Bill Plaschke: With Anthony Davis on his feet, Lakers are in good standing
Anthony Davis threw up one brick. Two bricks. Three bricks. Four bricks. Five bricks.
Beautiful bricks.
It did not matter that he was missing. It mattered that he was shooting.
It mattered that he was getting to the rim again, finding his spots again, leaping over smaller defenders again, playing lunging defense again, and who cares if his shots went through the dumb net?
In his first game for the Lakers in more than two months, on a breath-holding Thursday in Dallas, Davis missed his first five flings, finished with but two baskets in 10 attempts and played only 17
