The NBA regular season continues, and today the Lakers traveled to the road to challenge the Nets. In the end, they won 106-96 against the Nets. This game Davis ushered in a comeback. He had 8 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in limited playing time, including 4 blocks. James had 33 points, seven rebounds and six assists. The reason why the Lakers can win today, the play of the bench players is also crucial, and today Anthony and Munch continued to maintain a very good performance. Munch scored 22 points on 6-of-12 shooting from outside the three-point line. This score is also second only to James in the Lakers.
Although Munch came off the bench today, he still played a very good performance, and Munch's performance this season is also obvious to all, so far he can average 12.1 points per game, and his three-point shooting rate has reached 41%. You must know that after the end of last season, he signed a one-year salary contract with the Lakers, and now it is a very profitable deal for the Lakers to get Munch, and now Munch's performance is fully worthy of a contract with an annual salary of tens of millions.
What we can expect is that once the season is over, the Lakers will immediately reach a contract extension with Munch, which is almost a foregone conclusion. Munch deserves a bigger contract, and now he has formed a very good on-court connection with James, as if he were jr Smith before. At James's side he played the role of a guard with a knife.
Traditionally, we've defined Munch as a player who catches and shoots, but this season at the Lakers he's been equally effective in holding the ball. When the team is in a scoring drought, he can even be a main point of attack and complete the scoring on the court autonomously, which is very important for the Lakers. The Lakers have to think about it later, Munch is very young, according to his style of play he can be a qualified starter of the team, or a qualified sixth-man player. He could even serve as a player in the Lakers' long-term planning for the future.
We can clearly feel that Munch will get more opportunities to play around James. And in the top team like the Lakers, he is more and more confident the more he plays. The Lakers' veteran players may gradually fade out of the league in the next few seasons. For example, Anthony, Ariza, etc., but a player like Munch can continue to be James's right-hand man.