Playful Luka Doncic is getting closer to Return to Dallas (Video)
The first Saturday in April brought an extremely interesting match between Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Pelicans. Los Angeles basketball players have maintained their alertness and justified the role of the favorite and made a new step towards the formal confirmation of the playoffs. In their Crypto.com Arena Hall (18.997), they won with a score of 124: 108 and responded quickly to the last defeat.
The hosts were won by three basketball players – Luka Doncic (35), Austin Reaves (30 points) and Lebron James (27). In the losers, the most effective Puerto Rico was by far Jose Alvarado (27 points). Doncic collected 35 points in 36 minutes (for three 4:10, for two 6:11, free throws 11:11), adding 6 rebounds and 6 assists. The Ljubljana man was inaccurate especially in the first quarter, when his statistics remained more or less empty: for two 0: 5, for three 0: 2, free throws 2: 2.
The hosts of the match did not start the best, but Alvarado used it in the first quarter and brought five points to the guests with 18 points. So it did not go to Doncic and missed the first seven throws, more and more pleased that he had finished the match without a missed free throw (11:11).
Doncic: A giant challenge ahead of us
“We knew this was a necessary victory for us, maybe that’s why we started worse. Lebron? It does everything to help the team, I have nothing to add, it always helps the team. There are three challenging matches ahead. What did we specifically focus on? Only to win, we had that in mind. Oklahoma? It will be a huge challenge for us. We all know how to play, we all know that they have a player playing at the MVP level, we certainly have two challenging matches, « Doncic said after the match, looking at the next challenges.
Lebron James and Luka Doncic cultivate high respect. Photo: Luke Hales/AFP
Luka Doncic and teammates will not rest much in the coming days, they will play five more matches by the end of the regular work, the question is when they will already know the name of the competitor in the playoffs of the NBA. The next matches will be played in the game at the strong Oklahoma; The first on Sunday at 9.30pm Slovenian time, at the friendly hour for Doncic’s countrymen, the second on Wednesday at 2 o’clock after our time. It will follow the derby in Dallas, Luka Doncic will return to the hall he knows to the point, Thursday at 1.30.
Čančar a good four minutes
It was interesting somewhere. Denver, whose member is also Vlatko Čančarlost at Golden State Warriors by 104: 118. Stephen Curry in San Francisco led the Golden State until the fifth consecutive victory, the warriors are in the previous game chased away Doncic and teammates. Denver scored 36 points, 26 contributed Brandin Podziemeand 19 more Jimmy Butler.
Serbian star at Denver Nikola Jokic recorded 33 points at 12 rebounds and nine assists, 23 points in the third consecutive defeat of Denver scored Michael Porter Jr. Chančar spent just over four minutes on the parquet floor, enrolling only two lost balls.