On March 10, Beijing time, the Lakers faced the rocket at the bottom of the West today, and thought they could win a victory to sit firmly in the ninth position in the West, but they did not expect to disappoint again. In this game, the two teams because they are very weak defense team, the game began to launch an offensive war, the two sides played very glue, overtime, the Rockets young, physical advantages are fully played out, overtime began, the Rockets played a wave of 10-0 small climax, with Shen Jing also hit three points, the Lakers are powerless to return to the sky, and finally lost to the opponent 130-139.
The Lakers' loss can even be described as a "fiasco", after all, the Rockets are the first team in the division. How poor the Lakers' defense really is, this can be seen from the performance of the Rockets players. In this game, the Rockets started the five Tigers all scored in double figures, the whole team scored a total of 7 people in double figures, the whole team had 6 people shooting 50%, and rookie Jaylen Green blasted a career high of 32 points, the Lakers in this game said that it was the Rockets' cash machine is not exaggerated, and the opponent was beaten by the opponent in overtime without any ability to fight back.
In this game, Westbrook played well, he played 40 minutes, 11 of 21, cut 30 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, only 2 mistakes, so that Westbrook's career regular season total score exceeded 23,000, and the active fifth place, the top four are: James, Anthony, Durant, Harden. Unfortunately, James is not in good shape this game, he played 45 minutes, 26 shots only hit 9 goals, hit 17 iron, contributed 23 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists, James won a triple-double data this game, but also created a historical record, but he should accept the criticism of fans, why say so?
James' performance in the final quarter and overtime key moments was very weak, he couldn't score anything, and it was very difficult to score a goal. In addition, James scored 1 of 9 three-pointers in this game, knowing that his three points were not accurate, he still had to keep shooting, occupying too much ball power and wasting too many shooting opportunities. To make matters worse, James' plus-minus for this game is -17, the first from the bottom in the game, that is, when James was on the floor, the Lakers lost to their opponents by 17 points. Moreover, James's number of mistakes ranked first in the game five times.
In this defeat, Westbrook's pot is definitely not back, on the contrary, James should bear the main responsibility for the loss. However, James played 45 minutes in this game, sent 4 blocks, just returned from injury, can play like this, it is already very good, and he is 37 years old, the pace, the speed is very slow, if the Lakers want to expect James to lead the team to complete the counterattack, it is simply whimsical. In this game, Vogel's practice of abandoning Howard again makes people wonder, Shen Jing is like a fish under the basket, Vogel does not use Howard, this time it is really beaten into "death five small".