This morning the Lakers sat at home and finally ushered in a long-lost victory in the game with the Grizzlies, although it was a 3-point win, but this victory can make the Lakers settle down to return all their attention to the game, this game Guago Anthony dreamed of returning to the peak of the 27 minutes to cut the team's highest 28 points and contributed 3 rebounds and 1 assist, helping the Lakers win in the last quarter. Vogel finally let go of the paranoia in his heart, returned the personnel arrangement to normal state and no longer took the side of the sword.
In addition to Anthony Westbrook's game also gradually found a feeling, although the scoring is still not outstanding, the whole game only got 13 points but Westbrook contributed 13 assists and grabbed 7 rebounds, not shooting Westbrook is still very meaningful for the Lakers. From the time Wei Shao joined the Lakers, there were many people who thought that Wei Shao should be staggered with James, because the two people overlapped in position, and it was easy to open the space on the court, but Vogel's paranoid attempts from the preseason to the previous two regular season games made James and Wei Shao on the floor at the same time, and it turned out that the two people were not compatible at the moment, and both of them needed a lot of ball rights, especially Wei Shao, who needed the ball to flow in his hand to impact the basket or assist his teammates. In the case of a low shooting percentage on the outside, Westbrook struggled in the previous few games, and today Vogel finally staggered the two people, first letting Zhan Mei lead with the shooter in the second half of the first quarter to equalize the score, and replacing James with Westbrook in the second quarter to help the Lakers establish a 6-point lead, such a rotation coupled with the substitution of role players made the overall offense smooth.
The MVP of today's game is Morante, who personally scored a game-high 40 points, 5-of-7 three-pointers, and the young man with unlimited potential has a very bright future. However, the full-time star does belong to The Lakers' Anthony, and Guago mentioned two milestones in today's game, first of all, the personal total score officially surpassed Moses Malone in the ninth place in the total scoring list, and he hit 6 three-pointers in the whole game, reaching 1594 career three-point shots to surpass Mike Miller to rise to the 31st place in history. At the end of the fourth quarter, Anthony scored four consecutive points with free throws to help the Lakers stabilize the situation on the court and lay the foundation for the final victory.
Zhan Mei combination this game is a bit silent, thick eyebrow brother cut 22 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists data, James played 40 minutes to cut 19 points, 6 assists and 6 rebounds data, both people's plus and minus values are negative, obviously these two brothers dragged the team's hind legs, old Zhan's first three games have exceeded expectations, 37-year-old he is still the most reliable choice for this Lakers team. Thick eyebrow brother has not yet come out of the slump of last season, as the future leader of the Lakers, he still has a lot of room for growth, and the long regular season needs the stable output of thick eyebrow brother.
Coach Vogel's change in the lineup is a prerequisite for the victory of this game, it is he staggered the playing time of James and Westbrook and reasonably matched the playing time of the role team, and finally won the first victory at home by relying on the play of role players such as Anthony and Munch. The Lakers' current lineup is too many people who can play from the paper strength, but if you want to form the most reasonable lineup, you still need to test the actual battle, Vogel's work behind will be very cumbersome, how to deal with everyone's playing time and ball rights will be a headache.
It is a good thing to be able to win, after the previous losing streak, the Lakers have already had problems inside, and the Lakers can return to the normal rotation of the game in a short period of time. For lakers fans hope that they can achieve the final victory, but the long season is full of uncertainty, although the old guys who joined this year are old, they still have a certain strength to change the situation on the court in some games, and look forward to more wonderful performances of the Lakers in the future.