At present, the Lakers' record ranks ninth in the West, thinking back to the beginning of the season, the Lakers' operation in the free market, no one expected that the Lakers actually fell out of the top eight in the West, and many people pushed the problems of the Lakers to Wei Shao, but as everyone knows, the Lakers are in such an embarrassing situation, Wei Shao is only a small part.
1. Wei Shao is the problem
So far this season, Westbrook has played 54 games, averaging 34.7 minutes per game, contributing 18.4 points, 7.8 rebounds and 7.7 assists, shooting only 30.0% from three-point range and averaging 4.1 turnovers per game, second only to Harden of the Nets and Doncic of the Lone Rangers.
From the data point of view, the problem of Wei Shao is not very obvious, and the biggest problem that Wei Shao gave to the Lakers is that the support of projection, the lack of long-term projection ability of Wei Shao, resulting in the opponent's defensive tightening, and finally let James's breakthrough, and the thick eyebrows of the inner line have no offensive space, so that the opponent will unscrupulously pack thick eyebrows, reduce the offensive effectiveness of thick eyebrows, at the same time, let Wei Shao and James's breakthrough encounter more severe defense, these are the problems that Wei Shao brought to the Lakers, so far, the Lakers coaching team has not made good adjustments.
2. Injuries and age
The Lakers' current record, many people have ignored the Lakers' injury problems, at the beginning of the season, the Lakers' young players are in the recovery, from Tucker to Nunn, and then to Ariza, are plagued by different injuries.
James and Thick Eyebrow, as the core of the team's offense, also missed 17 games and 21 games respectively, and recently, Anthony, the most accurate outside line of the Lakers, has also been invaded by injuries, looking at the players in the Lakers lineup, only Wei Shao has maintained a healthy state.
Of course, there is also a hidden factor, that is, the age of the Lakers, the reason why the Lakers have been jokingly called "lake three collapses" and "lake four collapses" by fans this season, a large part of the reason is that the age problem leads to the decline in the physical strength of players, the loss of defense and offense, and being overtaken by opponents, which is also commonplace.
3. The Vogel problem
Before last season, few fans and the media would question Vogel's coaching ability, and so far this season, Vogel's coaching has been criticized by many fans.
Vogel, known as a defensive coach, has been at the bottom of the league in the Lakers' defensive problems this season, and many games have been overtaken by opponents because of lakers' defensive problems, and the loss comes inexplicably.
The most complained about by fans is the use of Howard and Jordan Jr., in the previous game against the Grizzlies, Jordan Jr.'s defense on the inside was almost exploded by the Grizzlies, even so, Vogel still gave up Howard to use Jordan Jr., after which, American fans and media are questioning Vogel's coaching ability.
4. The chaos of the Lakers management
Jerry West has not been known as the NBA logo man, but also the Lakers celebrity, from the player era to the Lakers management, West has made great contributions to the Lakers, but because of the exposure of part of the Lakers insiders, and finally canceled the Lakers lifetime season ticket.
The reason for these things happening, from West's expression, is that the Reason the Lakers are so chaotic now is all because boss Jenny Bass believes in some so-called partners.
And once the team management has a problem, it is basically impossible for the team to play a good game.
Looking at these four points, Wei Shao is only one of the smallest factors, and the remaining three points are the problems that the Lakers need to solve, and Wei Shao is just the Lakers' biggest back pot man.