February 11 is the NBA trade deadline, and on this day there have been a lot of heavy trades, the most important thing is Harden and Simmons swap owners, it seems that the previous rumors are not false, Harden really chose to join forces with Embiid this season, and the jaw-dropping King sent away their founding cornerstone Halliburton, the Blazers' two-gun era has also completely ended, the Lone Ranger's duo has also ended, it can be said that the situation of each team has become very complicated after the trade day, But overall, some teams have now taken on a new look. But this does not include the Lakers, according to previous reports Lakers and a number of teams planning a deal, expecting to change the existing lineup through the transaction, they are not satisfied with the status of the team, but the Lakers are one of the few teams that have not made lineup changes, including the Warriors, Lakers, Knicks, Heat and other teams.
Speaking about the team's failure to complete the trade, Pelinka said: "We've been very positive in a lot of conversations trying to improve this team. You can't force other teams to make a deal that improves your team, it's up to them. We always wanted to put this team in the best position to win the championship, but ultimately didn't find a deal that had a positive impact on the team's short- and long-term success. Both of these things we have to consider. Pelinka said LeBron James and Anthony Davis understood the fact that the team could not complete the deal due to the high asking price. In fact, in the early days, there was news that due to the lack of chips in the hands of the Lakers, they are likely to spend the trade deadline quietly, and now it seems that sure enough, the Lakers' Horton Tucker, Nunn, Westbrook three players who are deeply involved in rumors will play for the Lakers in the remaining 31 games.
The Lakers now want to strengthen the only way to strengthen the market, but this can only be a drop in the bucket, it is difficult to have a very capable player in the buyout market for the Lakers to choose, most of them are the marginal people of the championship team, and they also have very obvious technical defects, so if you want to rely on the buyout market to strengthen, it can only be a small repair, and can not bring changes to the Lakers in essence. The Lakers are very active before the trade deadline, the news revealed that they tried to contact a number of teams, with Horton Tucker + Nunn + 27 years of the first round of signing offers, and even at one point there was news that the Lakers, Knicks and Raptors could almost finalize a three-way deal, Carme Redish and Alex Burks two flankers were expected to join the Lakers, but due to draft rights issues, the deal was ultimately not completed. And the Lakers have used this chip to quote almost all teams, but unfortunately these chips are not as good as others.
Now the Lakers can only rely on this lineup, the rest of the season will use these players to complete the game, although the Lakers players' uneasiness has been simmering in the locker room for weeks, but they can not make any changes. Despite the recent strong performances of LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the Lakers players are increasingly worried that the team's roster is not working. Key players in the squad believe that the squad is unlikely to return the team to a winning season. Now the instability of the Lakers players has spread to the entire team, at the beginning of the season Anthony and Rondo's this season is the failure of the statement is more and more pale, the veterans of the new season of the expectations are too optimistic, we think of the incompatibility of Westbrook and James, but did not expect the effect of the big three will be so poor, and for the Westbrook Lakers sacrificed all their lineup depth, now the team can only go hard.
People think that not letting Westbrook play will bring victory to this Lakers, but the team led by Zhan Mei and the two did not even win the Blazers, the Blazers' double guns were not present, and the team also underwent a lot of transactions, and the current Blazers paper strength is the countdown to the West, but the Lakers still failed to win, which shows that the team's problem now is not Wei Shao alone. They lost too much of the championship team's heritage, although the Lakers still did not have a big gain in the free market in the 19-20 season, and even missed a lot of good players because of waiting for Leonard, but it was such a patchwork team that finally won the championship, they did not rely on the third big, but the strength of the team. At that time, the Lakers' defensive efficiency was the 1st in the West and the 4th in the league, but now the Lakers' defense is like a paper paste, which cannot be blamed on head coach Vogel, the Lakers lost too many defensive resources in the offseason, and there is naturally no counterattack and opportunity without defense.
Looking at the few defensive players in the Lakers' lineup who can come up with their hands, James is of course getting older, he can't compare with two years ago, and in addition to Westbrook's poor performance, Davis this season is also unable to compare with the past. Davis in the 19-20 season is the core of the Lakers' defense, but at the same time he has a good shooting feel, he can end with a jump shot when James is strictly guarded, but now Davis's jump shot efficiency is very bad, it can be said that now dragging down the team's offensive space is not only One person, Davis is on the offensive end like Westbrook, he can not open up space for the team. Although the Lakers now ostensibly have the Big Three, but in fact only James is playing normally, if Davis's state this season is 70% of the 19-20 season, the team will not be like this, and it turns out that Davis is not a perfect five-position choice, and the small lineup cannot be used for a long time.
The first and foremost of all the problems is naturally the 44 million Wei Shao, he takes the highest salary in the whole team, but he has not played the best level of the whole team, then Wei Shao he is naturally the biggest trouble today, if his salary is only half of today, the fans will not blame him too much. Now that Westbrook is left behind, fans can only pray that Westbrook will be slightly better than he is now in the remaining 31 games, at least his shots are not as outrageous as they are now, as long as he can find a little crosshair, the Lakers are not hopeless, at least the team can guarantee to enter the playoffs. It seems that this offseason Lakers have to make a major change in the lineup, and Westbrook's Lakers career is likely to have come to an end, the expiration contract of Westbrook in the offseason can still be handled better than now, of course, now the Lakers still have a glimmer of hope, they can choose to continue to look forward to the change of the lineup after The return of Nunn, but these are undoubtedly a drop in the bucket, they should look to the offseason.