The Lakers beat the Green Army without Zhan Mei, Reaves exploded with 32 points, and Russell had 14 assists
The NBA regular season continued, and the Lakers pulled out a big upset with a 114-105 win over the league's top-ranked Green Army on the road. James and Davis were unable to play in this game, the team used a set of remnants to play, facing the strength of the Green Army above themselves, the team except for the first quarter at the beginning of the 4-point trail, the rest of the time to maintain the lead in the score, up to 16 points ahead, the Green Army could not play a wave of high-quality counterattacks, the Lakers did not give the opponent a chance in the final quarter, with full play, the team successfully won the game.
This is the second meeting between the two sides this season, after the Green Army won the Lakers by 11 points on the road, that game was the Christmas game, Davis blasted 40 points and 13 rebounds, James also had 16 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists, and the performance was not bad, but the Green Army played more brightly, the team's starting five scored 15+ points, and the whole team won that game on the road with their overall performance.
And James and Davis will not be able to play in this game, and the outside world thinks that the Green Army will easily win the Lakers at home. But what I didn't expect was that the Green Army was suppressed by the Lakers for the rest of the time except for an 8-4 offensive attack at the beginning, and in the first quarter of the game, the Lakers led the Green Army 28-25 with the performance of Reaves and Hayes.
In the second quarter of the game, the Lakers performed even better, beating the Green Army on both offensive and defensive ends, Reaves scored 8 points in a single quarter, contributing 19 points in the half, Russell, Vanderbilt and Prince combined to score 16 points, and the team exploded 32-21 in a single quarter, outscoring the Green Army by 11 points. By halftime, the Lakers had a 14-point lead over the Green Army.
In the third quarter of the game, the Green Army began to gain momentum, Tatum scored 10 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists in a single quarter, Hauzer scored 8 points in 3 of 3, and the team scored 32 points in a single quarter, recovering 4 points and narrowing the score gap to 10 points.
In the final quarter of the game, the Green Army tried to catch up with the point difference, but the Lakers played too well as a whole, every time the Green Army got up, the Lakers always had players who could stand up, Reaves' breakthrough layup, Russell's assist team and three points, Hachimura's outside line and dunk, the team was all soldiers, and always maintained a double-digit lead. As the game went by, the Green Army was unable to catch up with the point difference, and finally the Lakers beat the Green Army on the road and won the game.
In this game, the Lakers scored six double-doubles, Russell had 16 points, 8 rebounds and 14 assists, Reaves contributed 32 points, Hayes 16 points and 10 rebounds, Vanderbilt 10 points and 7 rebounds, Prince 11 points, and Hachimura also had 15 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists. On the Green Army's side, Tatum scored 23 points on 8-of-21 shooting, Brown only had 8 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists on 4-of-12 shooting, and Porzingis scored 17 points.
Judging from this game, the Lakers lineup is not bad, in the absence of two absolute cores, the team can still beat the first in the league, and it is still in the Devil's away game, it is enough to see that the Lakers can play too many players, such as Reaves, Hachimura, Prince, Hayes, Russell and Vanderbilt, although these players usually have average statistics, but when they need to carry the banner, they can also burst out with amazing energy, these players only need to be maintained, then the Lakers are still worth looking forward to this season.