The NBA regular season continued, with the Lakers losing 109-122 to the Jazz on the road, suffering four consecutive losses, and the team once again fell out of the top 10 in the West, ranking 11th in the West. The Lakers are very tough in this game, James is injured and absent, Davis has not returned, the team lineup is very incomplete, and the team lacks competitiveness in the game. However, in the case of the residual team, the Lakers' performance in this campaign is not bad, although it has been behind the Jazz for a long time, but the team has not given up, they have always maintained a certain competitiveness on the field, and in the last moments of the game, the team also has the hope of winning. However, it is a pity that because the difference in strength is too large, coupled with too much behind before, the Lakers finally lost this game and suffered a long 4-game losing streak.
The overall performance of the Lakers in this game is not bad, the team can play back and forth with the Jazz in the first quarter, and get 28 points in a single quarter, only 6 points behind the Jazz, the gap is not very large. In the second quarter, Westbrook and Howard worked hard, they became the team's main offensive strengths in the game, but compared to the Lakers, the Jazz played better, Mitchell and Gobert combined inside and outside, they combined in a single quarter to get 13 points, helped the Jazz get 32 points again in a single quarter, at the end of the half, the Jazz have opened the score gap to 11 points.
In the third quarter, Westbrook and Munch combined to score 18 points in a single quarter, while Howard completed three dunks on the inside and scored 6 points in a single quarter, in this quarter, the three players combined to score 24 points, covering most of the team's single quarter. However, on the defensive end, the Lakers still could not limit the Jazz's play, so that they got a lot of opportunities to easily score, in this quarter of the game, the Lakers again net loss of 3 points, the first three quarters of the game ended, the Lakers trailed the Jazz by 14 points.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, the Lakers had narrowed the score gap to single digits, and the team had the hope of winning, but with Boyan's outside three points, Gobert attacked under the basket, the Jazz once again widened the score gap to more than 15 points, and the game also lost suspense, and finally the Jazz defeated the Lakers at home, ending a 5-game losing streak, while the Lakers suffered 4 consecutive losses.
In the case of a single-core team, Wei Shao's performance in this game is very good, he is in a good competitive state in this campaign, and the desire to attack is very strong, and in terms of defense and fighting for rebounds, Wei Shao is also very hard. In the whole game, Wei Shao had 24 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists on 9 of 18 shooting, and the performance was satisfactory, and the Lakers lost this battle, not because of Wei Shao. In addition to Westbrook, Howard's performance in this campaign is also very bright, he got a double-double data of 21 points and 12 rebounds on 9 of 13 shots, which is one of the few games howard has won a double-double this season, and in the absence of core players, Howard took on the burden of the core of the team's inner line, ushered in an outbreak on the court, and his personal performance was also very good.
In the case of Westbrook and Howard playing such a performance, the Lakers also lost to the Jazz, the main reason is that there is a large gap between the Lakers' own strength and the Jazz, there are also deficiencies in the defensive end, can not limit the Jazz's play, and the continuity on the offensive end is not strong enough, which also leads to the team's eventual defeat. For the Lakers, although they are currently falling out of the top 10 again, the good news is that the team's two core James and Davis are expected to return in the next game, the team lineup will be more complete, and the next game against the Pelicans, the team has the hope of ending the losing streak.