The moments strung together, the Lakers suddenly looking like the basketball team they threatened to be when their names were written on paper this offseason.
LeBron James bounded agelessly to the basket. Anthony Davis swatted away shot after shot. D’Angelo Russell skipped and Austin Reaves cooked, the Lakers playing their best basketball of the season.
It helped, of course, that the ball decided it would finally start going into the basket Tuesday night.
For all the thought that goes into constructing an NBA team and the time devoted to scouting an opponent’s strengths and weakness, shooting is the biggest equalizer, the fuel that can take the .