On January 8, Beijing time, the NBA regular season, the Lakers played at home to the Eagles. The Lakers briefly took a 19-point lead in the first half, but were chased back by the Hawks' strong offense, and the Lakers only led by 3 points at the end of the half. In the second half, the Lakers showed excellent offensive momentum and successfully pulled the point difference apart. Under James' fourth quarter outburst, the team took an absolute lead. In the end, the Lakers won 134-118 at home to the Hawks, and returned to the top 6 in the West with four consecutive wins.
In this game, James once again served as the team's starting center and once again achieved good results. He had 32 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists, 4 steals and 3 blocks, completely filling the data column. In the final quarter, the individual scored 17 points, which was an important contributor to the team's victory. This game James once again ushered in several personal milestones. His career steal total has surpassed 2113 times, successfully rising to the top 10 of the all-time steals list.
At the same time, he won 25+ in 10 consecutive games, becoming the oldest player to complete this record. It's also his 17th time this season that he's scored 30+ points and continues to lead the league. In addition, James also sent an air-to-air dunk in this game. Nuggets forward Jeff Green said James is the benchmark for all players at the 37-year-old. Therefore, the topic of James's 37-year-old has also rushed to the hot search.
However, James played such a crazy night, and his role was all snatched up by his teammates. There are three other hot spots on the team that are more noteworthy than James'.
First of all, the team's most commendable thing about this game is guard Munch, Who started today on 11-of-20 shooting, 7-of-12 three-pointers, and blasted down 29 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. When James and Westbrook were in poor form in the first half, Munch stepped up to score 21 points alone to help the team maintain the lead. The team was able to take a 19-point lead in the second quarter, all thanks to Munch's 14-pointer on 4-of-4 shooting from outside. Munch successfully climbed to the top of the national hot search list and seized the biggest hot spot today.
In addition, the team's other defender, Bradley, also played well today. He had 13 points and three rebounds on 5-of-6 in the first quarter and was the first player on the team to get into form. The Lakers can stabilize the situation in the first quarter of the game, with multiple players slowly heating up, and Bradley is indispensable. He had 21 points and six rebounds, another credit for the team's victory. Therefore, it has also been on the national hot search list.
Of course, the Lakers can win the game today, and the most important thing is to rely on excellent team play. In addition to the above three people, substitute Horton Tucker also had 21 points, 5 assists and 2 steals, and Anthony had 17 points and 7 rebounds. Even Wei Shao, who is often criticized, tightly controlled himself in the first two quarters of the game, without any mistakes, and finally he had 9 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists, a plus-minus of 22 team-high. Therefore, this is a team victory that belongs to the Lakers, and they all climbed to the third place in the hot search list.
According to the schedule, the Lakers' next game will be at home to the Grizzlies next Monday morning Beijing time.
(Text/Yuwen Basketball)