Austin Reaves establishes career-high, rescues Los Angeles Lakers from Orlando Magic

In the midst of the extremely intense play-in and Playoffs race in the Western NBA, attention has been focused on Crypto.com Arena, where the Los Angeles Lakers hosted the Eastern representative Orlando Magic.

In terms of force correlation and external factors, the Lakers have an advantage when they are playing at home and only LeBron James is absent, while the Orlando Magic has just gone through a series of 3 matches in 4 days and just started playing today. past the LA Clippers.

This advantage was realized by the Lakers leading the Magic by 16 points early in the second half. But a moment of neglect from Anthony Davis and his teammates allowed Orlando to open a 12-0 streak to bring the game into a tug-of. (score 47-43).

The scenario of the 3rd half and the first half of the 4th half is a continuous chase between the two teams. Every time the home team rose and created a gap of 8-10 points, the Orlando Magic responded with their own series of points to shorten the score.

The climax was when the match had 2 minutes and 39 seconds left, Cole Anthony threw a cool 3-pointer to close the 8-2 shake, equalizing the score 101-101.

Starting from this point, the Los Angeles Lakers hero Austin Reaves appeared. Interestingly, he did not successfully finish but instead continuously scored from the free throw line.

Thanks to a total of 16-18 FT all game (including 8-10 FT in the final 1 minute 30 seconds), Austin Reaves had a career-high game with 35 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists. Not only a good free throw, the 1998 defender also had an effective match with 9-14 FG.

Anthony Davis (15 points, 11 rebounds), Troy Brown Jr (12 points, 4-8 3PT), D'Angelo Russell (18 points, 6 assists) and Dennis Schroder (12 points, 5 assists) are the remaining four names. of the Lakers scored over 10 points.

On the Orlando Magic side, young star Franz Wagner and rookie Paolo Banchero lead the team with 21 points each. The other three standout players in this game were Wendell Carter Jr (16 points, 11 rebounds), Markelle Fultz (12 points, 10 assists) and Cole Anthony (17 points).

This is the Los Angeles Lakers' sixth win in a row over the Orlando Magic, lasting from the 2019-20 season to the present.

This result helped the yellow and purple shirt team climb back to 10th place in the Western rankings, with the same 35-37 record as the 9th-place Minnesota Timberwolves but lost in the sub-index.

The race for the Playoffs is still going on extremely intense. The distance between the Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks' top-6 position (36-35 record) is currently 1.5 games.

In their next outing, the Los Angeles Lakers will face the Phoenix Suns at 9:00 am on Wednesday, March 20.

The Lakers have lost to the Suns in both meetings this season, by 10 points respectively (score 105-115 on November 24) and 26 points (score 104-130 on December 21).

The positive thing for Los Angeles fans is that the Phoenix team is not in good form when losing 3 of the last 4 matches.