The Lakers are back-to-back, the Blazers are also back-to-back; the Lakers let Westbrook, Anthony, Howard, the Blazers who have just cleared their positions, Lillard, Little, Hart, Ingalls and others can not play; the total salary of the Blazers on the court is $26.57 million, and the Lakers are $96.68 million... Therefore, the Lakers are tired, the other side is also tired; the Lakers lack major generals, the other side lacks more, than difficult, the pioneers are definitely more difficult than the Lakers! But it was such a game that the Lakers lost in Portland again.
Compared with the previous Lakers losing, everyone habitually let Wei Shao carry the pot; this Time Wei Shao did not fight, and then let him carry the pot is purely "blackmail"! It can even be said that in the past, the Lakers could rely on the cloth of Wei Shao to "cover up" once they lost, and this time even the fig leaf was gone...
In the past, when everyone talked about the problem of Wei Shao, they would generally mention two points, one is that there is no basket, which is easy to be empty, and the other is that there are too many mistakes. The Lakers' efficiency outside the three-point line is really good, but the mistakes are unbearable. The whole team has 29 assists and 21 turnovers, which is equivalent to an average of 3 turnovers per 4 assists, and this turnover rate is beyond the reach of Wei Shao! The result of the Lakers' crazy mistakes on the court is that the Blazers took 28 points by using the opponent's mistakes in this game, and the fast attack also scored 28 points.
Of course, the Blazers' shooting percentage in this game is actually very average, which can keep the suspense of the game to the end, indicating that even if the Lakers have 21 mistakes, they still have a chance to win! And the main reason why they didn't win was actually on the defensive end!
Throughout the second half, the Lakers' defense is very lazy, there is a problem of lineup collocation, the Lakers' lineup is indeed too small, as long as the other side is dismantled, the thick eyebrows are adjusted out, the Lakers' restricted area is completely undefended. Of course, the Lakers' defense is a bigger problem, in fact, in the attitude of the players, the most typical case is James! In this game, who James defends, the people he defends are all kinds of empty cuts and three-pointers. And after the mistake on the offensive end, we often see the picture of old Zhan not returning the pass and staying in place waiting for the next attack! When the boss of a team goes all out for the scoring in the last moments, and the defensive end seems so casual, what will other people on the field think?
It is not difficult to see from James's attitude that this season, compared with the championship, he is afraid that he pays more attention to the pursuit of personal data. First, because he is afraid that it is very clear that the current Lakers cannot win the championship; second, no matter whether he can still get the championship ring, it is impossible to become the first person in history, but basically lock the second person in history, then brush more points, become the king of historical scoring is not good?
James's attitude may also reflect the attitude of the Lakers team, even the management and bosses, to a certain extent. Although a number of American media and former Lakers player Dudley have broken out, Wei Shao was recruited by Old Zhan, Thick Brow and Dudley at the same time in the old Zhan family, and finally by the old Zhan to put pressure on the team, Jenny. Bass personally made the decision to get it. But the clear-eyed people are very clear, on the whole league and the worst fit with the old Zhan player, Wei Shao is definitely on the list. Therefore, even if Old Zhan named Wei Shao, should the Lakers' uniform group also resist?
The reason why the Lakers' uniform group did not even bother to resist, and even behind the emptied of the team's original defensive resources in the summer, it may be related to the "Lakers' internal palace fight drama" that broke out in the US media before. But there's another reason we can't ignore — is the Lakers' primary goal this season to be a championship?
In fact, the reason why the Lakers lost to the Sun last year was completely caused by thick eyebrow injuries. With a thick brow injury, he was unstoppable in front of the Suns; the offensive end hammered the Suns in the penalty area, and on the defensive end, his co-defense put a lot of pressure on Booker. And through the performance of the Lakers before the injury of the Sun's thick eyebrows last year, it is not difficult to conclude that as long as the original Lakers keep the main framework, and then clean up harrell's thorns, and make up for a small repair in individual positions, they are definitely in the first echelon of the championship.
Of course, old Zhan is already old, and the thick eyebrows are too brittle; during the simultaneous injury of Zhan Mei last year, the Lakers' record fell off a cliff, and after the thick eyebrows hit the sun, the Lakers directly collapsed... When the Lakers began to worry about the health of the double core, this may be the reason why they considered changing change for the entire group of big three. Considering that the Lakers' mini-middle class can't get DeRozan, popovich is absolutely unlikely to make a deal with the Lakers, so seeing DeRozan's current performance in the Bulls, Lakers fans can feel regrets, but there is no need to complain. And engaged in the post-"Zhuge Liang" perspective to analyze, in the Lakers at that time to kill the unwilling to come out of Horton. In Tucker's case, Wei Shao is indeed the only giant that the Lakers are likely to get! However, after getting Wei Shao, he also got Guago, Howard, Bazemore, Ariza, Jordan Jr., and Rondo to form the "Sunset Red" team, is this the configuration and age structure that a championship team should have?
There are too many Hall of Fame-level players, so that the Lakers have become the most concerned and eye-catching team since the beginning of the season; any news about the Lakers, the exposure will be infinitely magnified, using a group of big-name players to create a fantasy of the fans to create a championship, first sell tickets and ads to say, regardless of whether the results are good or not, the Lakers have earned!
The pot of "Wei Shao" is easy to say, but this team has no Wei Shao, the Lakers are all the same bad time, this season the Lakers can have any hope? The so-called "lower gram" is just a yellow sorghum dream!