The Wasps stayed behind staples, this time challenging the Wounded Lakers.
At the beginning of the game, the Lakers played a good start of 9-3, but the Hornets stabilized the situation and reversed the score, after which the scores of the two sides alternately rose, and the Lakers opened the point difference 12-5 in the latter part of the quarter and guaranteed the lead to end the first quarter, the first quarter ended, the Lakers 29-26 Hornets.
Entering the second quarter, the Hornets played a wave of 8-2 to overtake the score at the beginning of the quarter, and then the game fell into anxiety, and the Lakers used the inside advantage in the middle of the quarter to play a wave of 9-2. Halftime ended with the Lakers 61-60 Hornets.
Easy side to fight again, the Hornets full of firepower, playing a wave of 12-3 scoring climax to reverse the score again and pull it to 8 points, and the Lakers played a wave of 24-11 scoring climax later in the quarter to once again reverse the score. The third quarter ended with the Lakers 94-87 Hornets.
In the final quarter, the Lakers played a wave of 9-2 to open the point difference to double digits, unaffected by the unexpected, and the Hornets struggled to chase the points and relied on Ball's four free throws to chase the point difference to 4 points. After that, the game fell into anxiety, the regular time game ended, and the two sides fought to 115 and went into extra time.
Entering overtime, the scores of the two sides alternately rose and there were many times when there were equal points, and finally the Lakers relied on the performances of Anthony and Davis to take the lead. At the end of the game, the Lakers narrowly defeated the Hornets in overtime 126-123 to give their opponents a five-game losing streak.
Data-wise.
Hornet Stats: Terry Rozier 29 points and three assists; Lamelo Ball 25 points, 12 rebounds and 15 assists; Gordon Hayward 21 points and six rebounds; Miles Bridges 21 points and six rebounds; Mason Plumlee 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Lakers Stats: Anthony Davis 32 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 blocks; Carmelo Anthony 29 points and 3 rebounds; Russell Westbrook 17 points, 12 rebounds and 14 assists; DeAndre Jordan 10 points and 8 rebounds; Avery Bradley 8 points.
In this game, although Lakers player Russell Westbrook had a triple-double of 17 points, 12 rebounds, 14 assists and 3 steals, he only shot 5 of 15 from the field, and the shooting rate was extremely low.
In addition, Westbrook also had many low-level mistakes, up to 7 in the whole game, and frequent mistakes in key moments in the fourth quarter, losing good drama.
To be honest, Wei Shao's performance is completely unworthy of his 40 million worth.
Another Lakers player, Carmelo Anthony, played 37 minutes and had 29 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block, shooting 9-of-13 and 7-of-10 three-pointers.
When the Lakers were behind, they relied on his 3 three-pointers to recover the score, and at the key moment of the game, it was also relying on his three-pointers to win the game.
Anthony can be said to be holding more than 2 million dollars of money, doing 30 million jobs, the cost performance is too high, personally think he is the lakers' best off-season reinforcements.