While it's been suggested the Lakers might want to lose Tuesday to avoid a first-round series against Denver, LeBron James and Co. focus on task at hand.
The Lakers are going to have to defend against CJ MCollum, the Pelicans guard who races into three-point shots from all angles on the court. The Lakers are going to have to defend against forward Brandon Ingram, their former first-round draft pick, who has become one of the best tough-shot makers in the NBA. The Lakers are going to have defend against Herb Jones and Trey Murphy III on the perimeter, two capable three-point shooters.
“…Tuesday’s game is going to be extremely hard, extremely difficult, extremely physical. I’ve always known that, when you play a playoff series — and I look at this like a two-game playoff series — if you win that first game, a team has multiple days to kind of sit on that feeling, or sit with that taste in their mouth of defeat. So they’re going to be extremely ready for us and we have to come in with the same sense of urgency that we had the previous game.
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