{"id":199000,"date":"2026-03-01T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199000\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:00:13","slug":"luka-doncic-and-lakers-dominate-in-win-over-curry-less-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199000\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic and Lakers dominate in win over Curry-less Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Lakers<\/a> seemingly lost their mojo after the All-Star break, with three consecutive losses leaving them in search of the \u201cconsistency\u201d and \u201ctogetherness\u201d they had earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

Their 129-101 win<\/a> over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday at Chase Center was a step in the right direction, even if the Warriors didn\u2019t offer much of a challenge.<\/p>\n

The Lakers (35-24) built a 17-point lead in the first quarter, stretched it to 24 in the second quarter and to 30 points in the third before leading by 32 in the fourth and coasting the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt goes back to finding that consistent level of playing the right way on both ends, doing what we\u2019re supposed to be doing, executing at a high level,\u201d Lakers coach JJ Redick said. \u201cYou saw those trends. We haven\u2019t had it for a sustained, like, full stretch of a game, really. It\u2019s come in spurts in all four of our games that we played prior to this. It was definitely our most complete game post-All-Star break.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luka Doncic<\/a> led the charge with 26 points, eight assists and six rebounds in just 29 minutes. LeBron James<\/a> was strong with 22 points, nine assists and seven rebounds in 28 minutes. He also made the 1,000th three-pointer of his career. Austin Reaves<\/a> had 18 points in 28 minutes.<\/p>\n

Luke Kennard scored 16 points, his best with the Lakers so far, and Jake LaRavia had 15 points off the bench.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just needed to get a win … get back on the right front and I think we did that tonight,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n

He then added, \u201cIt\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve had a 48-minute game where we was able to sustain the effort and I just thought we came out with the right mindset. Obviously dropping the last three, last two at home and then the Phoenix game was a tough one. So, we just came in with the right mindset and understanding the assignment and we took care of business.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lakers got it done on offense, shooting 53% from the field and 46% from three-point range.<\/p>\n

\"Lakers <\/p>\n

Lakers star LeBron James shoots a three-pointer over Golden State Warriors guard Pat Spencer in the first half Saturday.<\/p>\n

(Godofredo A. V\u00e1squez \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe certainly made some threes,\u201d Redick said. \u201cLeBron made a couple of iso threes. Luka got hot to start the third quarter with some set plays and then the iso three, the second one in transition on the left wing. It wasn\u2019t like all our threes were coming from that, but I just thought the ball was moving tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

They faced a Warriors team (31-29) playing without Stephen Curry (right knee), Jimmy Butler (right anterior cruciate ligament surgery) and Kristaps Porzingis (illness). Still, a win was far from guaranteed since the Lakers lost to an injury-depleted Phoenix Suns team on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 2-3 since the All-Star break. They face the Sacramento Kings at Crypto.com Arena on Sunday night, as they try to remain in the top six in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I said before the game, these guys want to do it right,\u201d Redick said. \u201cThey are trying. I know our staff, myself, we\u2019re always looking for answers and solutions. That\u2019s what this is. We\u2019re trying to find solutions, and I said before the game, I\u2019m confident we are going to find that level that we want to get to. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been partially just because of the disruptions of lineups and different factors. We just haven\u2019t had the continuity that I thought we were going to have coming into the year and it\u2019s taken longer than I thought. But I\u2019m confident that we are going to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with back-to-back defeats to Oklahoma City and San Antonio, the Lakers went 7-4 ahead of the All-Star break. The Lakers won their first game after the break against the Clippers before losing to Boston, Orlando and Phoenix.<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/p>\n

That put the Lakers in the sixth spot in the West and struggling to find their groove again.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, I just think our minds was right,\u201d James said. \u201cThe numbers speak for itself. You can talk about the numbers, but I just think mentally we knew what we was against. We knew how we lost these last three games and it didn\u2019t sit well with us obviously. We just came out and we just executed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Note: Lakers forward Rui Hachimura missed his second straight game because \u201che\u2019s still under the weather,\u201d Redick said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Lakers seemingly lost their mojo after the All-Star break, with three consecutive losses leaving them in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[84360,6265,92528,55864,92529,48,52,51,10356,1415,47,50,49,7551,5463,23178,6710,1417,7556,92530,1543],"class_list":["post-199000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-all-star-break","tag-assist","tag-breakthrough","tag-consecutive-loss","tag-curry-less-warrior","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-laker","tag-lakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-luka-doncic","tag-minute","tag-note","tag-phoenix","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-right-acl-surgery","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}