The NBA regular season continues, the Lakers face the Hornets who are not strong on the road, it is worth mentioning that James missed the game due to injury, and Wei Shao single-handedly led the team, despite this, Jordan still attaches great importance to personally coming to the sidelines to watch the game. In the first quarter of the game, the Hornets who played at home took the lead in entering the state, opening a 16-3 start, and the first quarter achieved a double-digit lead, and Jordan on the sidelines also had a smile on his face; in the second quarter, the Hornets continued the state of the first quarter, although the Lakers chased the point difference to 2 points in the middle of the quarter, but the Hornets played a wave of 19-5 attacks, and the Lakers were already behind by 16 points in the first half. The third quarter became the Lakers' performance time, under the leadership of Wei Shao, the Lakers played a 13-2 counterattack, the Hornets only entered the fourth quarter with a 2-point advantage, the dispute between the two sides in the last quarter was difficult to understand, the Lakers only fell behind by 1 point in the last minute, but Wei Shao missed the kill, and the Lakers finally broke out of the cold with a 3-point difference.
It is worth mentioning that Jordan left the stadium early in the last 16 seconds, did he know that Westbrook would shoot the last three-pointer? There is a saying that Westbrook really played well in this game, without James he had unlimited firing rights, 12 shots in 23 shots, including 3 of 7 three-pointers, a team-high 35 points, in addition to 4 rebounds and 5 assists. And in the second half alone, Westbrook scored 30 points, which also made him the first person after the Lakers to Skobe Bryant. However, the Lakers started with no player other than Westbrook. Bradley scored only 5 points on 2-of-10 shooting, Ellington scored 9 points on 3-of-8 shooting, Johnson scored 4 points on 2-of-7 shooting, Jordan Jr. scored only 4 points, and the 4 starting teams scored only 22 points in total, which became the main reason for the Lakers' loss. Wei Shao really can't move ah, it is worth mentioning that the Hornets main bridges support Wei Shao, he said that Wei Shao's performance is outstanding, I don't know why he got so much criticism.
Another reason for Jordan's early departure may be that he is very confident in the Hornets' players, in this game, 5 people on the team scored in double figures, and 4 of them scored 20 points. Butchyris scored 26 points on 9-of-15 shooting, Ball scored 20 points on 7-of-18 shooting, Rozier also scored 20 points on 7-of-16 shooting, and substitute Ismail scored 22 points on 10-of-12 shooting, making him the most efficient player on the team. After the game, the Hornets, who won two straight, ranked 7th in the East with 28 wins and 22 losses, while the Lakers suffered two consecutive losses and fell to 9th in the West, and the winning percentage also fell to 48%. In addition, the performance of veteran Anthony can also be remarkable, scoring 19 points in the whole game, and Anthony's career score exceeded 28,000 points, but unfortunately he could not win on milestone night.