LOS ANGELES _ The fan who made a half-court shot to win $95,000 didn't have the most impressive shooting performance at Staples Center on Tuesday night.
It was a good night for locals altogether. Against the league's best defensive team, the Los Angeles Lakers made more than 50 percent of their shots, 51.5 percent of their three-point tries, and defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 116-102.
Nick Young finished with 20 points, making six of 11 three-pointers. The Lakers made a season-high 17 three-pointers and had 34 assists.
"That's the most complete game we've put together obviously in a long time, and against a really good defensive team," Lakers coach Luke Walton said. "Which hopefully reinforces the idea when we play to make plays for each other, we're tough to guard."
Julius Randle notched his third career triple-double, and became one of six players in the NBA to have multiple triple-doubles this season. Randle scored 19 points with 14 rebounds and 11 assists.
"The thing that I liked most about his game tonight was he was alert the whole game," Walton said.
The Lakers improved to 13-25, with only their third win since December began. The Grizzlies fell to 22-15, and 1-1 against the Lakers this season.
Young set the standard offensively, and the rest of the Lakers' starters followed suit.
"We had our L.A. cool jacket on tonight," Grizzlies coach David Fizdale said. "I don't know who we were performing for, but it wasn't for each other. We just have a way of having this other team creep in with us. We show signs of greatness and then we are just zombies out there, and tonight was one of those nights."
Young's torrid shooting of late continued. After making a franchise-record 36 three-pointers in the previous eight games, Young made five from distance in the first half against Memphis.
Point guard D'Angelo Russell also made five three-pointers in the first half. Russell added four assists, including two to Randle as he cut to the basket. One such pass resulted in a dunk by Randle, and another in a layup.
Randle scored the Lakers' final six points of the first half, which helped them take a nine-point lead into halftime.
The Lakers shared the ball well during the first half, garnering 18 assists in all, while only committing three turnovers.
It helped, too, that the Grizzlies only shot 41.5 percent in the first half while the Lakers made more than 50 percent of their shots.
Against Toronto on Sunday, the Lakers had an edge in every statistical category except the one that mattered most. The Lakers outrebounded the Raptors, and had more assists. They scored more second-chance points, more points in the paint and more fastbreak points, but still lost 123-114, unable to stop point guard Kyle Lowry, who scored 41 points.
Even though the Lakers held a 12-point lead during that game, they could not hang onto it _ something they've struggled to do often this season.
This time that changed. The Lakers led the Grizzlies in every meaningful stat except second-chance points, in part because their shots fell so regularly there were fewer opportunities for second chances.
Against the Grizzlies, the Lakers had a 10-point lead in the first half, and built that to a 14-point margin by the end of the third quarter. That lead rose to 19 in the fourth quarter, enough of a cushion that the Lakers didn't let it go.
Memphis, which entered the game ranked 25th in offensive rating, made only 39 percent of its shots.
