The Western Conference playoffs play-off The Lakers narrowly defeated the Timberwolves 108-102 in overtime to officially enter the playoffs as seventh in the West, and will face the Grizzlies, who are second in the West.
The Lakers can make the playoffs, who contributes the most?
1, Schroeder
Schroder not only shot the last almost quasi-killing three-pointer, in fact, Schroeder scored a total of 18 points in the entire second half plus overtime, Schroder scored 7 points in the last 13 points of the Lakers, often nicknamed by fans as "Ham's own son" Schroder is not only relying on relationships, its implementation of Rhode's key moment outbreak is not accidental, this season's regular season key moment Schroder's plus-minus value is +58, ranked first in the team, ranked 10th in the league, and Schroeder at key moments in the regular season this season with 52.6% , 27 points on the field, second only to James.
2, James
The playoffs are a stage for superstars, and James' performance confirms the fact that James is still not old, and at the age of 38, he still has the strength to take over the game, and in the second quarter of this game, James scored 12 points in a single quarter, cutting 30 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists. However, James is indeed old, the final moments of the fourth quarter and overtime breakthroughs have been significantly reduced, and the speed of breakthroughs to the basket has slowed down, and it is impossible to use the breakthrough to score points directly, but Old Jen can also assist, and the last shot of the regular season was Old Jen's breakthrough to the basket to create Schroder's super open three-pointer.
3, Davis
The playoffs are a stage for superstars, and despite Davis' poor outside touch today, despite Davis' late regular season mistakes to give Conley three free throws to equalize the game into overtime, and despite not playing tough enough against Gobert, stars are stars, and he still scored 24 points and 15 rebounds.
4. Other players
The team won and everyone was a hero.
Rivers
The playoffs are a stage to test the quality of players, from the perspective of this game, Rivers is still far from the star, under the targeted defense of the playoffs, Rivers is not efficient today, scoring 12 points on only 4 of 13 shooting, and I hope Rivers can adjust his state as soon as possible, and the subsequent games will continue to perform efficiently.
Russell
The performance was extremely bad, shooting 1 of 9, 0 of 4 three-pointers, 2 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists, did not play a three-way performance, and was directly abandoned at key moments, if Russell still wants to fight for a good contract in the offseason, the next game must show a three-way performance.
Vanderbilt
The defense is positive, but the attribute of no shooting is too easy to be targeted, the opponent can boldly empty him and go to pack thick eyebrows, the reason why the Lakers' record before the trade is not good, is that other teams will give up the defense of Wei Shao to wrap up others, so in the second half of the game, Vanderbilt was replaced by Hachimura for most of his time.
Rui Hachimura
Today's shooting felt good, 3-of-8 shooting, 2-of-5 three-point shooting scored 12 points, with his containment thick eyebrows and James to better impact the opponent, today also got the fifth most playing time after James, Davis, Rivers, Schroder, is also a member of the tiebreaker team.
5, Hamm
Hamm may not be a top coach yet, but it is not useless as netizens say, such as the use of Schroeder that many people do not understand, but in the end it was Hamm's decision that was the right one. Today's player rotation is not bad, the five best performers are precisely the five who have played the most minutes, and the timeout is called at the end of the regular season without drawing any tactics, in fact, that timeout is just to give James a break, which is similar to Tyronn Lue's call for two timeouts in a row.
Finally, it was announced that the Lakers entered the playoffs:
Pelinka
Without Pelinka's trade, the Lakers would not have been able to make the playoffs, as can be understood by looking at the comparison of various data before and after the Lakers trade.
Before the trade After the trade
1. 25 wins 31 losses 18 wins 8 losses
2. Offensive efficiency No. 18 Offensive efficiency No. 14
3. Defensive efficiency 20th Defensive efficiency 2nd
4. 26th three-pointer 18th three-pointer
5. Rebounding No. 5 Rebounding No. 3
