Lakers Rout of Clipper, win their first game after the emotional Anthony Davis trade

Lakers Rout of Clipper, win their first game after the emotional Anthony Davis trade

Of course, the Lakers were enthusiastic, a multi-year MVP candidate who was sitting on her squad at the end of her bank in Luka Doncic, a 25-year-old offensive Maestro.

Of course, the offensive opportunities have the fact that he plays with LeBron James and Austin Reaves, passes to Dorian Finney-Smith and Rui Hachimura for open corner riders, JJ Redick ready to get to work.

But no matter what happened during the victory of the Lakers 122-97 against the clipper on Tuesday, the feelings of the team after this trade are certainly more complex.

For 47 games, the Lakers tried to solve the problems of their duty to find the best ways to cover up their defects, to emphasize their strengths and to maximize their potential. And after a win last Saturday evening against the Knicks, the Lakers could see it.

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They were close.

And then everything was different in a few moments. The past season was over. The new season was shortly before the start. And in it was sadness.

“The boys will feel in a certain way,” said coach JJ Redick. “And there is a grieving process. There is an excitement and a rebirth process. There is all of these things and these things need time. It is not, we won’t wave and say:” Ah, we are good today. “As if It takes time.

But even without Anthony Davis, even without Max Christie and also without Doncic, who is still recovering from a calf injury, the Lakers looked like a team that still intends to fulfill this mission, melancholic or not.

Against the Clippers at Intuit Dome, the Lakers continued to play with the kind of intensity, the kind of focus and the kind of execution they believed to win this season at all.

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As for most recent road trips in the Lakers, James played with the type of timeless energy at both ends in the square, which should not be possible for one player in season 22. 13 shooting after opening the game by making his first five shots. And without Davis or Christie on the ground, he was one of the most active defenders in the Lakers.

Reaves and Hachimura each scored 20 points – the 40 points that only achieved 27 combined shots. Reaves add nine templates. And Jaxson Hayes, the probable starting center of the Lakers, played 24 minutes with six points, six rebounds, four assists – and only two fouls – and gave the Lakers a sporting presence around the edge on both sides of the square.

The Clippers, who, like the Lakers, played their last game in the east, looked largely lifeless in a game in which they never managed more than one point. Kawhi Leonard, who carved the defense of the Lakers in her last meeting, scored only 11 points in 23 minutes. Ivica Zubac, who dominated the interior so well that Davis publicly asked the Lakers to add a center a day later, only made two shots to go with his 10 rebounds. And Finney-Smith James Harden was bothering to a two-counter night, in which he only scored seven points, his second largest goal game of the season.

The Lakers held the Clippers at 37.8% of the shootout, their five -closing shooting game of the season. The Lakers had five different players with at least six rebounds.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

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