The San Antonio Spurs won again, successfully beating the Houston Rockets by three points to a four-game winning streak. After winning this game, the Spurs are only 0.5 wins away from the Los Angeles Lakers, who ranked tenth in the West, and the overtaking is just around the corner. That's right, after surviving the Devils' schedule before this season, the Spurs' next opponents are relatively weak, including back-to-back games against the Blazers who have lost their competitiveness. However, according to the Lakers' next schedule analysis, they will have to face no small challenge.
That's right, they not only have to face Western powerhouses like the Lone Rangers and Nuggets, but also continue to play against this season's championship-winning Golden State Warriors, and it is still difficult to win in front of these players. From the championship-winning favorite team at the beginning of the season, to the absence of the thick eyebrows after the injury, the team is mired in the mire, and now losing the qualification to get the playoff tickets in advance, and the qualification to participate in the playoffs has become precarious, the Lakers have slowly lost the trust of fans. After the All-Star Game, the Lakers only achieved a record of 4 wins and 14 losses, ranking first from the bottom in the league!
Some people say that the lakers' most fundamental problem this season is the introduction of the team cancer of Westbrook, and the successive pulling and crossing has derailed the loss off the right track; others say that it is the sudden injury of the thick eyebrows that makes the Lakers' original lineup become broken, thus deviating from the right track. But I personally believe that head coach Vogel's paranoia and poor tactical command are the problems that make this championship-winning favorite team the laughing stock of the league! First of all, the Lakers' lineup this season is not bad, gathering a lot of veterans who have won All-Star honors in the past.
Veterans like Howard and Anthony are old but quite incorruptible. But in addition to giving Anthony enough trust, Vogel gave Howard enough respect? Anthony averaged 26.2 minutes per game in the Lakers' best sixth man this season, and also handed over 13.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists, which is still relatively good. Howard's appearance this season has only come to 15.5 minutes, and there is almost no chance to express himself.
Moreover, Davis, who has his own glass attributes, can't play the center of the whole game, but Vogel let him play the whole game. The result of the fact is obvious, Howard was put aside and not enabled, but the thick eyebrows unfortunately suffered an injury and was absent for a long time. Secondly, it must be said that the star leBron James, although he is still the first person in the league, cannot change the fact that he has entered the trough of his career. At the age of 37, he was actually arranged to play for nearly 40 minutes, how could he not be affected by injuries and miss out one after another due to injuries?
Finally, we have to talk about the Lakers' new introduction of Westbrook this season. As the league's recognized historical triple-double king, everyone knows that Westbrook needs space to sprint to the basket and a shooter who can complete the fixed-point shooting. But Vogel insisted on going his own way, at one point arranging for Tucker and Howard to match him on the court. In the end, the situation caused by it could not bear to look directly, and Wei Shao, who did not have the ability to project, naturally could not reproduce the style of the triple-double king, and once became the back pot man of the team's loss. Before heading to Dallas, Vogel also admitted in an interview that this season was the most difficult season of his coaching career.