After the Lakers lost to the Nuggets 96-113, they have suffered 3 consecutive losses, the high morale brought by the previous 4 consecutive wins has been completely extinguished, the Lakers lost 37 points to the opponent in the whole game, there is no doubt that this is a game that destroys the self-confidence of the whole team, to know that the Lakers spent two full days before the game reviewing and summarizing the reasons for the last loss to the King, and thought they had made a perfect adjustment, but just when they wanted to prove their efforts with a win, In exchange for an even more humiliating fiasco.
The bad game also set James' second-biggest negative score record in his entire career, and the last game with more negative points was a loss to the Pacers in early 19, when James was also in the Lakers. James has maintained a very high winning percentage in the 1607 games of his career, and there are not too many embarrassing records, even if he loses, there are few such embarrassing defeats, but in the current Lakers for 4 years, he has won two of the worst losses of his career.
It's no wonder that after the game, James didn't choose to be interviewed by the media and walked straight back to the locker room, which is the third time this season that James has refused to be interviewed after the game, and such a frequent number of times is also rare in his career. And worst of all, James' body language on the pitch this game was very frustrating, and there were many times when he was not very active when he went back to defense. This is a very dangerous signal, it is obvious that now James's mentality has been so greatly affected, even James such a strong heart seems to have some collapse, you can imagine how bad the State of the Lakers is now.
In this game, the Lakers performed very poorly on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, whether it was the outside defense or the inside line guard frame was a paper paste. The entire game had opponents throw 23 three-pointers with a 57.5 percent shooting percentage. Although the Nuggets' shooting feel in this game is really good, but the Lakers' own defense is the root cause of all this, they gave the opponent too many opportunities, only Hyland shot 10 three-pointers in this game, and most of them are empty. This game also proves the level of this Lakers team today, they have not won a team with a winning percentage of more than 50% for a long time, even against weak teams, they need James to win, which is a very unhealthy model.
While the Lakers still have players like Davis and Nunn who haven't returned, they shouldn't have handed over such a report card with two top-paid players. This game Wei Shao's performance is decent, but it can't be described well, and some inherent problems are still not solved. Today's Lakers have reached a rather dangerous situation, their second half of the season schedule will be one of the most difficult in the league, the opponent's average win rate reached 53%, if they can't quickly find the state of winning, today's Lakers may not even be able to make the playoffs.
It is worth mentioning that after the game, Lakers celebrity magician Johnson even directly named Lakers owner Jenny Bass on social media, hoping that she could make changes as soon as possible. In fact, the Lakers' dilemma this season is caused by Jenny Bath, according to the latest news, the Lakers in the offseason to introduce Wei Shao is completely Jenny Bass's own vote decision, James, Davis and even Pelinka actually want DeRozan more, but Jenny Bass obviously does not understand the ball and loves blind operation, and finally killed the Lakers. Many fans also said that if the Lakers still have a trade next, Jenny Bath still does not intervene.