The Los Angeles Lakers moved to 10-4 on the season and 2-0 in the NBA Cup on Tuesday night with a 124-118 victory over the Utah Jazz at home. The story of the victory was the explosion from Dalton Knecht, who finished with 37 points on nine made threes, but head coach JJ Redick had some other top performers as well.
One of those was D’Angelo Russell, who lost his place in the Lakers’ starting lineup earlier this season but has been effective in a bench role thus far. He didn’t do much in terms of scoring on Tuesday night (eight points on 2-for-8 shooting), but he was legitimately impactful in all other phases of the game.