The Lakers won 101-95 with the Jazz, ending their three-game losing streak.
Wei Zhong won the right to breathe for a short time with a dream return to Wei Shao's locker Gobert and the 2+1 who finally locked in the victory. Although it is the right to breathe, it is just not to be held, and even if it is not, it still does not prevent Weizhong from staying in the Lakers and holding a contract of 44 million.
The real life and death tied to this game is lakers coach Vogel.
According to TA reporters Bill Oram and Sam Amick, behind the Scenes of the Lakers, Vogel is suffering unprecedented questions, because they lost the Nuggets by 37 points in the game a few days ago, and if playing the Jazz is still this fiasco, this game is likely to be Vogel's last game to coach the Lakers.
Fortunately, the Lakers all competed and tried their best to win the Jazz, but Vogel's crisis was still not solved.
It is mentioned that the Lakers' top management will evaluate Vogel based on the performance of each game, and once the team cannot make sustained progress, Comrade Vogel will be swept away by a fluttering sentence of "You are a good person but we are not suitable".
In fact, for Vogel, the story ends here.
Assess Vogel's coaching ability according to each game, just like your leader holding a knife on your back in one hand, observing your every movement with a magnifying glass in the other, and saying to you, "Don't make a mistake, if you make a mistake, this knife will kill you immediately." ”
Everyone is human, and if they are human, they will definitely make mistakes. So what the leader really means is: I've thought about not wanting you anymore, I just need a seemingly "valid reason."
What is the Lakers' "justification"?
The team can not make sustained progress, the so-called "continuous progress" is to keep winning, the Lakers may always win?
It is impossible, the Lakers' lineup has no basis for winning, can attack can not be defended, can not be defended, one leg walking team, how to keep winning ah?
Soon after Vogel's coaching crisis was reported in TA, it was further confirmed by Marc Stein, a well-known reporter for The New York Times: "I also heard about the serious danger of Vogel's position, because he was not suitable to lead the aging squad, and he was also responsible for the absence of thick eyebrows, etc. ”
You see, marc Stein's list of reasons that could lead to Vogel's dismissal are all... Wonderful......
Not suitable to lead the aging lineup, the main problem of the Lakers lineup is aging?
Of course not, it is Wei Shao dragging space on the court, there is no space and still want to play offense, you can only swing small, put a small lineup Lakers This group of old arms and legs has no defense.
The characteristics and abilities of the squad are here, and it doesn't have much to do with who is the head coach.
Speaking of the injury of the thick eyebrow, I have always said that the fifth position that the thick eyebrow has been playing for too long will definitely be injured, but it is not that as long as the thick eyebrow is injured, the head coach has always put him in the fifth position.
Thick eyebrows hit the Timberwolves and injured their knees, apparently not because of fatigue, but because of accidents. Just like you can dislike Nash Durant, but you can't push Durant's accidental injury onto Nash.
Whether or not Vogel and Nash were on the sidelines that day, Thick Brow and Durant should be injured or would be injured. Accidents do not change according to people's subjective will, but accidents need someone to be responsible, is this not a strange thing?
So as a championship coach who also helped the Lakers revive two years ago, what is the real reason for Vogel's coaching crisis?
Quite simply, the Lakers' half-course record did not meet management expectations. There are three possibilities for not meeting expectations: first, the reality is normal, the expectations are too high; second, the expectations are normal, the reality is too poor; third, the expectations are high, and the reality is too poor, resulting in a huge gap.
What kind of people do you think the Lakers belong to?
After winning the Jazz, the Lakers won 22-22 with a 50% win rate, ranking eighth in the West, and last season the Lakers only took a seventh place in the West with a playoff.
The Lakers traded in the offseason, and almost everyone was not optimistic about the deal, because his incompatibility with James was obvious, so wouldn't it be normal for the Lakers to fall in their current position?
And the thick eyebrow is also injured, the existence of the thick eyebrow is the premise of the Lakers dare to trade to Wei Shao, because he is the master key, he stands on the fifth position to play a small lineup, which can make Wei Shao's space problems and the Lakers' defense be improved to a certain extent.
Thick eyebrow injury so far a total of 14 games, the Lakers 6 wins and 8 losses, although there is no 50% win rate but not far behind, this is not a further explanation of the Lakers' true level.
But the Lakers' management obviously does not see it this way, and when it was exchanged for Wei Shao, he said that the Lakers' management was betting on the upper limit of this lineup.
What is the upper limit?
From last season, the Lakers defense was insufficient in attack and lacked another ball carrier other than James.
Unchanged, must not win the championship; changed, there is a certain possibility, this possibility is called the upper limit.
So if the Lakers want to change, they have to make up for the shortcomings - offense and ball carriers, and they finally bet on Wei Shao. Since it is on the table, it must be rushing to win, and the expectation is naturally to compete for the championship.
It's like if you buy a lottery ticket, and even though you keep telling yourself that the odds of winning the lottery are slim, you still have a little hope. Not to mention that the price paid by the Lakers is not small, and the greater the price, the higher the expectation.
At this point you can understand why the Lakers executives are not happy with Vogel, my team is going to compete for the championship, but now it is in the playoffs. Of course you have difficulties, but didn't I pay you to solve them?
Vogel is too difficult: I'm a defensive coach, you get me a Westbrook and a group of fronts that can't be defended, the only thick eyebrows that can be defended are still injured, and you let me take them to compete for the championship? Why compete for the title?
So there is a situation: everyone seems to be right to stand in their own position, but the team's performance does not meet expectations, and someone always has to carry the pot.
Who carries the pot?
Of course, it is the one who is easiest to replace. Coincidentally, the easiest person to replace in competitive sports is the coach.
Comrade Vogel, the organization is determined by you to carry the pot, hard work!
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