In the past four games, only one team in the league has lost all, and that is the Los Angeles Lakers. After four consecutive defeats, they became the worst team in the same period, and the eight statistics during the four-game losing streak ranked first in the league, and after the game, James's words were full of helplessness.
Let's take a look at what data the Lakers have become the bottom of the league in the same period. First of all, during the four-game losing streak, their offensive efficiency was only 96.2, 16.5 points were lost to the opponent in 100 rounds, the average score was 100.5 points per game, and the average loss was 17.3 points per game. The defense, of course, is not much better, not in the last place, but also the bottom.
Poor offense, mainly reflected in the three-point shooting. During the four-game losing streak, the Lakers averaged only nine three-pointers per game, tied for first-to-last with the Wizards, and the Lakers' three-point shooting rate was only 25.9%, ranking first from the bottom. Their bosses didn't improve on free throws either, with only 63.5 percent of free throw shooting, also the bottom of the line, and by the way, they were the only team in the league that shot less than 70 percent of free throws in the same period.
In addition, in addition to the above seven penultimate firsts, the Lakers' performance in taking advantage of opponents' mistakes is also very poor. During the four-game losing streak, they could only use opponents' mistakes to score 7.8 points per game, and they also ranked first in the league in the same period.
After the game, James said something like this. "We don't have any squad right now that has enough chemistry. The simple fact is that we don't have enough time to do this yet. What should be the arrangement of our starting lineup outside of me, Westbrook and Davis? We don't know. ”
Plagued by injuries and health and safety agreements, the Lakers have used 18 starting lineups in 33 games since the beginning of the season, the most in the league. The two most used starts were only 4 games, with 10 starts using just one game, including today's starters against the Spurs (James + Westbrook + Ellington + Howard + Tucker). No wonder James is so helpless, such an unstable rotation, how do they play a stable performance?