Courtside chess: Inside the Lakers’ defensive plans to slow Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — and give themselves a puncher’s chance

Courtside chess: Inside the Lakers’ defensive plans to slow Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — and give themselves a puncher’s chance

OKLAHOMA CITY — Lakers head coach JJ Redick might solely look towards the sky halfway by the third quarter, uttering a slew of phrases not appropriate for a nationwide broadcast as he watched his protection momentarily break down, leading to a wide-open Lu Dort triple and a Cason Wallace point-blank format. A deficit that had…

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