The NBA regular season continues The Lakers' away game against the Timberwolves has ended, and the whole game was very intense, with full intensity and offensive and defensive transitions, contributing a wonderful matchup to everyone, but unfortunately the Lakers were not able to win the game on James' birthday night. It was a bit of a pity to lose the game by a slight disadvantage. Lao Zhan stepped on the line, thick eyebrows slashed 33+17, Downs was completely blown up, Edwards 31+3.
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the Lakers took the lead in finding the state and relied on the play of thick eyebrows on the inside to continuously impact the basket and score. Thick eyebrows in the first quarter of the state full, played the first quarter 9 shots hit 8 goals contributed 17 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal data, the Lakers also stalemate with the Timberwolves under his leadership, the Timberwolves did not have a particularly outstanding point in the first quarter of the game, they relied on the outside firepower, many people scored to help the team bite the score. Until the end of the first quarter, the Lakers held a two-point lead.
In the second quarter, the Lakers' offensive end still maintained a good performance, and the continuous use of fast-break scoring once again widened the difference to nearly double digits, but after the thick eyebrows left the game, the Lakers' offense and defense were affected, and then the Timberwolves also continued to hit outside the three-point line to narrow the difference. By the time there was still half of the second quarter, the comeback had been completed. The two sides fell into a tug-of-war, and the shooting percentages of the two sides began to decline in the second half of the second quarter, and the scores alternated leads, and the Timberwolves held a four-point lead after halftime.
After the start of the third quarter, the shooting percentage of both sides continued to decline, and various offenses frequently hit irons, and even at one point there were multiple consecutive rounds without scoring. In the third quarter, both sides scored 20 points and the other scored 21 points, which is enough to see the extent of the decline in shooting percentages on both sides. Although Reaves hit a long-range three-pointer in the end, the Lakers did not calculate the Lakers and trailed the Timberwolves because of the overtime.
In the final quarter of the game, the two sides still played very close, and the score alternately led, and after James hit the basket and scored 2+1, the score of the two sides chased 1 point again, and there were still 4 minutes and 10 seconds before the game. The Timberwolves hit two three-pointers in a row to hold a five-point lead. At the last moment, the Timberwolves were still on the line, and Edwards still maintained an excellent performance, scoring 10 points in the final quarter, which was the key for the Timberwolves to take the initiative in the final moments, although Conley's three-point shooting led the Timberwolves to extend the lead to 7 points.
In the whole game, the Lakers were out of the box from beyond the three-point line, hitting only 6 of their 22 shots from beyond the three-point line in the third quarter, with a shooting rate of only 27.3%. As the star of the house and also the birthday night of James's performance throughout the game is not ideal, 4 shots outside the three-point line, the overall 21 shots hit 10 shots, got 26 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists, if it were not for the thick eyebrows in the early stage of the excellent words will they establish a lead, then they may now be a big score behind, the final moment although the difference is very small but their situation is not good, Vanderbilt missed three points, Conley backhand three-pointer, James at the critical moment to tie the three-point line, looking back is two points, and finally regretted losing the game。
In the face of the young and more impactful Timberwolves, they can't limit their opponents well, although this game is very good for Towns and Gobert, but not for the younger and more impactful Edwards. And when Towns spent more time on the bench because of foul troubles, it can be said that Towns was blown up in this champion matchup, and Reed, who appeared on the court, became an important shot for the Timberwolves. He had 21 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist from 8 balls.
The Timberwolves had a bit of a tiger's head in this game, and the shooting rate outside the three-point line in front was once as high, close to 50% of the shooting rate, and as the schedule deepened, their shooting rate outside the three-point line declined significantly, but fortunately, the overall shooting percentage was not bad. Reed's and Edwards' performances kept them at the top for a long time. Overall, the whole game is quite enjoyable.