Beijing time on January 5 Lakers home against the Kings, the end of the half game Lakers 57-59 behind the Kings. The Lakers' recent state is hot, and now against the Lakers, there is undoubtedly no small opportunity to win consecutively, but in view of the last time the two teams met the Lakers lost the game, so the Lakers can not be careless, otherwise the Lakers may not be able to win the game. After the game began, the Kings were in good shape to take the lead, but then the Lakers gradually found the form to complete the rebound, and at the end of the second quarter, the Kings set off a counterattack, and the Kings led by 2 points at the end of the half.
In the first quarter of the game, Fox shot and scored, then Munch also scored, back Jones dunked, Harry Potter broke through the throw hit, then the Lakers' offensive state was sluggish, Barnes hit a three-pointer, James dunked a key moment, Munch scored 2 of 2 free throws, Bagley scored inside, Anderson scored on a layup, followed by James also hit a three-pointer, the Lakers tied the score, then Ryan scored after Bradley also scored, Fox scored after the Kings led by 2 points. Hield hit a three-pointer after the timeout, then Fox broke through to score a layup, Tucker scored on a layup, and then the Lakers attacked the slump Foxes scored a layup, Monke hit a three-pointer at a critical moment, Howard dunked a score, then Hield hit a three-pointer, and Mitchell shot after the Lakers fell behind by 7 points. Tucker scored after the timeout to stop the bleeding, Howard dunked to score, Ryan played 2+1, Tucker scored to stop the bleeding, and the kings led by five points at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Westbrook broke through the layup to score, then Tucker scored inside, and then Tucker also hit a three-pointer, James broke through the layup to score, and the Lakers led by 4 points. After the timeout Jones made 2 of 2 free throws, then Anthony scored, then Jones continued to walk up the free throw line to score 2 points, Howard attacked the inside line for a second time, then Hield hit a three-pointer, Howard scored 2 of 2 free throws, then James scored on a layup, then Westbrook shot to score, Fox shot to score, then Tucker threw a score, Fox free throw 2 of 2, Howard dunked, Fox scored after Howard dunked to continue scoring, Jones scored after the Basket scored after the Lakers led by 5 points. After the timeout Barnes made 1-of-2 free throws, Fox hit a three-pointer, Westbrook broke through to score a layup, then Hield scored 5 consecutive points, Barnes scored inside, James made 2-of-2 free throws, Fox shot a score, and the Lakers trailed by 2 points at the end of the half.
The Kings took the lead at the beginning of the first half of the game, the reason for this is because the Kings' offense is good, more importantly, when the Lakers play a small lineup, they have the advantage of the inside line, but in the later games, when Howard came on, the Lakers finally made up for such a defect, and Howard performed very well after playing, not only on the defensive end to help the Lakers protect rebounds, but more importantly, Howard's offensive state is very good, it can be said that such Howard really should be reused, after all, Howard has proved his strength Howard had 12 points, 8 rebounds and 1 steal at the end of the half. However, Wei Shao's offensive state in the first half of the game was somewhat sluggish, but Wei Shao did not make mistakes in the first half of the game, and at the end of the half, Wei Shao had 8 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist on 4 of 13.
But what makes the Lakers happier is that in the first half of the game Tucker was mighty, the offensive end finally found his own state, and at the same time there are some good performances on the defensive end, it can be said that the Lakers will definitely be happy to see Tucker's performance, after all, the previous game Tucker's performance was bad but still reused, at this time there were a lot of voices that questioned Tucker, and in this game Tucker's big outbreak was to help the Lakers overtake the score in the game. At the end of the half, Taka had 13 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists on 6-of-8 basis. James' form in the first half was also average, and james had 13 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists at the end of the half.