![]() ![]() behind me, I can be a lot more aggressive, knowing that I have a second line of defense.” The Lakers have gone 8-3 since they reshaped their roster. For me being on the perimeter, having a guy like A.D. “ Him being able to communicate but also to be able to react, that’s what makes him so unique,” Vanderbilt said. While Dennis Schröder, Troy Brown and Austin Reaves have been solid perimeter contributors on defense, Goon points out that the tandem of Jarred Vanderbilt and Anthony Davis has been particularly effective, with excellent defensive numbers when they’re paired together. Entering Friday’s victory over Toronto, the Lakers held the NBA’s top defensive rating since the trade deadline, according to Kyle Goon of The Southern California News Group.Second-year forward Jonathan Kuminga, who sprained his right ankle in warmups prior to Thursday’s game, has been ruled out, while Andrew Wiggins remains away from the team for personal reasons. The Warriors will continue to be shorthanded for Saturday’s home game against Milwaukee, tweets Anthony Slater of The Athletic.I sit there and talk to them, try to not break them down, but build them up.” I ain’t out there getting in physical altercations with my teammates. “ Just the fact that he was trying to pin my teammates against me, that was a low blow,” Brooks said, per MacMahon. Brooks’ sneering retort was certainly valid, given the practice incident involving Green and Jordan Poole this past fall. On his podcast, Green questioned whether Brooks’ teammates liked him. Clearly, we’ve won four times, and I think their organization has zero championships, so I can’t consider that a rivalry.” Not because one team gets up for you and talk like they can beat you and then not. “ One team has to win, and then another team has to win,” Green said. ![]() According to MacMahon, Green also scoffed at the notion that the Warriors and Grizzlies are rivals, despite eliminating each other in the past two postseasons. Green downplayed the incident, saying Brooks was trying to bait him into his 16th technical foul, which would have resulted in a one-game suspension. I was expecting him to talk a little bit more, but I guess he needs to get all his facts together and talk.” “ But he took the media approach with that and didn’t say nothing, which is cool. “ I kind of wanted that play, just to see what he was going to say,” Brooks said. He eventually started jawing at Green and they had to be separated by an official, but Green remained silent. He returned to start the third quarter with a band-aid covering the cut.Warriors forward/center Draymond Green and Grizzlies wing Dillon Brooks continued to trade barbs after Memphis blew out Golden State on Thursday night, writes Tim MacMahon of ESPN.Īt the end of the second quarter Brooks stole the ball and converted a contested layup over Green, then turned back and the two bumped chests. He was bleeding profusely as he held a towel to the cut as he walked to the locker room. Porter had 18 points before halftime despite missing the last two minutes of the second quarter after sustaining a cut about his left eye. Reaves had 24 points off the bench and D’Angelo Russell added 18 as the Lakers lost for the second time in three games as they fight to stay in line for one of the last playoff spots in the Western Conference. They made us feel them in terms of them attacking the paint, them getting hits… (and) we should have been the ones playing with that type of edge.” “Houston - young team - and regardless of what their record is, they came to play,” coach Darvin Ham said. Davis, who had 35 points and 17 rebounds in a win over New Orleans on Tuesday night, isn’t playing both games of back-to-back per doctors’ orders after coming back from a right foot injury. It’s the second straight victory for the Western Conference-worst Rockets, who beat Boston on Monday night.Īlready without LeBron James because of an injury, the Lakers were also missing Anthony Davis against Houston. We’ve got to stay focused until the last buzzer.” “We were up like eight or 10 … when our youth kind of showed right there. Porter was disappointed that Houston let it get that close in the final seconds. It was ruled a Flagrant-1 foul after a review, but Reaves made just 1 of 2 free throws and Houston held on. Austin Reaves then got a steal and Porter fouled him with 0.3 seconds remaining. The Rockets were up by eight with 7.2 seconds to go before Malik Beasley hit a 3 for the Lakers to cut the lead to 114-109. The Rockets countered with an 8-0 run, with the first five points from rookie Jabari Smith Jr., to push it to 96-83. Los Angeles scored five points, with a 3-pointer from Rui Hachimura, to get within four early in the fourth quarter. ![]() ![]() scored 27 points and the Houston Rockets beat the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers 114-110 on Wednesday night. ![]()
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