On January 16, Beijing time, after two consecutive defeats, the Lakers came to the away game to challenge the Nuggets, although the Lakers are already injured, but the Nuggets only have one Jokic is an All-Star player. Therefore, this game should have been a game of equal strength, but I never expected that the Nuggets could actually beat the Lakers by 37 points, and James, who had scored 30+ points in a row for many times, was also limited to only 25 points this time. The game was once very ugly, and James could not save the team from the defeat.
After the end of the game, the outside world's criticism of the Lakers continued, after all, the Lakers were regarded as the most likely team to win the championship before the start of the game, and now only the record of ranking seventh in the West can not even guarantee that they can enter the playoffs. In a series of voices criticizing the Lakers, there is a famous Zhan Hei who has started to spit on James in a different way, he is skip. Just after the Lakers' game, Skip expressed his opinion of James: James's defensive efficiency ranks 200 miles away from the league, and he is a player who only attacks and does not defend.
In fact, this remark also hit the various problem symptoms of the Lakers now, because the Lakers have no defensive ability at all, and even role players such as Jeff Green can get more than 20 points on the Lakers. This is also the lakers' biggest headache, they don't know how to defend, the entire defensive system is very sparse, and James, as the core player of the team, he naturally needs to be spit on first, so skip's words are actually not wrong.
However, Skip obviously reflects his prejudice against James in this passage, because he himself has not figured out where the Lakers' defensive ability is worse, that is, to directly say that James's defensive efficiency ranks outside the league's 200th, which is actually a rather irresponsible statement. If James' defensive efficiency is indeed outside the league's 200th, what about the other Lakers players? Their defensive efficiency is very low, and this is also because the Lakers' overall defensive efficiency is not good.
In the end, this still has to mention the absence of the thick eyebrow brother, because if it is not the absence of the thick eyebrow brother, the Lakers' defensive ability should not be so poor. It is precisely because there is no excellent defensive core that the Lakers cannot form a complete set of defensive systems around the thick eyebrows, which makes the Lakers' overall defense so sparse. If you look at James's personal defensive ability, in fact, his defensive enthusiasm this season is already very high, and many excellent blocks have proved that James is indeed very defensive.
And James is now a 37-year-old, and it's rare for him to maintain an efficient output on the offensive end, let alone maintain efficiency defensively. The Lakers themselves should not find Westbrook, who have no defensive ability, to partner with James, which will only increase james's burden and may further affect James's offense. Not to mention that James's career is not known for defense, skip's words are indeed deliberately black, but not black on the point.
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