They had high hopes, but now they are in a terrible state. The 2021-22 season of the Lakers and nets, the only two super teams designated by the league, each team has a real sense of the three active superstar level players, the Nets at the beginning of the establishment of the shaking of the league, has not yet started the paper lineup has surpassed the past Bulls Yesterday's Warriors, looking to establish a new dynasty, and in order to benchmark with the Nets in the East, the Purple and Gold Army has also established a super team Three 75 superstars can be completely comparable to each other.
Although neither team was successful last season, this season they were both considered to have the best results and met in the final.
The slow heat of the regular season is understandable, but it is unheard of if the strong team can gradually decline, not to mention that after suffering consecutive defeats in more than 50 games in the season, it can still hover in the 8th and 9th places, which is no longer a super team, more like some mid-level teams led by single-core stars struggling to get a ticket to the playoffs.
Not to mention the strong teams rising in the East and West, let's say that the bottom weak team that we have been laughing at in the past - the Cavaliers have sung all the way this year under the leadership of Garland and Le Vere, and even advanced to the top half of the East, to the fourth division! The Timberwolves, who had been at the bottom of the season for many years, were still dozing off at the beginning of the season, and suddenly found a feeling in the middle of the season, and the winning percentage soared, and the three youngsters carried the team into the seed candidate (seventh) to become a veritable big three.
Look at the Lakers and Nets brothers:
The Lakers have lost back-to-back games in recent games, Westbrook is one of the league's worst scorers, shooting 30% from the outside, and the overall 43.7% key to his ball possession is still quite small, which leads to the team's overall offensive efficiency is very poor - the team's overall offensive efficiency ranks 23rd in the league, and on the defensive end, his defender's shooting rate against him will be 3.5 percentage points higher than his average.
Of course, the Lakers still have many injuries and defensive problems that cannot be elaborated.
The Nets also lost consecutively after suffering injuries and problems, setting a record of nine straight losses and losing 10 of 12 games. Even more frightening is that at the end of December they were still in first place in the East, and now they are in eighth place in the division, and if we don't grab the last seat, we may see the most terrifying free fall in history.
This shows how important KD is to the Nets, and how other players are paddling, Harden has shot 38.7% of the shots in the past losing streak, and the outside shooting rate has reached the lowest 33.2% of his career, and has little impact in the game. Sometimes the data doesn't tell the whole story, just like Westbrook got a triple-double, Harden always got a triple-double, but only KD can win when the team is there, it's that simple truth.
The two most crotch-pulling teams of the 2021-22 season are the two super teams most anticipated by fans, and they certainly have hope, but it's hard for teams with AD and James to imagine that they can't make the playoffs (may Westbrook really be negative?). The Nets can only pray that KD will recover quickly, and perhaps it will be difficult for the two teams to make a declaration of the championship this year.