(Basketball news) The Los Angeles Lakers came from behind to snap the Memphis Grizzlies 11 match winning streak as they beat them 122-121. For the Lakers, Dennis Schroder completed a three-point play with 7.6 seconds after a steal as he scored 19 points while Russell Westbrook led the scoring with 29 points and LeBron James added 23 as Troy Brown Jr. and Kendrick Nunn scored 11 points apiece from the bench. For the Grizzlies, Ja Morant scored 22 points as Clarke and Tyus Jones added 20 apiece, and Steven Adams had 16 points and 17 rebounds, Bane scored 16 points and Jaren Jackson Jr. added 12 points. It was only the second time this season Los Angeles won when trailing after three quarters. With this result the Lakers improved their record to 21-25.
”To get a win like this is a momentum swing,” Ham said. ”The guys were kind of down after the Sacramento game, but we addressed areas that we needed to get better. There’s no way we win this game if we didn’t have the type of fight that we had.”
”We wanted to trap first before we fouled,” said Schroder, who scored 19 points. ”I saw Bane catch the ball, he had his back to me and I made a play. I got the steal, pushed the ball, got fouled and finished the play.”
‘We were resilient the whole game,” James said. ”We stuck with the game plan. We’ve given ourselves a chance to win games.”
”We gave up too many second-chance points. Just have to win the 50-50 plays,” Morant said. ”We’ve got a lot of good, but a lot of cleaning up to do.”
The Warriors suffered a disappointing loss to the Boston Celtics yesterday but bounced back in emphatic fashion as they beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-114. For the Warriors, Jordan Poole scored 32 points, Ty Jerome added 22 and the Warriors dropped 23 3-pointers while Curry and Klay Thompson sat on the bench while Donte DiVincenzo added 17 points as JaMychal Green returning from a right lower leg infection saw his first action in 15 games and had 13 points. For the Cavs, Darius Garland scored 31 points who were without star Donovan Mitchell because of a strained groin as Caris LeVert added 22 points and Evan Mobley 17 points. With this result the Warriors improved their record to 23-23.
”We kind of hung on for dear life down the stretch, but got it done,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. ”It was just one of those nights. You play 82 games, so you know you’re going to have a few of these.”
”The biggest thing is, even without our guys, we expect to win,” said Jerome, who is on a two-way contract with Golden State and Santa Cruz. ”Everyone that played was good tonight and that’s awesome for us.”
”They’re good basketball players, and if you’re going to disrespect them, they’re going to make you pay,” Bickerstaff said. ”We came out of the gate soft and disrespectful and they were out there shooting warmup shots with no contest, no challenges, nobody in their space and they gave us what we deserved.”
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