Windhorst When Luka LeBron and Reaves play together they're just not a good team when it's just Reaves and Luka out there the Lakers are an excellent team When all 3 of them play out there they're not It's actually a 20 point difference

Brian Windhorst When LeBron doesnt play and Austin Reaves and Luka do the Lakers are a better team

Chipalu Minnesota Timberwolves Head Coach Chris Finch on facing the Lakers without LeBron James in the lineup Seems to activate Luka amp Reavesseem to share the shots They become exponentially more dangerousbeen pretty good when 2 of those 3 been out because of just a usage puzzle

Mannix The Lakers believe they can succeed with a backcourt of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves if they can get the right type of players in the front court They are looking to build a Dallas 20 type roster similar to what Luka had when he went to the NBA Finals

Windhorst on Luka complaining after the Celtics won Game 3 of the finals If Luka is ever going to be a winner he's going to have to use the finals as a learning experience He is costing his team because of how he treats the officials

Royer Right as Austin Reaves was about to answer a question from LakersReporter about the defensive effort Luka Doncic chimed in on what made the Lakers successful tonight Luka was locking shit up he said Reaves responded That was it That was it He gets all the credit

SVG LeBron really was carrying that team in Cleveland In fact the guy we had the most trouble with other than LeBron was Wally Szczerbiak No knock on Wally Szczerbiak but he is not Pau Gasol It wasn't because Kobe was necessarily better than LeBron he just had more around him