Austin Reaves has opened up on his profession evening that led the Lakers to a 111-105 win over Orlando on Sunday.
Reaves scored a career-high 35 factors to go together with six rebounds and 6 assists to get LA over the road regardless of Anthony Davis taking pictures 6-15 and LeBron James nonetheless out with an harm.
“It’s special,” Reaves said after the sport. “I grew up a Lakers fan, so to do it for this organisation is surreal. Sometimes I gotta cease and actually take into consideration what I’m doing.
“I think all the odds were stacked against me, from where I’m from. You know, I played baseball a lot, didn’t really play basketball, only played one year of AAU. But to be at this level and this organisation, and ultimately score the last 10 points is special. All I’m really happy about is the win.”
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Reaves’ scoring was propelled by his 18 free throw makes an attempt, 16 of which he made, and he mentioned postgame that he’d studied James Harden and Trae Young to turn into higher at drawing fouls.
Meanwhile, Lakers head coach Darvin Ham was stuffed with reward for his younger guard.
“Watching him in open gym and pickup gamers and what not, he didn’t mind taking chances in terms of scoring at all three levels, guarding different people, some smaller than him, some same size, some bigger than him,” Ham mentioned.
“He wasn’t afraid. He’s just a flat out hooper. He just loves to hoop. and you can tell that by the way he works on his game, which has allowed him to be what’s becoming to be, and that’s a consistent high-level NBA basketball player that’s multi-facet. Just right away you can see his confidence, that’s the first thing about him that jumped out at me.”
Reaves is averaging 19.1 factors per sport over his final eight video games because the Tenth-seeded Lakers combat for a play-in spot.
