The much-anticipated Christmas war is about to begin! As the two most watched teams in the NBA, the Brooklyn Nets will take on the Los Angeles Lakers on the road!
The recent Lakers and Nets, the days are not good, the absolute core of the two teams Anthony Davis, Carey Irving and Kevin Durant and other players, because of the epidemic or injury reasons, can not play, but this will not affect the excitement of the game, East and West Two Zhan, James and James Harden, will be strong dialogue tomorrow.
So the Lakers and the Nets, who have the greater advantage, we will analyze it today.
Each has its own advantages!
Today, the Lakers signed two consecutive strong signings, Darren Collinson and Stanley Johnson joining the Lakers. On the Nets side, Carter, Millsap, James Johnson and Bruce Brown returned to support Harden. Let the game add more uncertainty.
Let's look at the Lakers first.
The Lakers, who have recently completely bottomed out, hope that on such a special day as the Christmas war, after completing the rebound, James will be more focused, and Westbrook, who scored 17 points in the single quarter of the last game, will become the best helper around James, in terms of core number, the Lakers double core is stronger than the Nets single core.
Secondly, the Lakers' newly signed Stanley Johnson is a standard forward defensive player, he can go to defend Harden, and the Lakers' role players, such as Tucker, have played badly recently and are expected to bottom out against the Nets.
Importantly, the Nets' interior attack point Aldridge can not play, the Lakers will rarely gain the advantage of the interior, and the Nets are a team without offensive and defensive conversion, if the Lakers can use Harden's mistakes to play offensive and defensive conversions, the Lakers have a very big win.
Let's talk about the Nets.
The Nets have the Lakers do not have the ability to catch the ball and shoot, they have Mills, who has averaged 13.6 points per game this season, a player with a three-point shooting rate of up to 43%, while Griffin, Claxton can play, plus James Johnson, as long as they do not go to Millsap, they can maintain unlimited changes at any time, for the Lakers, no one but James can maintain efficiency of the team, there is a great advantage.
Against the Lakers, the Nets want to avoid mistakes as much as possible, James and Westbrook are the best teams in history to play offensive and defensive conversions, and Harden needs to show aggression, the Lakers' guard line has no one who can defend, he needs to increase his number of shots.
The two teams, and what they have in common, are teams that are not good at three-pointers, and since Joe Harris was injured, the Nets' three-point shooting rate has fallen from 39% of the league to 13th in the league, and the number of three-point shots is only 23rd in the league and the number of shots in the league is 20th.
The Lakers are not much better, shooting 17th in the league with 17th three-point shooting, 22nd in the league for three-point shooting, and 20th in the league.
Just look at the level of projection, these two teams are difficult brothers.
The Lakers want to win nothing more than three points, cutting off Harden's connection with other players, playing offensive and defensive conversions, and seizing the opportunity of empty three-pointers.
The same is true for the Nets, if the Nets want to win, they need to consume James's physical strength, control the rhythm as much as possible, and do not change the defense of the 1-5 position, and the 1-4 position can be changed, otherwise James and Young Master Wei will punish your inside line.
The Lakers' game with the Nets is destined to be wonderful. The Lakers are eager to end a four-game losing streak, while the Nets are desperate to keep their Eastern Conference number one.
The showdown between James in the East and the West will be the biggest attraction, the recent James state is hot, can he continue his recent excellent state? Harden has been in a slump this season, can he find form after the break?
Tomorrow, it will be revealed!