Against the Timberwolves, James scored 39 minutes, 7 of 15, 3 of 9 from three-point range, 9 of 12 from the free throw line, and scored 26 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, compared to the previous seven consecutive games with a 30+ shooting rate of 50% His efficiency value has declined. Fans who watched the game could feel that LeBron was tired in the final quarter, he held his hands on his knees many times, but he still played a full 12 minutes in the last quarter, because he was the center of the team, Howard and Jordan Jr. had been abandoned, and his rebounding from the Lakers was worse.
The Lakers rebounded 28 times while the Timberwolves had 56 rebounds in this game. After the game, Vogel explained his idea of giving up the big lineup, saying: "I really have to suppress the big lineup, the rebounding is worrying, but we can accept that, before we played the big lineup rebounding also lost, but the small lineup can win enough offensively, we need to make some decisions."
Everyone thought that LeBron would have a lot of criticism of playing a center in the small lineup, but he did not expect that Zhan Huang affirmed Vogel's employment strategy after the game, he said: "The rotation in recent games has changed a lot from the beginning of the season, we have not accumulated enough time, we have been short of multiple players, and in the past few games we have the same except for Dwight to start that rotation, which helps us to establish a chemical reaction." ”
"It's beneficial to use one more set of rotations, Talon, Merlot, Trevo are back, we start to know how to rotate, the players know what to do, how we arrange the starter depends on our opponents, accumulating enough time chemistry to come up."
James has played three starting centers this season, and james has also been a small lineup center after Davis was injured, he has been at ease in the center position, tired is inevitable, a 37-year-old veteran to lead a weak team into the playoffs can not be tired, but Lakers fans are too sad for him.
Lakers Nations commented after the game: 37-year-old LeBron is working harder than anyone! This kind of selling power is reflected in the offensive and defensive ends, the defensive end of the basket, rebounds, the offensive end of the scoring, organization, assists, LeBron finally achieved the promise of playing from the first position to the fifth position.
The above picture is enough to show how terrible LeBron is, 37-year-old James, averaging 28.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 6.6 assists, 1.8 steals, 1.1 blocks, shooting 52.3%, three-point shooting rate of 37.4%, his data is better than when he was 17 and 27 years old.
Text/Yan Xiaobai