Lakers 90-108 Suns!
After Westbrook came to the Lakers, I said that Thick Eyebrow was the most important player on the team. Everyone should understand a concept, although the most important and the most powerful, although there is a certain correlation, but not completely equal.
The most important thing is irreplaceable, the most powerful is personal ability, and thick eyebrows are irreplaceable at both ends of the Lakers' attack and defense.
On the offensive end, he can go low, open up space, and shoot at the middle distance; on the defensive end, he can both stand in the fourth position and fight the opposing center in the fifth position. He is the key to the Lakers standing taller than their opponents in the small lineup and standing in the large lineup more flexible than their opponents.
So the thick eyebrows are now injured, how did the Lakers cope?
The Lakers want to let James replace the position of the thick eyebrows, which is theoretically possible, because James can go from one to five, but the gap between theory and practice is often as big as whether Qiao Biluo has a beautiful face.
The first problem is that James can't start with the thick eyebrows and stand in the fifth position, unless Vogel and Fitzdale don't want to do it at the Lakers, so jordan Jr. is doomed to be in the starting lineup.
As long as Jordan Jr. starts, the Lakers' attack and defense will not be comfortable.
First of all, the offense, take today's starter, Westbrook, Tucker and Jordan Jr. do not have three points, where does the Lakers' space come from? Is it only necessary to force James to play the role of a 3D player?
Speaking of defense, when facing the Suns' no. 15 block, if Jordan Jr. defends itself, he will inevitably miss three points under the basket. Jordan Jr. could only watch As Paul and Booker pulled out jumpers after borrowing single block cover.
Two bottles of poison, the Lakers had to choose one, and in the end they chose the former to gamble on the feel of the Sun's outside three points.
They made the right bet, and the Suns shot 22 three-pointers in the first half, but only scored 3 and shot less than 15 percent from the field.
It should be known that although the Suns' three-point shooting rate is high in the league, it usually only averages 31.4 three-pointers per game, the 27th in the league. They followed the Spurs' previous three-point route — not a good chance not to shoot to guarantee shooting percentage, but why did they throw 22 three-pointers in the first half against the Lakers?
Because the opportunity is too good, many shots are excellent vacancies with only air within a radius of three meters, but they can't shoot in.
Even so, the Suns still led by two points at halftime at 54-52. Don't look at only two points, but the Lakers are already shaky because with the stability of the Suns, wanting them to shoot another 22-of-3 shooting rate in the second half is almost less than the odds of winning the lottery.
So why did the Lakers obviously win the bet, or failed to get the advantage in the hands of the Suns?
Because the Lakers' own problems are bigger than the Suns' 3-of-22 three-pointers, their problem is that neither the big lineup nor the small lineup has an advantage in offense or defense.
Folks please note that what I am discussing here is not the balance of attack and defense in the Lakers lineup, I am talking about that even if the Lakers want to completely abandon defense to grasp the offense, or completely abandon the offense to catch the defense, they can't come up with the sharpest spear, or the most solid shield.
The Lakers put up a big lineup just to want some height and defense, but did they really defend the sun? The Sun saw that the Lakers put three points on the weak side, they went to get the weak side three points, and not shooting in was more of the Suns' own problem.
And the articulation section puts out james standing five, and even Anthony and Ariza standing five pure small lineup, the Lakers' abacus is to fight for the offense, because the Suns, whether it is Ayton or McGee on the inside line, the Lakers' small lineup can not be defended, can only look at them a pillar of power.
But the problem is that the Lakers' offense can not understand ah, whether James is in the small lineup or not, Rondo, Westbrook and Thomas Jr. at least two are always in, which leads to the Lakers' small lineup actually has no space.
The Lakers took the ball outside the three-point line to operate, found that the Suns players are still in the box with them, embarrassed can only see who will be on time to finally take the pot to shoot three points, throw in, not to shoot there is no rut, all are a hammer deal.
The Lakers played in the fourth quarter, and none of the games scored more than 28 points, and their offensive efficiency can be imagined.
After the thick eyebrow injury, the Lakers have lost three consecutive games, do you say they have a big problem? That's really big, both offensive and defensive ends are the problem; how big are you talking about? In fact, it is not big, that is, it is a problem of not being able to attack and being unable to defend.
The biggest problem may be in James, who has averaged 37 minutes per game this season, and has not played for such a long time since he left the Cavaliers, and on the 30th of this month, he will officially turn 37.
At the same time, he needs to do everything on the court: on the offensive end he has to impact, he wants to shoot three-pointers, he has to score single-handedly, he has to organize assists teammates, he has to push counterattacks or follow up; defensive end in the fourth position he has to sweep the make-up position, on the fifth position to fight with the center, card position, grab rebounds.
The Lakers are like a huge four-sided leaking house, James is like a framer, where the leakage of wind needs him to make up, to make up for the east wall to make up for the west wall, to make up the west wall to make up for the south wall, to make up for the south wall and the east wall to leak again.
Never stop sewing and mending, can the mounting pastor himself still hold up?
Why do thick eyebrows hurt?
One is because of his physical problems, and the other is because he is too tired, constantly putting things on a piece of glass, and the glass will break sooner or later.
And now that James has taken over the work of thick eyebrows by the way, isn't he tired? How dangerous do you say he is?
If James falls again, the Lakers' last hope and heart will collapse immediately.
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