The Lakers, who have lost five consecutive games, face the Rockets, which may be the weakest opponent in the near future, in order to end the losing streak with one win, finally revealed the last hole card, james played the starting center.
So today's Lakers starters are Westbrook, Bradley, Munch, Stanley Johnson, James. All three defenders in this lineup are 1.91m, Johnson is 1.95m and James is 2.06m, with an average height of 1.95m.
The Lakers have also used James to play the mini lineup of centers before, but only as a solution to the offensive problem during the game, but never let James play the fifth position at the beginning, which also shows that the Lakers are completely abandoning the two centers on the bench.
Two years ago, James led the Lakers to the championship as the team's point guard; two years later, in order to end the recent embarrassing five-game losing streak, James stood in the fifth position, and the Lakers really squeezed James's value to the limit.
But this is also the rocket can put up this kind of lineup, Wood is James can match the center, both sides are space attributes full of lineup configuration, on the attack.
So we saw the opening scene of Wood and James competing for three points, and James scored 13 points in the opening 9 minutes, continuing the previous fiery state of winning 30+ consecutively.
At the same time, the Lakers' defense is also as bad as ever, when the Lakers 28-20 difficult to open up the point difference, immediately is a wave of consecutive mistakes to send a wave of 0-7, the first half of the two sides played very anxious.
Of course, the Lakers' game has never lacked comedic elements, and when James rested, the Lakers put Guago in the fifth position. The two 03 generations of Tianjiao estimated that they had not expected yesterday that they would play a rotation of center positions in a team after 18 years.
When Guago stood in the fifth position, the Lakers' interior defense was infinitely close to nothing, and the Rockets' rookie center came up and scored three goals in a row. The rookie faced Gua Ge twice, and Gua Ge did not move, and finally watched Shen Jing go to the basket.
Westbrook dribbled the ball out of bounds on his feet at halftime to get his fourth mistake of the half. Although the Lakers' scene was once ugly, it was still 8 points ahead of the Rockets in the half, which is so magical.
After the slump of the previous game, the offensive state was significantly adjusted today, scoring 15 points on 7-of-8 halftime. James remained steady, with 18 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in the halftime, including 3 three-pointers.
Of course, James playing the fifth position cannot be tough under the basket like a traditional center, but more as a space point, so that the Lakers' interior line is no longer congested. James, who is about to turn 37, you may have a hard time getting him to play back like he did in the Heat.
Wei Shao continued his comedian nature in the second half, a zombie jumper to throw the basketball on the top edge of the rebound, and a split button that was almost 100% deductible to dunk again, completing the target of an average of one dunk per game.
However, in the last moment, when the Rockets can still play with the Lakers, James and Wei Shao's blocking and dismantling Wei, Wei Shao twice gave a downward James, and James's continuous scoring finally made the Lakers fans eat a reassuring pill.
James received consecutive passes from Westbrook to give Westbrook another triple-double, and James' two rebounds in the final moments also gave him a triple-double of 32 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists. The last time someone and James got a triple-double at the same time, it was the ball brother of the Lakers.
Standing in the starting center position for the first time this season, James handed over a 30+ big triple-double record, dominating the game with 13 points in the first quarter and 14 points in the final quarter. The 32 points also allowed James's total to exceed the 36,000-point mark, at a point in time when he was 37 years old just one day away.
In order to win, James stood in the fifth position and played 39 minutes. This man had already given everything he had, and if those Zhan Hei still wanted to hack him, let's talk about it in two days.