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JJ Redick Is Not Giving Up on Lakers Despite Falling Behind Thunder 3-0

Los Angeles Lakers On SI·Jayesh Pagar·23 days ago
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The Los Angeles Lakers are in serious trouble. Oklahoma City pulled away in the third quarter again to win Game 3, 131-108, and now leads the second-round series 3-0. No team in NBA history has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a series, and the Lakers are staring at that reality. In the postgame press conference, Lakers head coach JJ Redick was direct about what went wrong and what he still believes about his team. Turnovers were the turning point. Five of them came in the third quarter alone, and Oklahoma City turned that stretch into a blitz that Los Angeles could not recover from. "Again, the turnovers, lower number, but they still scored thirty points off those turnovers. We had five of them in the third. I think all of them actually led to them getting fast break transition baskets. I don't know what they ended up being, but I know at one point they were 11-of-17 from three in the second half. You're not getting stops, it's harder to score.…

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