On April 1, the NBA regular season ended a focus battle, the Lakers lost to the Jazz on the road, suffered four consecutive losses, and fell out of the top ten in the West again. Westbrook played 36 minutes and shot 9-of-18 from the field, including 0-of-2 from three-point range and 6-of-10 from the free throw line, with 24 points, six rebounds and seven assists.
At the beginning of the first quarter, Westbrook assisted Howard to score, and then the two connected again, and Howard ate the cake to score. In addition to assists, Westbrook broke through to score a layup. Facing the defense of Hernan Gomez, Westbrook broke through very sharply and advanced again. Westbrook assisted Anthony to play 2+1. Against House, Wei Shao tilted his body backwards to hit the board, and there were only 0.4 seconds left, and the quasi-pressure whistle was thrown. In the first quarter, Wei Shao led the team to narrow the gap to 6 points.
In the second quarter, Westbrook assisted Gabriel on the bottom line. Westbrook fouled House, and he made one of two free throws. After a short break, Wei Shao re-emerged, and he connected howard again, who slammed into a 2+1, and the cooperation between the two was indeed very tacit. Westbrook missed a jumper and Howard scored with a layup. Westbrook was fouled and he made one of two free throws. After The Westbrook breaks through, the jump shot from the free throw line is hit to narrow the point difference. Westbrook had 12 points, three rebounds and four assists in the first half, leading the team 11 points behind the Jazz.
In the third quarter, Westbrook assisted on Munch's open three-point shot, followed by his left wing dribbling the ball against Bogdanovic, and then threw a shot into the field. Wei Shao singled Bogdanovic, and the jumper was 2+1. Westbrook stepped past O'Neal, scored a layup, and helped the Lakers close the gap to four points. Wei Shao was pushed down by House behind him, and he hit both free throws. Westbrook scored 9 points in the third quarter, narrowing the gap to 4 points at one point, but was helplessly widened by the Jazz to widen the point difference to 14 points.
In the fourth quarter, Wei Shao assisted Ariza's hooker. Westbrook scored to top Tucker, who hit a sharp stop. After a short break, Westbrook came on, and his jump shot and three-pointer were missing. Westbrook faced O'Neill with a lethal wound, and he made one of two free throws. The Lakers were unable to complete the reversal, regrettably losing, and losing four consecutive games.
In this game, Wei Shao's performance is still very good, in the absence of James and thick eyebrows, in the face of teams with higher strength and ranking than himself, Wei Shao showed his strength, and the cooperation with Howard was perfect and tacit. However, because of the gap in strength, I regretted losing and suffered 4 consecutive defeats.
The next opponent of the Lakers is the Pelicans, james and thick eyebrows are very likely to come back, after all, this is a very critical game for the Lakers to impact the playoffs, and the direct competitors are also looking forward to their performance.