On March 7, 2024, Beijing time, the NBA regular season ushered in the game between the Lakers and the Kings, and this game is very crucial for both sides. In this game, the Lakers continued their previous starting lineup, which were James, Reaves, Russell, Hachimura and Davis. The Kings' starters have not changed, namely Fox, Huerter, Murray, Barnes and Sabonis.
James played in this game and ushered in his own milestone, with 1,477 career regular season appearances, surpassing Karl Malone to hold the sixth all-time appearance, and the five ahead of him were Parrish 1,611, Abdul-Jabbar 1,560, Carter 1,541, Driver 1,522, and Stockton 1,504.
In the first quarter of the game, the Lakers didn't give much defensive intensity at the beginning, and on the offensive end, Reaves, Russell and James scored continuously, Davis did not perform well on the court, and made mistakes in consecutive balls, and finally switched to attack James The opponent made a long pass to the basket, assisting Davis to play two plus one, and then Russell also hit three points, and the Lakers quickly stretched the difference to 9 points. Hachimura then scored on a basket, Reaves converted to an offensive layup, and James made a layup to draw a foul and scored on a free throw. In the end, the Kings still relied on Monk to score four points in a row.
The Lakers were unrelenting, Dinwiddie and Hachimura scored three points, and then Hachimura completed the steal, and no one defended to complete the dunk, and the Lakers stopped the Kings 8-0 in a wave, and the difference came to 17 points. After a timeout, Mitchell hit a three-pointer, and the Lakers' offense was powered off, allowing the Kings to chase 12 points. But then Dinwiddie and Davis scored four points from the free-throw line, and Russell hit a three-pointer to go on another 7-0 run. After that, the Lakers began to relax, and the Kings went on a 10-0 run to chase the score to nine points, and the Lakers led the Kings 37-28 at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter of the game, the Lakers' offense was powered off, and there was no shooting from the outside, and the King, led by Monk, overtook the score. Then Mitchell and Murray scored three points to directly stretch the score to 11 points! Fox then hit a three-pointer (the Kings made seven three-pointers in the first quarter). Davis did not play Sabonis alone (2-of-8 in the first half), but Fox and Monk could hit all kinds of difficult mid-range shots, and the Kings overtook the Lakers by 15 points at halftime 72-57!
In the first half, the Lakers James 12 points, Hachimura 11 points, Russell 10 points, Kings Fox 20 points, Monk 19 points, Mitchell 12 points, Sabonis 4 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists.
In the second half, Davis continued to collapse, switching offense after missing a single shot, allowing Sabonis to play two and one, and the personal foul came to 3, and Barnes also hit a three-pointer, and the difference came to 20 points. Fortunately, Hachimura made a three-point shot, Reaves caused a foul and scored through free throws, James hit the basket, and assisted Davis to complete a dunk in the next round, and the King saw that the Lakers were going to get up and directly chose to pause. After the timeout, Sabonis made a mistake, and Davis still missed the basket! Davis was picked up for his fourth personal foul on the transition offense and was substituted directly. Ham used a small lineup, and Fox continued to play two and one, and the score returned to 19 points. In fact, the Lakers' offense has to be launched by James, Russell can't hold the ball, Reaves can't hold the ball, and during this time he was blown up by Fox, and one person scored 10 points in a row and stopped the Lakers again. In the end, it had to be James, who led the Lakers to a 10-0 run, with Dinwiddie scoring 3 points and James scoring 7 points. At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers trailed the Kings 92-104.
In the last quarter of the game, James went off the court, Davis returned to the court, King Jr. Sa and Fox scored 4 points in a row, Prince threw a three-point shot in the bottom corner, Russell missed a three-point shot, and Sa singled Davis to make a layup and hit again, and the difference was stretched to 17 points! I have to say that Davis is really soft! Offense doesn't work, defense doesn't work! Defend the inside without opening a single hand. After James came on the court, there were two mistakes in passing, but fortunately, he scored on a mid-range shot, Hachimura converted to attack a three-point shot, and then James assisted Hachimura to score a layup. In the end, it was Fox who scored a layup to help the Kings break the scoring drought. After the king pausedSabonis scored on a layup, Reaves was stealed, and James limped back to the locker room in the final four minutes！Russell's three-pointer continued to hit the iron, Fox threw an easy score, the Lakers lost defensive rebounds in a row, Fox scored on a second shot, Reaves made two three-pointers, it was too late, and finally the Lakers lost to the Kings 120-130.
The statistics of the whole game, the Lakers James shot 10 of 16, 1 of 4 three-pointers, 10 of 10 free throws and got 31 points, 5 rebounds, 13 assists and 1 steal, Hachimura shot 17 and 13 of 29 points and 2 rebounds, Reaves 18 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Davis shot 5 of 13 and got 14 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists, Russell 10 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists, Dinwiddie 8 points and 2 rebounds, Prince 6 points. For the Kings, Fox had 44 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists on 19-of-32 shooting, Sabonis had 16 points, 20 rebounds, 12 assists and 2 steals on 7-of-13 shooting, Barnes had 11 points, Murray had 7 points, Monk had 26 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, and Mitchell had 12 points.