The Lakers have met the Raptors again, and everyone knows how badly the Lakers lost last time. The Lakers scored a 12-33 point difference in the first quarter, scoring only 36 points on the Raptors' inside line.
The Raptors grabbed a staggering 64 rebounds throughout the game, including 19 frontcourt rebounds. The Lakers only grabbed 43 rebounds, 21 fewer than their opponents.
In that game, the Lakers had only one Gabriel in pure interior line, and he scored only 2 points on 1-of-8 shooting in 19 minutes. But the 9 rebounds he grabbed in the whole game were the highest in the Lakers, but Vogel just wanted to use a small lineup.
When you face a team like the Raptors that can put up five or more two-meter forwards, it is really incomprehensible to play a small lineup. But Vogel, who suffered a loss today, finally changed sides, putting howard and Gabriel on the starting line-up.
Howard and Gabriel's twin-tower starter, other aspects dare not say, at least in terms of height against the Raptors will not be too bad. Gabriel also seized the opportunity to play the best game of his career so far.
The Lakers led the Raptors 33-30 in the first quarter, which was even their first first-quarter lead in the last five games since they played the Rockets on March 10. Of those 33 points, the smaller half of the points were scored by Gabriel.
Gabriel shot 6-of-6 in the first quarter, 2-of-2 from three-point range and 0-of-1 from the free throw line, and had 14 points and two rebounds. The 14 points in a single quarter have equalled his career single-game scoring record, and he scored 14 points against the Warriors on May 15 last year.
Counting the three-pointer shot in the third quarter, Gabriel's 17 points were the highest points in the Lakers for a long time, shooting 7-of-8 in the whole game, and there was a block at the end of overtime that killed the suspense of the game. Today was the most glorious moment of Gabriel's career.
Of course, for Westbrook, today's ball is also his most brilliant moment of the season. Westbrook scored 19 points in the first three quarters and even shot 3-of-4 from three-point range, but westbrook scored only 22 points after the game. In the fourth quarter and overtime, only 3 points were recorded, but it was these three points that saved the Lives of the Lakers.
In the final moments of the game, James has thrown a number of fairy balls in a row to help the Lakers continue to live, but at this time, the Lakers are still behind by 3 points. James' desperate over-the-top three-point shot failed to hit, and Westbrook picked up the rebound and continued to choose to shoot outside the three-point line.
Many people know that the moment they see The wester ball is shot, the familiar rebounding edge, the familiar edge of the edge, the familiar no edge. The Raptors grabbed the rebound and held the ball, and it is estimated that many Lakers fans are already desperate.
But Wei Shao was always Wei Shao, the unpredictable Wei Shao. When everyone thought that the Lakers had no hope, Wei Shao stood up and gave the Lakers hope. The Raptors served barnes and Westbrook stole it!
After the steal, Wei Shao leaned forward, he looked back, and then he turned his eyes to the basket. Stopped sharply, found that his foot stepped on a little three-point line, and then shrank back a little, and the three-point decisive shot. An arc that wasn't perfect, but the ball stumbled in, a three-point draw! Thrown in by Wei Shao!
Overtime morale is already on the Lakers' side, although the basket was blown up, although it was at the opponent's home, but the Lakers finally won this damn game, ending a long slump.
In that instant, everything that Wei Shao had lost for a long time seemed to come back. Before today's game, Westbrook shot 11 percent from three-point range and 19 percent from mid-range after the All-Star Game.
He was ridiculed by the home fans as "Westbrick", he did not dare to bring his family to the home stadium to watch the game, for fear that his children would hear this rather disrespectful nickname, and his wife even received death threats from some fans.
On the court, Wei Shao was constantly taunted, he was chased by Beverly to spray, and after throwing three no sticks, he was mercilessly ridiculed by Downs. Just yesterday, Westbrook was scolded by local fans in Toronto as a fool.
But all of this vanished after Wei Shao threw that absolutely flat three-pointer. The matter of the stadium, after all, must be solved on the court.
I wouldn't naively think that Wei Shao's shooting would get better overnight, but I know that the kind of temperament that belongs to Wei Shao is slowly returning.