Los Angeles - Lakers, the most beautiful team at the beginning of the 2021-22 season, after winning the league's historical triple-double king Russell Westbrook in a 1-for-3 earthquake-level deal with the Wizards, let the Lakers compete with Brooklyn - Nets, form a real big three team, and then the Lakers have signed Howard, Ariza, Anthony's old stars with a basic salary, making the Lakers lineup become extremely strong, and also become the league's biggest championship-winning favorite team.
The beauty of the Lakers is only in the strength of paper, and has not really been verified on the court, after the start of the new season, the Lakers have made this master of kings panic because of the civil strife between Davis and Howard, although the two are extremely clear after the game, but the gap has long been cracked, not a few words can be eliminated. After that, there was a discord between Howard and head coach Vogel, and even let Howard sit on the bench for a long time, preferring to let James play the No. 5 position, rather than using Howard, so that the atmosphere of the team continued to upgrade, and the morale of the Purple and Gold Legion was constantly weakening.
The beautiful vision is also slowly becoming a dream as the game continues to deepen, and the Lakers are constantly struggling in the midst of consecutive losses, followed by overwhelming discussion and questioning from the outside world.
The Lakers' record is not good, and the voices of external doubts have risen one after another. Both Barkley and Lakers O'Neal are pointing all this at Anthony Davis, the superstar player who once brought championships to the Lakers.
Barkley is even more self-justified that the reason why Davis back the pot is because the latter did not play the state it should be, looking at the game Davis played for the Lakers, averaging 23.3 points, 9.9 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, the data slightly declined, but it is not so unbearable, obviously the accusations of the two celebrities are a bit far-fetched. After all, basketball is still a sport of five people, but also includes the coaching team, medical team, and even the operation team off the court, each department has a different division of labor, the performance and responsibility should be everyone's, not overcorrection, just for Davis, the reason is only because he did not play what kind of performance, but who has to know what kind of performance, is Davis should perform, and the decline in data, and the integration and chemical reaction of the team are closely related.
As the lakers' meritorious coach, Vogel led the Lakers to win the championship of the year in the 2019-20 season, and also let the Lakers win the cup again after 10 years. In the new season, the Lakers introduced Wei Shao, formed the big three, traded all the new forces of the team, and almost got Wei Shao in a stud way, and the Attitude of the Lakers is obvious, the championship trophy, which is the purpose of the Lakers to draw salaries. However, everything did not go as the Lakers imagined.
The Big Three failed to produce a chemical reaction, and the aging lineup could not drive the Lakers. Wei Shao likes to push the speed and play a counterattack, and the Lakers lineup is mostly veteran, and there are not many players who can keep up with the speed of Wei Shao, which makes the Lakers fall into an embarrassing realm of polarization, so that the Lakers can not play a fast attack, but also can not rest assured in the position battle game, so that the Lakers ride the tiger difficult.
And all of this, ultimately due to the lack of Vogel's coaching level, it is inevitably a bit far-fetched, after all, the flaws in the lineup are obvious, and the team's personnel are also uneven, the core players in addition to James and Davis, almost all have changed, so that the Lakers' overall defensive efficiency has also seen a sharp decline, making the Lakers fall into collapse at both ends of the attack and defense. Eventually, Vogel was forced to leave the team due to triggering the epidemic regulations, and Fitzdale temporarily took over the manager's position.
Whether it is providence or man-made. Davis was truncated due to injury, and Vogel was forced to quarantine because of the trigger of the epidemic regulations, but in the end, the two people who were most questioned by the Lakers left one after another, and all this did not change the lakers' slump and decadence.
In the next 6 games, Davis was all absent due to injury, while the Lakers were in the middle of the showdown with the Rockets of the Fish Belly Team, relying on James' divine state to narrowly defeat the Rockets. In 6 games, James averaged 30+ data per game, and James once again incarnated into full strength, but this time James really couldn't do anything, he did what he could do, but the result did not change.
After Davis was injured, Wei Shao and the elderly Anthony became the last helpers around James, but the performance of the two can be described as unsatisfactory, and there is not much bright performance, Although Wei Shao played a triple-double data performance in 3 games, even the near-hand layup can make Wei Shao dunk, such a funny offensive choice, ironic, but also completely ruined James's efforts. Anthony also just had a flash of inspiration, occasionally using the signature move as a Lakers to cut 2 points, but it was only scratching the itch of the boot, no effect, and could not continue to last for the team.
The performance of the two is still so, other role players are not at all excellent play, almost the entire Lakers, only the pride of the past and James again and again impact, looking at the 37-year-old man so desperate, but still can not for the Lakers in exchange for a game of victory, lamentation and regret.
Whether it is Vogel or Fitzdale, the two head coaches have the same choice to abandon center Howard at key moments, such a tactical arrangement is incomprehensible, but also put the Lakers in a desperate situation. As a former Warcraft in the League, Howard has strong physical fitness and rich experience in the interior. After decades of career training, Howard has still become an old cannon of the league, and his experience is extremely rich.
Howard was also the Lakers in the offseason fight with the Nets, took the championship center from the Nets, but in just 3 months, the Lakers almost used this super center. In Vogel's coaching, he even gave up Howard for a while to let James serve as the center of the team, James publicly said in an interview that he had never tried the No. 5 position in his career, but the Lakers head coach insisted on going his own way. Preferring to exhaust James rather than let Howard play the starting center is extremely puzzling and confusing.
Recently, during Vogel's isolation, Fitzdale served as the lakers' interim head coach, although there were some games in which Howard started the game, but at the critical moment, whether Howard's performance was amazing or not, he would firmly press the latter on the bench, refuse to play at key moments, and once again let James play the center position. Such a bizarre lineup configuration of the Lakers has also become an important factor in the Lakers' loss.
In the game against the Grizzlies, Howard started the game, and at one point in the third quarter, he played with Westbrook in the third quarter, completed the air connection twice, so that the Lakers' offense was smooth again, and also completely activated the recent sluggish Westbrook, but after scoring, the Grizzlies made a timeout, and then Howard never came on the court, and completely exhausted the passing feel that Westbrook had just found.
In the end, the height of the Lakers declined, James served as a center, the physical fitness declined again, the shooting rate also followed the decline, the defensive pressure on the Lakers' inner line also increased instantaneously, the interior defense also frequently lost hands, the Grizzlies almost attacked the inside line with the ball, causing killing, the Lakers' strange lineup choice, so that the leading situation was finally reversed by the Grizzlies to win. The bizarre tactical arrangements of the two managers are truly puzzling.
Rather give up height, sacrificing James' physical strength than using Howard, so why do you have to fight hard in the offseason, is it just to prevent the Nets from getting it?
The Lakers' new season record has plummeted, and their strange tactics, as well as the strange lineup arrangement has an inseparable relationship, which is not a coach can solve, the entire Lakers management to the team, there are serious problems, they even in order to win the championship, once lost their eyes, such Lakers are afraid that only the once famous and old James.