The NBA regular season continues, and the West ushers in a focus battle, and the Lakers travel to the road to challenge the Warriors.
As two popular teams, the Warriors and the Lakers are in a very different situation this season, the Warriors successfully passed the injury stage, bottomed out and rebounded to become a reasonable championship favorite, and although they suffered two consecutive defeats before the game, they still ranked second in the league.
After the Lakers won the Westbrook and bet on the Big Three, they fell out of the favorite ranks of the championship, and before the game began, they only ranked ninth in the West, working hard for the playoffs.
As soon as the game began, both teams that had been in poor shape lately entered the game early in the opening stages.
After the Warriors took the lead in establishing an advantage, the Lakers quickly counterattacked, but in terms of overall strength, the Warriors were clearly dominant, and at the end of the first quarter, they had taken a 6-point lead.
In the second quarter, the Warriors continued to work hard, pulling the point difference to double digits in one breath, but since then the Warriors' offensive efficiency has declined, and the Lakers have seized the opportunity to continue to chase points under the leadership of James and Westbrook, and at the end of the half, the Lakers have narrowed the point difference to only 3 points.
Yi Bian fought again, and the two teams turned on the confrontation mode, playing extremely glued on the offensive end.
The Lakers successfully completed the rebound with a number of strange soldiers including Munch, but the Warriors bench was not far behind, under the leadership of Poole, the Warriors played a counterattack climax at the end of the third quarter, with a 1-point lead into the final quarter of the competition.
In the last quarter of the game, the Lakers once again completed the counterattack, but at the critical moment Clay scored 13 points, after which the two teams killed you and me, the score has been very glue, until the key moment James free throw 3 of 1, only to make the game completely lose suspense, the Warriors won the Lakers 117-115, ending two consecutive losses at the same time, sending the Lakers three consecutive losses.
Despite losing the game, the Lakers have improved significantly compared to the trade deadline, not only the attitude of the whole team has improved significantly, but also ushered in 4 major positives.
The first big positive Wei Shao gradually entered a good situation, the whole game, Wei Shao played 35 minutes, 7 of 13 shots, handed over 19 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal, and only 1 mistake, is the lakers' only positive or minus value of the starters.
The second positive was Munch's continued high-performance, with 12 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist on 5-of-9 shooting.
The third positive was the further improvement of the performance of young reeves, reeves played 23 minutes, shot all five, and efficiently had 13 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks.
In the face of the performance of Westbrook and Rivers, Lakers coach Vogel also took the initiative to praise the two after the game, bluntly saying that Westbrook showed a strong competitiveness, and Rivers proved that he was a big-game player.
The last positive was the recovery of Horton Tucker's state, the whole game, Horton Tucker played 30 minutes, 5 of 9 shots to get 17 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 1 block data, personal plus-minus is the team's high of +8.
Helplessly, in the case of the role players and the three bosses Wei Shao played almost perfectly, James and the thick eyebrow brother failed to deliver the performance they deserved, and they needed to be responsible for this defeat.
James shot 9-of-27 from the field, had 26 points, 15 rebounds and 8 assists, and only 2 of 15 shots in the second half, including 1 of 10 in the final quarter, and won three free throws at key moments to equalize the score, resulting in James only 1 of 3 free throws.
Therefore, although James has successfully surpassed the famous Jabbar in terms of career total scores and enjoyed the first place in history with his performance in this game, it is still difficult to hide the fact that he has not performed well.
Although the performance of the thick eyebrow brother was decent, he was better than James, shooting 5 of 13 from the field, 6 of 10 from the free throw line, and had 16 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks.
But as the second boss of the Lakers and one of the league's top interior players, in the face of such a tough battle, the thick eyebrow brother has no offensive desire to speak of.
It should be known that the Warriors' internal line configuration is the only shortcoming of the team, and it is also one of the few advantages of the Lakers on the court, and as a result, the thick eyebrow brother is sluggish all over the field, which has become one of the important reasons for the team's loss.