After the Lakers lost to the Grizzlies yesterday, Kan Qiujun summed up Tucker Jr.'s recent "crazy" performance:
4 points against the Grizzlies 2 of 7, 2 points against the Rockets 1 of 4, 14 points against the Nets 5 of 11, 13 points against the Spurs 5 of 13, 3 points against the Suns 1 of 13...
If it's not very intuitive, you can look at his outside shooting rate data throughout December - 5 of 33!
If you think that Tucker Jr. is still too young to evaluate him too early, then I can also tell you that this is the little Tucker who signed a 3-year, 30 million contract, ranked fourth in the team in total salary, and sent away Caruso in order to cultivate, will you still be so tolerant of him?
So far this season, Tucker Jr. has only shot 38 percent from the field and shot as little as 22.1 percent from three-point range, which is a far cry from the young man who was born in the Finals and was not afraid of tigers.
How much can Tucker Jr. get this year? $9.5 million! Melon, who also plays the role of an offensive player in the team, is on a meager $2.64 million base salary contract;
You know, melon, as a player on the verge of marginalization, can also stand up as a firefighter and shoot a few fatal three-pointers from time to time;
As the lakers' future rising star, Tucker Jr. is given enough playing time and shooting power, but it exists like a void at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.
For this reason, the Lakers also did not hesitate to let Rondo completely become a teaching assistant, and today they are ready to trade it to the Cavaliers, and little Tucker, are you ready to pack up with Long's guidance and be sent away?
So far this season, Tucker Jr. has averaged 10.2 points, 4.2 boards and 2.6 assists per game, but this is the data he averaged in the 28.6 minutes of playing time per game, averaging 10 shots per game.
Seeing the dismal performance of Tucker Jr., I don't know if there will be a team willing to recycle at a high cost, after all, the chip objects that were previously optimistic about The Little Tucker benchmarking are Simmons, Grant and others, and the Lakers are also determined not to let go of Tucker Jr. when facing the inquiry.
But after this season's exposure of this operation and data, Tucker Jr. undoubtedly directly beat himself into the same value as the league veteran.
In this way, it is estimated that there are teams to be happy to blossom, you say Kuzma is not ok, everyone can come to the Wizards can be Kerry Bill; you say Caruso is not ok, everyone to the Bulls will take the best sixth man;
You say little Tucker can't do it now, right? Hey hey, come to other teams is probably a good man again???
The end of basketball is "metaphysics", and sometimes we can't do it
At present, the Lakers' record has come to the eighth place in the West, and it is not optimistic to say that the Lakers can enter the playoffs is already a ceiling.
No matter how strong Old Zhan is, you can't deny the impact of age on his competitive status, and The Westbrook deal has greatly reduced the depth of the Lakers' lineup, resulting in people having to pin all their hopes on the future rising star Tucker Jr.
At present, the Lakers have some dilemmas, one is that there are very few people available to the team, and the other is that the operating space is really limited, especially after Tucker Jr. played this performance, the team can not focus on the free agent trading market, and the airborne landing of Grant or Simmons is even more fantastic.
Lakers, where is your future...