On the morning of May 23, the NBA Western finals continued. The Nuggets who welcomed the match point challenged the Lakers away. Finally, they defeated their opponents 113-111 and advanced to the finals with a sweeping attitude. Since it is already 0-3 behind, the Lakers have no retreat today. If they lose another game, they will end the journey of this season. The desperate situation also forced out the strongest James. The 40-year-old man killed red eyes and killed his last bullet. Although he failed to create miracles, the crazy James still told the world with his performance: Although I am old, I still beat!
Only 2 goals were thrown at half time, and 31 points were cut wildly.
In this game, James almost cut points crazily from the beginning. Under the strong basket, he carried Gordon to the basket hard; Simply shaking, and the back Jump hit steadily. He started the scoring mode in advance. The most terrible thing was that in an attack, James intended to pass the ball to the eight villages. As a result, under strict force, he directly passed the ball into rim and scored 3 points for the team. Even passing mistakes can be converted into scores. James, who feels good, really can’t stop it.
In the first quarter of the game, James played for 12 minutes and scored 21 points in 7 of 9 shots, while the opponent’s Nuggets scored only 28 points in this section. After entering the festival, James still did not rest. After leading the team to play a wave of 7-0, the leading edge of the Lakers was expanded to 10 points. After that, compared with his 10-year-old yokedge, James accelerated to throw in the basket; When the eight villages failed to attack, he fell from the sky again, making up rim of the ball. Even during the suspension period, James did not forget to guide his teammates. He knew very well that the Lakers could not win the Nuggets only by themselves. If they wanted to survive, they must drive everyone.
In this crazy first half, James only took a 4.3-second break and almost ended up completely. He made 11 of 13 shots, and the efficiency was extremely high, with comprehensive data of 31 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. It is worth mentioning that in the playoffs before this season, James’s highest score was 30 points against the Warriors. Today, he only used half a game, this record was broken. The score of 31 points in half was also the highest score in James’s career. At the age of 38, James was really horrible to create this achievement.
Too much physical consumption, still trying my best
Perhaps the consumption in the first half was too large. After entering the second half, James’s performance was quite different from that in the first half. After the opening of the second half, the Nuggets used James’s time of not scoring to chase points frequently, and plus-sized the defensive strength against James, forcing him to be unable to make normal shots. The trick worked as expected. James handed the ball to his teammates for many times, but the effect of dealing with the ball was far less than that of his own.
As a result, it was in this critical period that the Nuggets completed the anti-overtaking, from 15 points behind to 5 points ahead. Seeing that the balance of victory began to tilt towards the opponent, James began to attack personally and scored 2 goals. However, the Nuggets scored more points. The two teams started the tight scoring mode in the fourth quarter, but the Lakers always fell behind and continued to score.
At the last moment, the Lakers, who were only 2 points behind, gave James the chance to shoot. Unfortunately, too tired James tried to kill the basket, but the shot was slightly off, missing the chance to catch up with the score. The Nuggets defeated the Lakers by 2 points and advanced to the finals. His data stayed at 40 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists, a performance close to three pairs.
After the match, James left the stadium without expression. In this game, he gave everything in the first half, so that it was really difficult to continue to resist the crazy counterattack of the Nuggets in the second half. At 31 points in the first half, 9 points in the second half and 3 points in the last quarter, his personal score showed a gradual decline, but this did not prevent him from becoming the best player for the Lakers in this game. Even if the fourth quarter feels bad, the Lakers still have to give the last goal to James to play, which is his position in the team. Today’s James is worthy of the word “leader.
The 40-year-old man is still the leader of the Lakers.
James, who tried his best, still failed to lead the Lakers to the finals. Next season, he will be over 40 years old. Although he is still energetic, next season, James, who is one year older, is the team still NORITZ to the current level?
Since winning the Championship in 2020, the lineup of the Lakers has changed a lot. Now only James and Davis are still in the team, and Pope is helping nuggets to eliminate the Lakers today. In the two seasons after winning the championship, the Lakers scored 7th in the West and 11th in the West respectively. The situation that they missed the playoffs last season was even more rare in James’s career.
This season, James has created a small miracle to bring the seventh Lakers in the West from the play-off to the Western finals. Facing the Nuggets with more flowers, he is indeed unable to defeat four hands with double fists. Moreover, in this game, except James, other Lakers players including Davis are not very efficient, especially Russell, who continues to perform in a low performance and it is difficult to bring more help to the team.
Under such circumstances, the Lakers still lost only 2 points. There is no doubt that James played a huge role in it. Today, people should indeed give the applause to James: If he hadn’t put everything aside and fought hard, the Lakers would only lose worse. In the future, what should the Lakers do without James?
(Supine support/strong Miracle)