I thought that after this ball, the Lakers' top eight position in the West could not be defended. Obviously, playing jazz, this is enough for the Lakers to drink a pot. James's apology also said, if this is lost, it will be interesting, not only is the pressure of public opinion, but the Lakers are also likely to fall out of the top eight in the West. Anyway, as long as the Lakers dare to lose, the ninth in the West is waiting for them! Then the calculation was still not calculated, the Lakers won again, and the Jazz were won by the Lakers. From attack to defense, the Jazz are not as tough as the Lakers, and it is not surprising that they lost!
Of course, this game has a lot of X factors, and the X factor in the first half is Wei Shao's dunk. Originally everyone played well, Wei Shao killed into a partition gobert, instantly the mood of the whole team ignited, this ignition does not matter, the Lakers offensive and defensive intensity instantly up, began to press the Jazz to play. But in the second half, the "lake three collapses" arrived as promised! Playing and losing feeling, but coincidentally Munch stood up again, under the basket continuously, scoring consecutively. Playing to the fourth quarter, and inexplicably came out a Stanley Johnson, personally even cut 10 points, the Jazz are confused! This is not nothing, even Rivers is against the sky to fight for the basket to score, the Jazz are hopeless!
And the Jazz also have their own problems, Gobert either has a conflict with his teammates, or the Jazz really want to lose this game! Under the basket Gobert is all kinds of misalignment, all kinds of big and small, even players like Rivers and Munch have gone to the right place, but what is the Jazz's outside line doing? Clarkson's three-point shots, Mitchell's long-range three-pointers, and Bogdanovic's confident three-pointers, all thrown outside the three-point line! Gobert opened his hands under the basket to play for the ball, looking at the real stuffiness, waiting until the ball was almost lost, this time to feed Gobert, the time is late.
Whether there are any problems with the Jazz's team is unclear, but the Lakers' team seems to have one goal: to win! That's really the quality of the offensive defense all improved, especially the defense, that's really fighting! And the key figures of this Lakers in addition to Wei Shao, Munch, Johnson, the basic set is still James! The Lakers used a 9-man rotation in this game, everyone's playing time is more than 21 minutes, everyone's playing time is very balanced, basically 25 minutes up and down, except for James, the highest appearance time is Tucker, 28 minutes. It can be said that team basketball was played, but this game James played for 37 minutes!
Old Zhan is the only player on the Lakers who has played more than 30 minutes, and James has not rested since the second half of the third quarter, until the last 24.8 seconds of the game, the Lakers completely locked in the victory, and James really ended. Looking at the Lakers chasing the point difference and pulling away the point difference, whether it is Munch's score or Johnson's score, in fact, during this time, these two people are playing cover with James, blocking and dismantling cooperation, especially James and Johnson's blocking cover, James's three consecutive attacks have blocked him out of the complete gap. The Lakers' game can be without Wei Shao, can be without Davis, but the old Zhan Lakers are really indispensable!