After two days of mockery from pundits, the big man starts strong and plays within himself, hardly a rabid bulldog with a bone to pick but a focused star gliding above it all as he helped his team …
The resurgent Western Conference finals-bound Lakers would have you believe they’re operating in a soundproof booth, that none of what Coach Darvin Ham characterized as “useless” and “irrelevant” noise is capable of reaching them.
when they’re joking and expressing incredulity about Anthony Davis having to leave Game 5 after being hit in the headAll that said, if you’re a Lakers fan, you hoped the Lakers weren’t actually tuning it out. You hoped that they – and Davis especially – heard every last disrespectful utterance. Though, again, to hear the Lakers tell it, it’s their inner voices that do the motivating: “You know,” Ham said, “if felt like he had a subpar performance, he beats himself up a lot, and I just try to subside that part of him a little bit.”
And Davis was a vacuum on the glass, sucking up 10 of his 20 rebounds in his first 10 minutes of play. He finished the first quarter with a near double-double, adding nine points in an 11-minute span during which the Lakers outscored Golden State by 13 points. It wasn’t until the third quarter that the temperature really rose, when Davis dunked a lob from LeBron, spun around, swiped the inbound pass and drew a shooting foul – and then he let loose a scream.
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