Not long ago, during a game between the Nets and pelicans, Durant was accidentally knocked down by teammate Brown on the knee and then limped off the court, and Durant did not return this game. Durant had scored 12 points before the injury, and that was his full-court score. After the game, Durant's average score per game reached 29.3 points, which was a lot lower than before. In the game between the Lakers and the Nuggets, James got 25 points and 9 rebounds, although it did not reach his average data per game, but still narrowed the gap with Durant, and now James's average score per game has reached 28.9 points, and Durant is only 0.4 points.
The last time James won the top scorer was in 2008, when he won the only leading scorer trophy of his career with an average of 30.0 points per game. Now that 14 years have passed since that year, I did not expect that the 37-year-old still had a chance to win this honor. According to media follow-up reports, Durant will undergo an MRI examination tomorrow to further determine the severity of the injury, and even if it is not serious, then he will have to miss a few games, which is a good opportunity for James to catch up with the score.
Although James has performed well on the offensive end, the outside world has been full of arguments about James brushing points. Especially after the previous big score was lost to the Nuggets, James was pushed to the cusp of the storm and was criticized by the media. Especially in the game, James's defensive attitude is very negative, and even lazy to come forward to make up for the defense, the team leader played such a defensive performance, so that the Lakers fell behind by 42 points at most, and finally lost to the Nuggets. Now that the Lakers have slipped to seventh in the West, the Timberwolves behind them have also caught up, and the future of the Lakers is in jeopardy.
Is James really scoring points for the point king? In fact, after watching the Lakers' game, I am afraid that only James can stabilize the output, although the state of Wei Shao in this game has rebounded, but this does not prevent the Lakers from attacking a mess. On the defensive end, every time the Nuggets have a block, it becomes a big inside line, and the Lakers are really too short! This led to James to make up for the inside line, and then missed the bottom corner of the player, but today's Nuggets' three-point is too accurate, and finally the Lakers suffered a fiasco.
In the final analysis, it is not that James does not defend, it is really that the Lakers simply cannot play. The inside line was exploded, the outside line could not be scored, this is the current situation of the Lakers now, James got a high score Lakers lost, James got a low score Lakers or lost, Westbrook is in poor condition Lakers lose, this time got 19 points Lakers or lost, this season the Lakers are completely and the championship is out of luck!