In this 99-111 Lakers lost to the Warriors game, I believe that many fans' hearts are half cold.
With five straight losses in preseason, I still don't feel like the Lakers have reached a point where they need to be reminded.
What do you think, they are professional teams and players, where to play awkwardly they themselves are not clear to us?
The "360" combination of Davis, James and Westbrook played on the same stage for the first time, but eventually lost to the opposite second team.
Let's be fair, is there any surprising result of this?
When the Lakers officially announced that they would bring Westbrook back to Los Angeles from Washington, the world was excited and worried about their combination.
The reason is simple: Point guards like Westbrook, who are not good at projection, will naturally not have any good chemistry when joining a team with James.
Some people will say why Wade was able to partner with James so well? What I'm trying to say here is: Don't compare Wade with Wade.
From this game, the lakers' optimizations relative to the previous games are still visible to the naked eye: the speed of advancing with the ball is fast, the speed of the ball is fast, and the guide is more.
Still a bit stuck is Westbrook, 28 minutes of playing time, 10 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists on 3-of-9 shooting, in addition to 5 indispensable turnovers.
One of the breakthroughs that just came up was a stumbling dribbling error, and when facing the second team Warriors who obviously gave him a 2-3 step projection position at that point, Wei Shao's forced choice was also embarrassing.
You can't catch the ball for three points, and you can't see the throwing and other techniques after holding the ball, so in most cases: Wei Shao swims at the top of the arc or receives the ball on both sides and shoots the iron, or the dribble bursts into the face of the blockade and the cross-pass is broken.
The good sign, though, is that Westbrook is already making some minor adjustments to his first two games, trying to pass the ball or tackle the basket as much as possible to reduce mistakes.
Since the press conference when he first joined the Lakers, Wei Shao has stressed more than once that the run-in between the new lineup and the new system will not take shape so quickly, and it needs to be continuously improved through games and videos.
With Wei Shaozai, the Lakers' overall offensive and defensive speed is indeed more dynamic than last season, and all he needs to do is how to adjust the connection and distance between himself and others.
However, no matter how it is adjusted, it is undeniable that Wei Shao has a major flaw: the ability to excel at the offensive end is lackluster.
There is such a question: Poole, who earns 2.16 million yuan a year, and Wei Shao, who has an annual salary of 44.21 million, which is more popular?