On March 7th, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and today the Lakers sat at home to welcome the challenge of the king, although the Lakers have recently pulled the Thunder from the first place in the West, but they struggled every time they faced the king, and the king suffered a double kill before this game, the Lakers also want to be ashamed, and the king will definitely go all out for victory, 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, Reaves scored two points to take the lead for the Lakers, Harris responded with a mid-range shot, Russell and Reaves combined to score 5 points, James and thick eyebrows successively scored 2+1, the Lakers gradually took the initiative, and then their firepower was still very strong, and the team once extended the lead to 15 points under the leadership of James, but at the end of the quarter, Monk scored 5 points in a row to help the Kings chase down to 9 points to end the first quarter.
In the second quarter, James relied on free throws to help the team extend the lead back to double digits, but after that, Monk's firepower was still undiminished, almost every time he faced his old club, he would explode, Monk scored 14 points in a row to help the team overtake the Lakers, after starting the game, Keegan Murray hit a three-pointer, Fox broke through in a row, he scored 11 points in a single quarter, and under his leadership, the Kings scored 44 points in a single quarter, and the Lakers trailed by 15 points at halftime.
Yibian fought again with Barnes and Hachimura for three points, James and thick eyebrows scored 4 points in a row, Fox scored 5 points in a row to respond, Hachimura hit a shot, Fox and Barnes combined to cut 4 points in response, James broke through the kill, Keegan Murray scored two points, and the Kings once extended their lead to 22 points, but James scored 5 points in a row, Monk responded with three points, Dinwiddie and Lao Zhan scored 5 points together, and the Lakers chased down 12 points into the final quarter.
Sabonis led the team to play a wave of 5-0 climax to expand the lead, as Monk and Lyles scored 4 points in a row, the King extended the lead to more than 20 points, James broke through the kill, although Lao Zhan still didn't want to give up, but the difference was too big he was powerless, and finally the Lakers lost to the King 120-130, and the Lakers after the loss also fell to the tenth place in the West again.
In this game, Monk broke out again in the face of his old club, 10 of 17 shots, 3 of 5 three-pointers got 26 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, and when the two teams met at the beginning of the season, Monk dominated the overtime and led the team to victory, and Monk scored 22 points in this game. Through this game, we can also see the biggest problem of the Lakers now, not only their lack of firepower on the bench, but also the very weak backcourt defense.
Fox played very easily in the face of the Lakers' useless defense, he shot 19 of 32 in this game, 2 of 5 three-pointers got 44 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, the reason why the king was able to pull back so much in a single quarter in the second quarter is that Xiao Sa, thick eyebrows really can't beat Xiao Sa, he also plays a center with no confrontation ability, in the face of this kind of hard center, he really can't bear it.
Before this game, the thick eyebrows faced Xiao Sa with a total of 0 wins and 8 losses, and he was completely bitter, and Xiao Sa also played thick eyebrows very tired, Sabonis got 16 points, 20 rebounds and 12 assists on 7 of 12 shots. The Kings came off the bench with Mitchell for 12 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist on 4-of-4 shooting, and since scoring 16 points in a recent game against the Timberwolves, Mitchell has also regained trust, which is a good thing for him.
James tried his best in this game, 10 of 16 shots, 1 of 4 three-pointers got 31 points, 5 rebounds, 13 assists and 1 steal, the team's offense is completely dependent on him and Russell to support, the team's offensive first core was thick eyebrows, but in the face of Xiao Sa, thick eyebrows withered, 14 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists on 5 of 13 shots, as well as 2 turnovers, Russell got 10 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists, and Hachimura scored 29 points and 2 rebounds.
Now Russell is mainly attacking and reducing his personal organization, Reaves scored 18 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists on 6-of-14 shooting in this game, and they have no way to face Fox and Monk, and if the Lakers face a team with a top backcourt, their problem will still appear, so in order to prevent the backcourt defense from continuing to be targeted, I think Ham may need to change the starting lineup, let Reaves return to the bench, and let him enter the starting line again at critical moments.
Dinwiddie has played a good defensive performance recently, and he is also an offensive and pass-through style of play, which can completely replace the role of Reeves, but I don't know if Ham will do it, after all, if you run in the new starting lineup, it will inevitably take many games to try, and now that it is the sprint stage of the playoffs, the team's chances of error are becoming less and less. Speaking of which, what do you have to say about the current Lakers and Kings? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.