On April 13, Beijing time, the NBA ushered in the penultimate game day of the regular season, and the Lakers played against the Grizzlies, who were missing a full 13 main players, opposite all temporary workers, and the Lakers were all main players.
Although from the perspective of the lineup, it is definitely the Lakers who have blown up the Grizzlies, but sometimes the attitude of the game is also very important. One of the problems with the Lakers was that their attitude to the game was too poor. With James as an example, the teammates around him were completely not committed to this game one by one, resulting in the Lakers having no way to clock out in advance, and the Grizzlies who faced the fourth team even fought until the last quarter.
James commanded traffic during the game, Reeves and Hachimura didn't defend at all during the game, Russell had a loose attitude, and only Brother Bushy Mei worked hard alone. In order to make up the number of players on the court with the Lakers, the Grizzlies even paid for those two-way contract players temporarily, which is not even a third team.
As a result, in this case, the Lakers did not open the score at all, although they led by 8 points in the first quarter, they only had a 4-point advantage after halftime, and even led the Grizzlies by only 1 point at the end of the third quarter. The reason is very simple, first of all, it is James here, Zhan Huang only attacks and does not defend, and he does not control his mistakes, he has 8 mistakes alone, and there is a very outrageous scene in the game, LeBron uses his eyes to defend and direct traffic. Watching Pippen Jr. break through to the basket on the opposite side, he didn't even move when the opponent passed him.
This is a very classic eye-to-eye defensive move, looking at the opposite layup, the Lakers have no one who wants to move. Of course, it's not just Zhan Huang, in fact, the entire Lakers team is like this, Reaves is also completely defenseless, although the shooting percentage is high, but the plus/minus is the last in the game, and when he is there, the team has to lose 22 points.
Hachimura is even more so, he doesn't defend on the court, and he has all kinds of bad and leaky people, and although he scored 14 points, he may lose more than 20 points on him. The three core players don't defend, so they make up for the whole team by themselves, and they really can't defend it. As a result, the Lakers were not able to pull away from the score after three quarters. In the fourth quarter, Ham was in a hurry, James and thick eyebrows did not stop for a second, and stood on the court directly from the first time.
should have clocked in, because the Lakers had a game against the Pelicans in the last game, but they couldn't rest at all, so Zhan Mei and the two of them rushed to play for 40 minutes. Hamm didn't dare to lose, this game was going to be lost again, so he would rather put both of them on the court than let them rest.
And during this period, the Lakers' defensive intensity has not been enough, resulting in Zhan Mei playing for a full second in the final quarter. In the end, James played 41 minutes and thick eyebrows played 42 minutes, even if this ball was taken down, it would be a hard slap in the face for the Lakers, and the two main players did not get enough rest time at all. Thick eyebrows finally got 36+14+5, and James 37+9+5. But if it weren't for the 27 free throws they made, the Lakers wouldn't have necessarily won, and the two men made more free throws than the entire opposing team. In the last 5.2 seconds of the game, the Grizzlies attacked the inside line and did not enter the referee and did not blow it, and the Lakers took advantage of the situation to steal and counterattack by James to lock up the victory, and Zhan Mei's 73 points still won, but unfortunately 123:120 only won by 3 points, which was a bit embarrassing.