With Monday’s 104-101 victory in Game 4, the Lakers have put themselves within one win of doing what no Western Conference team has done in the playoffs in eight seasons.
LOS ANGELES — The Lakers got ’em on the ropes.Got the Golden State Warriors in a 3-1 hole in their best-of-seven second-round Western Conference playoff series, without any margin for error, not a sliver.
The Warriors’ four championships in that span have created unreasonably high expectations for many of their devotees, a Veruca Salty bunch who’d have you believe Coach Steve Kerr – with his all-time playoff coaching record of 98-40 – couldn’t coach a rec ball team. Nope. Title No. 4 came last season. And once these playoffs began and the sixth-seeded Warriors proved capable of again winning on the road in their first-round matchup with the Sacramento Kings, it seemed like the defending champions had a shot – and not even an especially deep one, for them – at winning a fifth in a postseason proceeding without a clear favorite.
The way he’s shutting down all routes to the rim and proving impactful on the other end too, filling up the bucket with 23 points on 10-for-16 shooting and filling the stat sheet with 15 rebounds and three steals. Or Lonnie Walker IV with a 15-point explosion in the fourth, a turnabout that earned the reserve guard an emotional postgame embrace from James.
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