Are you surprised?
Man The Rockets have a good team and they had more games to polish their play, If Davis' not turned on the Lakers suffer a lot, they've got a nice offensive style but they rely too much on him, also no alternatives like the Bucks with Jamal or Giannis, they always get 30+ each game and a bunch of rebounds.
Lakers were ahead +21 at some point in the first half, by the 3rd quarter 85-80 with an impressive Gordon's 3 pointer skill.
LeBron always saves it with great FT perfomance