The NBA regular season continues, with the Lakers heading back-to-back to Atlanta and the Hawks hosting at home.
On the Hawks' side, Hunter ushered in a comeback, and the matchup between Dejounte Murray and D'Angelo Russell was full of highlights.
On the Lakers side, Brother Thick Mei was absent due to injury, Hayes entered the starter, and the pressure on James to lead the team with a single core can be imagined.
Finally, after 4 quarters of competition, under the leadership of Trae Young and Dejounte Murray in the backcourt, the Hawks defeated the Lakers 138-122, the Hawks defended their home court and won 2 consecutive wins, and the Lakers suffered 2 consecutive defeats on the road!
In fact, in the first quarter of the game, the Hawks quickly took the initiative, Dejounte Murray turned into an assist for the little prince, Bogdanovic hit all 3 shots without missing shots, Saddiq Bey and Capela scored consecutive points to add icing on the cake, and the Lakers relied on James's 2+1 and Reaves' three-point score to bite the score, and the Hawks led the Lakers 36-29 in the first quarter.
Entering the second quarter, the Hawks took advantage of the victory to chase, Jalen Johnson and Dejounte Murray teamed up to play a wave of 14-6 small climax to open the difference, Trae Young hit 3 three-pointers in a row and scored 11 points in a single quarter, Reaves scored 4 points in a row to stop the Lakers bleeding, Prince and Hachimura played to help the Lakers break the deadlock, and the Lakers trailed the Hawks 56-67 at halftime.
Yibian fought again, the Hawks' offensive did not decrease, Jalen Johnson counterattacked and dunked, the Hawks a wave of 6-0 offensive stretched the difference to 17 points to stop the Lakers, after the pause, Reaves and Russell hit three points in a row, the Lakers responded with a wave of 7-0 to narrow the difference, James and Wood continued to impact the interior to help the Lakers retain the suspense of chasing points, and the Hawks led the Lakers 103-88 in the third quarter.
In the final quarter, the Lakers launched a counterattack, James fired outside and blew the horn of counterattack, Reaves played 2+1, Hayes, Hachimura and Vanderbilt Terry burst out to continue the firepower, the Lakers once narrowed the gap to 10 points, but at the critical moment, Dejounte Murray and Okongu scored consecutive points to extinguish the Lakers' counterattack momentum, and finally the Hawks beat the Lakers by 16 points at home!
In this game, the Hawks were all soldiers, and the whole team played a team performance of 7 people scoring more than two points, and comprehensively suppressed the Lakers at both offensive and defensive ends.
After the whole game, Jalen Johnson scored 19 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals, Saddiq Bey scored 18 points and 8 rebounds, Capela contributed 13+12 double-doubles, Okongu scored 11 points on 4-of-4 shooting, and Trae Young and Dejounte Murray scored 20+ at the same time.
In this game, Trae Young scored a double-double, shooting 9-of-20 from the field, 6-of-9 from three-point range, scoring a team-high 26 points, as well as 2 rebounds, 13 assists and 1 steal.
Dejounte Murray was very efficient in this game, shooting 11 of 19 from the field, cutting down 24 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals, with a team-high plus/minus of +19!
It is worth mentioning that before the start of this game, the trade rumors about Hawks guard Dejounte Murray and Lakers guard D'Angelo Russell attracted heated attention, and rationally speaking, at least in terms of individual performance and team play in this game, Dejounte Murray broke Russell!
On the other hand, on the Lakers' side, the team's back-to-back combat fatigue in this game was fully revealed, with only 4 players on the team scoring double-doubles, lacking vitality on the offensive end, and full of holes on the defensive end, which was completely controlled by the Hawks.
Russell was cold on 3-of-11 shooting, Prince scored 7 points, Hayes posted 6 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 steals and 1 block, Hachimura contributed 16 points, and Vanderbilt scored 12 points on 6-of-6 shooting.
James scored a 20+9+8 quasi-triple-double in this game, and Reaves scored a game-high 28 points but had no choice but to be reduced to an empty cut, and the play of these two is still the basic game of the Lakers.
And I have to admit that in the face of the Hawks in this game, the Lakers were obviously blown up by the Hawks in rebounding and interior scoring, and the absence of Brother Thick Eyebrows did have a huge impact on the Lakers' offensive and defensive ends.
In this game, Wood played 20 minutes off the bench, shooting 4 of 7 from the field, with a shooting rate of nearly 60%, cutting 9 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists, with 0 personal turnovers, and the overall performance was good.
However, Wood clearly did not understand the issue of not being able to start and playing time in this game, and Wood said he wanted more playing time.
Obviously, for head coach Ham, Wood's remarks are not a plea, but more like a complete showdown of dissatisfaction with the Lakers, which may put Wood in the countdown to leave the Lakers!