Lakers lineup. The day before yesterday and yesterday, we summarized the half-season situation of the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers respectively, and today we are going to invite the last traffic team, the Los Angeles Lakers!
The situation of the Lakers is relatively complex, but we still dissect it from four aspects: trade rumors, the James Mei situation, free throw issues, and the final result**.
Let's start with the Lakers' trade rumors.
I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect that a shrewd person like Pelinka would be tripped twice in the same place, the year before last he introduced Kendrick Nunn of the Heat with a big wave of his hand, and last year he introduced Gabe Vincent of the Heat, the Lakers seem to be superstitious in the offseason in the past two years, the Heat produced must be a high-quality product!
As a result, the Lakers suffered from the Heat fraud twice, this Heat should not say that it is also lacking in morality, the wool caught the Lakers a team, you look at the cefHam, the brain is shiny, the head shape is similar to Ge You, after the Heat players came to the Lakers to report, they must first recuperate from the injury without saying a word, and when they come back, the Lakers are basically cool.
You understand very well that with Pelinka's IQ, how can he suffer this kind of secret loss again and again, I deeply doubt that this Pelinka took a kickback in the trade with the Heat, and chose to trade it for his own benefit?
The Lakers' winter trade window can be said to be full of rumors, from James to Russell to Reaves have been rumored to be traded, but if you want to say who in the Lakers team deserves to be traded, there is no doubt that the second fraudster Vincent, but due to the Lakers' experience, the rest of the teams are shy away from taking over the Heat veterans.
So the Lakers didn't trade Vincent out, you look at it now that the Lakers let go of Schroder for Vincent, this decision was simply stupid, fortunately, Pelinka didn't sit still, he signed *** Dinwiddie
**Now that he has played two games for the Lakers, you can clearly find that the game time eaten by *** is Christie's, and Christie's game time eaten at the beginning is Vincent's, and the same amount of substitution means that *** came to fill Vincent's vacancy, playing the second position in the rotation lineup, although ***'s shooting is close to the bottom level of the league.
But it's better than Vincent this season, **is a little better, and the defense also has a natural size advantage, so I think that although the Lakers did not get the third big man in the winter trade window, there is no hope for the championship, but Pelinka's signing of *** This operation can help the Lakers compete for the playoffs, and it is not too much to score 60 points.
Next, let's talk about Zhan Mei's situation.
Let's start with James.
I don't know if Lakers fans have found a problem, this season the Lakers have no game advantage in James, the top four teams in the West, just these teams in the first group of records, what Timberwolves, Thunder, Clippers, Nuggets, they are all forwards, and compared to the Lakers, they are all young forwards, you get to the playoffs, James and these people are competing on the same court, there is no way to compare with them.
If James can't play an offensive advantage, it is impossible for the Lakers to win in the hands of a strong team, so I think the possibility of a team with James as the first or second core to compete for the championship is gone, even if the Lakers bring in reinforcements this summer, if they don't weaken James' tactical position, the Lakers will still give it in vain next year.
Maybe some James fans disagree, you say that the Lakers have no hope of competing for the championship with James as the core? Who won the mid-season title? Who won the MVP in the mid-season? First of all, the midseason and the playoffs are not a kind of competition, the midseason is an encounter and the playoffs are a war of attrition.
Besides, the importance that players and teams attach to the midseason and the playoffs is not the same, you don't want to look at the midseason to win the championship to earn bonuses, it seems to say that this game is quite important, I told you that it is all small money, you win the championship, and each player will share 500,000 US dollars?
In comparison, if a player plays in the playoffs, the money he earns is not a matter of 500,000 or 1 million, and it is possible that the rest of his life can be directly laid down, isn't Vincent a living example? He got $1 million a year as a cow in the Heat, and when he came to the Lakers after the playoffs, his worth skyrocketed to $11 million a year, and he signed for three years.
So how high do you think the gold content of the mid-season can be? Can he compete in the playoffs?
Next, it's time to talk about thick eyebrows.
Thick eyebrows are now the absolute first core of the Lakers, I believe that sane James fans should also admit this, let me digress, with James's historical status, there is no need for some fans to belittle thick eyebrows in order to elevate him, whose team is the Lakers, does it matter? It doesn't matter if you don't win the championship or not!
We won't go into detail about the advantages of thick eyebrows, but two sentences can be briefly summarized, the answer to the No. 5 position in today's league, the strongest defensive player in the universe. But, but, but there is a fatal problem with thick eyebrows, and this question is not the first time we have asked it:
Thick eyebrows have not been cultivated in the right direction.
The current version of basketball has gradually been led by multi-functional interior players, you are like Jokic, Embiid, Sabonis, Shen Jing, they are all super interior lines who are both fathers and mothers, and the offensive and defensive organizations are grasped, but thick eyebrows are not, there is no problem with thick eyebrows' offensive ability, there is no problem with defensive ability, and there is a big problem with strategy and organizational ability.
This leads to the fact that many times in the Lakers' games, the ball is not as good as the thick eyebrows, and he can only follow the switchback run, so you say that if James retires, can the thick eyebrows lead the Lakers to continue to win the championship? Apparently not!
Next up is a focal issue, the Lakers' free throws.
The fact that the Lakers eat the referee's bonus should be ironclad evidence, and we have also posted two pieces of evidence:
First, this season, the Lakers have the league's lowest number of breakthrough layups, but they have made 233 more free throws than their opponents, which refutes the theory that it is normal for some fans to shoot more three-pointers and break less without free throws.
The second piece of evidence is the Lakers' free throw margin, which averaged 5 more free throws per game than their opponents in the regular season last season8 times, ranked first in the league, and in the playoffs last season, the Lakers averaged 7 more free throws per game than their opponents6 times, also ranked first in the league, this season's regular season, the Lakers averaged 4 more free throws per game than their opponents3 times, still ranked first in the league.
If you say that a team's free throws in a season are mostly accidental, we can also understand that it may be caused by size and style of play, then the Lakers have been like this for two consecutive seasons, that is an inevitable event, is it only the Lakers in the league who are not tall, not short, not fat or thin, and are most suitable for playing? Is it only the Lakers' style of play that makes it easiest to get free throws?
Finally, I want to talk about the Lakers' results**.
We still have to bring out the difficulty of the remaining schedule of the Western team in the United States**, the Lakers are ranked tenth in the West in terms of the difficulty of the remaining schedule, if you exclude the teams that can't compete for the playoffs, what Jazz, Spurs, Trail Blazers, we only keep the teams that hope to compete for the playoffs, the Lakers' schedule is ranked fourth in the West, and then the Lakers will fight the Warriors three times, and what's even more terrifying is that the top four teams in the West, the Lakers still have to play a round.
So, I think the Lakers may be unavoidable to play the play-offs, and I wish them good luck!