After recently traded XiaoJia to the Grizzlies, although the Lakers signed Jordan Jr., the inside position is still in a weak state, and recently according to TheAthletic reporter Jovan Buha, Kenneth Faried will try out for the Lakers this week. This move is indeed very clear, because their potential competitors Brooklyn Nets in the case of the same big three, the inside line has gathered Griffin, Ader, Millsap, Clarkston four major internal line, in contrast to the Lakers side although there are thick eyebrows, Jordan Jr. and Howard, but considering the glass man attributes of the thick eyebrows, plus Jordan Jr. and Howard have also lost their own offensive ability, completely reduced to a blue-collar interior line that attacks weak and defends strongly, this hoarding of the inside line is also a purchase of insurance.
But is choosing to sign Faried really a smart move for the Lakers? Now 32 years old Faried, can be said to be in the year of playing, since 11 years by the Nuggets with the 22nd pick in the first round, he also dedicated his peak to this Bó Lè team, rookie season, Faried basically sat in the team's starting No. 4 position, averaging 10.2 points and 7.7 rebounds per game, and was selected as the best rookie second team after the end of the season. In his second season (12-13), on November 5, 2012, Faried was also named the league's player of the week with LeBron James, and the endless potential hidden in the short inside seems to have begun to burst out.
In the next few years, Faried also became the Nuggets' main interior line, after playing a career-best 13.7 points and 8.6 rebounds in the 13-14 season, Faried was invited by the U.S. men's basketball team to participate in the 14-year Men's Basketball World Cup, and that year he was the absolute main force of the U.S. men's basketball team, and averaged 12.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, and was selected for the final best team list. As a miniature inner lineman with a height of only 2.03 meters, Faried can have such a high achievement, which is indeed admirable.
Unfortunately, after this, the league began to pay attention to projection, and the offensive monotony will only eat cake Faried was abandoned by the Nuggets, in order to cultivate a more potential all-round big man Jokic, Faried was traded by the Nuggets to the Nets in 18 years, and as a result, he only played 12 games, he was bought out by the team, and then went to the Rockets. Under the "feeding cake" of the bulb combination at that time, Faried once showed the second spring of his career, but for the Rockets, who are crazy obsessed with magic ball theory, the interior players are not important, and Faried has not been renewed by the team after the end of the season.
After leaving the NBA, Faried once came to our CBA's Zhejiang Guangsha men's basketball team, originally thought that with the aura of the American men's basketball team as the internal line, he could show his extraordinary talent at the NBA level in this stage of dimensionality reduction, but in the end it did not get what he wanted, the CBA did not seem to be particularly cold to this offensive monotonous interior line, only for Guangsha to play 7 games, leaving an average of 17.3 points and 10 rebounds per game, Faried returned to the United States to continue to pursue the dream of the NBA. But in the past two years, Faried has not been called by the NBA, until not long ago, the Portland Blazers threw an olive branch for him to represent the team in the summer league, but unfortunately Faried still did not seize the opportunity, 3 games down, averaging only 5.7 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, what is even more lamentable is his 38.9% shooting percentage, as an interior player, it is indeed too bleak.
And this trial training of the Lakers, for Farid, I am afraid that it is not optimistic. To know that Harrell, who is very similar to his body type and playing style, has not been able to gain a foothold in the Lakers, and at his peak, Harrell's firepower output is far better than Faried (he averaged 18.6 points and 7.1 rebounds per game during the 19-20 season with the Clippers), but because of the weakness of the defensive end, last season's playoffs were directly pressed on the bench by Vogel. Faried, on the other hand, who hasn't played an NBA game in two years and whose offensive efficiency is still so low, shouldn't sign the Purple and Gold. However, in general, the Lakers can pay attention to their own internal problems, it is indeed commendable, but compared to signing such a mini interior line, Pelinka may be more suitable for a taller, more genealogical big man at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.