James had 28 points and 12 assists, and the Lakers were penetrated by the Suns inside!Durant 22+7, thick eyebrows 22+14
On February 26, Beijing time, the NBA regular season ushered in a key matchup, and the Suns faced the Lakers at home. Previously, the Suns had a 33-24 record and ranked eighth in the West, while the Lakers had a 31-27 record and ranked ninth in the West. As the king of the league for a long time in the past, James and Durant's performance has declined this season, James has no way to contribute energy at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, coupled with the weak defense of the Lakers' guard line, and the three-point shooting ability that is almost at the bottom of the league, the Lakers have always maintained a winning rate of about 5 percent, and it is a five-five situation to play any team. However, in the past 4 games, James + thick eyebrows + Russell have scored at least 20 points in the same game, which has tied the record of the longest 20+ trio in the history of the Lakers. However, injuries including Vanderbilt, Vincent, Wood, Reddish and others have also stretched the Lakers' forward line.
Although the Suns have a slightly better record than the Lakers, they are in a more awkward position. After the All-Star, he was defeated by the Mavericks and counterattacked by the Rockets, although the Suns have Durant and Booker, two super scorers, but they can be called the league's most unbounded team, and this season they were double-killed by the Spurs, reversed by the Grizzlies, reversed by the Trail Blazers, and a few fish belly at the bottom of the West took turns to bully the Suns. To put it bluntly, the team lacks the rhythm point of controlling the court, although Durant and Booker can also average 12 assists per game, but assists and control are two concepts, and as long as the opponent targets Durant and Booker in the final quarter, the Suns offense is easy to mute. What's more interesting is that the two sides have met 4 times this season, and the Lakers are 3-1!Suns starters: Booker + Allen + O'Neal + Durant + Nurkic.
Lakers starters: Russell + Reaves + Hachimura + James + thick eyebrows. At the beginning of the game, Hachimura scored three points in the bottom corner, James ate Durant alone, Booker threw himself and grabbed himself, Durant made a kill, and Nurkic opened up the difference. James turned his back and wiped O'Neal to complete the crisp dunk, and then bulldozer layup to eat Nurkic raw! Nurkic continued to eat thick eyebrows, the size advantage was obvious, and Booker made a sudden outside shot, and the Lakers fell into passivity again. In the second half, Bol and O'Neal rained three-pointers, and the Suns opened up a difference of up to 20 points! Durant trained Reaves, Booker made a three-point foul, Allen pressed the whistle and hit a three-point shot, and the Suns were on fire, and during this period, the Lakers only Hachimura and Russell barely responded with three-pointers! In the first quarter, the Suns led the Lakers 45-28.
Back in the second quarter, Russell and Lao Zhan scored layups one after another, and then Russell's three-point stop the Suns, after O'Neal's three-point stop bleeding, Lao Zhan swooped and flew and dunked, Allen continued to make three points, Durant continued to make kills, and the Lakers relied on Prince and Hachimura to respond with sudden and external shots, and the two teams remained in a stalemate of about 10 points. In the second half, the Suns stepped up to score five points in a row, Dinwiddie and Russell rained three-pointers in time, and Booker and Nurkic took turns to play singles. At halftime, the Suns led the Lakers 72-63, Nurkic had 12 points and 12 rebounds, Booker had 13 points and 6 assists, Durant had 8 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, James had 13 points and 7 assists, thick eyebrows had 4 points and 5 rebounds, and Russell had 18 points. In the entire first half, the Suns had 27 rebounds, and the Lakers only had 14!
At the beginning of the second half, after Reaves scored three points, Durant hit two three-pointers in a row, thick eyebrows and Russell took turns to throw, James hit a three-point shot with cover, continued to steal Booker, and counterattacked neatly and violently, and the Lakers chased down to only 5 points. James kept playing counterattacks, and Durant and Booker took turns training Reaves, who had a defensive attitude but no defensive suppression at all. In the second half, Christie made a wonderful pass to the thick eyebrows, and then Christie hit another three-pointer, Booker continued to make a single jumper, and the thick eyebrows scored a strong attack, and Allen responded with a three-pointer. At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers trailed the Suns 90-95, and the Lakers lost too many rebounds to grab them at all, and the thick eyebrows were under a lot of pressure.
In the fourth quarter, the thick eyebrows tried to pull out the jump shot, Allen hit three points, O'Neal counterattacked and throws, Durant had no solution to the mid-range, although James scored three points in a row, but Durant led the team to open a double-digit difference. In the middle of the thick eyebrows, he continued to attack strongly, but in the last 4 minutes, Allen and O'Neal's two three-pointers became the last straw that crushed the Lakers, and then James threw himself and grabbed it was difficult to change the game, and finally the Suns defeated the Lakers 123-113, ending two consecutive defeats and winning the key card battle.
Lakers statistics, James 28 points, 7 rebounds and 12 assists, Davis 22 points and 14 rebounds, Russell 20 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists, Reaves 14 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Hachimura 13 points and 4 rebounds. Suns stats, Durant 22 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists, Booker 21 points and 9 assists, Nurkic 18 points, 22 rebounds and 7 assists, O'Neal 20 points and 10 rebounds, Allen 24 points, Ball 11 points and 4 rebounds. At the end of the game, the Lakers only had 34 rebounds, the Suns had 51, the Lakers had 8 free throws, and the Suns had 19.