The Lakers game made me very speechless, and all the people who have watched the Lakers game will feel very speechless. In the case of a good situation, they were "boiled frogs" by their opponents, and finally lost the good situation, which is really very difficult to explain. However, if you explain it in detail, you can still see the basic logic of the Lakers' loss.
The Lakers won the last game of the Jazz, I wrote an article to analyze the Lakers' winning logic, many people said I blew, I was a little surprised. I just want to analyze the logic of the Lakers' winning, so naturally when the Lakers lose, I will also point out their problems. This article is mainly about the Lakers' losing logic.
Against the Lakers' winning logic, in fact, their loss logic is very obvious. The Lakers have three major points that they have not done well.
The first is the use of Howard, and it begins to go through the formalities again, and it begins to rely on the state of the whole, and it begins to rely on howard's state.
In the opening game, when the Lakers played a block, and James passed Howard from behind the other side, I really saw the climax.
Friends who often read my articles can understand that through analysis, I found that James's habitual passing route is the flank and bottom corner, and his system is not a system that often plays with the center. That is to say, the Lakers often look like a small lineup that loses points, and it is also a comfortable lineup that James likes, but the composition of the lineup leads to inefficient output.
Imagine if the shooters are replaced by Ray Allen, Battier, Miller, and the ball carriers are replaced by Wade, Irving and the like, James' performance with the team will definitely be very good. The current Lakers configuration level is slightly lower, resulting in a gap in output effect, but James still likes this composition in essence.
With this premise, when the Lakers opened the game to play the center to break down the ball, I directly orgasmed. Because this is the most correct basketball they can play with their current lineup ability, James did not pass to the flanks or break through, but blocked and dismantled the inside line, which is not his common tactic.
Howard's role on the court is also very obvious, when he is on the court, the Lakers' operating logic is normal, and the opportunity to empty the outside three-point opportunity is vacated without the outside players deliberately making up the opponent's interior line. Speaking of which, many friends may have thought that the Lakers' third and fourth quarters are losing at this point.
Especially in the fourth quarter, the Lakers first appeared three or four times due to the outside gap caused by the defense of the inside line of sabonis, the opponent grasped it, and the point difference gradually approached or even widened. Then the Lakers continued the whole set of defensive strategies, continued to leak people on the outside, cultivated the Pacers' outside feel and confidence, weakened their sense of fear, and helped Le Weir score 22 points in a single quarter.
Throughout the season, the Lakers have often cultivated an opponent's three-pointer sense, or often cultivated the opponent's outside ball holding core, and this game is no exception. If Mitchell is slightly better, then the Jazz can still beat the Lakers on the outside. Because Mitchell's weakness and the Lakers were more rational and oppressive than the Jazz, they ultimately didn't let the Jazz find the feel and the way.
In this game, the first Lakers' defensive composition is unfavorable, and the Pacers are not as ignorant as the Jazz, they are implementing the correct concept on the outside line, hitting the Lakers' weak ring again and again, then it can only be the Lakers who are confused. That's the norm for the Lakers.
Because of adhering to the wrong offensive system, it leads to passive defense; and because it does not take the initiative to change this passivity, it is always fantasized that it can suppress the other party, resulting in the other party creating a gentle scoring environment. In a mild scoring environment, the Lakers' problem of no high-level projection points on the outside will be infinitely magnified in the scoring.
Howard is a lever of the fulcrum, he is the victory of the Lakers, even if the Lakers have a reinforced iron bone load-bearing wall, then it is also the most necessary to work hard at the fulcrum. What interests was Vogel maintaining to keep Howard on the pitch? I can only say who benefited the most in the process, who was the most suspicious, and beyond that, only stupidity can be explained.
The second point is the use of Westbrook.
For the use of Wei Shao, the Lakers are still difficult to see its advanced.
Use Westbrook in two directions: the first is to accept his high output while accepting his high mistakes, and the second is to suppress his ball to get your "right".
The second has a short-term effect relative to the first, but in the long run, it is definitely a stupid operation.
Wei Shao has a vivid vitality, the last game against the Jazz was very obvious, this time Wei Shao's full-time shooting rate is very good. But the shooting percentage is not good enough in the time of being replaced, and Vogel may use this to replace Wei Shao. This logic is the same as that of Howard in the fourth stanza. Because Howard was present in the third quarter, when the Lakers did not build, the overall sinking. But the self-confidence is deeply rooted in the reason, the problem is not in Howard at all, but in the overall attitude of the outside line.
My point is that since you don't want to use Westbrook at the last critical moment, you can, so please use Westbrook when the Lakers don't have James having Howard in the third quarter, instead of letting Howard play with a bunch of substitutes.
Everyone likes the "Lake Three Collapses" because the Lakers have a period of no Zhan Wuwei lineup, this lineup also appeared in the Jazz, but at that time the Jazz were also in a state of panic, a big loss of standard, otherwise they can hit the Lakers in this time period.
By the same thing, will the Pacers give the Lakers a second chance?
Instead, the Pacers seized the Lakers' chance to beat the Lakers like frogs in warm water. When the opponent is not as capable on the surface, the only way to defeat them is to create a gentle and beneficial environment for themselves, make the opponent arrogant, and make the opponent lose alertness and concentration.
The outbreak of Le Vere actually reflects the Lakers' problems all along, and they do not have strong single-defense sharps on the outside. The Lakers' only outside defense is the strategy of constantly changing defenses and supplementing defenses, and at the same time, when defending alone, you must follow a good ball carrier. This game, the Lakers still did a good job in the first half, and the problem was still exposed later.
It can be seen from this game that the Lakers' basic set is James, and the people who can promote the victory are Westbrook and Howard. Although the data of the two of them is not very good, the role and use of the method directly determine the future of the Lakers this season. After the game, James supported Vogel, in addition to helping Vogel resist the media, may also agree with Vogel's meaning.
If James identifies with Vogel, which means that there is a tacit understanding between the Lakers cornerstone players and the coach logic, then James always thinks that he can control the small ball lineup, always think that he can press the other side, which is an arrogance and is not conducive to the overall health of the Lakers.
It's not easy for the Lakers to win, in fact, first Of All, James has to make a lot of sacrifices to help others find their own rhythm. If you always want others to be in your own rhythm, no one may have a good future. Then the use of small ball lineups should actually have strict conditions and object restrictions.