On December 16, Beijing time, the NBA had a total of 11 games today, and now this season's NBA schedule has passed a third.
According to the statistics given by the local media in the United States, in the remaining two-thirds of the schedule, the average win rate of the Lakers opponents is 52.6% of the thirty teams in the league, the most difficult team in the schedule, but at present, the Lakers have only achieved 15 wins and 13 losses, the sixth result in the West, which is obviously unsatisfactory for them who are aiming to win the championship, but this is still in the face of a large number of weak teams, then the remaining two-thirds face more strong teams, I am afraid that their situation will be more unoptimistic.
And the trouble the Lakers face is not the schedule of this, the team's recent attempts at the five small lineups have indeed made some improvements on the offensive end, but the problem of defense has never been solved, the age structure of the lineup is too large, so that they can not always maintain energy on the defensive end, because they have James, they can still remain competitive against strong teams, but poor defense will make it difficult for them to play dominance when playing weak teams.
Misfortune and happiness depend on, blessings and misfortunes, the difficulty of the schedule is not necessarily a bad thing, the Lakers can find their own shortcomings through a long period of confrontation with the strong team, and may be able to improve their state earlier. As for the Lakers' city rivals, the Clippers, their situation is better, if they can usher in Leonard's comeback before the playoffs, the most reasonable lineup structure in the league, even if the regular season ranking is not high, but they will not fear any opponent, and the Bucks, the only thing that can stop them is injury.
However, if you think about it deeply, it is not difficult to find that in fact, so far this season, there has been a "big mess" situation in the east and west, in addition to the Warriors, the Sun and a very few teams are difficult to play a winning streak, the records between many teams are very close, there are many teams near the 50% win rate, and it can not be said that most of the opponents the Lakers face are strong teams, in addition to the Suns, Warriors, Bucks, the Lakers can force five or five to open, if you can find a chemical reaction in the second half, The Lakers still have a chance to find the state they want.