On October 30, Beijing time, in an NBA regular season game that ended today, the Lakers defeated the Cavaliers 113-101 at home and successfully defended the home field. Although the team is currently only ninth in the West, the 3-1 record in the last four games has given the team enough reason to believe that they will get better and better, not to mention that they have officially welcomed home star LeBron James.
Due to the injury of the ankle injury, James missed the previous 2 games of the Lakers, which made many people question whether the 37-year-old James has completely aged and will never recover the courage of the year? But in this game, James completely shattered the doubts, the whole game, James played 37 minutes, 22 shots 10, including 1 of 10 three-pointers, 5 of 5 free throws, 26 points, 3 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, and in the game, James also staged a chase big cap Sexton and hit a super three-pointer in the midfield logo area.
Obviously, even if it is almost 37 years old, but James's physical state is still stronger than many NBA young people, his care and adjustment of his body is very scientific and rigorous, unless there is a serious injury, it is difficult to have too obvious decline in the short term, more importantly, with the rise of age, James's basketball experience is more and more abundant, the overall situation and control ability of the court is more mature, in the key fourth quarter, he continues to use his own points and assists to drive the whole team, directly defeating the Cavaliers.
Anthony, who hit the key three-pointer in the fourth quarter, also gave the compliment to James, saying: "I think LeBron (James) did a good job, he read the situation on the court, saw where everyone was in the stadium and knew which people to pass to. Today he did a great job of finding teammates with his passing. ”
It's worth mentioning that speaking about Cavaliers rookie Evan Mobley after the game, James said: "It feels crazy because a year or two ago he was still playing against my son. It feels weird. Every day this feeling gets stranger and stranger. Two years ago, he played against my son in the playoffs. In the previous Lakers' win over the Grizzlies, when talking about competing with his eldest son Brownie's high school teammate Zaire Williams, James said that it felt strange to be on the same court with Zaire, who was still playing with his son Brownie two years ago.
There is no mistake, since entering the NBA in 2003, James has been fighting in the NBA for nearly 20 years, during which James has survived a batch of opponents, Kobe, Pierce, Duncan, etc., but also sent away one after another friends of the same level, such as Wade, Bosh, etc., and even many players who entered the league later than him have begun to decline or have no ball to play, and now, even his sons' players have begun to enter the NBA to play, but James is still at the top of the league pyramid.
In this regard, we have to lament James's terrible peak continuity, and for the NBA, this is a kind of luck, but it may also be an unfortunate, because until James retires, it may be difficult for them to find such an excellent player to be the iconic façade of the NBA, especially when thinking of James's retirement, Durant, Curry and others may also be almost retired, and they feel that the NBA's superstars will be seriously broken.