Alexander: Despite loss, Lakers retain control and advantages

There are two ways to look at this if you’re a Laker fan.
First … well, you couldn’t have convinced yourself it was going to be a breeze, could you? Even as the Miami Heat lost two of their better players, they still had Jimmy Butler, who yelled to his teammates at a timeout Sunday night, “They’re in trouble.”
They, of course, being the Lakers, staring at the business end of a 115-102 loss in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, and particularly the show put on by Butle