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All Hands On Deck: The Lakers Need Contributions From Unexpected Sources
"All hands on deck."
"Next man up."
These are pretty stock sports cliches trotted out anytime someone important suffers an injury. But while there isn't really a next man to be up when the lost men are Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves -- they're too good to be replaced in that way -- the Lakers do need to adopt a mentality where everyone is ready to contribute, and truly all hands are, in fact, on deck. The only way for the Lakers to pull an upset over the Rockets is for the sum to be greater than the parts.
And while a big chunk of the rotation is set (the Lakers have eight guys who are almost…
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