Marcus Smart on how Lakers need to come out in Game 4 on Monday
Marcus Smart says the Lakers need to be 'even more desperate' in Game 4 versus the Thunder.
The Los Angeles Lakers are in a 3-0 hole to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals, and it seems as if just about everyone has given up on them winning even one game in this series. Game 4 will take place at Crypto. com Arena on Monday, and it seems as if the outcome of that contest is already a foregone conclusion.
Even if the Lakers do end up winning Game 4, the thinking seems to be that it wouldn't do them any good, as they will only end up getting beaten up in Game 5 in Oklahoma City. But veteran guard Marcus Smart said after Game 3 on Saturday that Los Angeles needs to play with a true sense of desperation and leave it all out on the court in Game 4, via Lakers Nation . “Energy.
We gotta stay with it. Gotta be even more desperate than we are,” Smart said after Game 3. “We gotta stay together and stay composed and what we call emptying the tank, just leave it all on the court.
” Smart is one player who needs to step things up if the Lakers are to extend this series. So far in the first three games that have been played, he's shooting just 31. 4% from the field and 23.