On March 6, Beijing time, the NBA regular season ushered in a major play, The Lake Warrior Battle - James vs Curry. The recent two teams are not in good shape, the All-Star Lakers are difficult to win and currently suffer four consecutive defeats, after the last fiasco to the same city brother Clippers, the Lakers have been swept by the Clippers for two consecutive seasons, and the poor record has also made the Lakers now questionable.
As a former champion team, the Warriors have not had a good time recently. After the team's defensive chase Dream Green was absent due to injury in January, the team's record once fell from the first place in the league to the second place in the West, and is currently only one game away from the third-placed Grizzlies.
The Warriors have lost nearly 9 games and 7 losses, and have recently suffered three consecutive defeats. The Warriors' biggest problem is the weakness of the interior line, and this has always been the Biggest shortcoming of the Warriors, and the recent bad record has a lot to do with the disadvantage of the inside line. Despite this, the Warriors management did not make any changes at the trade deadline.
Whoever wins this game will have a team that ends the losing streak.
Before the game starts, let's take a look at the starting two teams
Warriors (away) Curry, Thompson, Wiggins, Otto Porter, Rooney
Lakers (home) James, Westbrook, Munch, Johnson, Reeves
Section 1
In the first quarter, Wiggins strongly broke the inside line to force two points to score the Warriors' first opening record, the Lakers side of the Westbrook breakthrough score James also scored inside, the two teams started offensive efficiency is not high, the Warriors side of the continuous passing errors, the Lakers took the opportunity to play a wave of 7:0, 11:6 The Warriors were forced to call a timeout.
After the suspension came back, Thompson's consecutive outside shots failed, James rushed to the Warriors' inner line with a penalty to take 4 points in a row, and the Warriors side of Curry had a hard time shooting a three-pointer, and back to James strong cumming Cuminga scored 2+1, James scored 13 points in the first quarter of 9 shooting 5, driven by James, the Lakers began to lead the Warriors by 14 points at 25:11. Poole, who came off the bench at the end of the first quarter, fired consecutively from the outside, and Moody, who played well in the last game, also found an opportunity to score four consecutive points under the basket, and the first quarter ended with the Lakers leading the Warriors 32:25.
Section II
The second quarter came back to the storm, and the Warriors bench played well in the second half of the first quarter, and continued to continue the first quarter, throwing in a three-point shot, with Kuminga and Poole opening two three-pointers, the Warriors chased the score to 31:32. But the Lakers side James continued to attack the inside line to win, new signing Augustine came up to hit a three-pointer, the Lakers scored 5 points in a row The Lakers stabilized the situation. Clay, who had a poor feel on the outside in the first quarter, finally changed his strategy in the second quarter, scoring four points in a row by running empty and cutting the basket. The Warriors scored so easily, which also made Vogel very dissatisfied. There were 9 minutes left in the second quarter when the Lakers called a pause.
The Lakers defense is still not improving, Moody made a layup to play 2+1, and Pullley suddenly shot 5 points in a row, 42:40! Poole started with 4-of-4 three-pointers, and Poole's outburst gave the Warriors the first lead after 6-4 in the first quarter. After the score reversal, the Warriors became more and more courageous, Cumming stepped up augustine to score 2+1, turned around and stole Reeves, a dragon dunk to win. At 47:40, the Lakers called a pause again.
James continued to score from the basket, but the Warriors felt the Lakers could not defend themselves, and as Curry Moody hit another three-pointer, the 55-44 point difference was also widened to 11 points. And the Lakers side can only James score points under the basket, seeing that the Lakers are going to collapse rhythm, the young General Rivers stood up, Rivers hit two three-pointers in a row, including facing Klay Thompson's defense, shooting a 3+1 retreat. With these two three-pointers, the Lakers maintained the point difference at 10 points, and in the final moments of the second quarter, with the three points of Munch and James, the Lakers chased the point difference to 62:67. James scored 26 points on 10-of-15 shooting in the first half.
Section III
Easy side to fight again, Curry came up to jump shot, and then Clay also found the outside touch of the three-point shot, this is not over, Clay stole Porter pass to Curry, three-point line outside the hit and then hit. 77：65！ The Splash Brothers stopped the Lakers again with three consecutive points.
Pause to come back to James again! Three points, breakthrough to play 2+1, against The Curry scored three more points, one person scored 14 points in a row, the third quarter is not over, James has cut 40 points! The Warriors rely on the overall advantage, Curry, Poole, Porter continue to have people stand up to score, the point difference has always been maintained at around ten points. James went off at the end of the third quarter, and the Lakers fell behind by 5 points in the third quarter with The Play of Wei Shao and Anthony's last-minute whistle jump shot.
Section IV
In the final quarter, the two teams began to play each other's three-pointers, and at the critical moment, Cummingga received Anderson's pass, and the three-point shot broke the deadlock again. 97:91 The Lakers called a timeout again.
Timeout came back and James hit three unreasonable three-pointers in a row, 100:97! The Lakers directly reversed the score, and James scored 49 points this game. The Warriors called a timeout.
Coming back from the timeout, Poole used the breakout to score 2+1, and the two teams once again tied 100. Then the two teams alternated to lead, the Lakers side was full of firepower, James, Rivers, Augustine scored consecutive points, the Warriors relied on Curry alone to score 7 points, the two teams have never opened. At the critical moment, Anthony grabbed an offensive rebound to play 2+1, and Westbrook passed Munch's three-pointer in the second, and the Lakers pulled the score to 5 points at 117:112. The Warriors chased the points when Currypur missed consecutive outside the line, the Warriors were snatched by Munch on the serve, and James dunked and re-scored. 119:112 The Lakers extended their lead again. In the last minute, Wiggins caused Anthony to foul, Curry broke through the layup and scored, the Warriors chased 4 points in a row, the point difference returned to the 3-point difference, and the Lakers called a timeout.
Back from a timeout, Anthony scored three points again, nearly killing the game at 122-116. With Curry unable to score three points, the Lakers finally reversed the Warriors 124:116, ending a three-game losing streak while giving the Warriors four straight losses.
Full-time statistics
Lakers: James scored a new season high of 56 points
Westbrook had 20 points, four rebounds and four assists, Rivers 10 points, Munch 12 points, six rebounds and five assists, and Anthony had 14 points and eight rebounds.
Warriors: Curry 30 points, Wiggins 14 points, Porter 10 points and 10 rebounds, Poole 23 points, Cuminga 18 points.