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

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

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

Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves double-team Nikola Jokic the ball gets loose and somehow gets back to Jokic who scores Jake Laravia with horrific air ball on a wide open 3 at the other end

Austin Reaves misses the layup Luka Doncic stops a 2-on-1 transition offense by himself with a steal continues with the behind the back dribble and makes the driving layup over Huff and a lazy defense by the Lakers lead to an easy layup by Siakam Lakers timeout

Luka Doni fires a pass to Austin Reaves who drives and scores over Nikola Joki

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