After losing to the Spurs on the road, Wei Shao, who has always had a very strong personality, looked bleak in the post-game interview and begged the outside world not to threaten his family and stigmatize his name because of things on the court.
The cause of the incident was Wei Shao's poor performance on the field, which caused some fans to be dissatisfied, and some of them radical fans continued to verbally indecite and make death threats against Wei Shao's wife.
So from the cheering super big three at the beginning of the season to the death threats received so far, how did the Lakers big three enter such a dilemma? It can only be said that no one is wrong, but everyone is wrong.
From the beginning of the combination of the three giants, mainstream media including ESPN, CBS, TNT, Fox, and NBC have not been optimistic about the cooperation prospects of the three giants.
Even the pan-fan local media, including lakeshowlife, are also not optimistic about the combination of the big three.
The reason is also very simple, Westbrook and James are the big core that needs to hold the ball for a long time, and Westbrook lacks projection ability, and the big three cannot be integrated at all, but everyone also has great expectations for the big three, after all, the list of this Lakers team is too gorgeous.
The results soon showed the problem, gradually confirming the perception of the outside world, and the Lakers, who destroyed the defensive system of the foundation, simply failed to solve the problem of the space of the big three by accumulating three-point shooters.
With the gradual decline in the record, the internal contradictions of the Lakers have gradually been exposed, and the details of the cooperation period between the three giants have also been disclosed.
Originally, Pelinka hoped to bring in DeRozan, or Hield, on the one hand, the salary was cheap, it would not trigger the team's luxury tax, in line with the requirements of the Lakers management, on the other hand, Hilde had a close personal relationship with Pelinka, who was one of his players when Pelinka was an agent.
But James and the thick-browed brother insisted on hoping to get Wei Shao, and after discussion, the three were very excited about joining forces, and James and Wei Shao both agreed to play more no-ball to solve the problem of the two running-in.
The excited Wei Shao asked the Wizards boss through personal friendship, and the latter agreed to send Wei Shao away, and the three giants took shape.
But this time to change the Lakers management of the reinforcements, for the trading period to lay hidden dangers, because the Lakers and Wei Shao performance is not ideal, there are internal voices hope to carry out further reinforcement before the trade deadline, including Wei Shao for Wall, the Rockets only require a first-round exchange rights.
As a result, the Lakers management did not receive any money on the key transaction deadline, and subsequent potential transaction partners pointed out that the Lakers were insincere and did not show patience and sincerity in hoping to complete the transaction.
Since then, it has been reported that the Lakers management has showdown Zhan Mei, the team has met the requirements of the two people, the transaction has been obtained by Wei Shao, the team will not take the future chips to clean up Wei Shao after just half a season, and the three need to bear the consequences.
At the same time, Lakers management is reluctant to continue to increase spending and reinforce it by paying more luxury taxes.
During the period, the Los Angeles Times revived the Lakers' "shadow management" problem, pointing out that don't say James, even the magicians of the past can not compete with the shadow management.
Lakers owner Jenny Bass's girlfriend Linda Lambis and her husband play the role of "shadow management" in the Lakers, the trio runs the team, and Pelinka is loved by the three.
Although these are all exposed by the media or sources around the relevant parties, it is inevitable that there will be confusing news, but in the NBA business league, as a fan, you can only firmly believe in the truth that "both listening is bright, and partial listening is dark", and then push back the authenticity of the previous news with facts.
Judging from the current poor situation of the Lakers and the voices of the parties, there is obviously a problem inside the Lakers.
And from the exposed news and the actual situation, wei shao, James and thick eyebrow brother who strongly contributed to the big three, as well as the management who let Goaruso go in order to save money, insisted on not trading Wei Shao, did not reinforce, and Vogel, who had poor on-the-spot adaptability and could not help the Lakers to create a stable chemical reaction, all had obvious mistakes.
But from the perspective of the three parties themselves, they are not wrong, which is the biggest dilemma that the Lakers are currently facing.
From the player's point of view, the outside world is criticizing Westbrook, and the latter's family has even received death threats.
But since joining the Lakers, Wei Shao has been making changes for the team, listening to all the arrangements of the team, reducing the possession of the ball, resulting in his complete inability to play the standard he deserves.
And Wei Shao is already in the late stages of his career, and wants him to develop projection in a short period of time, while avoiding the unrealistic thing of going to the head at key moments.
Looking at the result of Wei Shao's self-confidence being frustrated, he once abandoned Wei Shao, and was unable to help the big three build a stable chemical reaction.
He is naturally also the main object of criticism by fans, and as a manager, he has never pinched the team into a whole.
But the problem is that Vogel himself is a coach who built a defensive system, and in the season when he led the Lakers to win the championship, Vogel showed a strong ability to develop defensive players, and as a result, the Lakers management sold out this type of player in the offseason.
In this way, the contradiction point came to the Lakers management, coupled with the exposure of the shadow management problems, scared away Tyrone Lu, who was playing in the Clippers, and the Lakers' problems seemed to be in the management.
But the problem is that the Lakers chose Vogel, who did lead the Lakers to the championship that season, and in terms of results, such a choice is impeccable.
At the same time, the Lakers management has met the needs of James and the thick-browed brother Bet on Wei Shao, and the past two seasons have been constantly overdrawing future chips, and the first round of signings that can be used at present is only the first round of 2027, what else can they be asked to do? Especially after seeing the Heat and Cavaliers after James left, how can the Lakers management unreservedly clean up all bets at the moment, after all, James is 37 years old.
In this case, the Lakers want to quickly turn the situation around in only one way, that is, Zhan Mei carries the banner and helps the team win as many victories as possible.
When the team enters the winning track, all external problems will be slowly solved, after all, the Lakers' current problems themselves are caused by the performance on the court, and should naturally be solved on the court.