preface:
Lakers fans this season are probably the most uncomfortable, after experiencing the loss of the sun hammer last season, the Lakers in the offseason a large wave of operations, and finally formed a combination of westbrook + James + thick eyebrows, the Lakers' performance in this season will not be too bad from the book strength alone, but at the beginning of the season, Lakers fans gradually found that the situation seems to be something wrong, I thought the Lakers would change the downturn of last season, and as a result, the Lakers fought as hard as last season, and the strong and weak teams could not win. Fans think that maybe the big three are playing together for the first time, the run-in is not good, play a few more games just fine, the result of the house leak is in the overnight rain, the big three have not run into the thick eyebrows on the injury, so far the Lakers rely on James and Wei Shao with the only team to maintain the record, the lakers with a record of 21 wins and 22 losses in the West, many fans are looking forward to the thick eyebrows can come back quickly, leading the Lakers out of the predicament, but the thick eyebrow comeback can really save the Lakers?
The defense is still a big win
In fact, last season fans can see that the Lakers' defense has a big problem, as long as the thick eyebrows do not play, the Lakers' defense is like a fictitious, the details can refer to last year's playoffs against the Suns, Pope and Caruso were directly blinded by Booker, this season the Lakers exchanged for Wei Shao, the defensive problems deepened again. First of all, the defense of thick eyebrows is definitely the top of the league, and the defensive attitude of thick eyebrows is very good, but where he can touch the area, he will try his best to defend, but this season fans can obviously feel that the defense of thick eyebrows is indeed not as good as before, not that the thick eyebrow state has declined, but the thick eyebrows are really somewhat careless, the inside line is thick eyebrows, one person can use, as for Jordan Jr., fans are not even sure whether he can play the strength of the NBA, although Master Huo has always wanted to prove himself, but it is still difficult to entrust the heavy responsibility after all So the Lakers' inner line is only thick eyebrows, and only one person has been repeatedly tempered.
Secondly, James's defense is also unbearable to look at, James this season in the defensive end exposed the biggest problem is to appear a little careless, watch the game fans will find that James has appeared many times back to the defense is not timely or simply do not return to the phenomenon of defense, and in the position of defense James sometimes will be a little deserted, the opponent received the ball, James is still standing in place, can not say that James passive defense, may be because of age, some lack of concentration, after all, James is 36 years old, It's also normal to have some weakness on the field. Not to mention Wei Shao, whose defense is brittle like paper.
In the absence of thick eyebrows, the Lakers sent a set of five small lineups, but also reused Johnson, after all, he is the best defensive player the Lakers can find so far, the results also show that Johnson is OK in the face of ordinary players, but in the face of a little stronger role players, Johnson's defense will not have a great effect, the guard line Bradley defense can also bring some gains to the Lakers, but overall, the Lakers' lineup defense is still not enough, Weak teams like the Blazers and Rockets can handle it, but once they meet a team with strong impact, the Lakers' defense will fall apart. Therefore, even if the thick eyebrows come back, the Lakers' defensive problem is still a problem that needs to be solved as soon as possible, relying on the existing lineup of the Lakers is difficult to establish a complete defensive system, even if it is established, it is still not enough when meeting a strong team.
Lineup arrangement
During the absence of thick eyebrow injuries, the Lakers found a good lineup, and the potential of many players was also well tapped. First of all, the biggest gain from the thick eyebrow injury is that Wei Shao found the most familiar way of playing after James changed to play center, but Wei Shao's performance is still not ideal, so far this season, Wei Shao can contribute 18.7 points, 8.1 rebounds and 8.0 assists per game, and the data has undergone a serious decline compared to before, and the number of mistakes is as high as 4.5 times in the league, so even if he finds a familiar feeling, Wei Shao is not the previous Wei Shao. But there is also good news that the young Munch's offensive firepower has been completely stimulated, so far this season Munch can contribute 12.1 points, 3 rebounds and 2.3 assists, since the absence of thick eyebrows, Munch even surpassed Westbrook to become the team's second scoring point after James, he is also one of the few players in the Lakers with positive net efficiency. The key question is that after the comeback of the thick eyebrows, the thick eyebrows will definitely be arranged to start as the starting force, which means that the Lakers' existing lineup playing style will change, and I don't know how the players will perform after the change occurs.
The situation is not optimistic
Thick eyebrow comeback will certainly increase the strength of the Lakers to a certain extent, but the current situation is still not optimistic, first of all, there are statistics, the difficulty of the Second Half of the Lakers' schedule is the most difficult in the league, the first half of the relatively simple schedule Lakers are somewhat incompetent, the second half of the schedule is probably also fierce, and there are many strong teams in the West, the recent Clippers Leonard will comeback, after Leonard's comeback, the Clippers will undoubtedly try their best to fight for a favorable position for themselves, This is another challenge for the Lakers to compete for the Western Conference rankings, in the current form, let alone win the championship, whether it can enter the playoffs is a problem for the Lakers. So the Lakers are experiencing their biggest challenge of the season, and the team is full of uncertainties inside and outside, depending on how the Lakers can play.
summary:
At present, the Lakers face many problems, not that the comeback of thick eyebrows can be solved, but the payment of thick eyebrows will also involve a series of problems. At present, the Lakers' goal of winning the championship seems to be somewhat out of reach, depending on how the Lakers operate, first pull the team back on track to discuss the next plan.