Nash is forgivable not to go to class, after all, the Nets are still in the top three in the East, the results are not bad, Vogel is a bit strange not to go to class, the current Lakers win rate is less than 50 percent, only eighth in the West, performance and results can not make the fans who support them satisfied. Today, the Lakers and pacers met, the third-to-last Pacers actually won, so far this season, the Lakers have won the strong team countless times, the number of times they have been defeated by the weak team is innumerable, the regular season has been more than halfway through, who should be responsible for it?
Davis has missed fifteen games in a row because of a knee injury, and he can only do some shooting training now, and is still some distance away from a comeback, which is one of the reasons why the Lakers are at the bottom of the ranking. The Pacers have also not performed as well as we expected, largely due to injuries, with only three players making more than forty appearances so far this season.
The Lakers sent starting players in this game are James, Westbrook, Bradley, Howard and Ariza, and the lineup is much more luxurious than the opponent. The Pacers sent out starting players are Sabonis, Brogdon, LeVert, Holliday and Craig, and the bench lineup has Lamb and Stephenson, although there are no top superstars, but the ability of the players is not bad.
The Lakers scored thirty-two points in the first quarter, James contributed the most, he scored ten points in full firepower, in addition to grabbing five rebounds and sending three assists, the Lakers' advantage is very obvious. In the second quarter, both teams strengthened their defense, and neither scored more than twenty points in a single quarter, and after the end of the first half, the point difference was six points, and the Lakers temporarily led. The third quarter of the game was still dull because it expended a lot of energy on the defensive end, so the offensive end wasn't efficient, and both teams scored low. Entering the fourth quarter, the Lakers led by four points, and the Pacers found an offensive feel in the crucial final quarter, when they scored thirty-five points to achieve a comeback victory over the Lakers.
The Pacers beat the Lakers 111-104, and there were four equal points in this game, the Pacers led by 11 points at most, the Lakers led by 15 points at the most, and the final game point difference was 7 points.
James played 37 minutes and had 30 points, 12 rebounds and five assists on 11-of-22 shooting; Tucker had 20 points, 2 rebounds and 7 assists on 9-of-14 shooting; Anthony had 17 points and 7 rebounds on 6-of-12 shooting; and Westbrook had 14 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists on 5-of-17 shooting.
Westbrook's role is getting smaller and smaller, although the previous shooting rate is low, but he can contribute in other aspects, and the number of rebounds and assists in this game is not much, he only appeared in the fourth quarter for four minutes, and James played twelve minutes in the quarter, it is clear that the Lakers have lost confidence in Westbrook.
Westbrook was replaced early with three minutes left in the game, and after the game James was interviewed, the reporter asked James if he felt that Westbrook was depressed, james refused to answer the question on the grounds that he was in a hurry to watch a movie with his wife. The Lakers' reporter revealed that Vogel has been approved by the Lakers management to abandon Westbrook at a critical moment in the game, and the fact that a superstar has been treated in this way is enough to show how bad his performance is.