After 2000, the Los Angeles city derby has always been the focus of the league, but the attention of this year's game has dropped significantly because the two teams' record is too bad. The Lakers, which ranks second from the bottom in the West, have no highlights except that James can still win some attention. Glass superstar Leonard is also absent indefinitely, making this game a little boring.
After the start of the first quarter, Lakers continued the pattern of the previous few games and fell into a scoring drought at the beginning. Clippers of course won’t be polite. George , Kennard and others used wave after wave of shooting fast breaks to make the score bigger. The Lakers fell behind 21-38 in the first quarter, but in the second quarter, the Lakers began to awaken, and Zhan Laohan and Westbrook and the other two scored frequently with their personal abilities, which quickly narrowed the gap. The Clippers could only rely on George. The Lakers were only 2 points behind 52-54 in the first half. In the third quarter, the Lakers collapsed again. Faced with the Clippers' contraction defense, the Lakers' three-pointer went out of the sky. The Lakers lost 10 points in a single quarter 23-33 in this quarter, and came to the fourth quarter with a 12-point difference. Although the Lakers had the will to turn the table, they had no power to turn the table, and finally lost another 101-114.
James tried his best in this game, scoring 30 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists. At the last moment, his leg seemed to be strained and forced to return to the locker room. However, at the age of 38, he was no longer able to drive his teammates. No matter what kind of open opportunities he had, his teammates could not make any attempt. This could only make James sigh to the sky. He is also the most accurate player in the Lakers' three-pointers in this game. The three-pointers of other roles smashed the basket out of Mars. Reeves made 1 of 5 three-pointers in three-pointers. Westbrook made 0 of 3 shots, Nunn made 0 of 2 shots, Davis made 0 of 2 shots, and Brown made 2 of 6 shots. The difference in shooting skills of these players allowed the Clippers to relax the outside line with confidence. Another problem with the Lakers is that there are too few people who can play on the court. In this game, 10 Lakers players played, Anderson played for 3 minutes, and Gabriel played for 8 minutes, which was basically played in garbage time. Among the other 8 regular players, Nunn scored 0 points again, which is his third time scoring zero this season.
As a very important outside pitcher for the team, his performance can no longer be described as bad. His appearance is equivalent to the Lakers 4-5. With another iron hand Reeves, the Lakers coach Ham is also a dumb man. He has no trouble and is sad. It will be reported that the Lakers want to trade Davis to strengthen other positions of the team. If the Lakers do not have a big deal and exchange 4-6 players, they will definitely become the favorites to draw the No. 1 pick. Now the regular season has been one-seventh. If it does not change, the Pelicans can only get this big advantage.
. After the Clippers won this game, they temporarily got out of the predicament and their ranking has risen to seventh in the Western Conference. Without Leonard, the impact on the Clippers seems to be very small. Entering this year's playoffs is not a problem for Tyron Lu at all.
