Although the Lakers' season is over, in fact, the NBA's regular season this season is not over. However, the Lakers can't wait and are anxious to make a reckoning with this season's loss, so a palace fight drama kicks off.
This way, very Lakers.
Recently, the Lakers' team reporter Brad Turner and ESPN's well-known reporter Ramona Shelburne have written long articles describing the various problems and contradictions within the Lakers' team this season, most of which are directed at Westbrook.
I summarized it, including Wei Shao's disrespect for Vogel and disobeying the coach's instructions in the training camp;
The Lakers believe that pressure is needed to make Wei Shao change his playing style, but it caused Wei Shao's backlash;
Wei Shao is insecure in the Lakers, he does not know who to believe, Zhan Meigua has communicated with him, but has not really solved the problem;
The Lakers once thought there was something wrong with Westbrook's hands and eyes and also checked them;
Wei Shao had assured Zhan Mei that he would do everything he could to make their combination work, which gave Zhan Mei confidence. But then everything imagined didn't happen, and James would often have frustrated body language after Westbrook's poor performance, which made his teammates start to be confused.
Every renewal and change of power of the Lakers is filled with palace fights, plots, sides and chicken feathers, and the liquidation after the failure of the big three seems to be inseparable from this category. In addition to Vogel's definite departure, Major General West was another object of knife-cutting.
Wei Shao's performance this season is obvious to all, and he has proved with practical actions that he is indeed not suitable for playing with Zhan Mei.
There are two statistics, the first is that Zhan Meiwei has played a total of 21 games together this season, 11 wins and 10 losses, and the winning rate is just over 50%. In the 393 minutes when the three were on the court at the same time, the Lakers' offensive efficiency was 107.1, only better than the Pistons, Thunder and Magic, and the net efficiency was -3.5.
The second statistic: Westbrook and James played 55 games together, Westbrook averaged 17+7.2+6.6, shot 43% from the field, shot 27% from three-point range, and shot 49% from the field; in the 23 games he did not play with James, Westbrook averaged 22.1+8.2+8, shooting 47%/34%/55% of the three-field shooting rate.
The Lakers can't get rid of James, they can only cut from Wei Shao, so the breakup between the Lakers and Wei Shao seems inevitable, so where can Wei Shao go?
The first thing that needs to be clear is that although Wei Shao is straight, he is not a fool, so he will definitely execute the 47 million player option next season. Obviously, this is a super big garbage contract, and the Lakers need to find a way to deal with not Wei Shao, but the 47 million garbage contract.
At present, the only one who has been named as the Lakers trading object is only one - Joe's Charlotte Hornet, and the US media has also given the two major plans for the Wasp trade.
The first is to use Hayward + Plumlee to exchange for Westbrook, Hayward's salary next season is 30.1 million, Plumlee 8.52 million, although it is still 10 million from the contract with Pingwei Less, but the US media estimates that it is 10 million to pull a scrap to match it.
This is a typical garbage contract for garbage contract, Hayward's main problem is his attendance, came to the Hornets only played 93 games in two years, Westbrook's biggest advantage is his health, learn from each other's strengths and complement each other' weaknesses.
The second plan is to use Wei Shao + Rozier to exchange Wei Shao and the Lakers for the first round of 2027, if the first plan still belongs to the art and literature category of "Yilin", then the exchange of Rozier for the Lakers completely stepped into the imagination space of obscenity.
As the absolute main force of this Hornets youth army: two-way guard, can hold the ball and can defend without the ball, the ability to open up space outside the three-point line is even more thrown off wei shao several streets, why should the Hornets send Rozier back to Wei Shao, just for that first round?
The only reason I can think of the Hornets for making this deal is that the Hornets' current general manager, Kupček, is the Lakers' former general manager. Isn't it time for the 5-year period to make a contribution to the old owner?
If Curry is not undercover and must be replaced by Rochelle, he is going to change something bad, why change Wei Shao?
Some people will say that Old Master Joe especially likes Wei Shao, and Wei Shao can also help the Wasp sell tickets when he comes.
But the core point is that Joe likes Westbrook no matter how much he likes, he should also know that three goals is the future of the Hornets. Once Westbrook arrives, the first thing he squeezes is the space for three goals.
Westbrook's experience over the years has proved that he is completely unfit to coexist with another ball-holding core, and unfortunately, the three-ball is the Hornets' current ball-holding core. So after Wei Shao came, was it to let the three balls open up space for him to be a shooter?
The 20-year-old three-goal and the 33-year-old have obviously degraded Wei Shao, so it should not be difficult to choose.
Secondly, even if Joe loves Wei less and wants him to come to the Hornets to increase the popularity of the home field, the timing of this statement is not right.
What time is it?
Although the Lakers have been cold, but the Hornets are not yet, the Hornets must be playing a play-off. Facing three opponents in the playoffs, playing the Cavaliers 2-2, playing the Hawks 2-2, and playing the Nets 2-1, so the Hornets may not be able to enter the playoffs even if they are tenth.
Then at this time, saying that anyone who wants to trade players is disturbing the hearts of the military. Old Master Qiao will not fail to understand this, so he does not have any statement about Wei Shao, it is all the media talking to themselves.
On the other hand, it is obvious that Wei Shao is difficult to deal with, even if the Hornets really want Wei Shao, there is a summer that can be talked about slowly, and there is no reason to rush to the VIP before the end of the season. At this time, the more active who behaves, the more passive they are.
Even from the lakers' management point of view, they should be calm. James's team, as he grows older, the pressure is bound to increase, but the more pressure is, the more calm it is, otherwise it is easy to operate under heavy pressure and deform, which was the case with Wei Shao last year.
If this summer is just desperate to send away Wei Shao, but it is just a copy of last year's operation, the ending may not be better than this season.
At the beginning of next season, if Wei Shao is still in the Lakers, don't be too surprised.
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