Although the Lakers' big three can come back, but the lakers are still difficult to stop the decline recently, they have fallen from the initial championship favorite of the season to the current ninth in the West, and now the Lakers look likely to enter the playoffs, which is still the whole team to maintain a healthy state, if one of the big three is absent from this season' Lakers' prospects will be even more uncertain. Especially through the Lakers and the current championship favorite teams Bucks, Warriors, Nets, Nuggets and other teams of the game, the Lakers did not once have the upper hand, almost all of them lost by a big score, and no one in the league thought that the Lakers would be a big hit to win the championship, their team strength has been ranked around 20 in the league many times, no championship team will be looked down upon in the regular season, it seems that the Lakers this season is another unsuccessful season.
And Wei Shao also did not play well during this time, not only in the game, but more worryingly, Wei Shao seems to have lost the trust of the coaching staff, the Lakers have been in many games in the fourth quarter and overtime key moments DNP Wei Shao, it turns out that the Lakers management has lost confidence in Wei Shao. In the past four games, Westbrook has averaged 10.3 points per game, shooting only 27.5%, of which only 2 of the total 13 three-point shots, 15.4% of the three-point shooting rate, 55% of the free throw shooting rate, although from the beginning of the season we are talking about the performance of Westbrook, but it seems that the course of the game is more than halfway Westbrook still has not found a suitable way to play by Zhan Mei's side. The Lakers' experiment to form the Big Three in a hurry looks like it can be declared a failure in advance, and it is really unwise to look back at the deal now, and it is no wonder that ESPN rated the deal D that year.
In the Lakers' loss to the defending champion Bucks, Wei Shao was booed by home fans for consecutive mistakes or missed shots, and Wei Shao responded in a post-game interview: "This is a sign of respect. My mindset and my thoughts about this race, what I can do for this race don't depend on booing. The most important thing is that I can use my talent and platform to help people around the world. I can only do this. "To be honest, I don't dare to agree with the boos of The Westbrook home fans, no player will ever take the boos as an honor, we have seen the away fans shouting at the opposing player as MVP, this is the biggest respect of the fans for a player, rather than the performance of their own players who have lost confidence in you as a sign of respect, Westbrook's statement is really helpless.
The Lakers really don't have a little ability to compete with the championship favorite team now, in the game with the Bucks only half-time let them get 78 points, the alphabet brother is a person to break the Lakers inside line, at the end of the half he with 8 shots took 23 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks ravaged the opponent, the end of the whole game Alphabet brother is 85% shooting rate slashed 44 points, 14 rebounds and 8 assists, the Lakers tried a lot of lineups, tried a lot of people to defend the alphabet brother, but everything was in vain, The current alphabet brother is really the best player in the league, and almost no player can say with great confidence that the single-defense alphabet brother. When the team tried its best, the lineup changed nearly 30 sets, the team's performance still did not improve, then it can only show that the team's players are really not high, the current Lakers are this scene, the team wants to use fame to win the championship, it is clear that the 21-22 Lakers have taken the star-studded F4 old road of the 12-13 season.
From the moment Vogel made up his mind to start DNP Westbrook, Westbrook's Lakers career can be declared over, and now he has gradually been marginalized by the team, and at the most critical moment of the game, Westbrook can only sit on the bench and watch Zhan Mei take Tucker, Munch, and Ariza to finish the rest of the game. The Lakers spent all of their lineup depth trades in the summer to the former MVP, but until now the Lakers still have not found the instruction manual about Wei Shao, the Lakers have tried to let Wei Shao do itself back to himself, with his own most familiar playing style to lead the team, but unfortunately Wei Shao can not use his own way to bring victory to the team, and at this stage the Lakers now gradually believe that pressing Wei Shao on the bench may be the way to help the team win more games. But how far can the Lakers' roster depth, which really reach the playoffs, support them? Wei Shao occupies too much space for the Lakers.
Westbrook has played 55 games so far in the season, averaging 18.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 7.6 assists and 1 steal in 34.6 minutes per game, shooting 43.5% from the field and 29.8% from three-point range. In the game between the Lakers and the Hornets, Wei Shao led the team alone, although the team ultimately failed to win, but we saw the familiar Wei Shao, who scored 10 points in the last moment to help the team tighten the score, and that game at the beginning of the game Wei Shao was also not very efficient, but at that time the Lakers could only believe that Wei Shao was alone, Wei Shao also knew that he had no one to rely on, and finally we saw the confident Wei Shao. Westbrook is a player who needs the ball in his hand, allows him to make mistakes constantly, and is a slow-burning player, and when he is surrounded by Ellington, Anthony, bradley, Westbrook is a trustworthy leader.
The Lakers initially wanted to reduce James and Davis' possession of the ball, and now it seems that this approach is wrong, you can't deprive the two of them of the ball to play MVP level performances, it seems that Vogel should have more courage to put Westbrook on the bench and enough shooters around him, when Zhan Mei goes down to rest, Westbrook can play as he pleases, of course, this requires a lot of courage from Vogel, and no coach has ever put an All-Star player with an annual salary of 40 million on the bench. And we have reason to believe that even if Vogel did, he wouldn't let Westbrook decide everything with the ball, Vogel is a defensive coach who needs his players to focus on defense, but unfortunately Westbrook is a player who needs to use offense to drive defense. Now for Wei Shao, he can only choose to believe, believe that he will find his self-confidence, believe that he will play a dominant force at the time when Zhan Mei is not there, and that is enough.