{"id":118042,"date":"2026-04-15T13:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/marcus-smart-outlines-lakers-playoff-approach-vs-rockets\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:07:26","slug":"marcus-smart-outlines-lakers-playoff-approach-vs-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/marcus-smart-outlines-lakers-playoff-approach-vs-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Smart outlines Lakers\u2019 playoff approach vs Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nMarcus Smart addressed the media on Tuesday, April 14 ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 first-round series against the Houston Rockets, focusing heavily on defensive pressure, team identity, and playoff execution. The veteran guard leaned on multiple long-form answers that centered on physicality and response to Houston\u2019s style. On handling ball pressure and Houston\u2019s defensive [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/216307-marcus-smart-outlines-lakers-playoff-approach-vs-rockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcus Smart outlines Lakers\u2019 playoff approach vs Rockets<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TalkBasket.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/216307-marcus-smart-outlines-lakers-playoff-approach-vs-rockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Smart addressed the media on Tuesday, April 14 ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 first-round series against the Houston Rockets, focusing heavily on defensive pressure, team identity, and playoff execution. The veteran guard leaned on multiple long-form answers that centered on physicality and response to Houston\u2019s style. On handling ball pressure and Houston\u2019s defensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}