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Luca Dodget, put up 60 points tonight, tied the second most points, and Luca had scored in the game behind the 73 that he had against Atlanta matching the 60 point remember he had a 60

point I think he had a 60 point triple double wasn't that against the next he had a 60 20

trip dub where he missed on purpose he reached a 50 point plateau for the second time in his last five games.

And he did so on the second night of the back to back.

LeBron finished with 19 points, 15 rebounds to an assist.

And he tied Hall of Fame of Robert Pear, Chief, for the most games played at excuse me, at 1,11.

Luca played 38 minutes.

He has 60 points on 18 of 30 shooting, 9 of 17 from the three point line.

He was 15 of 19 from the file line.

So he had 60 points, seven rebounds, three assists.

LeBron had 19, 15, and 10.

Marcus Mark had 13 points.

Austin Reeves had 18 points.

And they go on the road and win the eighth consecutive game. Now people are gonna try to dismiss them because when they beat the Knicks, oh, that was an aberration. They beat the Nuggets, that was an aberration. They beat the woods, that was an aberration. They beat the Houston on Monday and Wednesday. The Rockets aren't that good. Now they beat the heat. You see what they try to do in order to invalidate what the Lakers are doing. Just say the team that they're beating aren't any good. Yeah. Yeah. But if they were to beat the Lakers, because I remember they say they can't do nothing with the Nuggets. Yokin's got LeBron's number. They can't beat good teams. Now these teams, they're good teams and they're beating, well, let's try to undervalue what the Lakers are doing by saying this team's not any good. Guys watching the Lakers tonight, Joe, what did you like about what you saw from Luca? I mean, his aggressiveness, you know, just being able to get to his spots, uncan Ocho, whenever he'd get rid of no matter who's guarding him it was nothing they can do man you get a

guy rolling like that bro you shake his hand great game we're going on to the next but i like how

i like i like how lebrun i like how lebrun kind of get in there and facilitate like you know he

you know he reads that he kind of reads the game like he ain't taking a whole bulk of shots he's been super efficient and you know obviously he reads that he kind of reads the game. Like he ain't taking a whole bulk of shots. He's been super efficient. And, you know, obviously he had a triple double tonight. But I think him playing off Luca, he's figured, he's kind of figured that out. They figured that out as a team. And you can kind of see because the chemistry kind of shows it's resulting in the wins. Are they, what's they, what are they number three in the West now? They're three. They're two. I think they got like two, they like two up on, on fourth and two and a half on fifth. They're 45 and 25. So they got 12 games to play. Yeah, and I'm sure they want to finish the season strong to where they can have home court advantage in that first round for sure yes you know what i mean so hey man they've been playing great

ball uh you know we we've been wondering if they can keep it up i mean they've been pretty consistent

as it's late they have uh lebron didn't even take a three pointer he didn't even shoot the three

so he's been and 15 rebounds huge. Four of them on the offensive end. Ocho? Yeah. Your team, your heat, you like the heat. Yeah, hey, man, listen, I love my heat. I love my heat. I love what they did the night. Bam, Bam, had 28. God damn, Tyler had 21. Larson had 11, but I'm not sure what Spoh was doing defensively, I'm not sure what he was doing. Obviously, with Luca going off the way he's going off at some point, hey, I need to meet him. I need to meet him at half court, Joe. In fact, I need to meet him when they inbound the ball. I want to put that pressure on him all the way down the court. They tried. Hey, man, Sporee let them boy play one-on-one damn their all game. Hey, the problem is with the Lakers, if you double Luca, they know how to play on their backside so well that you got to give up some, Ocho. You're giving up dunks, lives, a wide-or-free.

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