LeBron James started full blast in the Los Angeles Lakers game against the Detroit Pistons and made his first seven shots from the field without missing a beat. Then he began to distribute game and ended up forgetting the aim in a second half the Angelenos ran out of gunpowder and lost forcefully by 107-92.
LA lost for the second night in a row after having chained the appointment with Philadelphia and Detroit in a trip of seven away games that has yet to take them to Boston and Atlanta. Your balance is now 3-2 on your excursion to the East. With the defeat, the Angelenos c
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third position in the West (14-6) behind his neighbors Clippers and the unstoppable Utah Jazz.
“I started strong and then at the end of the day, I keep trying to get my teammates involved”commented a LeBron that ended with 22 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists.
“I certainly missed some shots that I’m used to hitting.”
Blake Griffin led the Pistons attack with 23 points in a curious week for one of the worst teams in the competition. They have beaten the Sixers and the Lakers but lost to the Cavs.
The Lakers missed the game train in the fourth quarter after stay without scoring for seven minutes And watch a Griffin triple start a 16-0 run the game was resolved in a jiffy.
“I don’t know if we’ve run out of gas, but we haven’t had a good pace in the second half.”, Frank Vogel appreciated. At halftime, the Lakers won 56-58 after a brilliant first half by their star, who added 14 of his 22 goals in the first quarter (34-31).
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on Anthony Davis descansando in the band for discomfort in the thigh, Kyle Kuzma took a step forward from the starting five with 22 points and 10 rebounds that were insufficient to cover the poor performance of LeBron in the second half: just two points.
Marc Gasol enjoyed more minutes than usual (25) and added 9 rebounds and 4 assists, missing his two attempted field goals. Talen Horton-Tucker, with 13 points, and Dennis SchroderAt 10, they were the only other players to reach double digits for LA in a strangely uncompetitive encounter from the reigning champions.
To accompany Griffin, the Pistons (5-14) had the 20 points of
Wayne Ellington, who hit 6 of 9 in triples and has a streak of 40 of 67 hits from the perimeter in their last eight meetings. He is the eighth player in history to have chained seven or more games with at least four triples per game.
They also added Mason Plumlee, with 17 points and 10 rebounds and Jerami Grant, with 14 points and 6 assists, to make a suit to the inside of LA Derrick Rose put the tip from the bench with 14 points and 3 assists.
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