I’ll say this Austin Reeves who hit the big three in double overtime was kicking himself cuz he was exhausted after the game that he didn’t hit the three at the end of

Regulation and could have saved all the guys on the Lakers an extra 10 minutes of hard-fought basketball because all these games matter down the stretch and their reward for beating the Bucks tonight is the second night of a back toback against a Young and Hungry Grizzlies team tomorrow in Memphis all

Right your turn Jamal another Heartbreaker from Milwaukee against the Lakers their second close defeat to La this month what were the Bucks saying about the teams room for growth ahead of the postseason well Linda they felt good about the way they play for majority of this game but they got to finish and

They know that they really got away from themselves down the stretch they didn’t execute their offense Dame alluded to it after the game that everybody was sort of trying to step up and take control and be the guy to end the run and he said that him Giannis and Middleton

Everybody kind of was guilty of it of maybe holding the ball too long and wanting to win the game too much and it just sort of underscored the fact that even though the bucks came off one of their best wins of the Season against Oklahoma City earlier this week they

Still have some things to work on here in these final 10 games so really get connected and and building in the right direction and playing on one Accord they remember this is only the fifth game since Doc Rivers has taken over that they’ve had Giannis Chris and Dame all

On the floor together and you saw in the late moments they just weren’t able to sort of you continue to to play with that same intensity and the same Rhythm that they had early in the in uh earlier in the game and it really cost them down

The stretch there when they weren’t able to execute on offense and put the game away but it was a wildly entertaining game for basketball fans like all of us Jamal Dave thanks for the Insight thanks thanks for joining us thanks Linda well get a l of this I mean as we

Have been mentioning I’m glad you’re listening stand the Lakers trailed by as many as 19 points in the fourth quarter they now have two of the four largest fourth quarter comebacks in the NBA this season and this one again it’s worth repeating came without LeBron James it’s

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