At 8:30 a.m. Beijing time on December 13, the NBA regular season matchup is in full swing, with the Dallas Mavericks sitting at home to face the Los Angeles Lakers. Before this game, the Mavericks with a record of 14 wins and 8 losses, ranked 3rd in the West, as one of the top teams in the West, this season the Mavericks are indeed a lot stronger than last season, the combination of Doncic and Irving is getting more and more tacit, and the team also introduced Gwee, Jones, Curry Jr. These strong new signings in the offseason, and selected center Lively in the draft. This is really a treasure, Lively is completely for the Mavericks, because their shortcomings are on the inside, Lively joined the Mavericks and became their starting center, so far in the regular season, Lively has twice scored 15+15 with at least 85% shooting rate in a single game.
He also became the first rookie in NBA history to score this statistic multiple times in a single game in nearly 50 years. On the other side, the Lakers, before this game, 14-9 ranked 6th in the West, only half a win less than the Mavericks, the Lakers ushered in a wave of 4 consecutive wins (counting the mid-season championship finals), and they also won the mid-season championship, which is enough to prove that the Lakers have not fallen off the altar now, they are still one of the championship-level teams. James is getting older and stronger, and he can still average 25 points per game this season5 rebounds and 66 assists, thick eyebrows dominance is also back, in the last game, thick eyebrows smashed a big double-double of 41 + 20, the Lakers strengthened in the offseason, and now the overall squad structure is more reasonable than last season, and they have a chance to make a breakthrough. In this game, the two sides are on the starting lineup.
On the Lakers side, Russell, Prince, Reddish, James and Bushy Eyebrows are fielded, and on the Mavericks side, Doncic, Curry Jr., Exum, Gwee and Lively are absent, and Irving is absent. At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the Lakers jumped to win, the first to get the ball, the thick eyebrows were directly lost by the bag, the Mavericks launched a counterattack, the dexterity after Lively turned around and scored the first goal of the game, Reddish easily put the basket under the empty basket, and also opened for the Lakers, Russell accelerated the breakthrough and scored a layup, Gwee himself singled James, the back single leaned back jumper hit, the thick eyebrows scored a goal with a difficult folding rebound, Gwee scored a goal with a three-way shot at the top of the arc, Hardaway's high-difficulty mid-range drift jumper also had it, and Prince hit a two-point shot steadily。
The Mavericks took the initiative and took a lead of more than five points, although Irving was not there, Hardaway stepped up, scoring 12 points in the first quarter, and at the end of the first quarter, the Mavericks led the Lakers by 8 points at 34-26. At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Hardaway continued his hot hand, the bottom corner three-point shot blossomed directly, helping the Mavericks to go down first, Reaves chased the three-point shot and immediately returned to color, James flew to break through the layup and hit a 2+1, the thick eyebrows mid-range turnover jumper was also into the heart of the net, Gwee made a decisive shot with a long three-point shot, hit a hit, Curry Jr. and Doncic blossomed inside and outside to score 5 points in a row, the offensive efficiency of both teams is very high, the Lakers Zhan Mei two two-pronged, James 10 points in a single quarter, thick eyebrows 15 points in a single quarter, 7 shots 6.
However, the Mavericks also blossomed more and firmly occupied the initiative, and at the end of the half, the Mavericks were 71-61 ahead of the Lakers by 10 points. At the beginning of the second half of the game, Yibian fought again, Gwee's front three shots were entering the center of the net, opening the third quarter of the game, Doncic made a foul with a slow three-step layup, stood on the free throw line and made two free throws, Russell made three points in the bottom corner, James and thick eyebrows combined to score 5 points in a row, the Lakers began to gain momentum, and Lively raised high to score two consecutive slams to help the Mavericks stop the bleeding in time, but the Zhan Mei duo felt hot and continued to help the Lakers chase points frantically, and the point difference returned to within 5 points at the end of the quarter. Hardaway helped the Mavericks hit a three-pointer from the corner, and Prince scored easily from the basket. At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers beat the Mavericks by 2 points 95-93.
In the final quarter of the battle, the Mavericks player Axum, who returned to the NBA this season, broke out super and scored 17 points on 5 three-pointers in a single quarter, leading the Mavericks back to the dominant situation, James led the team to chase the points unsuccessfully, and in the end, the Mavericks refused to reverse and narrowly defeated the Lakers 127-125. It is worth mentioning that in this game, Thick Eyebrows and James scored more than 30+ points at the same time for the first time this season, while the Mavericks also beat the Lakers twice this season.
In terms of statistics, on the Mavericks' side, Luka Doncic had 33 points, 6 rebounds and 17 assists;Tim Hardaway Jr. 32 points;Grant Williams 19 points;Dante Exum 26 points and 4 rebounds;Drake Lively II had 8 points and 8 rebounds. On the Lakers' side, Anthony Davis had 37 points, 11 rebounds and 2 blocks;LeBron James 33 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals;Austin Reaves 22 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists;Torrien Prince had 15 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. Hundreds of spectators