The NBA regular season continues, the Lakers challenge the Kings on the road, this game the Lakers have a certain advantage in the first half, under the leadership of James and Munch, the team took a 6-point lead in the first half. However, in the third quarter, the Lakers offense stagnated, they were played by the Kings in a single quarter of a wave of 40-23 offense, the third quarter of the team net loss of 17 points, at the end of the third quarter, the Kings have surpassed the Lakers by 11 points. In the final quarter of the game, the Lakers tried to narrow the point difference and narrow the score gap to single digits, but unfortunately, the Lakers' efforts were still in vain, and the team was unable to surpass the score. With their outstanding performance in the third quarter, the Kings managed to maintain the lead to the end, and they beat the Lakers 125-116 at home, ending their five-game losing streak, while the Lakers suffered two consecutive losses.
Prior to this game, the Kings had suffered five consecutive defeats, the team as a whole was not playing well, whether it was the core players or role players, they could not play a brilliant performance on the court, which also led to the team's recent consecutive losses, the record is very bad.
However, this campaign against the Lakers, they found the feeling of the game again, in the face of the Lakers' weak defense, the team played self-confidence, this campaign the Kings have a total of 6 people to score in double figures, in the offensive end of the team performance is very bright and efficient. Fox, the core of the team, had 29 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, while Barnes also had 23 points, such as Bagley, Mettu, Halliburton and Hield also had a very good performance. In 5 consecutive games, they met the lakers with weaker defensive strength, and the team also successfully seized the opportunity to win this game and end their losing streak.
On the Lakers side, the team led the Kings by 13 points at the most, and in the first half, the team played well and performed well overall. However, it is a pity that in the second half, the Lakers were not able to continue their good form, their performance on the defensive end was too crotchy, completely unable to give the Kings enough defensive pressure, so that they could easily get the opportunity to score, and the Lakers did not have a good solution when facing the King's offense, and the whole team performed poorly on the defensive end, which became the main reason for the team to lose the game.
In this game, James once again got 34 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and he also became the most brilliant player on the team in the game, but unfortunately, James got 30+ points this time and became an empty cut, in the case of getting high scores and luxury data, he still can't help the team win, for the team's current situation, James is also helpless, he has not found how to lead the team back to the right track.
In terms of other players, Munch performed well, he got 22 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, hit 6 three-pointers on the outside, and reeves scored 19 points and 3 rebounds in this campaign, 19 points in a single game also created a new career single-game scoring high, he scored 16 points in the last game, and this campaign scored 19 points again, setting a new career single-game scoring high in two consecutive games, and his current state is very good. These two players are among the few players on the Lakers to perform well in this game. Westbrook shot 2-of-14 from the field and 0-of-5 from three-point range to get 8 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists, and the performance was once again crotch-pulling.