NBA regular season games continue, pelicans against the Lakers began, this season's Lakers performance is very bad, the team is currently in the 9th place in the West with a record of 27 wins and 32 losses, the team has suffered injuries in succession, the recent thick eyebrows suffered a foot injury, he will miss many games, the last game Lakers lost to the Residual Clippers, only won 1 of the last 5 games, the team morale is very low, the team urgently needs to use a victory to stop the decline.
Today's game the Lakers continued the starting lineup of the previous game: Westbrook, Reeves, James, Ariza, Howard. After the Pelicans introduced McCollum, the strength of the team was greatly enhanced, in the last game they defeated the First Suns in the West, today against the Lakers, the Pelicans strive for a winning streak, the Pelicans started: Hayes, McCollum, Jones, Ingram, Varan.
After the start of the first quarter, the Pelicans' side was not in very good shape, Westbrook James scored consecutive points, Ariza played 2+1 under the basket, the Lakers made a 9-5 start, Varan hit a shot, McCollum hit a three-pointer, the Pelicans overtook the score and stopped the Lakers, paused back Jones quickly counter-attacked the layup hit, Westbrook scored 6 points in a row, Snell hit a three-pointer, Alvara threw a shot, Ingram scored consecutively, the Pelicans took the lead in the score, the first quarter was overrun, the Pelicans led the Lakers by 4 points.
In the second quarter of the game Anthony Howard scored consecutively, the Lakers once narrowed the point difference to 1 point, but then the Lakers did not hit consecutively, Ingram scored consecutive jump shots, Snell hit a three-pointer in the empty space, Jones snatched and counterattacked the dunk, the half game was over, the Pelicans led the Lakers by 11 points, the Lakers made 16 mistakes in the first half of the game, James had 13 points and 5 turnovers, Westbrook 8 points and 6 turnovers, two more mistakes than the Pelicans, the famous Perkins commented: They are really disrespecting the basketball game now. Basketball games shouldn't be filled with bad body language and careless mistakes.