On Friday evening, the Los Angeles Lakers by some means mustered sufficient inner power to finish the 11-game profitable streak of the Memphis Grizzlies, one of many high groups within the Western Convention.
Based on Los Angeles head coach Darvin Ham, a lot of the group’s late-game motivation got here from a deep bench backup.
After the Lakers put collectively a detailed 122-121 victory, Ham instructed the assembled media that ahead Juan Toscano-Anderson served as a galvanizing power going ahead due to a terse, expletive-laden motivational speech that he instructed his teammates. .
“Let’s win the f—ing recreation,” JTA suggested his comrades, per Kyle Goon of the Orange County Register. “How about this? F— the rest. Simply win the sport.”
This clear mission assertion could not have been fairly Al Pacino’s speech in “Any Given Sunday,” however it appears to have labored anyway.
Toscano-Anderson noticed restricted day off the bench (simply 9:37), even with a wide range of accidents to LA gamers. The 6’6″ combo ahead took (and missed) only one discipline aim try, although he made three of 4 essential free throw makes an attempt to tally three factors, plus a rebound and an help.
After all, JTA is coming off a backup championship with the Golden State Warriors final yr, and regardless of his comparatively minimal minutes allotment on this LA roster, he is emerged as a vocal chief for the 21-25 membership.