It\u2019s a win that required a lot of resilience. Even before the final seconds, the Lakers had to withstand a Rockets run throughout the second half to even be within touching distance late.<\/p>\n
Then, in the final seconds, they needed a bit of magic from Marcus Smart before coming up with another late steal to shock Houston. It was all a bit wild and required a lot of belief\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2026.belief that only existed because it was the playoffs, if you ask a maybe-too-honest Rui.<\/p>\n
Look, Rui\u2019s not wrong necessarily, but this is one of those things you don\u2019t admit publicly. I\u2019m pretty sure if head coach JJ Redick saw this clip, it might give him an aneurysm.<\/p>\n
In Rui\u2019s defense, there was basically no chance of them winning the game when LeBron missed his 3-pointer with 36.4 seconds left. At that moment, according to ESPN\u2019s win probability chart, the Lakers had a 2.7% chance of winning, which still seems high.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Smart didn\u2019t have quite the same mentality as Rui in that moment.<\/p>\n
Jokes aside, the Lakers have been a remarkably resilient bunch this season, both in the big picture and small picture. They\u2019ve battled through injuries all season to even be at this point in the series.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not one of the best teams Lakers fans have seen, but it is one of the most memorable because of that trail alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a win that required a lot of resilience. Even before the final seconds, the Lakers had to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,305828,38926,85],"class_list":["post-631284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-lakers-playoffs","tag-lakers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}