Beijing time on February 12, the Los Angeles Lakers will challenge the Golden State Warriors tomorrow, this is the first game of the Lakers after the trade deadline, due to the lack of harvest in the free market, the Lakers can still only use the existing bad lineup to challenge the second place in the West.
Not only that, the contradiction between Wei Shao and Vogel still seems to have not been eliminated, in today's interview, Vogel bluntly said that he did not know whether Wei Shao could play tomorrow, and Wei Shao directly said that Vogel pressed him on the bench to make him uncomfortable.
Speaking about his lower back tension injury, Wei Shao said: "No, it is intermittent. I'm not used to sitting on the bench for a long time, then getting up and moving quickly. It stiffened a bit and then lasted until the second night, and the next day I woke up feeling the same way. So, in my opinion, it's coming from other parts of my body, maybe the hips or something different, so I want to make sure I'm doing everything that's right, making sure I'm staying healthy and doing my best for my teammates on the pitch. ”
Here Westbrook is equivalent to directly intimidating Vogel, because Vogel said in the interview between that Hesshao pressed Westbrook on the bench so that the team could be better. The conflict between the two will also become a time bomb for the team, because this season they basically still have to work together, and if they can't get along, the locker room will explode at any time.
What's worse is that in such an awkward atmosphere, the Lakers also face a large number of injury problems, according to the latest injury report. Carmelo Anthony (right hamstring strain) and Kendrick Nunn (right knee bone injury) missed the game; LeBron James (left knee sore/effusion), Russell Westbrook (lower back tension) are doubtful; Dwight Howard (lower back tension) and Anthony Davis (right wrist soreness) are likely to play.
The unhealthy lineup and poor team atmosphere seem to be slowly pushing the Lakers into a desperate situation. And the most disappointing of these is actually not Wei Shao, but Nunn. The Lakers, who signed with valuable middle class in the offseason, have not played a game for the Lakers so far this season, and according to the latest news, Nunn still has no specific comeback time, at least until Three months, he can't come back.
For the Lakers with limited salary space, their middle-class contract is a very important reinforcement resource in the offseason, and according to the latest news, the Lakers originally planned to sign Back Tored with the middle class, but finally chose to give Nunn, the result of this is that Nunn can not play for the Lakers, the Lakers' middle class is equivalent to water drifting, and now the Lakers are planning to wait for Schroeder to be bought out, and then sign him back in the buyout market. Such an idea is undoubtedly very humiliating, once again reflecting the incompetence of the Lakers' management.
So at this stage, if the person who should leave the Lakers the most is not Wei Shao, nor Nunn, nor Vogel, but Pelinka, as the vice president of team operations, he has been blindly operating in the two years of team reinforcements and reinforcements, directly destroying the championship winning team in 2020, and because of the unreasonable construction of the lineup, the burden of James and Thick Brow is getting bigger and bigger, which is simply miserable.
And now, there seems to be a contradiction between Pelinka and James and Thick Eyebrows, and today, ESPN Lakers reporter Dave McMenamin reported on the TV show that the Lakers had no impact on the end of this season's trade deadline. Dave McMenamin said: "Rob said he was trying to think about the short-term and future prospects of this team, and he was in agreement with LeBron James and Anthony Davis on not making a deal. But I was told from a source who knew what LeBron and Davis were thinking, and that was 'totally a lie.'" On Thursday, there was no dialogue between Pelinka and James, Davis, and no action before the trade deadline was not approved by them. So, the current state of affairs is that the Lakers' problems are not only on the court, but also in the 'consistency' between Pelinka and his two team leaders off the court. ”
That is to say, Pelinka has not only blindly operated on the team's reinforcements in the past two seasons, but also did not really communicate with James and thick eyebrows, but let James and thick eyebrows carry the pot when there was a problem, for the team, the players, he did not take responsibility, there are such people to run the team, the Lakers want to win the championship, it is really too difficult.