Hoops Rumors · 2 days ago
L.A. Notes: Reaves, Grimes, Ingram, Niederhauser
Luka Doncic sat out Sunday’s game against Detroit with tightness in his lower back, but Austin Reaves did a lot of Doncic-type things in the Lakers’ road victory, writes Dave McMenamin of ESPN. Reaves took over the primary scoring role and shredded the league’s top-ranked defense for 43 points on 14-of-27 shooting.
“Guys have to step up when someone’s averaging 40,” Collin Sexton said of Doncic, who’s at 40.1 PPG for the season. “You got to fill the shoes and be ready to impact winning. And I felt like we did that tonight, and AR picked those shoes up and he wore them.”