On January 31, Beijing time, the Hawks played at home against the Lakers, and the Hawks successfully defeated the Lakers 138-122 at the end of the game. Although the Hawks' performance this season is not good, and the Hawks are also caught in trade rumors, but this game Lakers lack thick eyebrows, not to mention, the Lakers are still fighting back-to-back, although James is able to play, but the Lakers' defense will definitely have a big problem after the lack of thick eyebrows, at this time the Lakers want to rely on James to win is undoubtedly a very difficult thing, but the Lakers' position in the West is not stable, so this game Lakers may be more than lucky.
In the first quarter, the Lakers played a wave of 5-0, and then Johnson and Trae Young responded with a wave of 4-0, Russell and James scored inside in a raid, and the Hawks counterattacked Murray and scored a dunk, and the Hawks trailed the Lakers by 2 points. After the pause, Saddiq Bey and Capela helped the Hawks tie the score, and in the next game, the offensive scores of the two teams rose alternately, but the Lakers' offense came to a standstill, and the Hawks opened the score 7-0 in a wave, and Hachimura scored at a critical moment to stop the bleeding, but fortunately, Reaves hit a three-pointer later, and the Lakers bit the score, and Murray scored continuously at the end of the game, and the Lakers trailed by 7 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter of the game, the Lakers chased a wave of 4-0 points, and then Trae Young hit a three-point shot to stop the decline, and then the Lakers chased the score under the leadership of James, and when they chased 4 points, the Lakers' offense was cut off, Bogdan and others helped the Hawks open the score, and the Hawks led by 9 points under the leadership of Trae Young. Murray and others continued to extend their lead in the closing stages, and the Lakers trailed by 11 points at halftime.
In the third quarter, the Hawks continued to expand their lead with a wave of 6-0, and Reaves scored to stop the bleeding at a critical moment, but in the next game, Trae Young hit a three-pointer, Johnson scored a basket, and the Hawks also led to 20 points, James scored 4 points in a row to stop the bleeding, but unfortunately the Lakers couldn't prevent the Hawks from attacking, although Russell found some offensive state later, but Bogdan and others responded, so the Hawks were still 16 points ahead of the Lakers. At the end of the stage, Hachimura and Reaves chased the score, and the Lakers finally chased 12 points when the Hawks played a wave of 7-0, and Reaves scored free throws at the last moment to stop the bleeding, and the Lakers trailed by 15 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter of the game, James led the Lakers to chase 10 points, but unfortunately at the critical moment, Okongwu and Murray quickly helped the Hawks stabilize the situation.
The Hawks played a relatively easy game, after all, the Lakers' defense was too stretchy after the lack of thick eyebrows, and in the face of Reaves and Russell's guard lineup, Murray and Trae Young were really too easy to attack, plus the Hawks' outside three-point **, the Lakers couldn't stop the Hawks in the game at all. At the end of the game, Trae Young had 26 points, 2 rebounds and 13 assists, and Murray had 24 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists on 11-of-19 shooting. And Russell's performance in the game attracted a lot of attention, after all, there were a lot of trade rumors between Russell and Murray, but Russell performed a stretch in this game, and Russell got 9 points, 1 rebound and 5 assists in 3 of 11 at the end of the game.
James was also dissatisfied many times in this game, one of which ended at the end of the game with the Lakers falling behind by a large score, James looked very unhappy at this time, in the fourth quarter of the game, James had obviously blocked Bogdan, but because there were no Lakers players back in the follow-up, the Hawks still grabbed the rebound and continued to score, at this time James was already quite dissatisfied, and the Lakers had a chance to catch up to single digits in the later games, but unfortunately the Lakers did not seize the opportunity, So James who returned to the bench when there was no suspense in the game was quite unhappy, and in this game James got 20 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists. And the culprit of the Lakers' loss has also been released, this person is undoubtedly Ham, after all, Ham's lineup in this game is very bad, the starting lineup has been blown up by the Hawks, and Ham still insists on using such a lineup, and the Lakers are not unjust in the end.