Through the first three games of the NBA Playoff series between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers someone new in purple and gold has had to walk into the fire of the postseason and refuse to blink. Without their top two leading scorers in Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves , the Lakers have needed a secondary scoring option behind LeBron James. In Game 1, that was journeyman Luke Kennard who scored 27 points and was a perfect 5-for-5 from three. In Game 2, Marcus Smart accepted that