After a losing season, the Lakers bet on the third giant Wei Shao in the offseason, creating a super big three combination of Wei Shao + thick eyebrow brother + James, coupled with the introduction of double-digit new signings in one breath, so that this new Lakers is highly anticipated by the outside world.
However, as the schedule progressed, the fans' expectations gradually turned into disappointment, and then to despair in the closing stages.
The Lakers were plagued by injuries in the final stages, internal contradictions continued to explode, and the team's record plummeted, directly falling out of the top ten in the West.
In such an unfavorable situation, the team sat at home to usher in a key match between the ninth Pelicans, and James and Thick Brow, who had previously suffered from injuries, chose to return, which shows the importance of this game for the Lakers.
Helplessly, the comeback of the dual core can not solve the Lakers' current problems, and in the case of almost alternate leads with the Pelicans, the Lakers collapsed again in the last 2 minutes.
And in the end, 111-114 unfortunately lost to the Pelicans, the team suffered five consecutive losses, has been behind the tenth Spurs 1 win, behind the Pelicans 3 wins, in the regular season with 5 games left, there is only a theoretical chance to overtake.
Although the team lost the game, James's statistics are still very eye-catching, James played 39 minutes, 13 of 23 shots, and cut 38 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal.
It was also James' fifth consecutive game of 35+ points, the second time in his career, the last time dating back to the 05-06 season, when the 21-year-old James delivered 35+ points in nine consecutive games.
In the last five games, James has averaged 40.8 minutes per game and averaged 37.8 points per game.
James' performance allows him to firmly occupy the first place in the scoring list, averaging 30.27 points per game.
In second place is The Alphabet Brother's 30.11 points, followed by Embiid's 30 points, of which the Alphabet Brother has been catching up recently, handing over 40 points in the last two games and 44 points in the single game.
And in the previous game against the Pacers, Alphabet Brother also had a 50-point performance in a single game, so with 5 games left in the regular season, how many points does Alphabet Brother have to score in order to surpass James to get the scoring king?
Before discussing this issue, it is necessary to be clear about the league's current regulations, a player who wants to play at least 58 regular season games if he wants to play in scoring, assists and other data.
This is because Rondo in 12 years and 13 years in the case of 53 and 38 games respectively, but in a row to win the assist king, the league from the perspective of fairness, to avoid the recurrence of some players in the early brush data, the phenomenon of not playing in the later stage, requiring the attendance of the participating players to be at least 70%, that is, 58 games.
Of course, if you don't play enough games, but the overall data average (except 58) is still the first in the league, then you can still win, and Turner, who played only 47 games last season, won the cap king award through this special condition.
Alphabet Brother has played 62 games so far, which is fully in line with the league's regulations, but James has only played 56 games and needs to play at least 2 games to enter the judging range.
Otherwise James will need to tie the current stats to the remaining two games, then he will inevitably give up the scoring champion award, although James revealed after the game that his ankle is very sore and needs to be treated as soon as possible. But it's not a problem to believe james will play at least 2 of the remaining 5 games.
And according to his data of the last 5 games, that is, james played two games in the remaining games, averaging 37.8 points per game, then James's average score per game this season is still as high as 30.53 points.
Then according to the alphabet brother has played 62 games, averaging 30.11 points per game, he wants to increase the average score to 30.53 points in 67 games, and the remaining 5 games need to score a total of 178.69 points.
That is to say, in the remaining 5 games, the alphabet brother averaged 35.738 points (36 points) per game, then the alphabet brother can complete the counterattack against James, which is obviously not difficult for the alphabet brother.
Therefore, it is not easy for James to keep the scoring king, on the one hand, he needs to maintain the current state, on the other hand, the remaining 5 games are played as much as possible, so that the initiative is in his own hands.