In today's NBA, the ninth Lakers in the West played against the Celtics, the top of the Eastern Conference, and the management officially announced before the game that thick eyebrows and James will miss this game!
Head coach Ham today fielded a new line-up that has not been seen before this season, Russell, Rivers, Prince, Vanderbilt and Hayes.
The Celtics sent out, Holiday , White, Jaylen Brown, Tatum, Boshen!
For the Lakers, an absolute remnant formation, no James, no thick eyebrows, the main focus of this game is the spirit of a mourning soldier who must win, because there is no burden, no worries, the one that plays is called a courageous one, scoring 60 points at halftime, and the Celtics' ineffective offense, only scoring 46 points at halftime!
The Celtics may have seen the opponent's lineup and took it too lightly, and there was no tactic to speak of in the first half, with 9 turnovers in the first quarter, while the Lakers only had 2 turnovers, which shows the attitude of both sides towards this game!
In this game, Rivers set a new season high with 32 points. 70% three-point shooting.
At the beginning of the game, the Green Army scored first, and the Lakers returned a shot, but then the defensive door was wide open, Boshen walked directly under the basket to score, converted the offense, Rivers scored three points in a row, and added an air cut to his teammates to score again. Tatum finally made the team's first three-pointer. The Lakers scored back-to-back points again, with Hauser stopping the bleeding with a three-pointer and Holiday hitting a mid-range shot to give the Lakers a three-point lead at 28-25.
Coming back in the second quarter, the Green Army grabbed rebounds in a row, Russell responded with three consecutive points, small and big, Rivers also had three points, Vanderbilt scored three points and shot, Tatum scored consecutive points to help the team stop the bleeding, Jaylen didn't score an empty basket, Vanderbilt used three points to tell you: Dare to let me go for three points? At halftime, the 60-46 Lakers led by 14 points!
After halftime, the Celtics slowly returned to normal, Tatum scored consecutive offensive points to narrow the difference, Hauser also scored three points to help the team, and on the Lakers' side, an eight-inch pull-up jump shot scored into the middle range, and Prince hit the inside line with a silky impact
Russell didn't look at the pass, Hayes scored, and the difference widened to 10 points again! Tatum scored a layup on top of Wood, Christie scored a layup under the basket, and the third quarter ended, 88-78 The Lakers still led by 10 points.
Back in the last quarter, Boshen scored continuously, and then there was a big problem with the defense again, Hachimura received a layup in the air, and there were three points in the bottom corner, the Green Army's offense was not good, Boshen was hard to solve, turned over and scored a jumper from mid-range, White hit the first three points of the game, Russell responded with three points, and in the end, the Lakers defeated the Celtics 114-105 away!
Since then, the Green Army has suffered a third home defeat, the first loss to the Nuggets and the last two to the Los Angeles duo.