When you add together all of these little moments, the Lakers are starting to seem like the dominant basketball club their roster on paper promised to be.

LeBron James soared like a youngster to the hoop. Anthony Davis deflected volley after volley. D’Angelo Russell skipped and Austin Reaves cooked, the Lakers playing their best basketball of the season.

Naturally, it helped that the ball started making baskets on Tuesday night.

Despite the time and effort put into building an NBA team and studying their opponents’ strengths and weaknesses, shooting is the most important factor in determining a team’s success or failure.

The Lakers, who had previously made more than a dozen threes only once this season, buried the short-handed Grizzlies 134-107 on Tuesday at Crypto.com Arena in their second in-season tournament game.

The 22 three-pointers made by the Lakers are tied for the most in franchise history, and the team has won three in a row.

Despite an early loss of Memphis guard Marcus Smart to an ankle ιnjury, the Lakers showed no compassion to the Grizzlies (playing without suspended Ja Morant).

The Lakers won their first blowout of the season thanks to the efforts of seven players who all scored in double figures and the team’s 58% field goal and 62.9% three-point shooting.

It was a more important game Tuesday as part of the NBA’s inaugural in-season competition, the Lakers playing on a gold-and-purple floor. And the intensity was immediately noticeable.

Davis and Memphis reserve Santi Aldama got into it after a basket, and Davis shoved Aldama to the floor. This occurred early in the first quarter. Technical fouls were assessed to Davis, Aldama, Russell, Desmond Bane, and Memphis head coach Taylor Jenkins.

The Lakers shot the ball well from the get-go and kept it up, and the team’s defense looked like it got a boost of energy from every basket. This is something the Lakers have had trouble maintaining for much of the season.