2023 NBA Playoffs Key Dates
Apr 11-14: AT&T Play-In Tournament
Apr 15: NBA playoffs begin
May 1-2: NBA Conference Semifinals begin (possible move-up to April 29-30)
May 16-17: NBA Conference Finals begin (possible move-up to May 14-15)
Jun 1: NBA Finals 2023 Game 1
Jun 4: NBA Finals 2023 Game 2
Jun 7: NBA Finals 2023 Game 3
Jun 9: NBA Finals 2023 Game 4
Jun 12: NBA Finals 2023 Game 5 (if necessary)
Jun 15: NBA Finals 2023 Game 6 (if necessary)
Jun 18: NBA Finals 2023 Game 7 (if necessary)

OUT: 2Ws,NewGuys. What a terrible game for the faint hearted - Lakers took it
down to 2s to grab what looked like a W, but AD gets called for a PF with .1s
to go and they make all 3 FTs for a tie in reg. Lakers barely eke out a W in OT
in OT. If they had played D all game like Q4/OT, it woulda been an easy W.
5 guys in DFs with AD/LBJ getting DDs, but both also had 5 TOs. Both teams with
20 TOs. 102-102 Lakers win by 6.
FBP: 15 vs 12; PIP: 54 vs 36; POT: 30 vs 19.

Game Dbl-Figures Leaders:
Player Pts FG% 3P% FT% RB AS BL ST TO PF EFF
James 30 (57 /50 /100)/10/ 6/ 2/ 1/ 5/ 5/ +35 DD
Davis 24 (53 /0 /67 )/15/ 4/ 3/ 2/ 5/ 3/ +32 DD
Schroder 21 (42 /75 /100)/ 4/ 2/ 0/ 1/ 1/ 2/ +20
Reaves 12 (31 /20 /100)/ 6/ 3/ 0/ 0/ 3/ 0/ +9
Hachimura 12 (38 /40 /100)/ 2/ 1/ 0/ 0/ 2/ 1/ +8

WCQF games with MEM:
WCQF Game 1 LAL at MEM: Tue Apr 16 TBD -- -- FedExForum Memphis,TN
WCQF Game 2 LAL at MEM: TBD
WCQF Game 3 LAL vs MEM: TBD
WCQF Game 4 LAL vs MEM: TBD
WCQF Game *5 LAL at MEM: TBD
WCQF Game *6 LAL vs MEM: TBD
WCQF Game *7 LAL at MEM: TBD

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Quarterly Laker scoring leaders/notes (pluses OR/ST/BL; minuses TO/PF/oOR):

Q1 - Another slow start for LA - better wake up quick - shooting 35% vs 65%;
pluses 3/3/0; minuses 3/1/1. Hachimura 7, Davis 6, James 4. 22-28=-6Q.

Q2 - Lakers improve on O/D, but 6 more TOs sure not helping - shooting 50% vs
53%; pluses 3/1/2; minuses 6/7/1. James 12, Davis 6, Reaves 5. 27-32=-5Q.

Q3 - Lakers get within 7, but will need to really put out in Q4 for a W -
shooting 50% vs 42%; pluses 3/1/4; minuses 3/1/1. James 11, Schroder 7.
30-26=+4Q (79-86=-7).

Q4 - Lakers finally played some D and shoulda had an easy W in Q4, but some
really stupid mistakes (mostly passing) cost them and took it to OT - AD
fouls on a buzzer beating 3 (really dumb, but not much of a PF) -
shooting 28% vs 19%; pluses 3/3/1; minuses 5/5/2. Schroder/Davis 7.
19-12=+7Q.

OT - Lakers with a 3 pt lead (shoulda been more) with 19s to go - will they
finally hang in for the W ? no, they blow the inbounds pass, but MIN misses
a shot and AR gets RB - DS gets PF'd and makes both to go +5 wth 8.4s -
Lakers miraculously get the W - shooting 50% vs 29%; pluses 0/0/0; minuses
3/1/0. Schroder 4. 10-4=+6O.

H1 - Let's hope LA can find some E in H2 and improve a lot on both ends -
shooting 42% vs 59%; pluses 6/4/2; minuses 9/8/2. James 16, Davis 12,
Hachimura/Reaves 7. 49-60=-11H.

H2 - Lakers got back into the game by finally playing some D - MIN 3% went from
53% down to 33% - shooting 40% vs 33%; pluses 6/4/5; minuses 8/6/3.
49-38=+11H.

FG - Lakers didn't come to play till Q4 where they shut down MIN - once again
they blew EOG play and went to OT - at least they got the W - shooting 41%
vs 43%; pluses 12/8/7; minuses 20/15/4. 108-102=+6G.

Team scoring by Q (FG%/FG-AT includes 3P%/3P-AT):
Lakers Opponent Lakers Opponent
Q FG-AT 3P-AT FT-AT FG-AT 3P-AT FT-AT FG% 3P% FT% FG% 3P% FT% LAL OPP
Q1 9-26 2-7 2-2 11-17 5-9 1-2 34.6 28.6 100 64.7 55.6 50 22 28
Q2 11-22 1-6 4-5 9-17 4-8 10-10 50 16.7 80 52.9 50 100 27 32
Q3 10-20 4-9 6-6 11-26 4-10 0-0 50 44.4 100 42.3 40 0 30 26
Q4 5-18 2-8 7-7 3-16 3-11 3-3 27.8 25 100 18.8 27.3 100 19 12
O1 3-6 1-1 3-4 2-7 0-3 0-0 50 100 75 28.6 0.0 0 10 4

H1 20-48 3-13 6-7 20-34 9-17 11-12 41.7 23.1 85.7 58.8 52.9 91.7 49 60
A3 30-68 7-22 12-13 31-60 13-27 11-12 44.1 31.8 92.3 51.7 48.1 91.7 79 86
H2 15-38 6-17 13-13 14-42 7-21 3-3 39.5 35.3 100 33.3 33.3 100 49 38
ER 35-86 9-30 19-20 34-76 16-38 14-15 40.7 30 95 44.7 42.1 93.3 98 98
FL 38-92 10-31 22-24 36-83 16-41 14-15 41.3 32.3 91.7 43.4 39.0 93.3 108 102

Team stats by Q (RB includes team RBs):
Lakers Opponent Diff
Q AS RB OR ST BL TO PF OR AS RB ST BL TO PF AS RB OR ST BL TO PF
Q1 7 8 3 3 0 3 1 1 8 9 2 3 5 3 -1 -1 +2 +1 -3 -2 -2
Q2 5 10 3 1 2 6 7 1 7 8 5 3 3 6 -2 +2 +2 -4 -1 +3 +1
Q3 9 13 3 1 4 3 1 1 11 8 3 3 3 6 -2 +5 +2 -2 +1 -5
Q4 3 13 3 3 1 5 5 2 3 9 1 2 6 7 +4 +1 +2 -1 -1 -2
O1 3 11 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 15 2 0 3 4 +2 -4 -2 -3

H1 12 18 6 4 2 9 8 2 15 17 7 6 8 9 -3 +1 +4 -3 -4 +1 -1
A3 21 31 9 5 6 12 9 3 26 25 10 9 11 15 -5 +6 +6 -5 -3 +1 -6
H2 12 26 6 4 5 8 6 3 14 17 4 5 9 13 -2 +9 +3 -1 -7
ER 24 44 12 8 7 17 14 5 29 34 11 11 17 22 -5 +10 +7 -3 -4 -8
FL 27 55 12 8 7 20 15 4 30 49 13 11 20 26 -3 +6 +8 -5 -4 -11

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Yahoo Final Box Score:

Boxscore 1 2 3 4 O1 Total
Minnesota Timberwolves 28 32 26 12 4 102
Los Angeles Lakers 22 27 30 19 10 108 - End of Overtime

PLAYER POS MIN FGM-A 3GM-A FTM-A OR TR AS TO ST BS PF PTS P36 +/- EFF
Kyle Anderson SF 44:39 5-14 2-5 0-0 1 5 13 4 4 4 5 12 10 -14 +25
Taurean Prince PF 43:09 5-11 4-7 0-0 1 3 0 3 3 0 3 14 12 -5 +11
Karl-Anthony Tow C 41:13 8-12 2-4 6-6 1 11 5 2 0 3 5 24 21 +18 +37
Mike Conley PG 43:46 7-11 6-8 3-3 0 4 4 3 3 1 2 23 19 -1 +28
Anthony Edwards SG 42:49 3-17 0-9 3-4 1 8 5 4 1 3 4 9 8 -4 +7
Nickeil Alexande SG 23:20 4-5 1-1 2-2 0 4 2 0 1 0 3 11 17 -1 +17
Jaylen Nowell SG 13:22 4-7 1-3 0-0 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 9 24 -6 +6
Jordan McLaughli PG 10:18 0-5 0-3 0-0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 -10 -6
Nathan Knight PF 2:23 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -7 +0
Josh Minott SF - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Wendell Moore Jr SG - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Austin Rivers SG - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Luka Garza C - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Rudy Gobert C - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Jaden McDaniels PF - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Naz Reid C - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Matt Ryan SF - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Totals 36-83 16-41 14-15 4 12 30 0 13 11 26 102
Percent 43.4 39.0 93.3

PLAYER POS MIN FGM-A 3GM-A FTM-A OR TR AS TO ST BS PF PTS P36 +/- EFF
LeBron James SF 45:18 12-21 3-6 3-3 1 10 6 5 1 2 5 30 24 -14 +35
Jarred Vanderbil PF 22:12 0-2 0-1 0-0 0 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 -12 +3
Anthony Davis PF 42:40 10-19 0-1 4-6 9 15 4 5 2 3 3 24 20 +9 +32
Austin Reaves SG 39:23 4-13 1-5 3-3 1 6 3 3 0 0 0 12 11 +0 +9
D'Angelo Russell PG 23:52 1-9 0-4 0-0 0 3 8 1 1 1 0 2 3 -2 +6
Dennis Schroder PG 32:32 5-12 3-4 8-8 0 4 2 1 1 0 2 21 23 +22 +20
Rui Hachimura PF 26:36 3-8 2-5 4-4 1 2 1 2 0 0 1 12 16 +20 +8
Troy Brown Jr. SF 17:02 1-5 0-3 0-0 0 4 2 1 2 0 0 2 4 +10 +5
Malik Beasley SG 13:34 2-3 1-2 0-0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 5 13 -1 +4
Wenyen Gabriel PF 1:47 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 -2 +0
Mo Bamba C - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Max Christie SG - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Shaquille Harris SG - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Tristan Thompson PF - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Lonnie Walker IV SG - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Scotty Pippen Jr PG - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Cole Swider SF - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0
Totals 38-92 10-31 22-24 12 7 27 0 8 7 15 108
Percent 41.3 32.3 91.7

Stadium: Crypto.com Arena
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ESPN EOR Box Score:

Team 1 2 3 4 Total
Los Angeles Lakers 22 27 30 19 98
Minnesota Timberwolves 28 32 26 12 98 End of 4th