The Lakers have been criticized by many people after the game against the Nuggets, and even the team's legendary celebrity Magic Johnson has slammed the team's performance on social media.
Former NBA player Kwame Brown also expressed his dissatisfaction with the Lakers' rotation arrangement that did not give the interior players enough opportunities:
"You don't always have a steady performance outside the three-point line, and when the three-pointer doesn't work, I know the big guys need to show something, but they're not needed, they know you're not using their strengths in the right way."
"Dwight Howard, poor Howard, he's sitting on the cold bench, I don't know what that's like."
So far this season, the Lakers have really not given Dwight Howard enough playing time, and even in the lakers' last 12 games, Howard has only averaged 14.4 minutes per game, and has been DNP in 4 games.
On the other hand, it is reported that the Lakers have officially reached a third 10-day short contract with Stanley Johnson, considering that the Lakers signed two 10-day short contracts after signing a 10-day short contract with Johnson with difficult exceptions, which also means that the Lakers need to give Johnson only a standard contract after the contract ends or let him leave the team:
While playing for the Lakers, Johnson averaged 20.3 minutes per game and had 5.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.1 assists. There is no doubt that Johnson is also an important part of the Lakers' offensive and defensive ends.
Finally, former NBA player Festus Ezelli questioned some of the Lakers' operations in recent years on social media, because the Lakers have abandoned young players such as Ball, Caruso, Ingram, Randall and Hart in recent years, and some of these players can even play near-All-Star performances:
Among the above players, while there is indeed nothing wrong with abandoning Ball, Ingram, Randall and Hart, it is indeed a disappointing move for Lakers fans to let the team go of Caruso this offseason.