- Luka Doncic and the Lakers faced significant criticism due to the noticeable lack of their superstar’s efforts on the defensive end of the floor. Austin Reaves, his teammate, believes that the criticism is unwarranted and factually incorrect. He appeared for an interview with Trevor Lane of Lakers’ Nation and expressed how the media misunderstood the Lakers’ defensive skills. He was asked what he feels about his pairing with Doncic.“It brings so much chaos offensively, obviously because you got two guys that are—obviously I’m not putting myself in Luka’s category because he’s a top-3 player in the NBA. But it brings two guys at the 1 and 2, then you obviously have Bron too, that are willing passers and create chaos on defense. So therefore, I think it’s gonna be tough for teams to stay in front of us, and I feel we can get good looks on every possession. And then defensively, we just had to lock down and just be with it mentally every possession. Right after the trade, I think for a month or two months, I think we were a Top-5 defense in the NBA. So we’ve shown that we can do that, we just got to continue to grow our schemes and how we want to do that, be smart with all that.”
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