115-112, following the last away win over the Boston Celtics, the Washington Wizards once again won at home, completing a double and a winning streak against the Celtics, after which the Wizards' record reached 5-1, temporarily reaching the top of the league with the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. The Wizards' 5-1 start was also polarized by the start of the 2020-2021 season, when they could be said to have won at the start of the season.
20+10, join the Lakers with a salary cut, and was abandoned! Lead the team to the top of the league, you have to block the Nets.
An offseason trade completely allowed the Wizards to solve the problem of their lack of players, the management used Russell Westbrook from the Los Angeles Lakers to exchange Kyle Kuzma, Monterrez Harrell and Caldwell Pope, plus from the Brooklyn Nets first signed and then replaced by Spencer Dinwiddie, the Wizards completed a super big change in the starting lineup, in the game against the Celtics, in addition to Bradley Beal, these four new signings happen to be the other four starters of the team.
20 points, 14 rebounds and 1 block, this is Harrell's report card in this game, 20+10 data looks like the data of an All-Star interior line, and his last game against the Celtics, even bombed 25 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block of all-around data.
What is even more valuable is that Harrell actually began to try three-point shooting in these two games, in the last game he tried to shoot two three-point shots outside the three-point line, none of them hit, but in this game, Harrell's three three-point shots actually hit a goal, when a player with the top interior finishing ability began to develop three-point projection, in this era, his value will rise.
So far this season, Harrell has scored in double figures in all six games, averaging 19.3 points, 10.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.2 blocks per game, shooting 61.4% from the field and 78.4% from the free throw line. Harrell's scoring and rebounding per game are all career highs.
In particular, harrell had 3.1 rebounds more than his career-high season. Compared to the season when he won the league's best sixth man, Harrell's performance this season has completed the crush of that season, and it is clear that at the Los Angeles Lakers, Harrell is broken, in his own words, as if he had rested a whole season at the Lakers.
Indeed, among the so many players who left the Lakers this summer, there are players like Dennis Schroeder who were swept out by the Lakers, there are fans like Caldwell Pope who are very reluctant but helpless to be named, there are players like Alex Caruso, who fans like Areso, and there are also players like Harrell who think the Lakers have not treated well.
In the 2019-2020 season, Harrell won the league's best sixth man of the season with excellent bench firepower, and his interior finishing ability can be regarded as the top existence of the league. However, Kawhi Leonard did load management in the first season with the Clippers, which made a group of veteran Clippers players led by Harrell very unhappy, you are the Finals MVP, but you have not done anything here.
Harrell's whistle after the team's loss in the playoffs became the epitome of that season for the Clippers, and the extreme disunity within the team also made them lose the opportunity to make team history, Doug Rivers was gone, and Harrell did not accidentally go. What no one expected, however, was that Harrell, who was supposed to get a $20 million annual salary, chose another team in Los Angeles, and his annual salary was only worth $9.5 million in the full middle class.
Harrell joining the Lakers can be said to have accepted a salary cut, he still wants to prove himself in the city of Los Angeles, a player who has never signed a big contract in his career, and he still values career achievements more than money. What Harrell didn't expect, however, was that he fell prey to the Lakers' chaotic inner season. The Lakers, who reshuffled the inside, lost the inside advantage, they gave Gasol Jr. a starting promise, gave Andre Drummond a starting promise, and naturally, Harrell was completely abandoned.
He didn't complain repeatedly after losing his position like Gasol Jr., didn't think about messing up the team's dressing room, and whistled or anything more non-existent.
In this way, Harrell, after being abandoned, behaved professionally enough that just when all fans thought that Harrell would automatically leave the Lakers, he chose to execute the player option to stay, which was something that fans never expected. However, Harrell also did not expect that he showed extraordinary loyalty to the Lakers, and in the end it was a deal.
From Sacramento to Washington, Harrell's end is destined to be to leave, he could have chosen to jump out of the contract, so that he could test the free agent market, but the Lakers did not have the chips to trade Westbrook, from this point of view, Harrell still helped the Lakers. Now the Wizards have become a force to be reckoned with in the East, and they are another team that has blocked the Nets' supremacy.