The Lakers broke out in a big upset, and the No. 1 in the West fell with a bang! James hit 19+11+8, and Russell scored 26 points.
The NBA 23-24 regular season has about 20 games left to end, and the current situation of the Lakers is still very delicate!
The Lakers now have a 33-29 record and are in 10th place in the West! They are much ahead of the Jazz behind them, basically not falling out of the top 10, and the play-off position is already secure! However, if the Lakers enter the play-in tournament in 10th place in the West, their chances of making the playoffs are slim, so the team will have to try to finish a better place in the regular season.
The Lakers still have a lot of room for improvement! Although the Lakers are now ranked 10th, they are less than 0 years behind the Warriors in 9th place5 wins, 1 short of the 8th Mavericks5 games, and the 6th Kings are only 2With 5 wins, the team has a good chance of breaking into the top 6 in the West, of course, if they perform well enough!
In the last game between the Lakers and the Nuggets, James achieved his 40,000-point milestone, but the team had no choice but to lose, and in the next game, the Lakers met a ruthless role, the Thunder, ranked No. 1 in the West!
The Thunder currently has a record of 42 wins and 18 losses, surpassing the Timberwolves to the first place in the West, becoming the hottest team in the league, beating the Lakers a lot in performance and strength.
The Thunder team is stronger and more aggressive, and they showed the strength of their young team when they came up, and they fought back continuously, and directly hit a good start of 9:2! James and Russell stopped the bleeding for the Lakers, but the Lakers' overall offense was still average, and the team still ended with 11; 21 behind! However, then the Thunder's offense suddenly became dumb, and the Lakers took advantage of the situation to play a 14:3 offensive wave and tied the score in the first quarter! The Thunder's offense in the second quarter was still bad, especially the core Alexander's terrible hand, which made the Thunder only score 18 points in the whole quarter! The Lakers are also not polite, Russell is on the outside, the thick eyebrows are on the inside, and the Lakers opened a 9-point gap at halftime!
Yibian fought again, and the Thunder's offense finally picked up, Dort and Keady both contributed on the offensive end, and Alexander also began to score! But the Lakers' offense was obviously more fierce, and after talking to the Thunder, they directly blasted out a 14:0, offensive climax, and took a 17-point lead in the third quarter! In the final quarter, the Thunder launched a Jedi counterattack, Wiggins, Wallace, and Muscala kept catching up, but Russell and Prince didn't give a chance at all, and the two teamed up to hit 6 3-pointers in the half quarter, and the difference was widened to more than 20 points, and the game lost suspense early, and the Lakers won the Thunder 116:104, breaking out a big upset!
The No. 1 in the West fell with a bang, and the Lakers broke out a big upset in this game, won a great victory, and also made their prospects better!
The Lakers' performance in this game really didn't say, everyone was a soldier, and 5 people scored doubles! James played well, scoring 19 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists in 7 of 14 with a quasi-triple-double of data, and led the team on both offensive and defensive ends! Thick eyebrows cut 24 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks, and Holmgren was powerless to resist! Reaves contributed 16 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, and the best performance was Russell!
Russell played 33 minutes in this game, shooting 9 of 17, including 5 3-pointers, and scored a game-high 26 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals and 1 block.
With this victory, they surpassed the Warriors and rose to 9th place in the West, and the team and the 8th Mavericks are only 1 game away, and the gap between the team and the previous team is getting smaller and smaller, and the possibility of entering the playoffs is getting bigger and bigger.