NBA = American professional basketball, Rui Hachimura of the Lakers scored 3 points in the third game of the conference semifinal of the playoffs, and the team won comfortably to improve the head-to-head record to 5 wins and 2 loss.
The four-win team advances to the next Conference Finals in the Western Conference Semifinals, where the seventh-place Lakers in the regular season face last season's champion, the Warriors.
The Lakers, who have a 4-7 record on the road so far, returned to their home base of Los Angeles on the 1th for their third game.
Hachimura came on in the middle of the first quarter, but he didn't have much playing time in the first half and didn't have many opportunities to shoot.
In the second half, they aggressively aimed for the goal from the middle of the fourth quarter when the main players dropped to the bench with a big lead, and scored the first shot of the match, a jump shot from the turn.
After this, he also sank a good three-point shot.
In the third quarter of the game, he scored a brilliant no-look pass through his back from a steal to steal the ball from an opponent, assisting ace LeBron James.
He played 1 minutes and 6 seconds and scored five points, one rebound and one assist.
In the game, the Lakers, who worked defensively, held the Warriors to 3 points or less and won comfortably 1-4 to improve their head-to-head record to 3-16.
The fourth leg will also be played in Los Angeles on 29 June.