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26 wins and 30 losses to the 9th place in the West, the Lakers' record is very unsatisfactory, who is at fault? Many experts and fans "meet" Westbrook, and as long as you cover the team's "itinerary" this season, three trials and abandon four people, you will find Vogel to blame.
A good deck of cards, Vogel can't play
First, Vogel's 3 trials.
1. Twin Tower Lineup. In the first 16 games of the season, Vogel had 14 games using the twin-tower lineup, Jordan Jr. + thick eyebrows, Howard was also able to play the whole game, the team implemented the three major interior line use strategies, the team won 8 wins and 8 losses, but the twin-tower lineup made the paint area congested, so Vogel began to change the strategy again, using the five small lineups.
2. Five small lineups. Starting with his first game against the Timberwolves, Vogel pushed thick eyebrows into the starting fifth position. Fans who know thick eyebrows know his two attributes: he himself is not willing to support the fifth position, fighting the league muscle man; in addition, he is not an Iron Man-level player, prone to injuries, as a result, on December 18, the second meeting against the Timberwolves thick eyebrow injured, since the absence of 17 games, the team's 7-10 record plummeted.
3. Super Five Small Lineup. During the absence of thick eyebrows, Vogel did not directly return to the big lineup mode, but directly let James play the five small lineups, the effect has been made clear as above, the team's 7-10 record is not ideal, the reason is very simple, even if James can assume the responsibility of the fifth position, but the gap in the fourth position he left cannot be filled, so the team has no defense at all, reflected in the data side: These 17 games, the Lakers average 115.3 points per game, shelved in the current league, only better than the Rockets, the second worst in the league.
Thick eyebrows against timberwolves suffered a knee injury
The failure of the twin-tower experiment at the beginning of the season means that the team's off-season team building concept is not successful; the thick eyebrow injury means that Vogel's strategy is wrong; let James play the fifth position to use the super five, from defense to record confirmation, this is a lineup that cannot be successful at all, so Vogel's three tests so far have ended in failure.
Second, Vogel abandoned 4 people in succession.
If it is simply to test the tactical system, Vogel's employment strategy can still be understood, and what is worse is that he has been in the "testing" stage in the use of players, with unlimited trials to "correct errors", which shows how unfamiliar his characteristics of players are, reflected in the team's game history, he has abandoned 4 people.
1. In the first 17 games of the season, Vogel has been using Bazemore as the starting number two position, as a result, last season in the Warriors bench 44.9% + 40.8% shooting rate averaged 7.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1 steal per game, simply can not be qualified for the starting duties, 32.8% + 35.4% shooting rate is only 3.7 points, 1.7 rebounds and 0.6 steals, Bezmore was directly abandoned by Vogel.
2. Rondo in the Lakers' 18 games, 32.4% + 26.7% shooting average of only 3.1 points, 2.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.9 turnovers, the record is 5 wins and 13 losses, as for the reason? Vogel often let Westbrook, Rondo and Tucker, all three guards who need to have only possession and no three-point shooting ability, be present at the same time; and Rondo was traded to the Cavaliers, averaging 7.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.8 turnovers per game, helping the Cavaliers who lacked point guards to achieve 9 wins and 3 losses.
3. When the small-ball lineup is not successful, it is reasonable that Vogel should restore the big lineup to improve the predicament, and the data shows that Howard has played for more than 15 minutes, the team's record is 8 wins and 6 losses, it is a trustworthy internal fulcrum, but in fact, in the past 3 games, Vogel has won Howard NDP again, and even against the Knicks, he actually used Jordan Jr.
Westbrook was DNP by Vogel
4. What is even more puzzling is that in the last 4 minutes of the game against the Blazers on January 20, Vogel abandoned Westbrook for the first time, and then continued to abandon the overtime game against the Knicks, and the final quarter against the Bucks did not let him play, until the last loss to the Blazers, he used The Rare Injury Prevarication to abandon him, the effect? The Lakers won 1 and lost 3, so today Wei Shao fired a cannon "against the Bucks to feel back discomfort, as for the reason, I am not used to sitting for a long time ..."
The three sets of tested lineups all ended in failure, four in succession, and the team's offensive rate was 108.7 in the league 23rd; the defensive efficiency was 110.2 in the league 20th, and in the minds of fans, there was no successful offensive and defensive tactics to speak of, Vogel is really not a qualified "cook" this season. A side comparison, ranking fan friends, cavaliers and Raptors in the East, Grizzlies and Nuggets in the West, is the player reserve really better than the Lakers?