Lebron, Davis Power Lakers to Second Straight Win Over Heat Davis Finishes with 15 Baskets in 20 Attempts
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Established 1961 15 Sunday, October 4, 2020 Sports LeBron, Davis power Lakers to second straight win over Heat Davis finishes with 15 baskets in 20 attempts MIAMI: Anthony Davis and LeBron James pow- our I’s through the course of a game.” Stung by the ered Los Angeles to a 124-114 victory over the Heat’s quick start in game one, the Lakers came out Miami Heat on Friday that put the Lakers two wins of the blocks hot. away from their first NBA title since 2010. The Chasing a record-equalling 17th NBA title but injury depleted Heat hung on as best they could, their first in a decade, the Lakers dominated inside, but 33 points from James and 32 from Davis were outscoring the Heat 18-6 in the paint in the first just too much. Davis, playing in his first NBA quarter to emerge from the opening period six Finals, overpowered a Heat defense sorely missing points up. Danny Green’s three-pointer pushed the injured Bam Adebayo. Lakers lead to 13 three minutes into the second He added 14 rebounds as the Lakers took a two quarter. The Heat got the deficit down to four games to none lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals three times, but Rondo, a former NBA champion in the league’s quarantine bubble in Orlando, with the Boston Celtics, came up big off the Florida. “He’s a big-time player,” James, playing in Lakers’ bench, delivering impressive alley-oup his 10th championship series, said of Davis, whose passes first to James and then to Davis, whose 14 rebounds included eight offensive boards. “He dunk and free throw made it 64-49 with 1:48 understands the position we’re in.” remaining in the first half. Davis made 14 of his first 15 shots from the field, Rondo himself drove for a layup in the final finishing with 15 baskets in 20 attempts. For the minute of the half that stretched the Lakers’ lead to second straight game James approached a triple- 17 points, and they took a 68-54 advantage into double, adding nine assists and nine rebounds. the break. The Lakers connected on 55.5% of their Rajon Rondo added 16 points off the bench and shots from the field in the opening half. They were Kyle Kuzma and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope added less successful from three-point range but not 11 points apiece for the Lakers. Jimmy Butler led the from lack of trying, connecting on nine of their Heat with 25 points and Kelly Olynyk added 24 off whopping 27 first-half attempts from beyond the the bench as the Heat had to make do not only with- arc. They finished with 16 three-pointers on an out Adebayo but with star guard Goran Dragic, who astonishing 47 attempts. Davis poured it on in the FLORIDA: Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat drives to the basket against LeBron James #23 of was sidelined by a left foot injury. third quarter, piling up 15 points on an array of the Los Angeles Lakers during the second half in Game Two of the 2020 NBA Finals on October 02, Even without them, James said, Miami remained shots-jumpers, a step-back three and a driving 2020. —AFP a dangerous team, adding that the Lakers need to floater just the beginning. clamp down harder defensively. “Myself, coach and AD were not happy with our defensive presence Moments of truth more from everybody, whatever that is,” Olynyk the basket,” Spoelstra said. “But this is the deal. If tonight,” James said. “We can do a lot better. Although the Lakers stretched the lead to 18 said. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra acknowledged that you want something badly enough you’ll figure out “Myself and AD, we’re not satisfied with just the points multiple times, the Heat wouldn’t go away. the Heat face a tough challenge against the bigger, how to overcome it. “They have great size and win. We want to be great. “They have five guys on They out-scored Los Angeles 39-35 in the period- physical Lakers. Anthony Davis is an elite player. We’re trying to get the floor that’s a threat, as they showed tonight,” but in the end they just didn’t have sufficient stop- “In those moments of truth when we had oppor- something accomplished and you just have to go to James added of Miami. “So we have to continue to ping power and they couldn’t get the deficit below tunities to get the game closer it usually seemed to another level,” added Spoelstra, whose team will try stay on our P’s and Q’s and cross our T’s and dot nine points in the final quarter. “We need a little bit end up in an offensive rebound or something near to do just that in game three today. —AFP season so far after joining on loan from Neymar bags Roma, controlled the ball in the box News in brief before netting with a delightful volley brace as PSG into the far corner. Mbappe then cut Newgarden wins IndyCar Harvest the ball back for Neymar to score in crush Angers 6-1 off the underside of the bar as PSG WASHINGTON: Defending champion Josef doubled their lead before half-time. Newgarden won Friday’s IndyCar Harvest Grand PARIS: Neymar scored twice for Paris Neymar was starting after avoiding Prix, closing the gap on season points leader Scott Saint-Germain in a crushing 6-1 win punishment following allegations of Dixon with two races remaining in the campaign. Newgarden refueled with 23 laps remaining in the over Angers on Friday as the French racist and homophobic abuse in an ill- 85-lap race and surged to the finish over the 14-turn, champions continue to build up tempered defeat by Marseille last month. The French league’s disciplinary 2.439-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway road momentum following a poor start to course. “We had a rocket ship,” Newgarden said. “I committee ruled on Wednesday that it the Ligue 1 season. Alessandro had the quickest car. I’m pumped. I’m so excited.” Florenzi, Julian Draxler, Idrissa Gana did not have sufficient proof to take Fellow American Alexander Rossi was second with Gueye and Kylian Mbappe were also action against the Brazilian or Marseille Dutch 20-year-old rookie pole-sitter Rinus VeeKay on target at the Parc des Princes for defender Alvaro Gonzalez, who third and American Colton Herta fourth. It was PSG, who claimed their fourth con- Neymar had accused of calling him a Newgarden’s third victory of the year after oval tri- secutive victory after starting the “monkey”. The world’s most expensive umphs at Iowa and Gateway and his 17th career campaign with two straight defeats. player scored his second and PSG’s IndyCar win as he chases a third series crown in four Thomas Tuchel’s side move up to sec- third goal on the night just after half- PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar (right) vies for the seasons. New Zealand’s Dixon, who started 12th and ond in the early table, a point behind time, finishing first-time as the ball ball with Angers’ Ivorian defender Abdoulaye Bamba during the French L1 finished ninth, still leads the season points battle with leaders Rennes who play Reims today. broke to him in the box. football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Angers (SCO) on 478 to 438 for Newgarden. —AFP October 2, 2020. —AFP “Scoring goals gives us confidence. It The goals were his first two of the is a great victory,” said Tuchel. new season after a start to the cam- There were only 1,000 spectators paign disrupted by a positive Covid-19 PSG look to have definitively put their continental campaign at home to Harris wins lifetime award allowed into the Parc des Princes as test and suspension. Ismael Traore soon defeat by Bayern Munich in the Manchester United on October 20 authorities clamp down on gatherings pulled one back for Angers with a Champions League final in August before also facing Istanbul Basaksehir NEW YORK: Del Harris, an NBA coach for 32 sea- amid a new rise in coronavirus cases in back-post header, but Mitchel Bakker behind them. Coach Tuchel will now and RB Leipzig, who they beat in last sons who guided China at the 2004 Olympics, was the French capital, but the few who crossed for Draxler to make it 4-1 and hope to see more new faces arrive season’s semi-finals. “It is a very diffi- named Friday as winner of the National Basketball were there saw Florenzi open the scor- Gueye added another with a deflected before Monday’s transfer deadline, with cult group with Leipzig as the third Coaches Association 2020 Lifetime Achievement ing with a lovely goal in the seventh strike. Mbappe completed the scoring a busy schedule lying in store once the seed,” said Tuchel. “We know how Award. The 83-year-old American served as an NBA minute. The Italian right-back, who by converting from a Pablo Sarabia Champions League group stage begins strong they are. We will need to be at head coach with the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee remains PSG’s only new face for this assist six minutes from the end, and later in October. Paris will start their our best to go through.” —AFP Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1979-1999 and had several stints as an assistant as well.