Lakers look to 得る，とらえる 命令（する）ing 3-1 series lead vs. Grizzlies
The Los Angeles Lakers have shown that they can rise to the occasion on select nights, with the 全体にわたる 問題／発行する 存在 an 無（不）能 to stay healthy enough to 支える their 最高の，を越す form.
The Lakers have a chance to 押し進める through their inconsistencies Monday when they play host to the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 4 of their first-一連の会議、交渉／完成する Western 会議／協議会 プレーオフ series.
Los Angeles took a 2-1 series lead on Saturday with a 納得させるing 111-101 home victory over Memphis as Anthony Davis 得点する／非難する／２０d 31 points with 17 回復するs, while LeBron James once again 供給するd the energy while 得点する／非難する／２０ing 25 points with nine 回復するs and five 補助装置s.
James' spirited 成果／努力 （機の）カム after the Grizzlies' Dillon Brooks referred to the four-time 最高殊勲選手, who also has four NBA 肩書を与えるs, as "old" and not worthy of 尊敬（する）・点 "until they come and give me 40 (points)."
James has been around a while at age 38 with 20 seasons to his credit, but remains a 生産力のある 星／主役にする. And while James didn't give his team 40, he did 力／強力にする the Lakers to a series lead.
Brooks only 構内／化合物d his poor 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making by swinging his left 手渡す into James' groin in Game 3, 収入 an ejection just as the second half started.
Brooks showed he might have learned a lesson by not speaking to the マスコミ after Game 3.
"This is not my first rodeo," James said. "I've had this throughout my career with 確かな individuals. It's 平易な. It's literally 平易な. We won tonight. I don't want to start this. There's a lot (to consider). We won. We had a hell of a game. I'm not going to do this."
James and Davis struggled to stay on the 床に打ち倒す together all season, but they appear to be in good health now, giving their team the look of a dangerous No. 7 seed. Now the Lakers 人物／姿／数字 to get a Grizzlies team with more of an 早期に sense of 緊急 in Game 4.
For all the feel-good vibes the Lakers 展示（する）d late Saturday night, they still have a long way to go before they can 派遣（する） the No. 2-seeded Grizzlies. The Lakers won the opener at Memphis, then saw the Grizzlies 回復する for a Game 2 victory while Ja Morant was out with a bruised 権利 手渡す.
Morant returned in Game 3 to 得点する／非難する／２０ 45 points on 13-of-26 狙撃 from the field, with 24 of those points coming in the fourth ４半期/4分の1. But the game was 井戸／弁護士席 out of 手渡す by then, as the Lakers led by as many as 22 早期に in the final period.
Morant 追加するd 13 補助装置s and Desmond 禁止（する） 得点する／非難する／２０d 18 points for Memphis, which 発射 37.6 パーセント in the game and just 26.0 パーセント in the first half, when they 追跡するd by as many as 29.
The Lakers led 35-9 after one ４半期/4分の1 Saturday, but the Grizzlies see their 92-76 advantage over the final three ４半期/4分の1s as a 調印する of good things to come.
"I think we won by 二塁打 digits in the last three ４半期/4分の1s so 明白に that first ４半期/4分の1 pretty much 傷つける us," Morant said. "I felt like we got open looks and 発射s didn't 落ちる. We 許すd them to get in 移行 and they 得点する／非難する／２０d a lot of points, which we can't let happen. We have to play like we did the last three ４半期/4分の1s. When they go on a run we go on a run of our own."
--Field Level マスコミ
