The Lakers missed the playoffs, and LeBron's another four-year cycle ended

So the Los Angeles Lakers completely missed this season's playoffs.

Two years after winning the championship, in LeBron to the Lakers' fourth season.

Previously, some classmates have been talking to me: the situation of the Lakers this season is quite reminiscent of the Cavaliers of 2018.

Four years, or another LeBron cycle?

LeBron went to the South Coast in 2010, returned home in 2014, and ran west in 2018.

In those summers, the big news of football was the World Cup, and the big news of basketball was where LeBron was going.

Every time a new team arrives, whether it is a heat, a cavalier or a Lakers, the process is often as follows:

The first year of polishing, the second year of winning the championship, the third year of youth reached its peak, and the fourth year of the team aging declined.

In the summer of 2010, for example, LeBron made the decision to go to the South Coast.

The Miami hit starters at the time were:

Charmos + Wade + LeBron + Bosh + Joel Anthony.

The main rotation is still the main temporary recruits: Arroyo, Bibi, House, Mike Miller, James Jones, Juwan, Haslem, Big Z, Dampier.

At that time, Big Z came from the Cavaliers to follow LeBron, which was also an example for James Jones and Mike Miller, who later followed LeBron.

The story of the first year's hot is well known: 58 wins in the regular season, but LeBron and Wade don't have the ball very well and occasionally have to concede each other. Coach Spoo once came up with a way to fight, the so-called fierce dog strategy, "Whoever steals the ball in this round will let him play in the next round!" "Those years of hot defensive ferocity and fierceness, that's where it started.

That year's Finals were known to be the worst series of LeBron's career, losing to Dallas.

Then came the next year. The Heat starters are still the same, but the replacement comes with Norris Kerr, Mike Miller is reused, and most crucially, Battier arrives.

Wade later admitted that he asked LeBron to release himself that year, and he could adapt to the no-ball routine.

That year the hot regular season was 66-47 wins.

The most classic detail of the playoffs is that after Bosh was injured, the team was light, LeBron + Battier played a double forward, and when the Finals played the Thunder, Bosh pushed from 4 to 5 centers, and LeBron won the first championship.

In the third year, Bosh went straight to the center, and Ray Allen and Lewis, two former Seattle Town goalscorers, arrived, and the team was completely lightweight, the attack was smooth, and LeBron was invincible. Hot played 27 consecutive wins, 66 wins in the regular season, and finally won the championship.

In the fourth year, the heat continued to be lighter on the original basis, but the team also reached an average age of 31: the oldest in the league. There were 54 wins in the regular season, but in the playoffs, the aging heat could not keep up with the Spurs' passing, losing 1-4.

The first year of polishing, the second year of winning the championship, the third young type of offensive peak, the fourth year of aging.

LeBron's Miami No. 6 career ended and returned to the Cavaliers.

In the 2014-15 season, when LeBron first returned to the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers lineup was as follows:

Irving, JR Smith, LeBron, Loew and Mozkov started.

The substitutes are Price, DelaVertova, Shumpert, Marion, Miller, Jones, Tristan and Vallejo.

Vites is gone.

The Cavaliers won 53 in the regular season. The Finals were played against the Warriors with a large squad and lost.

The key to the Warriors' victory is that Iguodala starts and plays small.

The following year, when Blatter led the team to 30 wins and 11 losses, he was fired by the team. Coach Lu took office and led the team to a 27-14 loss.

The Cavaliers have 57 wins in the regular season.

That year, the Cavaliers had more marksmen, Mo wei, Jefferson and Frye, and completed the lightness.

The Finals are well known: the Cavaliers used the two No. 4 positions of Loew + Tristan to top the inside line, exactly the same as the No. 5 position on the original push Bosh.

In the crucial fifth and sixth big reversals, the Cavaliers even used Richard Jefferson + LeBron + Tristan to prop up the frontcourt - just like the hot Battier + LeBron + Bosh to support the front.

So the reverse won the championship. It was the second year of the championship again.

In the 2016-17 season, the Cavaliers completely completed the lightweighting:

Irving + Chambre + LeBron + Loew + Tristan started.

The main substitutes are Delon, JR, Korver, Jefferson and Fry.

Although there were only 51 wins in the regular season, the Cavaliers' offensive efficiency was 114 in that season, the second highest in team history

In the playoffs that year, everyone knew that the Warriors were invincible in the championship journey and only lost one game; in fact, the Cavaliers only lost one game before reaching the Finals. So the Cavaliers in 2017 are the smoothest team LeBron has ever brought.

In the 2017-18 season, the Cavaliers averaged 31 years old, the oldest in the league, exactly the same as the heat of four years ago.

Irving ran away and the team was injured. LeBron played off the team to the Finals, but lost to the Warriors.

LeBron's Cleveland No. 23 career ended and went to the Lakers.

Lakers fans must remember: When LeBron first arrived at the Lakers in the 2018-19 season, the main team:

Big Ball, KCP, LeBron, Kuzma, McGee.

Rondo, Caruso, Hart, Lance, Ingram, Chandler, Zubac.

The Lakers were still in the top four in the West at Christmas 2018, after which LeBron was injured and the team ended with 37 wins.

The next year, Davis arrived. The team won the championship. As we all know, I will not repeat it.

Of course, the 2020 Lakers are not the same as the previous heat and Cavaliers. LeBron switched to the main control, Davis played the offensive and defensive arrows, and the team as a whole was large and defensive, which was in line with Vogel's hobby: he liked the large defensive forward group when he was in the Pacers.

Of course, in the final moments of the finals, it was Davis who pushed 4 and 5 centers, like Bosh, Loew and Tristan.

In the third year, last season, LeBron and Davis began to get injured intermittently. The team ended with 42 wins and 30 losses, losing in the first round.

After the Lakers changed blood this season, they won 31 and lost 47.

It is worth mentioning: the Average Lakers are 30 years old this season, and the league is the oldest.

Same as the heat of 2014 and the cavaliers of 2018.

Then LeBron's wave of Lakers cycle, the first year of polishing, the second year to win the championship, the same as before.

But last season and this season, the Lakers were injured, so they couldn't get into the Finals like they did in 2014 and 2018.

If you combine the story before LeBron's first decision, it is even more interesting.

In the first two years of LeBron's career, the Cavaliers were a mess and did not mention it.

In the 2005-06 season, the Cavaliers formed a basic team:

Snow + Hughes + LeBron + Gooden + Big Z as the starting point.

The bench is mainly Damon Jones, Pavlovic and Luke Jackson, who claim to be the world's first handsome men, as well as the shooters Marshall and Vallejo.

That was also the first time Coach Mike Brown took office.

The team didn't play well at the beginning of the season, Hughes kept getting injured and playing iron. At the junction of 2005 and 2006, LeBron and Snow Sr. were in tandem, and there was an internal meeting of the players, and LeBron began to take over the team's attack. That spring LeBron was invincible, with the Cavaliers winning 50, LeBron's second place in the regular season MVP, and a career-high average of 31.4 points per game. In the playoffs, the Cavaliers passed the Wizards of Arenas, losing seven games to the Pistons.

The following year, the team won 50 and reached the finals. LeBron himself scored 48 points against the Pistons' King Mountain, including 25 points in the end, but the biggest contributor to the sixth game of promotion was rookie goalscorer Gibson.

In the third year, the team began to weaken: Pavlovic renewed his contract but did not play well, LeBron won the first scoring champion of his career, but the team won 45, and the Eastern Conference semifinals lost to the champion Celtics that year.

The following year, the Knight turned.

Mowe + Deronte West started, plus LeBron, Vallejo and Big Z, and there are small interior lines like Big Ben and Hickson.

The Cavaliers completed semi-light, big hits to break the cut, and won 66 in the regular season. LeBron won his first MVP.

As we all know, this Cavaliers playoffs, lost to Dwight + Shooters Group's Orlando Magic.

The following year, the Cavaliers recruited the Sharks and Jamison, appointing Anthony Parker and Moon, with 61 wins in the regular season and LeBron himself as MVP, but lost to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

At that time, the situation was quite obvious:

The big-ball lineup (Cavaliers in 2007) relied on LeBron offense + all-team defense to reach the Finals, but the offense didn't go well.

The small-ball lineup (2009) is offensively fluid, but requires reliable second-ball-handling and experienced players.

LeBron's subsequent team model can be seen here.

This four-year cycle is not only LeBron.

In 2004, the Miami Heat exchanged for the Sharks, sharks + Wade formed, 59 wins, seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals lost to the Pistons.

The following year, Riley put together an old team: Payton, 37, Mourning, 35, and White Chocolate, 30, the second oldest in the league at an average of 29. In the end, the team won the championship.

But the team aged and injured in its third year and was eliminated by the Bulls in the first round. Entering the fourth year, there were too many injuries to play well.

In the summer of 2008, Wade led the team to rebuild.

"Gamble to find superstars, recruit veterans, a wave of four years, play and rebuild" - Riley's first successful case is Wade + Sharks, the second successful case is to recruit LeBron, the achievement of the hot 2012 and 2013 consecutive championships.

Of course, on the other hand, in 2020, LeBron took the Lakers to kill the heat, and it was also a church disciple who starved to death?

All in all, LeBron's another four-year cycle is over.

At this moment, the Lakers, with the 2014 heat and the 2018 Cavaliers, are in a similar situation: aging, injuries, and the need for young forwards.

—— Speaking of the front, I mentioned gabriel when talking about the Game against the Raptors before:

We all know that the swing front is popular in the league, and the Lakers are a group of less than two meters of backcourt this season, a few long men.

The swing forward physique is 37-year-old LeBron, the near-38-year-old melon and the 36-year-old Ariza.

Then there's Gabriel.

When the 2020 championship was won, there was only one player in the Lakers' main rotation who was under 196 centimeters: Rondo.

We all know that the Lakers lacked a backcourt that year, but they can still win the championship by relying on the front.

As mentioned in this season, LeBron and Westbrook's contracts expire in 2023.

In theory, this season's Lakers are prepared for the 2021-23 seasons.

So next season, the relatively realistic operation is:

Find some affordable old people (Whiteside, McGee, etc., if they will come), find some young strikers, and expect the team to be healthy.

LeBron is heading into his fifth season with the Lakers.

To put it another optimistic way, LeBron's four-year cycle to the Lakers is over, but this Lakers - Westbrook + LeBron + Davis - will only enter their second year of the team next season...