This offseason, the Lakers formed a big three lineup, with Pop, Harrell, Kuzma traded Westbrook, last season's Westbrook is the league's assist king, still has a giant level, so everyone feels that such a Lakers are still capable of winning this year's NBA championship. So at the beginning of the season, many news media odds believe that the Lakers are a strong contender for the championship, as the season progresses, the strength of the Lakers is not as shown as the paper lineup shows, in fact, this season's Lakers are just an ordinary playoff team.
What is the reason for the Lakers' problem? In fact, the main thing is the team's lineup structure, now the Lakers when the year of the player only Davis, but this season his play is also very sluggish, although the data is very good, but the state shown on the court is very soft. James is 37 years old after all, he also won the best of the state, you can't expect him to be in this state every week, and Westbrook obviously has no All-Star strength, but Westbrook is working hard to integrate into the team, and the other role players are either old or short, which is a big problem.
The well-known NBA commentator Yang Yi also commented on the situation of the Lakers this season in his radio, "The Lakers have played the back pot in the circle this season, and the back pot in the circle is definitely a grand scene, in my more than 20 years in this industry, I have never seen such a situation, that is, from the outside evaluation, this team now has no good people." Everyone has problems, in the past analysis of a team's crux and problems, generally focused on two points, this pot has never been turned in circles back, then you see the Lakers, at the beginning of this season, who did everyone denounce? The big guys denounced Wei Shao. ”
"Wei Shao's start was really bad, slowly Wei Shao got better, the technical statistics got better, Vogel began to come again, Vogel began to use faint moves, platooning and on-the-spot command, the fans began to scold Vogel, after Vogel is Jordan, jordan jr. What is your defense, how can you rank in front of Howard, you should let Howard start, he is munch and Tucker, these two are not working, say that the shot can not be scored, after saying the role players, the fans feel that it is not appropriate, or have to say big names." 」
"You still have to find problems from the core players, and it has to be James, an elbow to beat people Stewart full of blood, penalty down, well, this time we scolded all the streets, wait for him to come back to the second game to play the Kings, three-pointers 13 of 2, the Lakers lost to the Kings in three overtime, then this shooting rate is not bad on who you rely on, and then James will also back the pot." After James finished carrying the pot, it was thick eyebrows, drumming flowers, and finally I passed to you that you all carried the pot, can you run? Athletes with 24 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists also have to carry the pot. ”
Indeed, since the beginning of the season, the Lakers' athletes have almost all carried the pot, which is actually not a back pot, it is to point out their problems, in fact, everyone has problems, which is the flaw of this team's lineup. It is impossible that in the case of such a deformed lineup, the Lakers can still have an excellent record, which is really unreasonable. Now, due to the health agreement, the Lakers have signed a short player Isaiah Thomas, and the guards have played mahjong together, in fact, Pelinka also needs to carry this pot in the end, and he is also responsible.
There is no way, the veteran team is the problem of this team, because the core lineup of the Lakers is based on the veteran team, although the paper lineup looks really bullish, the fame is indeed very large, in fact, after the fight, the oldness of the lineup will appear without a doubt, so now the Lakers have the problem that almost everyone has to carry the pot, so can this problem be solved? It seems that there is nothing that can be done now, because the lineup cannot be greatly changed.