After swallowing five consecutive defeats and a hasty road trip, the jazz team, which fell to the sixth place in the West, returned to the home team and ushered in the challenge of the Lakers, who ranked tenth in the West during the four-game losing streak.
On the Jazz side, Bojan returned from the fireline to try to bring more help to Mitchell + Gobert + Conley, leading the team to defend the home field and ending the losing streak.
On the other hand, on the Lakers side, Westbrook single-handedly led the team, Vogel made adjustments, Ariza replaced Reeves into the starting lineup, and the Lakers tried to win by surprise and take the victory on the road!
However, after four quarters of play, with a strong start of 14-4, the Jazz, who played at home, easily suppressed the Lakers in the first half and achieved an 11-point lead.
Although after returning from the second half, Westbrook + Munch + Howard felt hot in the third quarter, leading the Lakers to constantly play counter-attacks, all the way to the score to retain the suspense of the game.
But helplessly in the final quarter of the decisive moment, Gobert ushered in the outbreak, Bojan + House's three points, and helped the Jazz establish a 13-point advantage, and the Lakers repeatedly failed to attack, had to lose.
In the end, the Jazz team also defeated the Lakers 122-109 at home, successfully ending the momentum of the losing streak, and also gave the opponent Lakers 4 consecutive losses!
Playing at home in this game, the Jazz swept away the decline during the losing streak, played a 5-man double-double, multi-point blossoming team offensive, and won a 13-point victory.
In the case of conley + Clarkson + Bojan and other main forces, each performing its own duties, while cutting 20+ Mitchell + Gobert's play, it played a vital leading role!
Mitchell continued the fiery feel of the previous game, starting 30 minutes, shooting four three-pointers on 11-of-22 shooting, and blasting a game-high 29 points, plus an all-round performance of 1 rebound, 7 assists and 1 steal.
Among them, his heroic performance of scoring 19 points in the entire first half not only helped the Jazz to open the situation smoothly, but also successfully opened the point difference and set the tone of the game!
Of course, the Jazz can beat the Lakers in this game, and the performance of the team's interior gate Gobert is also indispensable.
Gobert was very efficient, starting 33 minutes, shooting more than 80% of the 9-of-11 shooting, and contributing 25 points + 17 rebounds + 1 steal + 2 blocks to the double-double performance.
And in the last quarter, he dominated the key play of cutting 10 points in the inner quarter, which not only helped the Jazz to hold the victory, but also almost single-handedly ended the suspense of the game!
Rationally speaking, although Howard also won the double-double performance of 21 + 12 in the whole game, but in the confrontation with Howard, whether it is in personal data or on the field performance, Gobert in both offensive and defensive ends, or completely defeated Howard!
More importantly, after the victory over the Lakers in this game, the Jazz's regular season record has also improved to 46 wins and 31 losses, officially surpassing the Nuggets in the rankings, returning to the fifth place in the West, temporarily relieved.
On the other hand, on the Lakers side, the team was completely suppressed at both ends of the attack and defense in this game, and finally swallowed the 13-point rout + 4 consecutive defeats, which obviously needs to be examined.
After all, under the excellent performance of Wei Shao, who played well and scored 24 points , 6 rebounds + 7 assists in the whole game, the sluggish performance of Munch + Stanley Johnson + Ariza in 24 shots was indeed a bit unsatisfactory!
In the absence of James + thick eyebrows at the same time, in the face of the Jazz team with all the soldiers, this battle has worked hard for a whole, but wei Shao, who is difficult to support alone, seems to have no choice but to accept the reality of the fiasco.
It's just that for the Lakers, after suffering 4 consecutive losses, the Lakers were once again surpassed by the Spurs in the record rankings, falling out of the play-off area rankings and dropping to eleventh in the West, which is indeed not optimistic.
And the Spurs, who returned to the tenth place in the West, undoubtedly profited from it, accepted a big gift, and rekindled the hope of the playoffs and even the playoffs!