Lakers ball possession.

Clarkson passed the ball to Lei Lei on the flank after half-time.

Lei Lei received the ball, made a triple threat tentative step, dribbled to the right and threw the ball against Beal's defense.

'Brush-'

Lei Lei's hand feels as hot as usual today.

4:3

In the next few balls, Bill was very uncomfortable by Lei Lei's close defense and couldn't catch the ball at all.

Didn't get a good chance to attack.

Wall saw that he couldn't open the situation for a long time, so he could only come by himself.

Wall's physicality is much better than Bill's.

Wall glanced at the basket and stepped back to open up the space and give himself plenty of room to attack.

Kobe Bryant also defended Wall with a serious face.

Wall started in an instant, and in one step, he passed Kobe Bryant and scored to the basket.

Kobe's footsteps can no longer keep up with the young and strong young players, and he can only eat dust behind Wall's back.

Hibbert stepped forward to make up for the defense, and Wall had a confrontation in the air.

Wall pulls up a layup on Hibbert.

'Brush-'

The basketball wipes the board and goes into the net.

After landing on the ground, Wall flexed his muscles to the audience on the sidelines.

As the game progressed slowly, the two teams played very closely.

The Wizards called a timeout at this point, and it was clear that Wittman was very unhappy with the Wizards' performance in the opening stages.

During the pause, Wittman kept emphasizing to the players the defensive restrictions on Lei Lei, and he must limit Lei Lei's scoring! Don't let him score so easily! The layup is also going to be pulled down by Lei Lei! Don't be afraid of fouls! This is the home of the Wizards!

From the beginning of the season to December, Lei Lei and the team have been running in for two months, and Lei Lei has now become the Lakers' top scorer and the team's offensive core.

Almost every offense of the Lakers must be completed by Lei Lei's hands.

This situation was particularly prominent in this game, which was specially arranged by Scott before the game.

After all, Kobe Bryant will retire after this season, which is a sure thing, and the Lakers have also found a new core of the team, no one is more suitable than Lei Lei, not to mention that Lei Lei is the core of the team handpicked by the team owner Bass family, this is 'pro-son!' ’

So in tonight's game, Scott asked the Lakers players to take Lei Lei as the first core, and in the past games, Kobe Bryant was the first core, Lei Lei was the second core, and Lei Lei was only the team's first scoring point.

But tonight is different, Lei Lei is the team's number one star!

Judging from the start of the game, the effect of this tactic is very significant, at least in the opening stage, the Lakers and the Wizards are inseparable, not blown up, after all, the difference in strength between the two teams is still very large.

After a timeout, the Wizards possessed the ball.

The Wizards' offense was again initiated by Wall.

After all, Wall has outstanding size, explosiveness, athleticism, speed and point guard skills.

Offensively, Wall is very well balanced on the dribble, often making very weird changes of direction, sudden changes in pace and alternating dribbles with both hands, he often relies on his dribbling to get rid of opponents, his feet are very fast, and the first step and even the jump speed is very amazing.

He's good at getting the pace of the game, taking control of a one-on-one duel that he can do, either shooting himself or passing to teammates in the gap.

Wall's shortcomings are also very obvious, he has to organize the offense solidly after the tempo drops, the defenders give him space to shoot, but choke his breakthrough and passing routes, he even disappears on the court when facing the zone defense, and once he can't run, his efficiency drops sharply.

Unless it's a dunk, Wall has a problem with his layups under pressure from defenders, his three-point shooting percentage is inconsistent, his hands are good before he shoots, and his wrists look beautiful and confident after shooting, but the more important issue is the consistency of his movements.

Wall came to the front court with the ball, and Bryant took a step back to prevent Wall from using his speed to break through again.

Seeing such a big vacancy, Wall was sorry for the space Kobe Bryant gave if he didn't shoot.

'Bang-'

'Brush-'

Wall was lucky this time, the basketball bounced off the basket and crashed into the net.

The Wizards scored two precious points.

The Lakers have now strangled the connection between Wall and his teammates, and Scott made a point of emphasizing letting Wall attack during the break!

His scoring ability is not particularly explosive, as long as the connection with his teammates is strangled, the Lakers will definitely win this game!

So the Wizards need to make changes now, otherwise Wall will be exhausted sooner or later, and after the efficiency drops, the point difference will also be widened.

Lakers ball possession.

Lei Lei came to the front court with the ball and called a block.

Hibbert helped Lei Lei get rid of Beal, and Lei Lei dribbled to the side and pulled up a shot from outside the three-point line.

'Brush-'

Three-pointer scored!

At this time, there were 34 seconds left in the first quarter, and the Lakers had one more offensive time.

The Wizards want to grab an offensive opportunity.

Wall quickly came to the front court with the ball and didn't stop the ball and hit the inside.

In the face of Randle's defense on the inside, he dodged the defense by pulling a lever in the air.

'Dut-'

But Randle hit Wall's arm and the referee blew for a foul.

'Brush-'

The ball went in

2+1

Wall hit the free throw from the free-throw line with a solid shot.

There are 28 seconds left.

It only took Wall 6 seconds to get from the back to the front, so you can imagine how fast it was.

Bryant came to the front court with the ball, pressed the time at the top of the arc, and only made a tactical gesture after the 24-second offensive time was halfway through.

Seeing this, Lei Lei immediately began to run without the ball.

Bill was very serious this time, and followed Lei Lei every step of the way.

It took Lei Lei 8 seconds to finally get rid of Bill's entanglement and run out of space at the top of the arc.

Bryant immediately passed the ball on the flank.

After Lei Lei received the ball, there was no one in front of him, and he threw the ball without any adjustment.

Let the basketball fly in the air for a while.

'Brush-'

Lei Lei scored a three-point shot!

There are 5 seconds left in the game time.

Dudley threw the ball straight to the ground, and Wall didn't catch it, letting the ball roll on the floor on its own.

Wall picked up the basketball as he approached the halfway line, and Dudley had been waiting for a long time to get the ball ready for Wall.

Wall accelerated instantly, and Kobe Bryant was also blocked by Dudley.

There is 1 second left in the clock.

Wall braked instantaneously and threw the ball out with a stop-and-go jumper.

Suddenly, a large hand appeared in the air.

A 'thud-' sent the basketball flying.

'Dut-'

It's time for the lights to be red.

At the end of the first quarter

34:31

The Lakers led by three points heading into the second quarter.

On the court, he kept defending the ball that Wall was blocked.

I saw that Lei Lei on the screen immediately stepped forward to make up for the defense after seeing Kobe Bryant being thrown off, and jumped immediately at the moment of Wall's jumper, and lined up the slowly rising basketball out of the court in the air.

Lei Lei rewarded Wall with a hot pot hat at the last moment of the first quarter!

When the quarter was paused, Wittman was angry, and he really didn't expect that the Lakers would lead at the end of the first quarter!