Fast forward to the fact that the Lakers had not recovered from their two-game losing streak to a team from the same city before they had to set off again to challenge the Pelicans in New Orleans. The rise of the Pelicans this season is a surprise to many teams, all of which was caused by the warm trade of the New York Knicks last season, since getting Anthony, the thick eyebrows on the inside are under a lot less pressure on the offensive end, and because the chips they gave are Tyrick Evans, a player who overlaps with Holiday in the position, so this trade for the Pelicans is simply like picking up an All-Star for nothing.

This game was really not as unexpected as before, at the beginning, Lao Ke and Ye Xuan were able to barely support the situation, but as the thick eyebrows on the opposite side began to stir up trouble on the inside, Anthony, Gordon, and Ryan Anderson and others on the outside line also threw away in an instant, followed by a burst of attack, and finally the Lakers' offensive firepower was too concentrated, so after the two offensive players with the ball were replaced and replaced, the Lakers faced collapse in an instant.

At the end of the game, the Pelicans were merciful in this game, and finally only won the Lakers by 12 points, and the thick eyebrows faced the Lakers who were empty inside, and frantically cut 32 points and 16 rebounds, which was the result of only three quarters of the game, and on the Lakers' side, Ye Xuan also played the lowest score after coming to the Lakers in this game, he only scored 15 points in this game, but he had 16 assists, so the data is still in the past.

After the end of this game, the Lakers are immediately preparing to go to Texas to challenge the Rockets in Houston, unlike last season, when they often went to the Rockets to find their brothers to play, Ye Xuan basically hasn't been to Houston this season, firstly, because he was annoyed by injuries, so he was not in the mood to have fun, and secondly, because he heard that there were some internal contradictions within the Rockets, and Ye Xuan was not easy to meddle in this kind of thing.

In fact, last season, the Rockets should have been the happiest year, picking up a about ten, the team actually played second in the West after several twists and turns, after the Mavericks entered the second round in the first round, 1:3 when the Clippers were cornered, the Clippers couldn't play...... Then the team reversed the Clippers to enter the Western Conference finals, but after all, the injured Rockets were not a Finals-level team and were easily passed by the Warriors.

Harden played at an MVP level last season, and although he slipped slightly in the playoffs, he was still an All-Star calibre. Although Howard was injured for a long time in the regular season, he still showed the level of the first center in the playoffs, no longer joking, focused on the game, eager to win, plus the original physical talent, all of this is a mainstay to do. During Howard's injury, Motel's growth was gratifying, although it was still slow and soft. But he's already a qualified rim protector, and it's perfectly fine as a rotational interior liner.

The team's recruited dual-sport wings, Ariza and Brewer, also performed well. One is strong defensively, the other is bold in attack. Their athleticism is outstanding, meaning that opponents will face a flank with incredible athleticism at any time. After Terry sank for 2 seasons, he actually regained a little feeling in the Rockets. Although he can't return to his peak at all, he is perfectly fine as a backup defender. Not to mention that the team also acquired a quasi-star-level point guard Tylawson at a reasonable price, and after the departure of Jeremy Lin and Pa Shuai, the team has a reliable player who can help Harden share the ball for the first time. Morey has always had a good eye for people, he is the kind of person who is very thorough in data analysis, and most of the players he signs can play their part.

But there are some things that cannot be analyzed by data, such as the disagreement between the two stars of the team now, which makes Morey very embarrassed, and even before the trade deadline, there was news that the Rockets were going to trade Howard, but in the end, because no team was willing to give Howard, who was likely to jump out of the contract next year, a lot of chips, so the deal could only be shelved, but the Rockets' seemingly dissensible way of playing also hurt the team. This season's Rockets personnel have not made much adjustments, but they have never been able to play their best, and finally so far, they are half a win ahead of the Grizzlies in eighth place in the West, of course, the most embarrassing is the Mavericks, they have gone through a wave of four consecutive losses, and suddenly fell to ninth in the West, if the Grizzlies win all the next games, or if they lose one more game themselves, they will say goodbye to the playoffs completely.

And in fact, the Rockets' lineup itself has quite a few problems, first of all, the interior rotation is very weak. There are only three interior players that can really rotate on the team, which are Howard, Motel, and Jones. But all three have a lot of problems. Howard made free throws, Motel was slow, and Jones was bullying and completely unable to protect the rim. The other few inner lines are all water dispenser levels, which can only be held for a few minutes and cannot really play a role. Most of the time, the team has to play Ariza to top the small No. 4 position, and the team's flanks are really qualified for the size of 3 people, Ariza, Brewer, and Harden. However, Harden has many reasons such as his style of play, so although his physique can play on the wing, his final technical level fixed him as a point guard, and at most he made a temporary cameo as a point guard.

There was no one else on the team who could swing upwards to help Brewer and Ariza, and the only thing the team could hope for in the small-ball lineup was Xinyuan Thorton, and a well-known water cooler player who signed the whistle, and the result can be imagined. There are plenty of people at the back, but the only one with a defensive level above average is Hebe. Harden is just a relatively average defender now, and Lawson and Terry are bad defenders, neither conscious nor confrontational, you can imagine that if the team's double guard puts Harden Lawson, the opposite double guard sees this ATM-like lineup, isn't his eyes shining?

Ariza can't take care of two defensive colanders at the same time, and then think about it again, when the team discharges two forwards and Howard, the team's power forward position is not directly pressed to the ground and rubbed, and according to Coach Haier's urine, it is estimated that there will be no substitutions if he does not lose 10 points. This brings us to another shortcoming of the team. The coach is too poor on the spot. Judging from the team's style of play, McHale is the kind of good coach who cares in training, and the team's tactical literacy is instilled in the players during training, which can also be seen from the field. But his role on the spot is infinitely close to 0, and in the two years he has been in the Rockets, he has never seen him call an effective timeout. (That is, after the timeout, the team immediately comes up with a new tactic to defeat the opponent)

A combination of various reasons has made it more and more difficult for the Rockets this season, and in this game, it stands to reason that the Lakers don't care if they win or lose anyway, so there is no problem in raising a hand and letting the Rockets pass, but there is also a relationship between Kobe Bryant and Howard sandwiched here, which causes the Lakers to play an extraordinarily competitive game.

Ye Xuan may also deliberately release the water alone, and the Rockets are still so weak today, Howard is okay, I don't know if he woke up or what, he didn't go to the nightclub anymore, but Harden is in this state now, and no one will believe me if you tell me that he didn't go to the nightclub last night.

The result of this game is naturally self-evident, although Howard is alone on the inside, but the main point of attack of the Rockets is not on him, Warcraft is now quite a bit of an isolated feeling, although he is the strong point of the Rockets when they are in position, but the ball often can't be passed to his hands, but Harden, who is in bad shape, keeps throwing on the outside, wasting the Rockets' offensive opportunities, so that the Rockets don't lose the game.

I have to say that this is also retribution, just like Howard, who wanted to play, met Kobe Bryant, who wanted to win, and now Howard, who wants to win, has also met a Harden who wants to play. In the end, although the Rockets have been relying on the advantage of the inside line to barely bite the score, but when it comes to the critical moment of chasing points, the offensive firepower on the outside line cannot keep up, and finally the team can only swallow the 41st loss of the season at home, which also means that the Rockets fell from the seventh position in the West and ranked eighth in the West.

In the whole game, in fact, Howard worked hard enough, played 31 minutes, scored 29 points and 18 rebounds, but only made a pitiful 13 shots, of course, many of which were scored because of fouls caused by the opponent's 'shark slashing tactics'. And Ye Xuan's performance in this game was actually not very good, with a total of only 21 points and 12 assists.

In fact, because the four games in a row all encountered this kind of strong team on the inside, Ye Xuan's rebounds were not brushed much, but unlike the previous three games, the Rockets still firmly chose to attack from the outside when they had an advantage on the inside, and the big killer on the inside was actually abandoned, which was also something that Ye Xuan did not expect, and as a result, the Rocket team with the head iron naturally reaped a defeat.

After the game with the Rockets, the Lakers also rushed to Oklahoma non-stop, because they were going to compete with the Thunder team back-to-back, of course, this is all funny, the Lakers' senior management actually urgently stopped Ye Xuan's appearance in this game, because the team doctor in the routine physical examination last week said that Ye Xuan's recent activity is too large and there is a risk of injury, although this is the last few games of Lao Ke, but for his future considerations, It's better not to try to play this back-to-back game, so although Ye Xuan traveled to Oklahoma with the team, he was eventually put on the inactive list.

There is not much suspense in this game, although the Lakers did get a very good record last month, but the opponents they faced were not particularly strong, among all the teams they defeated, only one Cavaliers was considered to be outstanding, and that game was still because of Lefou's injury and Lao Zhan's flu outbreak, so it led to the Cavaliers' loss, so if you really want the Lakers to face these powerful teams in the league, the Lakers are still a little worse.

The game with the Thunder was naturally very simple, and the main players of the Lakers only lasted for a total of two quarters of the game, and soon after the start of the third quarter, the score gap was expanded to more than 15 points, and then the main players were replaced and rested.

After this game, the Lakers finally ushered in their last game, although in the last five games, lost four more games, but this has no impact on their season, and now they are simply hoping to win the last game of the season and draw a successful end to this imperfect season. Facing the Jazz at home, since this game is likely to be Lao Ke's last game, the ticket price is also copied to the sky, Ye Xuan and others are also quietly planning to help Lao Ke leave a good memory, and then find a way to persuade Lao Ke to stay and play for another year during the holidays.

And Lao Ke's game is also like playing chicken blood, playing very devoted, and the most terrifying thing is that his offensive desire and shooting rate today are very good, Ye Xuan knows that this may be Lao Ke's last game, so he passes the ball to Lao Ke as soon as he has the opportunity, so that Lao Ke is playing more and more, when the first quarter of the game is over, Lao Ke has already made crazy shots 14 times, although the score is only 21 points, but the audience at the scene is very enjoyable.

In the second quarter of the game, the Jazz team was also a little faceless, originally this game was originally a show for Lao Ko, but I didn't expect the Jazz team to suddenly overtake the score in an instant in the second quarter of the game, and also led the Lakers by 7 points. Corvo's feel in this quarter of the game also slipped, so he only hit 3 of 9 shots and scored 13 points.

At the end of the half, the Lakers were seven points behind the opponent, and Lao Ke's score had come to 34 points, but if the game was lost, it would be meaningless to have more points, so in the third quarter of the game, Ye Xuan stood up, first continuously impacting the inside line and causing chaos on the opponent's inside line, and then using his own passing to constantly help the team get the opportunity to shoot in the open space, although the strength of the Lakers team as a whole is still inferior to the Jazz team, but today's Lakers team is very tenacious, Finally, with three minutes left in the third quarter, the difference was recovered.

In the last quarter of the game, both teams played very cautiously, and the score rose alternately, until the last minute of the game, the game was not able to distinguish the winner, but at this critical time, Lao Ke stood up again, although he had made crazy shots 35 times in this game, and scored a total of 57 points, but when Ye Xuan passed the ball to his hands again, Lao Ke still did not relent, and threw the ball into it steadily.

This three-point also gave the Lakers a one-point lead over their opponents, and then the Jazz side was followed by Hayward who immediately hit another three-pointer and returned the color, and the time was only 21 seconds, Ye Xuan controlled the basketball from the backcourt and slowly came to the frontcourt, and then looked up at the countdown on the timer. When there were 7 seconds left, he moved, everyone thought that Ye Xuan decided to come by himself, after all, since Ye Xuan entered the league, basically as long as there is a chance to kill, he will complete it, and the success rate is very high, but they forgot one thing, that is, Ye Xuan is a fan of Lao Ke, so on this occasion, wouldn't it be better to give Lao Ke a perfect curtain call? So after starting outside the three-point line to attract two defenders, Ye Xuan jumped up and threw the ball into Lao Ke's hands, Lao Ke pulled up and threw his 37th shot of the game, the basketball crossed the air, drilled into the basket, and then splashed a net.