With a trade deadline of 10 days to go, this is the last trading window of the season and the final road to reinforcement for every team. It is foreseeable that the next ten days will be the peak of the league's trading period, from the championship team to the fish belly team will be involved in this whirlpool. The Lakers, who have been unfavorable this season, will be one of the protagonists before the trade deadline, and Lakers fans know that this Lakers are not broken, and if they do not change, then James's championship window will be completely welded. The Lakers are used to the sword side, can make a half bench in exchange for Westbrook, presumably in the next ten days there will be a big deal.
According to the Lakers reporter, the Lakers are trying to package Up Tucker and Nunn together in exchange for an experienced forward player or a space-type interior player. This news is a bit unexpected, and it seems to be reasonable, which can only be said to be very in line with the Lakers' operating style in recent years. Until Davis was injured, almost everyone thought that Tucker's position in the Lakers was unshakable, and the Lakers would always give him enough room to grow. It is precisely because the Lakers chose Tucker between Caruso and Tucker and offered a 3-year long contract that even people in the industry could not understand the Lakers' operating ideas. However, as the season progressed, the Lakers once again proved that their operations in the offseason were a mess — Caruso maintained a high level of defensive performance in the Bulls, while Tucker's performance plummeted and looked embarrassing.
The Lakers' situation has changed in a month, and Tucker has played the worst performance of his career - averaging 10.3 points and 2.6 assists per game in the season, shooting 38%, and since December, the total three-point shooting is 33 and 5, shooting only 15%. This unbearable performance completely wiped out the patience of the Lakers, which was aggravated by the team's crisis, and the Lakers could no longer be tough, so the Lakers decided to trade him. This season is Horton Tucker's third season, but also the Lakers expect him to be able to make a positive contribution, but the Lakers are obviously in a hurry, only 21-year-old Tucker, compared to most of this year's rookies are much younger, his consciousness obviously failed to keep up with the growth of his physical fitness, perhaps in the training of a season, the Lakers can harvest a young guard core, obviously the Lakers can not afford to wait.
Even if Tucker played a miserable career performance, his trading value did not depreciate, which is a big reason why the Lakers are optimistic about him. Unique static talent coupled with excellent physique, as well as a certain ability to hold the ball singles, and more importantly, young, this is the rebuilding team coveted young players, Tucker has the talent to become an All-Star player. Taking advantage of the fact that Tucker has not completely lost the bottom card, the Lakers should indeed take a shot as soon as possible, and there will be no shop in this village. At first, James wanted Caruso more, but the Lakers insisted on choosing Tucker, and they knew why they should do it in the first place.
Nunn is the saddest player in the deal, he has not yet made a regular season appearance this season, and he should have been an important firepower point on the Lakers' bench. Because of Munch's sudden rise, the Lakers have already determined the selection of the guard line in advance - composed of Westbrook, Bradley, Munch and Rivers, these players are enough to support the Lakers' guard line. The Lakers now urgently need a forward player to fill the height of the lineup, which is also an important part of Vogel's rebuilding of the defensive system, Arizalian is quite old, the newly signed Johnson is almost meaningless, and the Lakers only have to trade this road to go. If it's a striker, there's a good chance it's The Pistons' Grant or the Blazers' Covington. The inside players must only be included in the Lakers' legal eye.
This trade fair is one of the turning points of the Lakers' season, according to the current situation of the Lakers, the Lakers after the trade will only be stronger than now, because there are very few players in the league whose contribution value is smaller than Tucker's, which the Lakers can rest assured. There is also a possibility, that is, the Lakers directly took Westbrook to open the knife, but its possibility is very small, four years and four teams of young master Wei who dares to easily take over?