Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in and playoff basketball. Welcome back to the Staples Center.

The Lakers pick up the win over the Phoenix Suns in game three, grab a two-one series lead.

Was not always a pretty game, but the important part, the Lakers walked away with the win.

And we had a little bit of drama at the end as well, not because of the score, mind you,

but because of some tactics,

some antics by the Phoenix Suns that I'm sure we're going to spend plenty of time talking about joining me tonight are Ron Gutterman and Matt Peralta from Lakersnation.com.

Guys, how are we doing?

Doing all right. Yeah, big, big win. Lakers take a two-one series lead. They got another one at

Staples on Sunday before heading back to Phoenix. I got to think that you feel good about

winning a playoff game by 14 when you shot 25% from three. So, yeah, all good.

Yep, I'm fantastic. I feel great. Up to one. Some chippiness down the stretch there. But, hey, it's

playoff basketball. That's what we'd love to see. So let's get right into it.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, let's just dive right into this one. So if you're coming in from YouTube,

from Facebook, from Periscope, welcome in, first of all. And obviously, we're going to celebrate a Lakers win here, which is great. If you're listening to the podcast version of this, make sure you rate review and subscribe over on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever else you listen to podcasts. Make sure you check us out there as well. But this winds up being a win for the Lakers was pretty close at half time.

I think it was just a three-point game at the half. The Lakers couldn't shoot well. It was the same

thing over again, right? The Lakers were getting killed by turnovers and by their inability to

convert on their shots. Wide open looks couldn't knock them down. It was a defensive struggle. And then the

Lakers broke the thing open in the third quarter. A lot of it, thanks to LeBron James,

attacking the basket, get into the rim, and really brought some energy to the Lakers tonight.

And then from there, it was a lot of Lakers in the second half. A lot of Lakers just kind of grabbing

control of this game and maybe grabbing control of this series as well.

Guys, let's just let's jump right into this here.

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