{"id":167918,"date":"2020-08-23T08:54:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T06:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=167918"},"modified":"2020-08-23T08:54:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T06:54:03","slug":"lakers-attempted-24-free-throws-more-than-blazers-lillard-hard-to-beat-teams-that-live-at-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-attempted-24-free-throws-more-than-blazers-lillard-hard-to-beat-teams-that-live-at-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers attempted 24 free throws more than Blazers. Lillard: Hard to beat teams that live at the line"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Trail Blazers were frustrated after loss in Game 3 against the Lakers for the discrepancy in free throws attempts.<\/p>\n

Per ESPN,<\/a> “As far as the free throw differential, particularly at halftime, I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a game where it was that big,” Portland coach Terry Stotts said after the loss, which put his eighth-seeded squad down 2-1 in the first-round series, with Game 4 slated for Monday. “And certainly it had an impact on the first half, when I think the differential was 23. That had an impact on the game.”<\/p>\n

That deficit remained wide throughout the game. In fact, the Lakers shot 24 more free throws than the Trail Blazers, marking their widest disparity in attempts at the line in a postseason game since a 2008 playoff game in which they shot 27 more free throws than the Utah Jazz, according to ESPN Stats & Information.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the Lakers shot 28-of-43 from the free throw line, and Portland shot 18-of-19. The Lakers won despite missing 15 free throws, the most misses by any team in a playoff win since 2015, according to ESPN Stats & Info.<\/p>\n

“The discrepancy in free throws is something that’s out of our control,” said Trail Blazers star point guard Damian Lillard. “Last game, we came out, [and] they played a really physical game. They played a really aggressive game. That led to a blowout victory for them.<\/p>\n

“Tonight, we came in saying we weren’t going to get bullied and let them out-physical and out-aggressiveness us, and maybe sometimes we did foul, but they’re a physical team as well. When a team is living at the free throw line like they did tonight as a team, it’s going to be hard to win a game against a team that’s as good as they are.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lakers shot 24 more free throws than the Trail Blazers, marking their widest disparity in attempts at the line in a postseason game since a 2008 playoff game in which they shot 27 more free throws than the Utah Jazz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[2862,509,1754],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-167918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-dame-lillard","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-portland-trail-blazers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167918"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=167918"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=167918"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=167918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}