On December 19th, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and today the Lakers sat at home to welcome the challenge of the Knicks, the recent state of both teams is not very good, the Lakers have lost two of the past three games, and the Knicks have lost two of the last three games, both sides want to defeat the opponent to win to stop the decline, a vicious battle is inevitable, then let's talk about the game process first, and then talk about the players' play.
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Shuila and DiVincenzo exchanged three points, Reddish and thick eyebrows combined to cut 5 points to establish the Lakers to establish the lead, Randle and Brunson combined to cut 6 points to respond, and then the two sides fell into a stalemate, after the thick eyebrows went down, the Knicks seized the opportunity, Randle frequently scored inside kills, he scored 10 points in a single quarter, and under his leadership, the Knicks gradually took the advantage, and at the end of the quarter, Quickley hit another three points to help the Knicks establish an 8-point lead to end the first quarter.
In the second quarter, James scored two points and blew the horn of the Lakers**, Hayes killed inside, Randle scored 4 points in a row to respond, and then Hart and Barrett scored successively to help the Knicks establish a 12-point lead, Prince stopped the bleeding with three points, and then Brother Thick Eyebrows came on the court, he first killed inside, and then made opponents foul, and at the end of the quarter, he pressed the whistle to help the Lakers overtake 1 point to end the first half, and this quarter Thick Eyebrows scored 9 points alone.
James hit a three-point shot to help the Lakers extend their lead, DiVincenzo responded with three points, Barrett and Randle combined for 4 points, the Knicks overtook the Lakers, thick eyebrows and Reddish responded with 4 points, and the two sides fell into a stalemate, but at the end of the quarter, the Knicks relied on the bench to re-establish their lead, and Quickley teamed up with Hart to play a wave of 10-2 climax, helping the Knicks lead the Lakers by 10 points after the third quarter.
The two sides played a strong defense in the final quarter, James and Hachimura combined to cut 5 points to help the team narrow the gap, Barrett relied on free throws to stop the bleeding, Harden and Brunson combined to cut 4 points to help the Knicks re-establish a double-digit lead, James and thick eyebrows combined to cut 8 points in response, Randle three points to stop the bleeding, after which although the Lakers still did not give up, but the Knicks withstood their offensive, and finally the Knicks defeated the Lakers 114-109.
In this game, the Knicks played their due performance, Brunson shot 10 of 21 from the field, 3 of 6 from three-point range, got 27 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal, in the face of the Lakers' strong defense outside, Brunson was able to play such a performance is commendable, Barrett won 12 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists in the whole game, because he was taken care of by the opponent's key defense, he also did not get too many opportunities to shoot.
Randle played well in this game, shooting 12 of 21 from the field, 1 of 4 from three-point range with 27 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists. Quickley scored 20 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist on 8-of-12 shooting in this game, and played very well.
However, Simms, the team's starting center in this game, was injured, he only played three minutes before exiting the game due to an ankle injury, the Knicks are now very weak on the inside, and it is difficult to say when Mitchell Robinson will return, and now he has injured an inside line, which will affect the Knicks' record in the future, but they are tough enough to ensure that they can win the game.
On the Lakers side, James shot 10 of 21 in this game, 2 of 6 three-pointers got 25 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists and 1 steal, after the last loss to the Spurs, I once said that now the Lakers' basic plate is thick eyebrows, not James, so now James is more of a key scorer role, to ensure the lower limit for the team, the first cornerstone of the team in the real sense is thick eyebrows, this game after thick eyebrows off the court, the Lakers can be said to be very passive.
Especially the killing and defense of the interior, the team's interior defense is useless, so Randle gets more opportunities to impact the interior, so the Lakers are still very passive in the face of the remnants of the Knicks, and even lag behind the opponent for a long time. In this game, thick eyebrows still played a good dominance, he scored 32 points, 14 rebounds, 1 steal and 2 blocks on 14-of-22 shooting, and this season thick eyebrows returned to the level of park eyebrows.
But he does need a better interior helper, Hayes and Wood have very limited interior defense and offensive ability, the Lakers have strengthened the backcourt and wing in the offseason, but the interior is still a weakness, they should probably try to trade to get a real big center to reduce the consumption of thick eyebrows, so as to be more conducive to the Lakers to impact good results. In addition to James Mei, Reeves had 20 points and seven assists, Russell had nine points and four assists and was abandoned in the final quarter, and Prince had nine points and two assists.
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