Beijing time on March 14 news, the Los Angeles Lakers away challenge league leader Phoenix Suns, and finally lost 111-140 to the opponent, after the game Lakers head coach Vogel criticized the team's defense is not active.
At the press conference, Vogel referred to the team's performance tonight with the word "unacceptable" and noted that the team had performed poorly today in terms of protecting the ball and defensive focus.
"Our performance tonight was nothing. The focus of our defensive work is not where it needs to be placed," Vogel said, "but I'm sure we're going to do better than we did today." ”
So what's the Lakers' defensive problem today? Who is responsible?
During the live broadcast of the game, the commentator in charge of the game said on the live broadcast, "We saw many times in today's game that James did not return to the backcourt immediately after the offensive end, and he seemed to have decided to give up the defense." And the picture that this sentence was accompanied by was that the Lakers blocked the Suns' offense twice in a row in less than 30 seconds, during which James failed to return to the backcourt in time to participate in the team's defense.
Of course, the Lakers' current problem is certainly not alone.