With the Lakers missing the playoffs, all kinds of news about the Lakers' infighting has been bad, especially the news of Wei Shao, which has become the hardest hit area for media complaints.
Recently, according to the Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Woike and Broderick L. Turner jointly reported that a Lakers staff member who understands the situation revealed that Wei Shao gave Vogel a way to the first day of coming to the Lakers training camp.
The person familiar with the matter said: "Wei Shao did not respect Vogel from day one. ”
When Vogel showed Westbrook the way the NBA is playing now, Westbrook sternly refused, saying: No, I am a point guard, give me the ball, and the others run.
Vogel said: "We have Tucker, we have Reeves, we have Munch, we have LeBron, we have thick eyebrows, they can all dribble to the front.
And Wei Shao didn't give Vogel any face at all, saying: No, I'm the point guard, give me that **, everyone else let go."
The person familiar with the matter said: "From the moment of training camp, it was all over, because Wei Shao was like a fish out of water, he didn't know what to do, and it all started." ”
Although such a dialogue is very rare, as a newcomer to the team, even if he was once a triple-double king, a scoring king and an MVP, I believe he did not dare to talk to the team's head coach like this.
Many fans can see that Wei Shao, who has just come to the Lakers, has played the highest number of mistakes per game in the league, but Wei Shao himself is aware of this, and eventually greatly reduced his number of mistakes, and more importantly, in order to better adapt to the Lakers, the number of three-point shots dropped directly from 4.2 shots last season to 3.4 shots this season.
The reason why the Lakers have such a situation, Wei Shao does have an unshirkable responsibility, and Wei Shao's biggest problem is that he is not compatible with James, according to statistics, this season when Wei Shao and James play together (55 games), they average 17 points, 7.2 rebounds and 6.6 assists per game, shooting 43% from the field, 27% from three-point range, and 49% from the field.
In James' absence, Westbrook averaged 22.1 points, 8.2 rebounds and 8 assists per game, shooting 47 percent from the field, 34 percent from three-point range and 55 percent from the field.
At the same time, as the person familiar with the matter revealed, Vogel gave the right to fight with Westbrook for the likes of Reeves and Tucker, not James, which seems to be somewhat upside down.
As fans say, if the Lakers divide the ball between Tucker and Reeves, then they still believe in Westbrook's ability to hold the ball, after all, Reeves and Tucker's ball-holding ability and organizational ability are not at all a grade behind Westbrook.
And Westbrook's younger brother, Renard Westbrook, tweeted to support his brother, and he was furious. He said: "This is simply outrageous, the media always make up some messy things, no matter what, let my brother carry the pot." ”