The biggest news Tuesday with Lakers was talking about the health of LeBron James And increased minutes for Luka Donic.
Jacques, Who did not play on Sunday Star game In San Francisco due to the discomfort of ankle and persistent feet, was listed as questionable for the Lakers match against Charlotte Wednesday evening in Crypto.com Arena.
“This is something we have succeeded all year round and it was endolori during the weekend”, Lakers coach JJ Redick said after training on Tuesday. “He was able to do most of the practice today. But, as if it was all year round, as if it was a daily thing. This is just something that we had to manage and we will continue to manage throughout the year. »»
James, 40 and a 22 -year -old veteran, displays an average of 24.3 points per match, 9.0 assists and 7.7 rebounds over 34.5 minutes per game. It fired 51.6% in the field and 39.5% of the three -point beach. He played in 48 of the 52 games of the Lakers before the stars break.
In both games, Doncic has played with the Lakers since its acquisition in a Successful case Dallas Mavericks which was titled by Anthony Davis, he has an average of 23.5 minutes per game.
The two games were against Utah Jazz and the two were eruptions while the teams separated.
But with six days of leave during the stars break, Redick said that Donic would be fine for an increased load.
“Her minutes will be standing tomorrow,” said Redick. “I don’t think there will be a kind of restrictions in the future.”
Difficult calendar
The Lakers open the game after the stars break against Charlotte Wednesday evening in a makeup match of a postponement of January 9 due to forest fires in the Los Angeles region.
Then the Lakers play Thursday evening in Portland and Denver on Saturday.
Lakers will have two days off after the Nugget match, then play eight games over 14 days, and only two of the opponents are less than 0,500. They have another set of consecutive games during this section.
“Next month will be a huge challenge for us,” said Redick. “It is the quality of the opponent, but it is also the calendar in general. It will be difficult. We have to fight in a group. »»
Lakers have a 32-20 sheet and currently the fifth seed of the competitive western conference.
They had won 12 of their last 15 games before the break.
Redick said they had prepared for the second half of the season with good practice on Tuesday.
“A large part of it only got up and down the ground,” said Redick. “We did execution things. Always trying to bring new guys to different things. But especially that guys get and go down, reacting them to play at a high level. »»
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
