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#2021-2022 Season Regular Season No.41 #
After a four-game winning streak over the Hawks, the Lakers took on the Grizzlies at home.
In recent times, the overall state of the Lakers has shown an upward trend.
In addition to James, who has been consistently efficient, role players such as Munch, Bradley and Anthony have played highlight moments to help the team.
In this game, the Grizzlies Brooks and Adams are absent, and the Lakers continue to send five small lineups to play.
Match overview
In the first quarter of the game, the Lakers entered the game at a slower pace, and the shooting rate was much lower than in the previous games.
With the exception of James, the other players were almost all dumbfounded, and the 37-year-old veteran scored 12 of the Lakers' first 14 points.
The Grizzlies seized the Lakers' absence and quickly found their own offensive rhythm, hitting consecutive three-pointers.
Later in the first quarter, James scored consecutive shots at the top of the arc to help the team find the offensive rhythm.
Tucker, a young man who has recently regained his form, scored nine consecutive points on the bench to help the Lakers equalize.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers and the Grizzlies drew 27.
In the second quarter, the Grizzlies maintained the fiery outside feel of the first quarter, hitting consecutive bottom corner three-pointers.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex flank Bain was in excellent form, scoring 10 consecutive points to widen the point difference.
The Lakers' offense is weak, and there is almost no effective means of scoring except for James's personal strong play.
In the middle of the second quarter, the Grizzlies took advantage of the Lakers' offensive inefficiency and scored consecutive positional battles to widen the point difference to nine points.
Munch and Bradley, who have been hot in their hands in recent games, lost all their hands in today's game, and the two combined to score 6 points on 2-of-16 shooting.
Extremely low offensive efficiency made the Lakers gradually lose control of the game, and the Grizzlies pulled the point difference to double digits at the end of the second quarter.
At the end of the half, the Lakers trailed by 13 points 52-65.
After the start of the second half, the Lakers failed to turn the situation around.
Offensive failures in the second quarter caused lakers players to lose concentration on the court, and their defense gradually went wrong.
In the first half of the third quarter, the Grizzlies pressed the Lakers' small lineup with repeated interior attacks, and their outside projections were as accurate as ever, and the point difference was gradually stretched to more than 20 points.
At one point, it was difficult for me to compare whether the Lakers had bigger offensive problems or more defensive problems.
When James scored the 29th point of the game, none of the Lakers' remaining players even scored more than 8 points.
In the second half of the third quarter, the Lakers, who were 23 points behind, replaced Howard, and trying to adjust the lineup had little success.
The point difference at the end of the third quarter was gradually stretched to more than 30 points, and the game advanced into garbage time.
To everyone's surprise, the fourth quarter of the game suddenly changed.
After the point difference widened to more than thirty points, both sides had already collected their troops, who had thought that Ellington and Rivers would suddenly enter offensive mode during garbage time.
Ellington scored four-of-five from three and scored 16 points efficiently in 11 minutes to close the gap to eight.
Unfortunately, the Lakers did not replace the main force because of the narrowing of the point difference, and the Grizzlies replaced the main force to close the game.
Post-match commentary
This is not the first time this season that the Lakers have shown this tired and lazy state in the game, and the team with an average age of 32 seems to have to adjust its rhythm through a "standby mode" game every once in a while.
Aside from James, none of the Lakers has shown any desire to win in this game.
Both Ariza and Anthony stumbled, and even fresh players like Munch and Bradley were in an awkward situation of 2 of 16 at halftime.
What is somewhat worrying is that the Lakers' recent record is excellent and the frequency of games is not high, and the situation in this game is not known whether it is because of the transaction doubts that hang over the team.
We can already believe that James' form didn't break out by accident, and that he could maintain such a top level of athleticism in the league for a long time in the season, which is a rare thing at the age of 37.
I hope that the Lakers can take advantage of the final winning window of the thirty-year-old man, rather than becoming a "nibbling old man" like today.
For manager Vogel, how to more rationally allocate player playing time is a big problem he needs to solve.
The playing time of Howard and Ellington, as it is now, doesn't seem to be the optimal solution, and both players have proven their worth in trash time.
After this game, the Lakers have a valuable two-day break to adjust, hoping that the Purple and Gold Army can regain their form in early January to refuse to lose back.
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