On April 6, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Lakers lost to the Suns 110-121, and they were determined not to qualify for this season's playoffs. And the Lakers' poor performance this season has also made many people who looked after them at the beginning of the season suffer a tragic punch, of which the most severely punched in the face is Perkins.
After the Lakers traded Westbrook in the offseason to form a Big 3 with James and Thick Brow, Perkins was very optimistic about the Purple and Gold Army, and even predicted that they could win 70 games in the regular season.
But so far, the Lakers have only won 31 games this season, not even half of the 70 wins. And such a poor performance also forced Perkins to correct his views after the Lakers missed the playoffs.
"The Lakers really played me! They made me think they could do this, they could do that, and I, the fool, believed it. But the fact that they have a 50% win rate and 17 wins still creeps me out. I sympathize with that, and seriously, they may not be able to cross that hurdle. Perkins wrote on social media.
I have to say that when Perkins blew the Lakers wildly, there may be many people who did not believe his wild blowing, and they could also realize that Westbrook and James did not match in technical characteristics, and even the hidden dangers of the Lakers' aging lineup. But at that time, most of these groups that were not optimistic about the Lakers only felt that the Lakers were afraid of not fighting for the championship, and I was afraid that few people could feel that the Lakers could not even enter the playoffs. In the end, the Lakers sucked to such a point, which was really a bit unexpected, and it is no wonder that Perkins would say that he was deceived.