As the Lakers prepared to fly to Oklahoma City on Thursday, the team talked about the energy it hoped to take with it as carry-on to combat a raucous home crowd at the Ford Center in Friday’s Game 6.

“It’s really about who imposes whose will upon the game,” said Lakers coach Phil Jackson. “You really have to impose your will upon the game. That’s something we did in Game 3, but we couldn’t sustain it.”

Los Angeles has won the first quarter in four of the five games of the series, setting the tone from the beginning. In the first quarters of L.A.’s three wins, it outscored Oklahoma City by a combined 84-51. In Game 3, the first playoff game in the history of Oklahoma, the Lakers used a 10-0 run to start the game to diffuse the home crowd.
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