The Lakers wrote off the 10.5 million contract, James couldn't carry him to win the championship, and the fatal flaw was exposed
Losing to Minnesota was a very bad defeat. It can be seen that the Lakers' desire for this game is very strong. James and the big-eyed players have both recovered to their best level, while James has a cold and is still playing. But to their disappointment, in addition to their team of 22 of 38, who scored 59 points, the other players also had an effective shooting percentage of 15 out of 50 and scored 47 points. Russell, Reaves, and Hachimura are all stars worth more than 100 million, and they are all locked in, and this is an important factor why the Lakers will lose. 10.5 million, goodbye, the biggest weakness of the Purple and Gold Army, James helped you carry the heavy burden.
Why should the Lakers show a will to win and a preseason mentality?If they lose, then their chances of winning will drop to 50 percent, and maybe they will fall out of the top 10 in the West, after all, they have entered the finals in the East, and the team is still improving its strength, no one would think that a good team will play so hard at this time. At the root of it, I think the Lakers' problem is with their manager. In any case, Ham is not a head coach who can be trusted in the playoffs.
Yes, the current Lakers, everyone has their own problems. Take the main force of the team as an example, James is old and doesn't have much offensive ability, Reeves doesn't have much talent, Hachimura Hachiko is not in very good shape, his speed is also very slow, Vanderbilt and Reddish can defend, but their attack power is too poor. But then again, all NBA teams will encounter such problems, no one's lineup is perfect, at the very least, the Lakers have a strong lineup, the forward is also very thick, and there are a lot of hole cards, many people think that as long as the tactics are right, the Lakers' lineup will not be so bad, and they will definitely enter the fourth place in the East.
In the game with Minnesota, Brother Thick Mei and James saved Ham many times, but in the back, his style of play one after another is really difficult to accept. Just when everyone thought the Lakers would put themselves in position and add some cover to create a 3-point opportunity, what Ham did was let James catch the ball on the sideline and pass it to him. When James received the pass, their bag came, and the Lakers didn't have any offensive opportunities at all, to put it bluntly, the Lakers didn't have any strategy at all, which made Ham very helpless. I don't think the Lakers would have laid out such a tactic without a head coach according to Ham's strategy.
Now it seems that under Ham's leadership, the Lakers have indeed won the playoffs. However, anyone who likes the Lakers will find that if James is really going to win, then James has to play a lot of games, which is why they will lose. James has developed some important strategies for the team on many occasions, such as seeing the opponent's strategy on the court, organizing his own players, and disrupting the opponent's attacking rhythm. The most ridiculous thing is that in the game against Phoenix, when Reeves was about to be cut off, Ham stood by and did nothing, and finally James called a halt to the game, which was a disaster. If Ham can't do that, then there's no point in him staying with the Lakers today.
I have to say that last season, the Lakers really lacked Ham, and he also needed Ham's coordination in the locker room, and he also had to convince Wei Shao to make him a bench player. However, all this has changed, the Lakers have regained that good atmosphere, they desperately want a quality coach, on the contrary, Ham's poor management has made the Lakers' morale extremely low. It's hard to imagine that so far, the Lakers haven't put their starting roster out there, their rotation is a mess, the role of the players is unclear, and the pace of the game is disrupted. Can you imagine Ham putting James at point guard and starting two open spots (Reddish or Vanderbilt) while his backup Vincent is out with an injury
Actually, I don't want to use the word "almost" because it's hard to find a team in the NBA without a starting player without a defender. Changed the formation, the Lakers had no vacant seats, no substitutes (Reaves and Russell), and completely showed their shortcomings in front of the other party, I think, as long as the head coach who knows a little bit of basketball common sense, he will not use the formation provided by Ham. Obviously, Ham is a burden for the Lakers, and his appearance has caused more damage to the Lakers, James has expressed his dissatisfaction with this, thinking that Hachimura's offensive rhythm has been disrupted, and the other players are not in good shape, so Ham's departure is a very important thing for the Lakers.