Charlotte, North Carolina – the Lakes It was perfect, Anthony Davis Each place is dominated on the basketball field while the results board appeared in their favor for almost every possession. Lakers energy was out of the plans, the team that completely controlled while turning and leading to forced transformations and lost shots. The crime was in an ideal synchronization, as it was found either Davis or another person wide open to ash and cover.
It was a team at its peak. But it lasted only 12 minutes.
At the speed that Lakers spread to the top of their powers on Monday in Charlotte, it fell to their depths, and it was advanced in the first quarter of 23 points diminishing the way to two in the fourth. However, even without any real momentum for the last three quarters, Lakers managed to escape with a 112-107 victory In a game where they never lagged.
Davis ended with 42 points and 23 rebounds. The first quarter had a historical level of hegemony. He achieved the first seven shots and scored 21 points, while he got 11 rebounds. There is no player in the past 28 years (as much as it comes StatHead.com Quarter data opened (a game with 21 points and 11 rebounds in the first quarter.
“Everything was going,” Liberon James He said.
It was 21 points and 11 rebounds were more than the entire Hornz team in the first quarter.
This is an impressive game. Start by saying, ” Austin Reefis He said. “But this might be the most impressive quarter in the basketball that I saw as an individual play. I felt as if we had gone, sat and watched him doing what he was doing.”
They did Kinda.
Charlotte, like Lakers Ji Redk coach Expected before the match, three throws began after Lakers closed the paint. Polo Paul‘The second three early in the second quarter cut the lead to 16, but he wrapped his ankle while he was back away from the stadium. He left the game and did not return, played only nine minutes.
Nevertheless, Hornz remained hot from his depths while Lakers was executed on both ends of the court. James broadcast three badly to end one possession. Davis was forced to shoot a single of 19 -foot knee to finish another.
Charlotte (12-31) reduced the lead to eight at the end of the first half, with the help of seven Lakers shifts in the second quarter alone. Fortunately, Davis continued to dominate.
“I was feeling good,” said Davis.
The Lakers team (26-18) did not completely restore their rhythm, which briefly sparked only in the second half while leaving the game grateful because they built such a big pillow early.
We played hard for four quarters. Now it was not beautiful, but we played hard for four quarters. “” I think for me, we have made a lot of mental errors tonight. Look, I don’t know if this will come on Saturday and the long journey yesterday and adapted to the time of the East Coast. I felt a little fog for the brain, less than men who did not play. Men played hard tonight and men were in touch tonight. We had a lot of mental errors. “
Lakers turned the ball more than 19 times to 28 Charlotte points. They allowed Hornets to make eight three times more than they did. But even when Charlotte got possession, Lakers always recovered.
James said: “We did not come here to try to bomb anyone,” James said. We came here to win the game. We played hard from start to end. “
Garrid VanderbiltHe played his second match this season, he had a major theft and Dunk at the fourth. Max Christie, who crossed with James in possession in the fourth quarter earlier, played four points in front of Charlotte seat.
and Dorian Fini Smith The game permeates the Charlotte Miles bridges.
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