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Chapter 267 All-Star Lineup

After losing the game against the Thunder in the away game, the gap between the Lakers and the Thunder narrowed again. The Lakers then once again spread their anger on the Suns. Finally returned to the home court against the Suns. In the end, the Lakers won the Suns by 25 points at home.

Just now they lost to the Thunder, and in a blink of an eye, the Lakers will face the Thunder at home again. This time, they can't lose again, because in the three games between the Lakers and the Thunder this season, the Lakers only won one of them. Both teams have won their own home games. If the Lakers lose to the Thunder again today, the Lakers will be at a disadvantage in the match against the Thunder. If the regular season records of the two teams In the event of a tie, the Thunder will be ahead of the Lakers by virtue of their hand-to-hand advantage. The two teams are now ranked fourth and fifth in the Western Conference. The importance of this game can be imagined.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers, who were playing at home, were obviously more proactive. They actively sought inside confrontation and strong play. Adams of the Thunder was beaten for two fouls early on.The Thunder, which had lost their inside barrier, began to slowly be unable to withstand the Lakers' inside offense. The Lakers established a lead in the first quarter by relying on Lopez and Paul's inside scoring.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Adams played again. After playing, Adams did not use a more aggressive defensive strategy because he could no longer foul, and Westbrook suddenly woke up. He scored three goals in a row. Including a split dunk after breaking through Thomas Jr., Westbrook was in a hot state in the second quarter, but even so, the Thunder did not narrow the gap because the Lakers continued to attack the inside. In order to avoid fouls, Adams had some The ball can only turn one eye and close one eye.Although Adams lost his defensive role on the court, he can indeed protect the team's rebounds on the court.

Anthony played average in the first half of the game. He scored 8 points and 3 rebounds on 9 of 4 shots.

At the beginning of the second half, the Lakers changed their offensive strategy. Wade began to drive the team to attack. The Lakers began to run the offense around Wade. After Wade breaks into the interior, he has many options. He can break through and pass the ball to Han Ziqi on the outside. And Lopez, he can also pass the ball to Paul inside, and he can also directly choose to score a layup. After Robertson of the Thunder was injured, no one can limit Wade's offense. After all, Paul George must Marking Ingram one-on-one, Ingram has only scored 5 points in this game under George's marking, which is enough to show how strong George's defensive ability is.

At the last moment of the game, the Lakers were still clinging to an 8-point lead. After the Thunder failed to make consecutive three-pointers, they had to regretfully lose this battle of focus. With the Lakers defeating the Thunder 107:99 at home , The record of the two sides' confrontation was also moved to a 2:2 tie.If the regular season records of the two teams are exactly the same, the final ranking will depend on their other data.In this game, Han Ziqi scored 19 points and 6 assists, Wade scored 15 points and 7 assists, Paul Mark scored 18 points and 8 rebounds, Ingram scored only 7 points, Thomas Jr. scored 13 points and Kuzma Got 15 points.For the Thunder, Westbrook scored a triple-double again. He scored 24 points, 10 rebounds and 15 assists. Paul George scored 21 points and Anthony scored 17 points. The Big Three of the Thunder played relatively average in this game , so they also lost the game.

After winning the Thunder, the Lakers players are still in a very good mood, because they have not lost to the Thunder in the record of the match, which solves a very important problem. In addition, the Lakers continue to gain home games Winning streak, the fans at the scene also got a hamburger for everyone.Subsequently, the NBA officially announced the players selected for this year's All-Star. Since the starting players have been determined early, the starting players of the James team are: LeBron James, "Antetokounmpo" Tonys Antetokounmpo, Joe Earl Embiid, DeMar DeRozan, Kyrie Irving.Curry's All-Star starters are: Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins, Stephen Curry, James Harden.In the NBA All-Star game, the starting players are completely determined by the number of fans' votes. As long as you can rank in the top two in the same position, then you will definitely be selected for the final All-Star starting lineup.The All-Star substitutes are determined by the coaches of the East and West. The coach of the Western All-Stars is Steve Kerr, the No. [-] Warriors coach in the West, and the coach of the Eastern All-Stars is the coach of the No. [-] Raptors in the East. Dwayne Casey.The substitutes for the Eastern and Western All-Stars are also:

Eastern bench: John Wall (injured, replaced by Andre Drummond), Kristaps Porzingis (injured, replaced by Kemba Walker), Kyle Lowry, Kevin Love (injured, replaced by Goran Dragic), Bradley Beal, Al Horford, Victor Oladipo
West bench: Russell Westbrook, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Jimmy Butler, Damian Lillard, LaMarcus Aldrie strange.

After defeating the Thunder, the Lakers won the Mavericks on the road and won a winning streak.Then they rushed to New Orleans non-stop. The Pelicans once beat the Lakers at the beginning of the season. At that time, the Pelicans had Cousins ​​​​and Davis' super inside twin towers. Do and Holiday's star lineup, the Lakers at the time were not their opponents at all.But it is different now. Cousins ​​tore his Achilles tendon in the previous game and was reimbursed for the season. Although the Pelicans are now ranked sixth in the West, their combat power will definitely be severely damaged without Cousins. At the end of the season Whether it can still be ranked in this position is still unknown.

In the end, Davis, who was alone on the inside, failed to lead the Pelicans to defeat the Lakers again, and all the shortcomings of the Pelicans without Cousins ​​were exposed. When they played, the shortcomings of the two of them were exposed to a greater extent. Rondo's shooting was still not good enough, which allowed the Lakers to allocate more defensive power to limit Davis inside.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Pelicans 122:116 at home. Even though Anthony Davis scored 45 points, he still failed to win this pizza. After the loss, Davis was very depressed. It can be seen that he Very dissatisfied with the team's performance today.

(End of this chapter)