On January 5, Beijing time, the Lakers played at home against the Kings, and the Lakers successfully defeated the Kings 122-114 at the end of the game. This game against the Kings is good news for the Lakers, after all, the current King's strength is not good, at this time the Lakers can have a greater chance to defeat the opponent. However, at the beginning, the Kings still played a good state to occupy the lead, but the Lakers responded in the game in the second half of the game to complete the counterattack, but the Lakers' sluggish performance in the fourth quarter directly allowed the King to occupy the lead again, but at the critical moment, the Lakers stabilized the situation and opened the score, and finally the Lakers defeated the Kings to win 3 consecutive wins.
The Kings started 9-2 in the first quarter, and then the Lakers tied the score at one point under James, Munch and Westbrook, but Fox helped stabilize the situation at the crucial moment, and Hilde made a threat, plus Mitchell's scoring Kings led by seven points. Howard and Tucker helped the team chase points in the final stage, and the Lakers trailed by five points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Lakers played a wave of 9-0, and although Fox and Hield helped the team score in the later games, the Lakers still maintained a lead under Tucker and Howard, and then the two teams each played the Lakers to lead by 5 points. In the final stage, the Lakers' Howard inside line was breached, and Fox and Hield fired at the outside to complete the counterattack, and the Lakers trailed by 2 points at the end of the half.
In the third quarter, the two teams played fiercely and the score alternately rose, and then relied on Munch, Bradley and others to play the Lakers to occupy a slight lead, but then Hield and Barnes broke out with three points to help the Kings take the lead, tucker scored to stop the bleeding at the critical moment, and then Howard and Anthony helped the Lakers occupy a 4-point lead, Mitchell shot in the middle, and the Lakers led by 2 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Tucker and Anthony helped the Lakers maintain the lead, but then the Lakers performed poorly and made mistakes, With Halliburton, Mitchell and Harkless helping the Kings take the lead, and the Kings trailed by seven points after Mitchell scored. After the timeout, James scored four consecutive points, and Hield and Fox helped the team stabilize the situation, but the Lakers chased the score to only one point under the play of Munch and Tucker. After the timeout, the Lakers completed the rebound under the play of James and Munch, and then the two teams fought fiercely, but relying on James and the Munch Lakers to open the score, the Final Kings chased the points and lost the game without success.
This game the Kings were once behind, but they were in the fourth quarter of the game is to complete the rebound, although after the Lakers once again occupied the lead, but Hield's explosive performance in the game is a good help to the team, especially when the two teams are glued, Hield's outside three points can help the Kings to bite the score, otherwise with the Lakers' explosive state during this time, the Lakers have long opened the score, the end of the game Hield got 26 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists of the data, although the King eventually lost the game, But Hield also really tried his best, so losing to Lakers Hield can still leave with his head held high.
As for Howard in this game is really a dream back to the peak, after all, in this game Howard got a lot of playing time, and Howard was able to help the Lakers when he was on the floor, his ability on the inside line is a good help to the Lakers, which is also the key to the Lakers in the fourth quarter behind and again to take the lead, the end of the game Howard got 14 points, 14 rebounds and 3 assists data. At the same time, in this game, Munch is really in the snow, after all, in the fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers and the Kings played fiercely, and Munch, who was not in a good offensive state in front of him, directly played an explosive performance, relying on his outbreak Lakers to maintain the lead, and such Munch's help to the Lakers was huge, and Munch got 24 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists at the end of the game.
Seriously in this game James once did not play too much fighting spirit in the game, some times you can see James on the court no defensive offense and no past aggressiveness, but at the critical moment James is able to play, hit three points to impact the inside line to cause damage, it can be said that when James is full of firepower, the Kings really can't stop him, and finally James also led the team to win the game, and at the end of the game, James got 31 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. Among the other Lakers players, Westbrook had 19 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists, Tucker had 19 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists, and Anthony had 8 points and 3 rebounds.