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After Butler demanded, after losing the second game, his teammates not to give up and play harder, he achieved his goal by scoring 40 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds, “Triple Double.” The 31-year-old Butler became the third player in league history to record a “Triple Double” in the final with 40 points, after Jerry West in 1969 and LeBron James in 2015.
In the Lakers, who try to equal the record of times to win the title (Boston 17 times), “The King” LeBron James (35 years) was close to the “Triple Double”, with 25 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists.
But this time his teammate Anthony Davis let him down, who let him down in the first half after a great second game. He turned the ball over five times in the first half and made three early mistakes, sitting on the bench to poke fun at the Lakers’ offensive plans. Despite his awakening in the second half and finishing the match with 15 points, this was not enough given Hit’s consistency and efficiency.
Davis admitted to backtracking: “I made two mistakes in the beginning (in the first quarter), I came back (in the second) and then I made the third. This affected me. I was not as fierce at both ends of the field as usual. This took me out of the game. And it puts a lot of pressure on young people. Davis, who is in the first league final, had scored 34 and 32 points in a row in the first two games, helping the Lakers to two comfortable victories. “The team is counting on me to bring the energy they need to start games well,” said the former New Orleans Pelicans player.
His coach, Frank Vogel, also admitted that the mistakes he made against Davis negatively affected his attack plans: “I think it affected us, but we have to get over it. This is part of the game. We see this throughout the season and during the playoffs. We must know how to adapt and correct.
Davis explained how his team allowed Butler to run under the basket: “We let Jimmy get into two strong hands a couple of times, or get to the free throw line. We let the guys reach the ring easily without friction. We were not strong in defense at the end of the game. We paid the price for that. “As for LeBron James, who was crowned twice with Miami and is trying to win the title with three different clubs (also with the Cleveland Cavaliers), he described Butler’s performance as” phenomenal. ” .
However, the star of the game released the pressure and said: “I think LeBron has beaten me many times. I respect the man, but the time is different now. I have a different group of guys around me and we are here to win. “
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