When you wake up, the Lakers are another losing streak.
On April 4, Beijing time, the Lakers hosted the Nuggets, James continued to be absent due to an ankle injury, and finally the team lost to the Nuggets 118-129, swallowing 6 consecutive losses. The Spurs then won against the Trail Blazers, extending their lead over the Lakers to two wins.
In this game, the Lakers and Nuggets struggled for three quarters, and the third quarter ended with the Lakers trailing the Nuggets by 1 point 94-95. But in the fourth quarter, the Lakers suddenly lost power, and as soon as Teacher Yo and Patton made a force, the game lost suspense.
James is not there, Westbrook has become the main point of attack, and his game today is also efficient. He played 34 minutes in the game, shooting 11 of 15, 0 of 1 from three points and 5 of 10 from the free throw line, and scored 27 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 1 block.
After losing all 2 shots in the opening game, Wei Shao made 10 consecutive shots, 2 of 2 shots in the second half of the first quarter, and 8 of 8 shots in the second and third quarters, which also set a career record for consecutive hits.
One of the balls, with 7 seconds left before half-time, was pushed straight to the inside line with the ball, and a one-handed split across Cousins came.
So speaking about the loss after the game, Westbrook said: "We spared no effort for this game, so we can accept this result. ”
But just like the Lakers so many games before, their offense can occasionally save a save, but their defense is really too loose, as long as the opponent has some intensity, the Lakers can't defend, not to mention that there is an MVP player in the opponent.
Today, about 15 of 22 shots, the teacher scored 38 points, 18 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks, shooting 68.2%. After the game, Vogel said that the Lakers' loss was caused by a whole game of not being able to prevent the teacher.
To be honest, today's game was not particularly good, he received 3 fouls in the first half, which once affected his play. But the Lakers are not useful, ah, the entire second half, the Lakers failed to cause a foul on the teacher.
But in fact, not only the Lakers can't prevent the teacher, but in the last few games, everyone can't prevent the teacher. In his last seven games, Jokic has scored a total of 232 points and shot 70.6 percent from the field.
No player in NBA history has scored more points with more than 70 percent shooting in seven games.
In terms of specific statistics, Mr. Yo has 34.8 points, 16.2 rebounds, 8.4 assists, 2 steals and 1 block in 7 games, averaging 18.8 shots per game, and the Nuggets have a record of 4 wins and 1 loss.
Obviously, he is a cake maker, but he has played the efficiency of eating cake, so Mr. Yo is back at the top of the MVP list.
According to the current record, the earliest day that determines the fate of the Lakers is the day after tomorrow, if the Spurs win the Nuggets that day and the Lakers lose to the Suns, then the Lakers will completely miss the playoffs.
But Jokic also spoke up, talking about the goal of the rest of the regular season games after the game, Jokic said: "I hope we can all win, this goal is very simple for us, we don't want to play the play-offs, we have to hold the 6th place. ”
Nuggets: We don't want to play the playoffs; the Lakers: We want to play the playoffs.
This is probably the difference in the NBA world, but according to US media statistics, the probability of the Lakers reaching the playoffs is 6.1%, and the probability of the playoffs is 0.2%.
Currently in fifth place in the West, 0.5 wins ahead of the Jazz and 2 wins ahead of the Timberwolves, it's time for Zhuge Malone to go online.
In fact, today's game also hides the MVP and the scoring king battle. For example, in this game, after the big Van Gundy began to support Jokic: "Those who feel that Alphabet Brother and Embiid are more qualified for MVP than Jokic because of the team's record, I remind you that the Nuggets and 76ers have now won 47 games and the Bucks 48 games." ”
"But Jokic is on WS (Victory Contribution Value, Jokic 14.8, Letter 12.4, Embiid 11.2), VORP (Irreplaceable Value, Jokic 9.4, Letter 7, Embiid 6.1), BPM (Positive and Negative Contribution Value, Jokic 13.7, Letter 11.4, Embiid 9.3), PER (Efficiency Value, Jokic 32.8, Letter 32.4, Embiid 31) and on// Off-court values (changes in the net winning score of teams leaving the game) these high-level statistics are the first in the league! ”
To illustrate a bit, Philadelphia's game wasn't over before Big Van Gundy's push, so both Philadelphia and the Bucks are now one game ahead of the Nuggets in terms of wins.
Since we are talking about Jokic, it is natural to say embiid. Today's game between Philadelphia and the Cavaliers, Embiid is heading towards the MVP and scoring champion Riveted to step on the gas.
In the first quarter, Embiid only had 4 points and 4 rebounds under strict defense, and in the second quarter, he had 13 points and 4 rebounds on 3-of-5 shooting, and Embiid played tepidly in the first half.
But the Cavaliers couldn't stop him in the second half, especially in the final moment, Embiid frantically rushed to the basket, scoring 9 points in four consecutive offensive attempts. In the end, Philadelphia won 112-108 on the road to the Cavaliers.
Throughout the game, Embiid shot 12-of-26 and 17-of-20 from the free throw line in 38 minutes, adding up to 44 points, 17 rebounds, three assists and five blocks.
Embiid became the first player in NBA history to have at least 40 points, 15 rebounds and 5 blocks in a single game and hit 3 three-pointers.
If that record is too long, another record may illustrate Embiid's dominance — embiid's 37th single-game 30+ of the season, ranking first in the league.
In addition, it was Embiid's 11th time this season that he had at least 40 points and 10 rebounds, the third most 40+10 in a single season since the ABA and NBA combined in 1976, after 12 times in Westbrook in 2016-17 and Moses Malone in 1981-82.
After the game, teammate Niang said: "This is the MVP, he is the Most Valuable Player. How can you prevent him? He played this all season and he was always able to help the team with his performance on the field. He is a veritable MVP. ”
Embiid himself mentioned the MVP's award competition: "If I do get it, it's great. If not, I don't know how I'm going to win the prize. I would feel like the judges hated me and felt like they had a different set of standards for me and the Philadelphia players. ”
"I've missed too many games in the first three seasons and I've been trying to make myself more durable. I'm glad I finally took off my easily injured hat. ”
If in terms of perception, the MVP's competition for Embiid may not be able to win over Teacher Yo, but in the competition for the scoring king, Embiid has some confident intentions.
Today Embiid and Alphabet Brother both played, Embiid scored 44 points, while Alphabet Brother only scored 28 points, so the scoring data list also changed:
James' 30.27 points per game ranks first in the league, Embiid is second with 30.20 points, and Alphabet's average score per game drops to 30.08 points.
The last time a three-man game averaged more than 30 points per game in the league was in the 2005-06 season, when Bryant, Iverson and James competed against each other for the top scorer.
In fact, Durant also averaged 30.14 points per game, but he only played 51 games, which is not enough to meet the basis for the selection of the scoring king, so he cannot participate in the scoring king selection.
Embiid's 44 points were crucial, and he was only 0.07 points away from James. In other words, Embiid only needs to have 2 points more than his average per game, accumulating four games to have a chance to surpass James.
With Embiid's desire for MVP, he naturally does not want to miss out on the scoring champion, so his statistics in the last few games must not be too bad.
In contrast, with the Lakers with 4 games left, James must play 2 more games to be on the selection line.
Previously, Vogel said that James had a particularly sore ankle after playing against the Pelicans, so he missed today's game against the Nuggets.
Then the Lakers and team reporter Dan Woike pushed more: "Just saw James walking and limping in the players' tunnel, I asked him how he was, he said, 'I feel better, I'll be fine.'" ’”
However, according to another Lakers reporter, James's ankle is "unlikely" to turn well enough for him to compete against the Suns.
As a result, James will not be able to make a comeback until he plays the Warriors at the earliest. But if the Lakers have no hope of a playoff by then, no one knows whether James will continue to play.
At least for now, the MVP list Jokic is ahead of Embiid, the scorer list embiid is the most promising, and their alphabet brothers are looking at the tiger.
Past reading: Lakers, only theoretical possibilities are left
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