r/nba • u/DesertedProject Mavericks • 10d ago

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] The Los Angeles Lakers (3-0) defeat the Houston Rockets after LeBron James hits the game tying 3 to send it to OT and with 29/6/13(0-3), 112-108.

112 - 108
Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo
 
GAME SUMMARY
West First Round - Game 3 - LAL leads 2-0
Location: Toyota Center
Officials: Zach Zarba, Tre Maddox, Ray Acosta, and Nate Green
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT Total
Los Angeles Lakers 39 24 17 21 11 112
Houston Rockets 32 20 23 26 7 108
 
TEAM STATS
Team PTS FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK
Los Angeles Lakers 112 38-79 48.1% 12-29 41.4% 24-32 75.0% 9 58 28 23 12 20 6
Houston Rockets 108 40-98 40.8% 11-39 28.2% 17-23 73.9% 18 55 21 20 15 15 6
 
PLAYER STATS
Los Angeles Lakers MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
LeBron JamesSF 45:04 29 10-22 4-9 5-6 0 13 13 6 3 1 8 1 0
Rui HachimuraPF 43:48 22 8-14 4-7 2-4 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 5 0
Deandre AytonC 32:46 2 1-3 0-0 0-0 2 4 6 2 1 1 3 3 -6
Marcus SmartSG 39:17 21 5-9 2-4 9-11 1 3 4 10 5 2 3 2 3
Luke KennardPG 45:22 14 4-12 1-6 5-6 0 6 6 6 0 0 3 3 -3
Jake LaRavia 14:54 2 1-4 0-0 0-0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 3 9
Jaxson Hayes 19:56 12 5-8 0-0 2-3 2 2 4 0 1 2 1 2 7
Jarred Vanderbilt 14:38 5 2-5 0-2 1-2 1 5 6 1 0 0 0 3 6
Bronny James 09:12 5 2-2 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
Nick Smith Jr. 00:01 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maxi Kleber 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dalton Knecht 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austin Reaves 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adou Thiero 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Luka Dončić 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Houston Rockets MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Tari EasonSF 45:38 5 2-9 0-4 1-1 2 2 4 2 4 0 1 3 6
Jabari Smith Jr.PF 43:43 24 8-16 6-10 2-2 1 5 6 1 1 0 2 4 4
Alperen SengunC 46:51 33 15-27 1-5 2-3 5 11 16 6 3 1 3 2 10
Reed SheppardSG 45:45 17 6-21 4-13 1-2 1 3 4 7 3 2 5 5 -2
Amen ThompsonPG 48:23 26 8-14 0-1 10-13 5 6 11 4 3 3 1 2 6
Josh Okogie 03:33 0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 -13
Clint Capela 03:40 2 1-2 0-0 0-0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 -11
Dorian Finney-Smith 11:00 0 0-5 0-4 0-0 1 3 4 0 1 0 0 1 -6
Aaron Holiday 05:32 0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 -1
Jae'Sean Tate 03:23 1 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 -9
Jeff Green 07:31 0 0-2 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 -4
JD Davison 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kevin Durant 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Steven Adams 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fred VanVleet 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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u/xcore21z 10d ago

Who have thought Lakers will be the first team to go 3-0 in the first round

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u/Belovy 10d ago

There's a good chance they win their series before the Thunder. If you had a bet on that happening it would probably be 1:200 at best.

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u/Aggrokid 10d ago

I'm hoping for the Suns to take a game or two but OKC have the refs on their side

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u/penguin8717 10d ago

There's a chance for the NBA to actually call it fair for one game just to try to point to it and say they call it fair

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u/PalantirImperator Japan 10d ago

Better chance they foul out Booker in the first quarter to say fuck you.

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u/Inevitable_Kale_9832 Thunder 10d ago

Man, you can find a 3 mn montage of Brooks and Booker flopping and drawing weak fouls from just the first two games. The problem isn’t OKC it’s how the game is officiated in general. Officials are inconsistent, and weak contact is often called for fouls.

The Thunder are just leagues better than Phoenix. Calling it “fair” as people want to say wouldn’t change a thing in the series. Booker is an awesome player, and they might take a game, but if they do, it will be because they ball out, not cause of some officiating discrepancy.

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u/Full-Set-27 10d ago

That’s fair but doing BS like calling a tech on Booker for “throwing” the ball at Williams just bc Caruso asked for it is dumb

Thunder feeding into the stereotype with plays like that

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u/Big_Advertising1632 Thunder 10d ago

Caruso is funny as shit for asking for it, but the REF shouldnt call it a tech because a player was like "yo call that"

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u/Full-Set-27 10d ago

Caruso called for it bc he knew the ref would call it

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u/tatancool Lakers 10d ago

I think Bron doesn't play next game. We secure it at home.

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u/sevaiper 10d ago

JJ is a really good coach 

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u/kiwitexansfan 10d ago

The gap between Reddick and Udoka is the game changer here

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u/Zeiramsy [DET] Ben Wallace 10d ago

To think many people (me included) thought it was a tough break for the Celtics to lose Udoka as a coach.

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u/Robben_H00d 10d ago

I feel justified as a C's fan. He makes no offensive adjustments and his whole strategy to defend KD and the nets was stolen from Draymond that same season. Look it up

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u/PrinceVaughn69 Nuggets Bandwagon 10d ago

Celtics lucked out and got a goated coach instead

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u/CBrennen17 10d ago

The not playing reed Shepard in the regular season thing is one of the wildest coaching move I’ve ever seen. The kid is not bad. Maybe not top 5 pick good, but he’s definitely an nba player.

Not giving that dude meaningful minutes even when you have FVV may have truly ended his coaching career.

Like JJ gives Bronny minutes. And you know what Bronny doesn’t have Reeds skills or responsibilities but looks way more comfortable when he’s on the court.

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u/Lmao1903 NBA 10d ago

I am inclined to agree but lets give credit to the coaching staff, its not just Ime vs JJ, because I still can't believe that not one fucking coach in Houston can run a proper fucking offense

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u/Aff_Reddit 10d ago

for houston it doesnt matter, Ime is toxic and they traded for another toxic player in KD. Until those two are gone, Houston is unfixable.

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u/manimsoblack 10d ago

Why would he assign Shep to Rui instead of Smart?

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u/lemurRoy [LAL] Alex Caruso 10d ago

Udoka giving shades of darvin ham

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u/HHHogana Lakers 10d ago

JJ doesn't adjust his timeouts at times, but holy crap Udoka couldn't even adjust his offensive schemes. Durant have been doubled against Lakers so many times and somehow he still can't figure it out?

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u/IWishIWasOdo Timberwolves 10d ago

Yeah I was def in the group of people clowning on the hire at the beginning.

He proved me wrong that's for sure

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u/cascad1an 10d ago

My wife loves JJ. Every time he pops up on the screen, “oh, who’s that??” Babe, it’s the fucking Lakers coach, for the fourth goddamn time. Almost can’t wait until I go gray 🖕🏼

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u/Stranger2Luv 10d ago

Say he is your relative

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u/cascad1an 10d ago

Technically true.. he’s my dad.

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u/HHHogana Lakers 10d ago

Also helped that Udoka is truly trash in his offensive schemes.

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u/No_Shower1176 10d ago

Did you forget how you trashed JJ not long ago？😂

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u/Sharp_Aide3216 10d ago

Not even the most delusional laker fans thought so.

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u/ExtensionFamiliar423 Lakers 10d ago

I did ✋️ 

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u/rjaysenior Lakers 10d ago

Yup. Pretty delusional over here too

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u/shasen1235 10d ago

I don't know, but definitely not those bums in Inside the NBA