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After the trade deadline was not traded, Wei Shao finally couldn't hold back the anger in the face of the media interview, and began to shell Wolfe, as for the reason, the current seizure of power, and the last 21 games of the regular season during the Wizards period can be revealed.
Wei Shao finally couldn't help but shell Vogel
When asked by the media about his injury, Wei Shao said that he felt back discomfort in the game against the Bucks, as for the reason, he was not used to sitting for a long time, fans who watched the game knew that in the final quarter of the game against the Bucks, he was sat on the bench by the Vogel DNP. Wei Shao's remarks were obviously a dissatisfaction with Vogel's abandonment of himself.
When asked if he would play against the Warriors tomorrow, Westbrook said that his back is in good shape, which means that in the last game against the Blazers, his "absence due to injury" is just another way of Vogel DNP.
So why would Westbrook shell Vogel now? The three reasons are as follows:
1. The trade deadline has passed, and Westbrook will stay with the Lakers this season anyway, so he dares to shell Vogel and there is no risk of being traded. Of course, this is not the point, the point is that his confidence in his own abilities, and the way Vogel uses him is really intolerable, will be directly bombarded.
2. Wei Shao was seized of power.
After joining in the offseason, Wei Shao is full of expectations to show his fists in the Lakers, but at the beginning of the season, Wei Shao was gradually deprived of possession by Vogel due to too many errors per game, and fans know that Wei Shao's characteristic is to hold the ball and impact, driving personal passing ability, if there is no ball, Wei Shao will lose the impact, after all, due to limited personal projection ability, he can not adapt to the role of the ballless throughout his career.
What is more fatal is that if it is simply to transform himself into a ballless person role, Wei Shao can endure, but the subsequent fact, Vogel gradually deprived Wei Shao of his authority. In the final 4 minutes of the Defeat to the Pacers on January 20, Westbrook was first DNP, and Vogel said after the game that he wanted to keep the player who could win the game on the field; then against the Knicks, Vogel DNP Again; the last quarter against the Bucks, continued to be abandoned; until the Blazers, the name of the injury was completely abandoned.
In the face of Vogel's step-by-step seizure of power, Wei Shao finally couldn't bear it, and now he finally responded strongly, so did Wei Shao have the capital to question Vogel's use? We look at the details.
Westbrook has been vogel DNP four times
3. Westbrook's performance this season.
So far this season, Westbrook's 43.5% + 29.8% shooting rate has averaged 18.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 7.6 assists, 1.1 steals and 4.1 turnovers per game, although it cannot meet the team's expectations, but the overall data is not really up to the "deprecated" level, at least, he is better than Tucker, right? More importantly, the reason why Wei Shao appeared to perform unsatisfactorily is also directly related to Vogel's employment.
Westbrook needs to hold the ball, at the beginning of the season, Vogel let him play with Rondo; in the middle of the season, he let Tucker play with him, because both of them are also ball-holding players, and neither has a three-point projection threat, so Westbrook's role began to decline; and now it also deprives him of the right to hold the ball, even the DNP, and then Westbrook's role continues to decline, and the most important point is that the best way for Westbrook to play a role is to partner with a sports interior, such as Last season's Westbrook in the Wizards' last 21 games.
4. The last 21 battles of the Wizards period.
In the first 51 games of last season's Wizards, the team lost 19 points and 32 losses, they have completely fallen out of the playoffs, the trade deadline before the team brought in Garford, with the help of this athletic interior, Westbrook's performance in the last 21 games is as follows: 15-6
44.6% + 30.6% shooting rate, Westbrook averaged 23.2 points, 13.5 rebounds, 13.9 assists, 1.7 steals and 4.3 turnovers per game, leading the Wizards to a 16-5 record, and finally the team successfully broke into the playoffs and advanced to the playoffs. Note that the reason why Westbrook was able to stage a miraculous finale with Bill carrying the Wizards, Garford's 10.1 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.8 blocks after joining the club were indispensable, and now Westbrook is in the Lakers?
Westbrook carried the team into the playoffs after the Wizards' 21 game
After Vogel's experimental twin-tower lineup failed at the beginning of the season, starting from the first game against the Timberwolves, he firmly believed in the small-ball lineup and let the thick eyebrows play the fifth position; during the injury period, he used James to play the fifth position and played the smaller five small lineups, so that Westbrook had no room to play at all, once again accelerating his "marginalization" progress.
Vogel's poor use of Wei Shao not only made Wei Shao lose his original value, but also made him be magnified by the media with a microscope to amplify his negative effects, so the strong Wei Shao finally began to shell Vogel today, so is Vogel responsible? Objectively speaking, with James, Thick Brow and Westbrook, replaced by a coach at the mid- and upper-middle level of coaching, the Lakers' record will never be like this, 26 wins and 30 losses to the 9th place in the West.
When Wei Shao publicly shelled Vogel, and the trading deadline has passed, is Vogel far from leaving class?