On January 20, 2022, Beijing time, the Los Angeles Lakers sat at home today to meet the visiting Indiana Pacers, and as soon as the game came, the Lakers who were ready to go established a slight lead and maintained the advantage until the middle of the third quarter, and the Pacers scored consecutive points in the second half of the third quarter to smooth out the point difference. However, in the most critical fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers' entire team attack suddenly muted, and there was no center on the defensive end to effectively limit Sabonis Jr. and LeVert, and finally the Lakers were silent, and the Pacers won the Lakers 111-104.
To say that the performance of the Lakers team today is really strange, the whole team has empty expectations to win, but there are always bizarre "big speechless events" at key moments. In the fourth quarter of today's game, the Lakers can still keep up with the offensive rhythm in the first half, but when Sabonis Jr. scored consecutive points on the Lakers' interior line, Vogel, who knew that there was no big center on the court, faced the eager Howard, but had no intention of changing.
If Howard is on the floor, the lakers can first be guaranteed rebounding, and it can also form a certain restraint for sabonis jr. After all, the Lakers' core interior line Davis is currently in a truce state, and the Lakers' interior line can only rely on Howard at present, but he has been repeatedly ignored by head coach Vogel. The specific reasons are really puzzling. At present, it seems that Vogel, who narrowly saved his position in the last game against the Jazz, may face the risk of being fired again after this game.
Poor James, who scored 30 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists today, ended in another failed career milestone night of 36,000 points + 10,000 rebounds. Before this game, James released a dynamic, maintained a good state and wanted to help the Lakers win, but basketball is a team sport after all, and even if James personally shows a good performance, he has no choice in the face of the Lakers' problems in employing people. Some time ago, James issued an apology letter, saying that the team will try to get back on track and no longer live up to the expectations of Lakers fans.
But in fact, the Lakers only James and Anthony and Howard three veterans to maintain stability, Anthony also had 14 points and 7 rebounds today, including ten points in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter of the game, Westbrook was replaced by Vogel, to which Vogel explained that I would let the players I thought I could win play. It can be seen that the current Lakers are chaotic into a pot of porridge.
For today's Lakers and Pacers game, the Performance of the Lakers is really more "fanatic", and now the Lakers' problems have become a mess. Right today's game, the Lakers took tucker who cut 20 points to inspect the Pacers.