There is no doubt that James and Davis are the key factors for the Lakers to get tickets to the midseason Championship finals, and their excellent performances have made the team sing all the way, but the performance of a young player has to be said, it can be said that he is the vice general of the Lakers' promotion, and the Lakers may not be so easy to get on the Finals stage without him. Due to the two wing defensive giants of Vanderbilt and Hachimura, the Lakers are extremely unbalanced on both ends of the floor.
Looking at a set of data comparisons, before the two of them, the Lakers scored 106 per 100 possessions on the offensive end6 points, 28th in the league, and 113 points per 100 possessions on the defensive end8 points, 19th in the league. In the three games after Vanderbilt's comeback, the Lakers underwent drastic changes on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, scoring 114 per 100 rounds on the offensive end2 points, and the defense concedes 95 points per 100 possessions4 points, both data ranked first in the league in the same period. While Vanderbilt didn't find his form on the offensive end since his return, his conscientious performance on defense greatly reduced the pressure on Lao Zhan, who focused more on the offensive end.
It can be seen that the Lakers successfully advanced to the finals with Vanderbilt. The Lakers will face the Pacers, the youth army, and the outside world is more optimistic that they will eventually win the championship, and the Lakers made a decision that shocked the league before winning the championship, and they will not fly the championship flag even if they win the championship. In their eyes, this centralized championship championship flag has the same gold content as the Western Conference championship flag and the division championship flag, and it is not worth hanging on the roof of the arena.
And some ** speculated that there were already 17 championship flags hanging on the roof of the Lakers' arena, and there were not many places to hang other flags. The Pacers in the East, they scored 123 in the round5 points, the offensive end is the first in the league, but also conceded 119 per 100 rounds8 points, 28th in the league. And can the Lakers, who have ranked first in the league in efficiency on both ends of the floor in the past three games, beat them?