If it weren't for Westbrook's godly three-pointer, the Lakers would have suffered eight straight losses. In the last two games, Westbrook has found a long-lost shooting feeling, following the last game of 7 shots 4, in today's back-to-back game, Westbrook once again shot 2 three-pointers, but the Lakers failed to win two consecutive wins. In today's game, James again scored 38 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, and Westbrook also had 22 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists, but the Lakers still could not win the game. This seems to confirm a sentence: James does not score 50 points, the Lakers can not win the game. The compatibility problems of Westbrook and James are already obvious, and their cooperation is probably only the last 10 games left.
The News of the Lakers peddling Westbrook is well known, and as early as the beginning of the season, the Lakers discussed using Westbrook to return Hield. Although the level of operation of the King's management is difficult to describe, they can still see the value of Westbrook's transaction. Throughout the season, all the Lakers' trade rumors have basically revolved around Westbrook, as a young superstar, this kind of news is indeed a great insult to Westbrook, so the Westbrook camp also released the news that Westbrook will seek to leave the team after the end of the season. A peaceful breakup between the two sides is indeed the best outcome, but at present, it seems that the price that the Lakers need to pay to send Wei Shao away will not be less than a first-round pick. What awaits the Lakers this summer is bound to be a bloody storm.
In the next ten games, the Lakers' opponents are almost all playoff teams, except for the final battle of the season against the Thunder. If Westbrook can maintain its recent three-point performance, the Lakers are not without the possibility of retaining a play-off spot. However, combined with Westbrook's career history, it is more difficult to maintain a stable outside projection performance for Westbrook than for him to maintain a triple-double performance, which is indeed a luxury for the Lakers. If the Lakers directly start a 10-game losing streak to end this season, then we should not be surprised, this Lakers may indeed come up with such a performance.
Today, James ushered in one of the most important milestones of his career - surpassing Carl Malone in total points in the regular season to occupy the second place in history. Next, James is still 1458 points away from surpassing Abdul-Jabbar, and 3071 points to reach 40,000 points + 10,000 rebounds + 10,000 assists. If nothing else, these honors will be pocketed by James, and sooner or later the NBA's all-time scoring champion will be his. Many fans scoffed at this, James held a beautiful data sheet but failed to lead the team to win, and many people gave James the name of "data brush". It is true that James' performance in some games is indeed difficult to convince the public, and it is indeed suspected of brushing data, but this does not affect his greatness in the slightest. Even if James only scores 20 points per game, as long as he performs his contract normally, he is the all-time scoring champion. However, James has accelerated this process, and the 37-year-old James should not be criticized.
For the current Lakers, James is really powerless. The team can't win, not James' problem, not Westbrook's problem, but the problem that runs through the Lakers' entire team, including management, coaching staff and players. We can't ask James to score 50 points and lead the team to a win in every game. Hopes for the playoffs are getting slimmer, and news of Davis' comeback is gradually calming down. According to the comeback schedule released by the Lakers, Davis will return in the near future, but the Lakers have not updated the relevant news. Maybe the Lakers are strategically abandoning this season, because everyone knows that for the Lakers, Davis' comeback is also useless.
Maybe the Lakers are already preparing for an offseason deal, but even if they trade Well, will the Lakers be able to get back to the top? At that time, the Lakers do not have any valuable trading chips, the salary space is also locked, and the free market is also unable to attract reinforcements, which is not equivalent to the ban on Wei Shao, and the Lakers have not tried this season. This Lakers, I'm afraid, really came to the situation of trading James.