On April 18, Beijing time, although the Lakers' season has ended, the topic of the Lakers is still not over. Now lakers team reporter Bill Oram in the podcast program, revealed some of the Lakers' insiders, he revealed that the Lakers management in the transaction to introduce Westbrook, did not communicate with the coaching staff at all, and Vogel in the preseason stage of the west and Zhan Mei did not match.
The Lakers' failure this season is not only due to zhan mei's serious injury problem, but also the incompatibility between Wei Shao and Zhan mei, and the inability to form an effective chemical reaction between the three giants has always prevented the Lakers from forming an effective combat force. With James and Thick Brow missing a large number of games due to injuries, the Lakers completely sank and only ranked 11th in the West, and eventually missed the playoffs.
At the end of the season, the Lakers immediately announced the dismissal of employer Coach Vogel, even if he led the Lakers to win the championship in 2020, it will also trigger continuous heated discussion from the outside world.
In this regard, Lakers reporter Bill Oram revealed that there is a lack of communication between the Lakers management and the team's coaching staff, and there is no communication between them for the way the big three cooperate on the court. The Lakers management is very arrogant in handling this matter, they think Westbrook can adapt to this Lakers, and they think that as long as there is a Big Three lineup, even with any role player, it can be successful.
Lakers reporter Bill Oram said that he had a conversation with the Lakers coaching staff at the beginning of the season, when Vogel said, "We don't know how the Big Three should play together, and we don't know how to get them to cooperate." At the press conference after the end of the season, Wei Shao said that he thought Vogel had an opinion on him, but in fact Wei Shao had a misunderstanding about Vogel, and Vogel actually defended Wei Shao many times, and even rejected the proposal to let Wei Shao play as a substitute.
In addition, in response to the incompatibility of Wei Shao, the Lakers coaching team has long been a gap, "I think some members of the coaching team, very early on the three big combination of the prospects are not optimistic, but Wei Shao himself does not think so." Earlier I wrote an interview with Vogel. I remember asking him when did you think the run-in of this lineup wasn't going to go too well. Vogel was aware of this before the start of the regular season. He said, 'Before James made his first appearance (James missed multiple preseason games), Westbrook and Thick Brow guys played a few games in preseason, and that's when they didn't look very good.' ’”
It turns out that there is no chemical reaction between Wei Shao and Zhan Mei, and how the Lakers deal with Wei Shao this summer will be a problem, after all, Wei Shao will most likely execute a large contract of 47 million US dollars next season.
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)