The Lakers finally ushered in Davis's comeback, I thought that the Lakers big three could get a run-in after half of the schedule, but did not expect that James was absent because of the swelling of his left knee, the worst thing is that James does not have a specific comeback time now, the time for the Lakers big three to play together this season is not much, the three people have not found a good mode of getting along from the beginning, and now it is the time when the schedule has recently risen. However, fortunately, the recent comeback of Davis seems to have found a feel, in the last 4 games, Davis can average 29.5 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game, shooting 55.6%, in these 4 games, the Lakers 1 win and 3 losses, although the record is not good, but this is also a relatively good phenomenon for the Lakers in recent times, after all, the Lakers need Davis to play such a performance.
The Lakers need players to stand up and take on the responsibility of leadership after James' absence, and during the recuperation period, Davis finally realized his current flaws, he took the initiative to find Dudley to ask how to lose weight during the recuperation period, Dudley had lost 20 pounds without playing when playing for the Lakers, and the Lakers reporter also confirmed Anthony Davis's situation in a podcast program: "According to the situation I was told, Anthony Davis lost some weight. He spent a lot of time in the gym, trying to lose some of the weight he gained last offseason. "After losing weight, Davis seems to move more quickly on the field, his movements are more flexible, and it seems that the once familiar AD is back, and it turns out that Davis is still not suitable for use as a heavy tank.
Since Davis entered the league, his technical characteristics are also very distinct, his lower limb strength does not belong to the top, even if it has been playing for 10 seasons, but the thick eyebrows still do not have the top low strength in the league, he relies more on footsteps and his soft shooting feel to punish the opponent defender in the low position. Thick eyebrows are not like embiid, Towns and other low-level offensive interior line, he is more like a strengthened version of Capela, he is better at blocking and dismantling the next catch to finish, occasionally using the middle distance to score, the main role of thick eyebrows is still defense, his ability to assist and defend small belongs to the first echelon. It is with such defensive resources as thick eyebrows that the Lakers have established the defensive system of the entire team, and look at how bad the Lakers' frame of the mid-line is in the absence of thick eyebrows.
Commenting on the recovery process over the past six weeks, Davis said: "I think the main part is to eliminate the pain. After playing the pre-match two-on-two in Miami, I felt very comfortable. However, the recovery period was so good that I was able to fully recuperate and move on. Davis not only restored his knees to health during the recovery period, his entire physical state was also adjusted, and Davis re-corrected his head basket action, Davis even if he could not play, he was also trying to silently change for the team victory, so the state of these three thick eyebrows is not accidental, this is the result of his hard training, as long as the thick eyebrows will restore their head basket feel to the level of the past, the Lakers big three will definitely play more smoothly than now, even without James, The combination of Westbrook and Davis will also have different effects.
Previously, Davis shot just 32 percent of 185 shots outside the paint this season, and his three-point shooting percentage was as low as 18 percent, and while the Lakers have big three, when two of them have players who are below average, the team can't play an efficient offense anyway. People always only see Westbrook's poor performance on the three-point line, but Davis's inefficient shooting this season is also one of the reasons why it is difficult for the Lakers' big three to produce a chemical reaction, and they wanted to rely on Davis to open up space, but they did not expect that Davis and Westbrook were treated as empty, which did not help the team's offensive space, and both were inefficient offensive players. But now as long as the thick eyebrows return to the shooting level of the park, then the Lakers' offense will inevitably be greatly improved, and the thick eyebrows have begun to slowly find their feelings.
Although the jump shot of the thick eyebrows this season is not outstanding, according to statistics, Davis has also played a good performance when playing a large number of center roles, and so far this season, Davis has played as a center in 70% of the time. Davis, meanwhile, has a new percentage of shots from the basket since his second season, shooting 74 percent from the field, better than 80 percent of the league's players. Think about a thick eyebrow with a good shooting feel plus a high shooting rate under the basket, then he will be the top pillar of this Lakers, James and Westbrook can only keep the lower limit of the Lakers, Davis is the star player who really determines the upper limit of the Lakers, and now the Lakers' record has fallen to the ninth place in the West, the team is in a precarious realm, Davis needs to come up with such a performance to stabilize the situation.
This season's Lakers have really reached the edge of the cliff, the F4 star team in the 12-13 season played a 24-27 record in the first 51 games, 10 years later the Lakers gathered the Big Three again to play the same record, the team at that time encountered the same situation as now, Kobe Bryant in order to complete the promise to use his own Achilles tendon in exchange for the playoffs, is it now the Lakers to use James in exchange for all this? Honestly speaking, if James is absent for a longer time, the Lakers are likely to even enter the playoffs are very difficult, Davis and James have come up with their best performances, Wei Shao will have to work harder, the Lakers' big three are indispensable, as long as all three can play normally, then this team is promising, and I hope that the team will no longer be injured, at least let the lineup appear in the back game.