What is the impression of the Lakers in their darkest moment? Personally, I think it was the 2013-2014 season. The Lakers formed a luxurious lineup of Kobe Bryant + Gasol + Howard + Nash last season, but these four players all had different degrees of injuries, coupled with the elderly Nash, and howard who had a bad attitude at the time, resulting in the team not playing the expected effectiveness, almost unable to even enter the playoffs.
At the end of the season, Kobe Bryant played 48 minutes in many games to drag the team into the playoffs, and he used his outstanding performance to pull the Lakers back to the playoffs, but he suffered a rupture in the Achilles tendon, which became a turning point in his career. In the 2013-2014 season, Kobe Bryant returned to play 6 games and then paid for the season again, and fate did not take care of this Lakers team, and many players in the team had different degrees of injuries.
Nash, then 39, played just 15 games with injury and retired at the end of the season. The 33-year-old Gasol missed 22 games with injury... That season, the Lakers did not have a player with more than 80 appearances, only 3 players who played more than 70 games, and 11 players with less than 50 appearances, which shows that the Lakers were full of injuries that season.
On February 6, 2014, the Lakers challenged the Cavaliers on the road, the Lakers only had 8 players who could play, the bad thing was that Nick Young left the court with a knee injury in the second quarter, and then Farma left the court with a left leg injury, the Lakers only had 6 players to play, and what was worse was that the team's center Carman received his sixth foul and was sent off, he lay on the empty bench and became a famous scene.
Thackeray, who usually did not have the opportunity to play, replaced Carman, he was extremely excited, but too hard, with more than 4 minutes left before the end of the game, he also received his sixth foul, in order for the game to go normally, the referee could only continue to keep him on the court, but every time he had a foul thereafter, he would be judged a technical foul, in this difficult situation, the Lakers actually won the Cavaliers on the road.
That season, because of the injury and illness, the Lakers only achieved a record of 27 wins and 55 losses, and no team wanted to encounter the Lakers, but it backfired, and the Lakers' tragedy was now staged again on the Bulls.
According to reports, the Bulls have two players who cannot play due to triggering the health and safety agreement, they are Zach Lavin and Troy Brown, after the Bulls have 7 players who triggered the health and safety agreement can not play, they are DeRozan, Kobe White, Matt Thomas, Jawant Green, Derek Jones Jr., Dawthum and Stanley Johnson, plus Lavin and Brown, the Bulls will have 9 players missing the game, which is similar to the situation of the Lakers that year.
This season, the Bulls have become the dark horses of the East, they once achieved a good result of second place in the East, and also doubled the Nets, but after DeRozan's absence, LaVine was difficult to support, the Bulls suffered two consecutive defeats, was overtaken by the Bucks, and has now fallen to the third position in the East, and now another core player, LaVine, can not play, and the Bulls' ranking may plummet.
LaVine has averaged 26 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.2 assists this season, shooting 49 percent from the field and 39.1 percent from three-point range, and he is the seventh-highest average in the league. DeRozan has averaged 26.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.1 assists this season, shooting 49.8 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from three-point range, and he is the sixth-highest average in the league.
DeRozan is the player with the most total scores in the league at the end of the quarter, LaVine is also the top five players in the league with the total scores in the final quarter, whenever the game enters the decisive moment, DeRozan and LaVine will stand up one after another to help the team win the game, these two cores at the same time the absence of the Bulls lost the ability to decide the game, the remaining 7 players absent, several are also important role players of the team, some are the starters, some are the team's sixth person, the Bulls are really too difficult.
Originally thought that Simmons was reluctant to play, many people in the team could not play because of injuries and triggered health and safety agreements, the 76ers were the worst team, did not expect the Bulls to come later, becoming the worst team since the season so far, the 76ers and Embiid led, the Bulls lost two cores at the same time, and then the game became extremely difficult, hoping that Ball and Caruso could break out in adversity, let the Bulls maintain a good winning rate, and wait until Lavin and DeRozan returned.