On January 5, Beijing time, the Lakers defeated the Kings 122-114 to win three consecutive wins. In this game, Vogel changed the starting lineup again to replace Stanley Johnson (Stanley did not renew his 10-day contract), but Howard entered the rotation in the second lineup. The Lakers trailed by 5 points after the first quarter, the Kings led by 2 points after the second quarter, the Lakers overtook 2 points after the third quarter, and the Lakers fell behind by 7 points in the last quarter, but James, Westbrook, and Munch combined to reverse and win again.
James opened with Wei Shao to complete the dunk, and then blocked Fox's layup, but the Kings opened the game with a continuous strong basket to play the Lakers' seven inches, Fox three breakthroughs once led to 7 points, Wei Shao broke through the iron consecutively, Howard came on to take 4 points after the efficiency value is good, the Lakers trailed by 5 points in the first quarter, Munch scored 7 points is the highest in the team, James 6 of 2, Westbrook 7 of 1, the Lakers widows in 13 of 3 feel cold, relying on the role players to play did not be pulled apart point difference.
In the second quarter, Tarren Tucker scored 5 consecutive points, James broke through after the Lakers had a wave of small climax to overtake the score, James took a 7-point lead in various dunks at the end of the game, but after Vogel played a small lineup again, the Kings' interior Jones scored 6 points to help the Kings rebound again, Hield also hit two three-pointers, halftime Hield 5 of 10, 4 of 7 three-pointers to take 15 points, James 13 points at half-time, Westbrook half-time 4 only 8 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist.
In the third quarter, as in the previous half, Howard played the regular lineup to open up the point difference, the opening small lineup was quickly pulled away by the Kings to 7 points, Howard replaced James to play center after the King's impact on the basket became difficult after the offensive efficiency quickly declined, in the final 30 seconds the Lakers rebounded by 4 points, if it were not for Anthony grabbing that three-pointer The Kings would not have the last counterattack. Howard scored 14 points, 11 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals in the third quarter, Tucker made 7 of 10 in the third quarter, and 1 of 1 of 1 three points to score 15 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal, these two became the key to the Lakers' counterattack.
In the final quarter, if there is no Munch Lakers have been pulled apart by the point difference, the Lakers trailed by 7 points after Munch two three-pointers to pull the point difference back, and then Munch single Mitchell basket hit, James and Hield one person hit two three-pointers, James only found two feel of two layups to stabilize the game. James scored 14 points in the final quarter and Munch also had 11 points in the final quarter, and although Munch missed two key free throws, he was 8-of-15 in the game, 6 of 11 from three-point range, and had 24 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block.
In the last six games, Munch scored 20 points, 25 points, 15 points, 18 points, 22 points, and 24 points (averaging 20.6 points per game), making him the Lakers' most stable scoring point. You must know that he only has a cheap contract of 1.79 million this season, and Wei Shao is 44 million.
Text/Yan Xiaobai