Lakers were missing both AD and Lebron, and they still won. Not that it means Lebron and AD are bad for this team, but the fact that they managed to beat Celtics with this squad is an insane achievement. The only reason for their success was the fact that they played big team ball and that is always good.
This got me thinking, maybe the rest of the team are dependent of the two superstars that they can't bring out their best version? And now that they are out in this game, it's insane to see them beating a great team without the two and each and everyone that plays in the court really push themselves, specially in defense like limiting Jalen Brown to just 8 points.
Hopefully, with what they shown, this could just be a tip of the iceberg, similar to last season ago wherein they reaches the Western conference finals but lost to the eventual champion in Nuggets. So we will see and hopefully this is a sign that they can still make it to the playoff or to the finals again.