Beijing time on March 11, the NBA regular season continues, today's momentum of the Los Angeles Lakers host the Toronto Raptors, the Lakers' core starting point guard Russell returned from injury, Lakers regular starters: AD Davis + Russell + Vanderbilt + Brown + Beasley, Raptors starters: VanVleet + Barnes + Anunobi + Siakam + Poelter.
In the first quarter, the Lakers came up to play loosely, trailing by 15 points at home, and then used the Raptors' mistakes to play a wonderful fast attack to stabilize the situation. In the opening game, Anunoby scored with a retreat jumper, and then Vanderbilt responded with an empty dunk, the Lakers missed three consecutive rounds, the Raptors seized the opportunity to score 6 points in a row to take a temporary lead, and then the Raptors once opened the score to 15 points with the touch of Barnes, Siakam and Poelter, the score came to 25:10, after entering the regular substitution, the Lakers strengthened the defensive intensity, Russell broke 2+1, and then assisted Yamura Jun 3 points to score, scored 6 consecutive points, and narrowed the score strongly. Later, using the Raptors' mistakes to score consecutive fast-break points to stabilize the situation, the game entered a stable phase, and in the first quarter, the Raptors took a narrow lead of 4 points 35:31.
In the second quarter, Vanderbilt and Russell played bravely, and the Lakers regained the home initiative. Barnes took the lead in the middle distance to score two points, then Vanderbilt took the air and added two bottom corner three-pointers, overtaking the Raptors by 1 point, the two sides attacked you chase me, the score alternately leads, Vanderbilt killed Barnes inside, Barnes was whistled for a body foul, the Lakers received two free throws, Barnes and Siakam successively scored to pull the score away again, the Lakers Beasley and Russell then found a three-point long shooter, Davis gave a wonderful block on the defensive end, and the Lakers played a small offensive climax, The Raptors shouted timeouts one after another but could not turn the situation around, and the Lakers led the Raptors 70-62 at halftime.
In the third quarter of the game, the Lakers made frequent mistakes, and the Raptors seized the opportunity to overtake the score strongly. Poeltl and Anunoby scored two consecutive cities to close the score, and Siakam used a mistake to counterattack to break through the attack box and lead the Lakers by one point; The Lakers came back from a timeout to take advantage of Vanderbilt's foul to score two points, temporarily stabilized the situation, followed by Russell's consecutive mistakes, the Raptors seized the opportunity to expand the lead, at this time the Raptors have led the Lakers by 9 points, the Lakers have made a large substitution, although the offense has recovered, but the home team did not control their number of mistakes, and the score of the two sides has been maintained between 5~9 points. With Trent hitting a late 3-point shot, the Lakers trailed again 85-90 in the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, the smooth offense, the accurate three-pointer, the surprising Russell led the team to win the game. The two sides fought separately, the Lakers took the lead in the final quarter, the defensive end put pressure on the Raptors, Reeves, Schroder scored one after another to overtake the score again, Russell chased a three-pointer, and instantly led by 4 points to stop the Raptors; The game came back, the Raptors strengthened their attack on the inside for Davis' absence from the floor, chasing back two points, Russell again arced to chase three points and stopped the Raptors again, with the timeout over, Davis put on the line, the two sides launched the final battle, with Russell's hot three-point feel and the lead in front, the Lakers finally defeated the Raptors 122-112, and won 3 straight games.
Davis scored 8 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks, and the game was targeted by the Raptors' defense and was mediocre on the offensive end, but he showed his dominance of defensive ability and helped the team to the final victory. Dangelo Russell 28 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists, this game is Russell's first game after returning from injury, the fiery three-point line and strong offensive pressing, showing the determination to win; Jared Vanderbilt 16 points and 4 rebounds, today Fan Ye continued to play the role of the surprise soldier, performing well on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends; Dennis Schroeder 23 points, 7 assists and 4 steals, the German tank is on the line again; Austin Reeves 18 points and 5 assists, Mura Mamba continued steady output; Hachimura had 16 points and three rebounds.
Raptors OG-Anunoby 31 points and 5 steals; Scottie Barnes 32 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists; Jacob Poeltl 17 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals; Pascal Siakam 12 points and 4 rebounds; Fred VanVleet had 8 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists.
Today the Lakers won the game, the key opponents in the playoffs qualifying game, the Blazers and Timberwolves both lost, the Lakers' overall record to 33-34, the win rate gradually approached 50%, after this game, the Western Conference ranking is still in the ninth position for the time being, but has narrowed the difference with the Timberwolves to 0.5 games, and also led the Blazers by 2 wins.
The opponents in the Lakers' subsequent games are not very intense, and the situation of qualifying is very good.