On January 5, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, the Los Angeles Lakers sat at home to usher in the challenge of the Sacramento Kings, I believe that this game is a joy for many Lakers fans, not only because James is as immortal as ever, but also because Tucker and Westbrook have made a makeover performance. Tucker changed the previous impression of the offensive inability to score, the defensive colander, the strong, the top of the basket, but also a good limit to the play of the opposing players, the whole game scored 19 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, and only lost one goal.
Although Wei Shao did not feel very good today, but he controlled the mistakes in the magic 0 times, you know that in the last game he got 9 mistakes, the last time he had 0 mistakes was in 2016, it seems that the encouragement of head coach Vogel still played a role.
As the biggest contributor to winning the game, James scored 31 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists in this game, and used a pass at the last minute, a 2+0 to completely lock in the game win, the 37-year-old's performance really made the fans breathtaking. By the end of the game, James averaged 28.6 points, 7.4 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 1.1 blocks, 1.7 steals, and hit 80 three-pointers with 37 percent three-point shooting, for an overall 52 percent shooting percentage. In these strings of stats, James' scoring hit a new career high since the 09-10 season, three-point shooting hit a career high, shooting percentage hit a new high since the 17-18 season, steals were the highest since the 11-12 season, and the block was also a new high since the 08-09 season.
This performance really has to make fans sigh: is the 37-year-old James still growing backwards? If other players are at this age, either retired or reduced to role players, but James can set a new high for his five statistics for many seasons, averaging 34.3 points, 9.8 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 1.7 steals, 1.4 blocks, and 30+ points in 8 games. I have to admire old Zhan's self-discipline and strong dominance day after day.
But is this really what James and the Lakers want, and doesn't old Zhan want to paddle more in the regular season and leave his physical strength in the playoffs and even the Finals? In the last moment against the Timberwolves, old Zhan has been holding his knee and breathing heavily, but the Lakers status quo has to make him pay 120% of the effort, thick eyebrows are injured, the team's defense is a mess, Wei Shao's sometimes convulsive performance has caused the team to suffer many injuries, with Pop, Kuzma, Caruso three major defensive tough will be traded, in most of this season, the Lakers' backcourt defense is useless, this thick eyebrow injury has led to the team's internal line deficit, one inside and one outside the two big holes, You can't always point to James and Anthony to protect the frame, so the current defensive performance is difficult to satisfy, and because of this, James has to invest more energy on the offensive end to make up for the team's disadvantage.
So at present, what the Lakers have to do is to reuse Howard and abandon Little Jordan, and the effect of Master Huo in this game is immediate. Then there's the hunt for a good wing player in the trade market to fill the team's defensive holes, and the Pistons' Grant is their primary goal. So don't let the old Zhan field be so smashed, the excessive consumption of the body will increase the risk of injury, 12 years of Kobe Bryant's injury is still vivid, the Lakers management must make a difference!