After the Lakers lost to the Warriors, they defeated the Spurs led by Wembanyama, a weak team in the West, in back-to-back; As far as the game itself goes, there's really not much that can be said:
The Spurs are determined to be rotten, and even Sochan, who looks like he has little potential, has entrusted him with important responsibilities and once gave him point guard duties; This game still led the defense of James, allowing James to score 30 points; Wembanyama and Thick Eyebrows complement each other, and no one can prevent anyone.
The game was a crushing game, and the score gap in the fourth quarter was not large, but Ham was not on the thick eyebrows, and James played 12 minutes before resting; The Spurs also cooperated tacitly, played unhurriedly, and finally lost by 5 points.
Ham finally learned to take a rotational break, and knew that when he was back-to-back, he had to play against the weaker team, the Spurs, and the Warriors had a rotational rest of James.
The interesting thing about this game is that the Lakers shot 40With a 7% three-point shooting rate, it is natural to win.
Let's also talk about the Lakers' weird three-point shooting percentage!
The Lakers are a team with average three-point shooting, 369%, 14th in the league. And the Lakers' interior offense is 553 points, 2nd in the league, 605%, 3rd in the league.
This also means that opponents will do their best to block the Lakers' interior offense (including break-through and low-post offense), which will take a lot of shrinkage and even joint defense. This Spurs also got a lot of them.
Because of their lack of confidence in overall shooting, the Lakers averaged 30 three-point shots per game7 (The lowest in the league, the top of the list can be as high as 42.)8), hitting 11 per game3 (27th in the league, 16th in the top of the league.)4), 3-pointers accounted for 29% of points (29th in the league). It's clear that the three-point is the Lakers' auxiliary tactic.
Let's take another interesting statistic, the Lakers won 39 three-point shooting6%, and the three-point shooting percentage in the negative game is only 338%, and the difference between winning and losing the shooting percentage is 58%, 14th in the league. But when you consider the number of three-point shots and shots made by the Lakers, the difference in shooting percentage is really staggering.
This implies the winning logic of the Lakers:
You are separated from the three, the offensive space is suddenly opened, the interior offense is also on the spectrum, naturally blossoming inside and outside, even the defense is strong, and even playing a strong team (such as the Celtics) does not fall behind and wins.
If the three points are sluggish, you are easy to lose, not completely unable to win, but difficult as struggling in the mud. In the game against the Warriors, the Lakers' three-point shooting percentage returned to the standard of 286%, the Lakers can only rely on the basket to play with the Warriors, the Warriors' three-point shooting rate is as high as 39%, and they also blossom inside and outside, scoring 58 points inside (the same as the Lakers), and the Lakers can only disarm.
But when will the three points be opened? The feel doesn't last, it's all up to God's dice. So you see a situation where the Lakers are playing everyone.
And the three-point shooting number is too low, which makes it difficult for the Lakers to score high to win, which produces the strange phenomenon of the Lakers "simply lose, hard to win".
What's the problem? It is also missing from the Lakers' offensive system.
Coach Hamm will only play "more ball-holding points", and the ball-holding points will take turns to block and dismantle with thick eyebrows to output offense, and this one can't hit that top. The more points of possession the ball are on the court, the better.
When the team has 4 points with the ball, he can maintain 2 4 players on the court with the ball and block and dismantle. That's why in '23 he was obsessed with the "back three", so that with James, the team had four possession points. When he has enough ball-handling points, he can sometimes play at the level of "Sporo Viz", such as in the 23 season playoffs vs. Grizzlies and Warriors.
When the team has 3 ball points, it has to be a single point of possession for a period of time, and the offense is often paralyzed; If there is a break in the ball and there are only 2 points left to attack, the attack is even more sluggish.
That's been the case for most of the season, which is why the Lakers' overall offensive efficiency isn't as high (now 114.).4, 18th in the league).
Ham has made some adjustments, allowing thick eyebrows to respond in the corner position, low post, and even holding the ball for half of the court (after all, a guard is born) to increase the number of ball handlers, and the number of assists this season has hit a new high in the Lakers period, probably because of this.
Dinwiddie's joining is really in line with Hamm's appetite. In the first game he came, Ham couldn't wait to pull the "back three" out of his trouser pocket.
However, Ding Ji often smoked in the bottom corner of the court, and his projection was of a worrying level, so Ding Ji did not perform well.
The extravagant multi-ball handler still gives Ham a sense of security.
Obsessed with a large number of ball-holding points, due to the lack of offensive system, the Lakers do not have weak-side running and off-ball cover tactics, let alone passing and cutting tactics, they can only take turns to block and dismantle, this is the situation of "one play four looks" and "two plays and three looks", which requires a large number of ball carriers to be present.
As a sign of the offensive system, the Lakers use the off screen with a frequency of 22% (27th in the league) and 24 (27th in the Union).
If the offensive tactical system is not good, the shooter will inevitably fall into a situation of playing iron when he comes to the Lakers.
So I have a friend who wants to spray, why give Prince a chance to handle the ball? In fact, the "one play four looks" and "two hits three looks" system is not good, and then Prince can't stand and wait for the ball to shoot three points, and sometimes he has to dribble to find his touch, but he dribbles too .........
PS: As an analogy, the Lakers only had James Rondo as two ball-handlers on the court in the 20 season, relying on the weak side of Danny Green and Pope to make a strong and weak side of the whole coordination (not considering the rematch period, the offensive efficiency of the regular season was as high as 4th in the league).
And Ham is still a defensive coach at heart, and likes defensive players like Van der Biao and Reddish, and if they weren't injured, Hachimura wouldn't have given them a chance.
He used offensive players very poorly, such as Russell and Hachimura, who spent most of the season sparsely and sparsely chopped time, causing them to slump, so the locker room crisis broke out. At this stage, Ham gave guaranteed time, and they produced a stable performance, and the Lakers' record picked up; Wood is already DNP, and any fluid in his left knee will have little impact on the Lakers, but Hayes has had some chances.
The Lakers are now at the bottom of the league in offensive and defensive efficiency, and at this stage, they reused Hachimura and Russell to increase the proportion of offense and make the offense pick up, but that's it.
In short, give up the Lakers' expectations and respect the fate of the team! The next focus is on whether the Suns, Lakers and Warriors can appear in the play-offs at the same time. This alliance has made a lot of money!