The regular season ended today with the Lakers winning 146-141 over the Nuggets in overtime to get two straight wins. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that the Lakers have won a winning streak since January 8. In the regular season this season, the Lakers finally achieved a record of 33 wins and 49 losses, ranking eleventh in the West, missing the playoffs and playoffs.
The Lakers' big three were all sidelined from today's game, and Reeves and Munch both played well today to help the Lakers end this bad season with a win. Rookie Reeves played 41 minutes today, shooting 7-of-17, 3-of-5 from three-point range and 14-of-14 from the free throw line, scoring a large triple-double of 31 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists. In the final moments of the fourth quarter, Reeves scored five consecutive points to drag the game into overtime, and in overtime, he scored seven points to seal the victory, becoming the first contributor to today's win.
It is worth mentioning that Reeves's three statistics today all set a new season high and a career high, and also became the fourth rookie player in NBA history to cut at least 30 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists in a single game, the top 3 are Robertson (5 times), Jerry West, Blake Griffin, and Reeves is just a missed draft.
Munch was also very good today, playing the best game of the season, shooting 14 of 25, including 7 of 14 three-pointers and 6 of 6 free throws, a career-high 41 points. Moreover, Munch has not played in extra time today, otherwise he would have scored more points.
It is worth mentioning that in the previous game against the Warriors, Tucker just got 40+, and today Munch also got 40+. Prior to this, the Lakers had only James scored 40+ this season, and Neither Wei Shao nor Thick Brow had ever scored 40+.
Tucker and Munch can get 40+ in succession, which means that 40+ is not so difficult, but Westbrook has only missed one game before this season, but has never taken 40+. As the team's highest-paid player, this is indeed unjustifiable, and Westbrook has only had a total of 5 30+ this season, which also has a serious discrepancy between his salary and the team's status.
Although the previous standards can no longer be used to demand Wei Shao, but Wei Shao's performance this season is indeed too weak, and he holds the highest salary in the whole team, and many times the performance is not as good as the basic salary player, which will inevitably affect the unity within the team and affect the combat effectiveness of the team.
Some people say that the main problem of the Lakers this season is that the management should not trade to Wei Shao, but this is not the root of the problem, the root of the problem is that Wei Shao has a salary of more than 40 million, but failed to play more than 40 million performance, resulting in a serious decline in the overall strength of the Lakers, coupled with the impact of injuries, the Lakers have no competitiveness to speak of. If Westbrook can play a performance worthy of his salary, the Lakers will not be like this.