NBA regular season, the recent downturn of the Lakers back to the home to accept the Timberwolves again challenge, before the two meetings, the Lakers scored against the opponent, this time the two teams met again, the Lakers lacked Davis, and the Timberwolves lacked the inside core Towns and the outside core Russell, James can continue 7 games 30+ points to become the focus of fan attention, after four quarters of competition, the Lakers did not live up to expectations, 5 points narrowly beat the Timberwolves, the Lakers not only won 2 consecutive wins, the record improved to 19 wins and 19 losses, back to 50% win rate The Timberwolves suffered a three-game losing streak, and Towns was sidelined.
The Lakers won the Blazers by 33 points in the last game, this game against the Timberwolves, their goal is very clear, is to continue to continue to win the momentum, on the lineup, the Lakers give up the center position, James continues to play the No. 5 position, Johnson plays the big forward, with the previous three guards, Munch, Westbrook and Bradley, from the first quarter, facing the Timberwolves' weak inside line, James three points to open first, the Timberwolves see that the Lakers do not have center players, the tactics they use are also very clear, using guards or forward players to continuously break through the inside line , forcing James to decline in physical strength, Beverly and Reed frantically held the ball to break through the inside line, scoring consecutively, Munch, Bradley's three points Lakers stabilized the situation, Westbrook made a series of mistakes, with Anthony's three-point shot, the Lakers led by 6 points in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Timberwolves still chose to break through the layup, Norwell continued to narrow the point gap in the inner line, the Lakers took the outside attack, Munch and Anthony's three-pointers the Lakers maintained the lead, Beverly was not soft, the continuous breakthrough led the team to narrow the point difference to 2 points, Ariza's empty three-point shot in response to the offensive climax, as Wei Shao made mistakes again, breaking the Lakers' offensive momentum, the Timberwolves seized the opportunity to play a 9-0 offensive climax again, equalizing the score, Brandley's three points, James' inside strong attack, Let the Lakers lead by 3 points at the end of the half, to the third quarter, Westbrook control errors, but the Timberwolves do not lose, especially the outside beverly and Beasley are using three points to reverse the score, the key moment, Munch's three points, Bradley's consecutive steals, for the Lakers, Westbrook tried three points missed, Edwards scored consecutive points, surpassing the Lakers by 2 points.
In the final quarter, James's breakthrough, Westbrook's 2+1, Anthony scored 5 consecutive points, helping the Lakers stabilize the situation, but the outside defense was a mess, the tough Beverly suddenly shot outside, constantly narrowing the point gap, with Beasley's three-pointer, the Lakers only led by 1 point, Anthony 3+1, Beverly's mistakes and Edwards' key free throw misses, so that the Lakers stabilized the situation, and finally won the game in a thrilling way.
The Lakers can win this game, it is completely a component of luck, and the strength of the team has nothing to do with it, although the Timberwolves are less down, their fighting spirit on the court has been much higher than the Lakers, the main reason for the loss is that they did not grasp the key moments, more importantly, they lacked a hammer player, the whole team 5 people scored in double figures, the whole team made 23 mistakes, rebounds grabbed 56, there were 20 rebounds in the front court, the rebounding data was more than 2 times that of the Lakers, no All-Star can fight with the Lakers to the end, It's already pretty good.
And the biggest contributor to the Lakers' victory is James, Bradley, Munch and Anthony, these four people on the court completely exhausted everything, Munch shot 4 three-pointers, scored 22 points, there is his outside line of the Lakers to increase unprecedented containment, and Bradley to the Lakers is a tough defense, the whole game 14 points 4 steals, the key moment is not soft, his toughness has driven the morale of the whole team, although the game with the assistant coach is unpleasant, but it is still undeniable, Bradley's importance to the Lakers' defense, Anthony once again proved himself, he is still the key Mr., the whole game scored 14 points, plus or minus the team's highest reached 11, shot 3 three-pointers, in the decisive moment, Anthony scored 8 points, laying the foundation for the Lakers to win.
If James plays a small forward, then play the center position is equally strong, playing 39 minutes, using defense to do his best, 15 shots hit 7 times, got 26 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, only 1 mistake, the offensive end, James led the whole team, the defensive end he was a soldier, 37-year-old he deserved the first person in the league, compared to James 37 years old to do his best, Wei Shao's performance was unbearable, played for 33 minutes, although he got 20 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists, But there were 9 mistakes and 5 fouls in the whole game, many low-level mistakes, so that the Lakers' advantage or offensive momentum and the team's efforts were in vain, the whole team only made 15 mistakes, wei shao made 7 mistakes in the first half, fortunately in the second half he controlled the mistakes to 2 times, if otherwise the Lakers are difficult to achieve the final victory, Wei Shao with the number of mistakes in this game, this season's mistakes came to 181 mistakes, the champion league, and Wei Shao's 401 consecutive mistakes, but also broke the NBA record, which shows that the Lakers trade Wei Shao is not an empty whim.