D'Angelo Russell wasn't on the court at the end of the Lakers' play-in victory, but he's not worried about an off shooting night ahead of playoff opener.
“I think I can get it going at any point in the game. I just got to be there to do it,” Russell said after the team practiced Friday. “If I’m not in the game, coach felt a different route, I’ve got to live with that. But if he did come with me at the end of the game, I could easily ... make 10 shots in a row. Just that type of a player.
Keeping things as normal as possible, with the Lakers playing as closely to the style that helped them become one of the best teams in the West after the All-Star break, is a top priority, though changes in postseason style are inevitable. “A whistle is blown or not blown, we have a job to do. That’s been my message to my team the entire season,” Ham said. “And also on the flip side of that, the message has also been to not settle and try to win the free-throw line. So I think the duality in those messages, they fit hand in hand because now the onus is on us to go make the play.
“I figure it’s going to be a little bit more physical brand of basketball,” he said. “And obviously Memphis, the way they play, they’re also a super-physical team. So I think that that’s just going to be the nature of this series. It’s going to be kind of the same as what it was the other night. So you just approach the game with that mentality and nothing really changes. It’s still basketball.”
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