At present, the Lakers' goal may only be to help LeBron James get a scoring champion.
This is very likely, and james currently averages 30.3 points per game, and second-place Embiid averages 30.2 points per game. But the latest news is that Embiid scored 45 points in Philadelphia against the Pacers, averaging 30.4 points per game, surpassing James' average. Then James' scoring king situation became grim.
Judging from the current situation, although James has averaged points per game, embiid wants to maintain such a score, and it is not simple. Then as long as James keeps not playing, he actually holds the initiative. James's appearance depends on the situation of the Lakers.
At present, the Lakers and the Sun are still difficult to solve in the score, and the Sun has a power appearance in the second quarter, and the Lakers are a bit unable to resist. The defense on the inside is a lakers' problem, and Howard often can't get the ball on the offensive end, causing problems with his mentality. In fact, he often has this dilemma in the Lakers — wanting the ball and not getting too many balls.
The Lakers are a bit chaotic on the court, the Suns' frontcourt rebounds are very casual, and the fast attack is also very casual, proving the Lakers' panic. Then, the probability of the Lakers winning the Sun in this game is very low. If the Lakers lose this game, then the emergence of a playoff is only theoretically possible.
If the Lakers want to break into the playoffs, only the Spurs will lose in the last three games, and they will win all three of them. There is no other possibility. I didn't expect such a Lakers at the beginning of the season to go to the point where they couldn't even enter the playoffs, which was really shocking!
So is James going to make a comeback?
I think so.
Comeback to get a scoring champion and prove your leadership for this team.
Recently, James's wind evaluation is not very good, and celebrities have begun to accuse James, James is too "flat water", so that those who really want to see something are unhappy. From James's point of view, there is no problem, but from his image, there are indeed many problems.
James's career habit of finding the best strategy, which is not in line with our definition of sports in the past, James can not continue like this, at least in the Lakers can not continue this way.
The last few games are James' battles for fame, not chicken ribs, but honors.
In addition, if you make up enough appearances and cut a certain number of points, it is still very likely to win the scoring king.
Scoring more than 30 points, there is no difficulty for James, and the Lakers lacked a scorer at the beginning, and now it is normal for James to score, in such a situation, James is easy to get high scores.
In the post-All-Star game, the Lakers only won 4 games, and James averaged 46 points per game, which shows that James can score, and the Lakers can only let him score. So if James still plays in the next few games, James can get the scoring champion.
As long as the Lakers win over the Suns, then the Lakers still have the possibility of theory, and James' high score is also necessary.
If the Lakers lose to the Suns, there is no possibility of even theory. Even if the Lakers win all and the Spurs win all, the Spurs will be ranked ahead of the Lakers because of the divisional record. So how else does James get the scoring champion?
In fact, there is still a chance.
James played 56 games, only according to 58 games, the average score per game was only 29.2 points, then if the opponents could not maintain the advantage, the score dropped below this score, James became the scoring king.