On April 6, Beijing time, the NBA regular season, the Lakers lost to the Suns away from home, and suffered 7 consecutive defeats. After this game, the Suns managed to win their 63rd victory of the season, setting a new record in team history. With the remaining 3 games, the Lakers have determined that they cannot surpass the 10th-place Spurs in the West, announcing in advance that they will not be able to play in the playoffs, which means that they have been out of the game early this season and have no chance to compete for tickets to the playoffs.
In this game, Westbrook contributed 28 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, with 6 turnovers, 21 points and 13 rebounds, Howard 10 points and 7 rebounds, Reeves 16 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, and Anthony 10 points and 6 rebounds. On the Suns side, Booker had 32 points, seven rebounds and four assists, Ayton had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and Paul had 12 assists.
James will not play in today's game due to an injury to his left ankle. Since the Spurs won the game against the Nuggets today, the Lakers are at least 2.5 wins behind their opponents before the end of this game, and the Lakers are a backwater battle in this game, and the result of the game will directly determine the fate of the team this season. The other bad news for James is that he's overtaken by Embiid on the scoring list, and if he can't secure 2 games in the remaining games, he's basically announcing an early exit in the scoring king competition. But with the team missing the play-offs, none of that may matter to James.
The result of this game is undoubtedly very hard for James, he watched the game on the sidelines, the first quarter of the game was sad, even if the team was in the leading period, the face was completely unable to hang a smile, several times bowed his head, it can be seen that the psychological activities are very complicated. In the third quarter by the Suns to hit a 19-2 offensive climax, James directly left the field and walked back to the locker room without a word, he limped during the action, which shows that his injury has a great impact on him. Although he returned to the sidelines in the back, the man could not sit still, stood up and wrapped his hands around him, and his heart was very anxious.
The Lakers made a good start, and with the help of Howard and Thick Brow, the team took the lead in opening up the situation on the inside and taking the lead. The mighty Suns didn't give the Lakers any chance to gradually reclaim the score. With the help of consecutive strong attacks from Ayton's interior line, the Suns gradually widened the point difference, leading the Lakers by five points at the end of the half. Easy side to fight again. The Suns suppressed the Lakers on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and the Lakers collapsed in the third quarter again, playing a 35-22 single-quarter score, once 26 points behind the Suns. The game gradually lost its suspense. The Lakers did not give up in the fourth quarter, but it was too late, and they could not narrow the point difference to less than 10 points, and finally lost to their opponents.
Although the Lakers have 3 games left, the opponents are the Warriors, Thunder and Nuggets. But since the team has been eliminated early, these three games are no longer important. The lakers' main problem at the moment is to figure out how to deal with the team's plastic surgery problem in this offseason and learn from the experience of losing this season. Make a comeback next season.
(Text/Yuwen Basketball)