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JJ Redick drops the mic after Luka Doncic’s stunning 51-point night
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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Lakers continued rolling, winning their fourth consecutive game with a 142-130 win against the Chicago Bulls . The story of the night was Luka Doncic who dropped a Lakers career-best 51 points in the win. Following the game, Lakers head coach JJ Redick remarked how Doncic's recent stretch of games is not being talked about enough.
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"He's playing as well as anybody in the NBA right now, and I think it's probably not being talked about enough," Redick said during his postgame press conference. "But I'm going to talk about it."
Once Luka Doncic reached 51 points, late in the fourth quarter, the Lakers committed an intentional foul to get him out of the game. He finished only one assist away from a triple double with 10 rebounds and nine assists. He shot 17-of-31 from the field, 9-of-14 from the 3-points line and 8-of-9 from the free-throw line.
Early in the game, Doncic exchanged a bit of trash talk with Bulls young gun Matas Buzelis , an interaction that seemed to get him fired up . For Redick, that's one of the most impressive things about Doncic is his ability to remain focused amid these little one-on-one battles.
"It's a unique trait. It's not just the fact that he responds to rough play or trash talking, it's that he can channel it," Redick said. "He can channel it while still doing all the other things that need to be done. That's obviously reflected with his defensive rebounding, his assists, his steals. Another game where he gets a high assist number with low turnovers."
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Within the last 10 games, Doncic has had nights of 22, 41, 26, 28, 27, 27, 44, 35, 31 and now 51 points. The Lakers have gone 7-3 in that stretch with a couple of wins against very good teams in the New York Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves . As the Lakers have climbed up to the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference standings, Doncic has started to garner MVP talk again.
This season, he's leading the league in scoring (32.5 points), field goal attempts (22.0), 3-pointers made (3.8), 3-pointers attempted (10.4) and free-throw attempts (10.2). He's shooting 47.3 percent from the field, 36 percent from the 3-point line and 77.4 percent from the free-throw line.
The Lakers have one home game remaining in this recent stretch, another big test with the Denver Nuggets coming to town on Saturday. They then hit the road for six games before returning home to close out the month.
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