The Lakers had a double digit lead with only a few minutes left, and were really starting to feel swell about themselves. Then Marcus Smart stole an inbounds pass from James to Westbrook where Westbrook seemed distracted and didn’t make a play on the ball leading to a Marcus Smart layup and cutting the lead to 8. You could feel all the momentum switch at that point… with the Lakers looking like, “Oh we actually got to finish this game”.
From that point on his was one big bucket after another from the Celtics, and one missed 3 pointer after another by the Lakers. James did make a running layup, and Davis made a turn around jumper from the post, as well as 1 Russell Westbrook made free throw during this span.
And it came down to the end where Anthony Davis had a pair of free throws that could have made it a 4 point game with only seconds remaining, but nah David missed both, leaving the Lakers lead at 2. On the other end LeBron James played good defense on Jayson Tatum but the offense was just better. However, this left a few seconds on the clock for the Lakers to get a good shot…. Ball in LeBron’s hands step back 3….. Brick! How many times have we seen this at the end of games from LeBron? I shouted at the TV LeBron don’t do the step back 3, what do you know that is exactly what he did. Is LeBron James scared to drive to the basket because he doesn’t want to go to the foul line late in games? I’ll leave that alone.
Overtime? I don’t even remember watching because it was so lopsided they shouldn’t have even played the extra period. Boston wins in OT.
