It’s exceedingly rare to feel like a crowd actually swung a playoff game, but Lakers fans deserve some credit for the team’s dominant Game 3 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies.
Of course, the team deserves the lion’s share of praise for the victory, but the cacophony of enthusiasm for the team’s first full-capacity playoff game in a decade — and their hatred and derision of Grizzlies forward and certified bear food Dillon Brooks — reverberated from The Crypt and out through televisions around the world as the team opened up the third game of the first round with a 35-9 quarter that allowed them to coast (far too often, literally) to a 111-101 victory to secure a 2-1 lead in this series.