After four consecutive losses, the Lakers, who have been in a slump lately, have battled the Rockets, which aim to train young people this season. Although the Rockets are currently ranked first in the West, but their overall partial breakthrough, the fast small ball play is very restrained by the elderly Lakers, plus the team has a lot of young players, when they can rush up, create opportunities in the march, play more defensive counterattacks, Lakers players are difficult to keep up with their footsteps, plus the Lakers make too many mistakes, so in the game we can also see the Rockets play a high-quality rapid transfer many times, with offensive space of the Rockets players, very simply can cause damage, When the Lakers face a young storm, they sometimes have to use deliberate fouls to limit their impact.
The Lakers' advantage is also obvious
Since the speed can't keep up with the young people, then they can only fight with the opponent's magic position. When it fell into the position, the Rockets' breakthrough was not so good. Simply put, if you like to run, then I will spend time with you! And given the Rockets' three-point shooting rate downstream of the league, the Lakers can boldly use joint defense to reduce the physical exertion of veterans. On the offensive end, with a master of control such as James, a mid-range offensive master like Anthony, and Munch, who has a good hand recently, the Lakers don't have to worry too much about scoring.
So the two sides have been in the process of playing each other in this game, and the rocket desperately wants to speed up, wants to give full play to the advantages of fast speed and good physical strength, and strives to make the "old guy" on the opposite side more and more slow. And the Lakers just want to control mistakes, slow down and grind with you little by little.
But the ideal is very full, but the reality is very bone. The Lakers did not do a good job in controlling mistakes, especially the much-maligned Wei Shao, the former MVP, the triple-double king did not take too much advantage of the Rockets' recruit egg, contributed 7 turnovers in the whole field, and successively contributed to the "famous scene": dribbling out of bounds under no one defense, many low-level mistakes, mid-range shots hit the timer, dunk card basket back edge, Munch was also passed to him when he was sandwiched by the three... And many of these mistakes came when the Lakers were ready to play a wave of kick-offs, which was very demoralizing to the team. If the coach had the courage to DNP Wei Shao, maybe the Lakers' current situation would be very different. Too many mistakes just hit the Rockets' trap, young people can play to their advantages in defensive counterattacks, and whenever the Lakers pull away the score, the Rockets can use the mistakes to score. So the current Wei Shao is definitely a double-edged sword, on the one hand, he can act as another engine of the team to organize the team, on the other hand, his poor tactical execution and brainless defensive awareness often make the situation on the field into chaos, depending on whether the coach can continue to adjust to the characteristics of Wei Shao as the game deepens.
And today James is still the presence of the team's fig leaf, as a center, he is constantly taller than him on the inside, younger than him. Young players who are physically better than him are fighting. James today not only needs to carry the team's banner in the attack, but also needs to constantly defend and assist his teammates. I knew that these jobs had been done by Davis and Howard before, and the 37-year-old James had to do several jobs alone and needed to comb the offense as the brain on the court. This is very detrimental to the veteran's physical strength. Old Zhan is really a father and a mother.
At the crucial moment you can have to believe james!
But at the end of the game, the competition is the color of superstars, although the Rockets have a lot of talented young people, but they are after all new recruit eggs, the game experience is still a lot worse, the technical and tactical is not very mature. The most crucial thing is that the Lakers have a historic superstar James with two consecutive empty cuts when there is about a minute left: a dunk, a layup directly to pull the score apart, and hit four consecutive free throws, sealing the victory for the Lakers, and he scored a super triple-double with 32 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists. Today's old Zhan proves to the world that he is still the superhero who can turn the tide at the last minute!