Everything flowed through Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
It had to. Rarely does a player get hot enough to score 34 points and hit eight 3-pointers in a single night, but that’s exactly what happened for KCP in Saturday’s win over Sacramento.
The Lakers’ offense revolved around their beyond-the-arc threat. Oftentimes they drew up plays for him to specifically get clean looks. Other times he was a diversion to open it up for teammates.
That blend of steaming shooting and on-court gravity paved the way to the Lakers’ victory.
Caldwell-Pope’s first bucket of the night was a well-crafted out-of-bounds play drawn up by coach Luke Walton, who has a knack for designing scores out of timeouts.