The Lakers are back in the NBA playoff race. Thanks to “warrior” Luka Doncic, who also warns.
“Doncic wins the dirty war against the worst provocateur in a battle of the slides: Luka’s law”. The Spanish newspaper Marca expressed this way in such a martial manner, which in the NBA playoff series between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Minnesota Timberwolves occurred.
Luka Doncic, in the most incredible trade in the history of the league from the Mavericks, has led the franchise from LA back into the race after the surprising defeat in the first game.
The Lakers beat the Timberwolves with 94:85, in the series it is 1-1 after two games. Doncic was an excellent shooter. With 31 points, the Slovenian was the best thrower of the game, and he also reached twelve rebounds.
“Today we tried to stay in the game, and we have to continue to do that,” said Doncic after the game.
Lakers are facing hard away games
The former professional of Real Madrid predicts a hard game three in Minneapolis: “I experienced it in Minnesota last year, it will be a tight game. You have an incredible audience and are very loud at the beginning … we want to win as many games as possible. We will be very difficult, we have to stand together in every minute of the game.”
His superstar colleague LeBron James made it to 21 points and eleven rebounds. “We looked at what we didn’t do so well in game one – and that was a lot of things,” said James after the game. “We took this to heart, took on each other and achieved a much better result.”
Punishment against Provocateur Edwards
The “worst provocateur in the battle”, on the other hand, had no reason to cheer. Anthony Edwards get 25 points for the Timberwolves – and team -mate Julius Randle was also accurate with 27 points – the rest of the team disappointed. So no other player hit double digits, and Starter Mike Conley missed each one of his eight throws.
Edwards had repeatedly provoked the Lakers players in game one, especially Doncic on the field. In addition, he made a highly inappropriate saying towards an opposing fan, for which he was already occupied by the NBA with a penalty of $ 50,000.