• Thu. Jan 23rd, 2025

Commentary on Lakers VS Timberwolves: five consecutive defeats! Losing is not terrible. What is terrible is that you can’t see hope.

The Lakers lost five in a row, and they had to know what it was like.

The heavy eyebrow injury stopped, making it worse. The Lakers made all the attempts they could.

Wei Shao played a substitute. LeBlanc and Wei Shao led the team independently. Ham gave Wei Shao the right to play. Wei Shao also played the most confident game in the season, 18 points 8 board 3 Help 1 break 1 Cap, he made himself back in partial time.

Facts have proved that the power of the ball in hand can still influence the game on the offensive end. His game vitality, the threat of fighting, the willingness to pass and the defensive attitude are all positive and beneficial to the Lakers, ham’s practical effect of separating LeBlanc and Wei Shao is the biggest surprise that the Lakers will even affect the array configuration combination throughout the season.

The performance of the Lakers in the overall defensive end of the team is still remarkable. Although the Timberwolves and towers occupy an absolute high advantage in the internal line, the Lakers have 55-49 Timberwolves and inside shooting 56-46 Timberwolves in this rebound, the inside line was not hit, and the defensive side did its best. Since the opening season of the Lakers, the third defense efficiency of the league is still continuing. Ham stressed that the defense has achieved results, which is of great benefit to the Lakers in the long run.

The sense of space and projection ability of the Lakers still exist congenital chronic diseases that cannot be solved. For example, LeBlanc pushed back, Beverly’s bottom corner was empty for three points, and then Wei Shao was found to be empty for three points; even if the Lakers used the “mini death five children” with LeBlanc as the number 5, LeBlanc broke into the restricted area near the basket and still encountered the iron barrel array surrounded by four Timberwolves.

The space was already insufficient. The change array rearranged and combined the personnel and lacked tacit understanding with each other. The Lakers made 22 mistakes in the game, and the Timberwolves scored 25 points because of the mistakes. In the absence of heavy eyebrows, the Lakers made 11 mistakes in the first half and could draw with the Timberwolves. They were only 3 points behind the last quarter. Compared with the past four games, although they lost again, but the Lakers have indeed improved.

Wei Shao’s play as a substitute is only a form, and the key point is whether he has the right to play.

Hamm made Wei Shao play at 32 minutes 38 seconds this time, which was even more than 28.5 minutes when Wei played the first game. The Lakers made Wei Shao play the first game obviously out of strategic considerations, without any disrespect, after all, the playing time will not lie.

Wei Shao replaced Brown when he was on the bench for the first time. During the first quarter from 7 minutes 28 seconds to 3 minutes 57 seconds, he did not have a high sense of presence when he was working with LeBlanc, because the ball power was concentrated in LeBlanc’s hands, in the past three battlefields, weishao was completely empty when field goal percentage of 28.9% and three-point shot percentage of 8.3% played without a ball as a fixed-point shooter, and he had to face the interference of the timberwolves under the attack basket without a ball, the effect of Wei Shao, who mainly played no ball, was not ideal three and a half minutes before the debut.

Wei Shao enjoyed the main control when he led the team alone. Wei Shao, who had the right to play the ball, played his own characteristics: he broke down with Gabriel and rives one after another, and got out of the ball in time, on through ball, we directly found the teammates who went down with the air cut; We fought back and killed the basket with a single dragon; We named Russell in the ground battle to fight hard, even in the face of Gobel relieve a garrison, we went forward bravely; The defensive attitude was remarkable, back-to-defense chase Cap Edwards, it is undeniable that the weishao with an average of 1.8 steals is workaholic of the best defensive attitude and effect of the Lakers since the season.

There is still a threat of attack on the back of weishao’s ball-holding impact and positional warfare, including his organizational vision and LeBlanc’s improvisational cooperation to play high-quality two-person transfers, which are also built on the premise of weishao’s ball-holding. The power of having the ball is obviously more confident, and the effect of playing without the ball is greatly reduced.

The starting or the substitute is only a form, with independent possession of the ball, and the sunny and confident Wei Shao has energy on the court.

The Lakers are trying to find the best way to use Wei Shao and solve the penultimate attack in the team league. Timberwolves are also trying to deploy the way to use Gobel, Downs, Edwards and Russell.

At present, the attack and defense of Timberwolves are actually carried out around Gobel. The defensive end is squatted four times, the Gobel anti-blocking is removed potty chair, and the outer four people are expanded to prevent tearing; in local time, to protect downs and Russell from being at a disadvantage, Finch will use 3-2 joint defense to maximize the standing pile basket protection power of Gobel.

Among the 22 mistakes made by the Lakers, 13 were snatched by the Timberwolves. Russell sent out 6 steals by one person, and Prince stole 3 times. Downs, Edwards, Nowell and golbel each time. The Timberwolves have the central Center of Gobel, and others can boldly expand the defense against the pressure on the ball. The game steals the 9th of the league, scores the 10th of the league by mistake, and the two towers guarantee the third best rebound in the league, timberwolves are currently ranked 6th in the league in terms of defense efficiency.

That is, the Timberwolves and the Lakers are both strong defensive teams since the season, but the attack of the Timberwolves is much better than that of the Lakers: Gobel provides high-quality cover for the team, if you build a pile around him, you can derive the system of blocking and dismantling and hand-in-hand handling. Russell and Edwards will be able to brush up with Gobel one after another; Downs has completely transformed into an outside play, the career of the 2-meter 13 anti-aircraft gun Station is as high as three-point shot percentage, which is hard to prevent. Edwards’ three points are quite Maddie’s elegant demeanour, and it is extremely understandable to face defenders with physical talent.

The Timberwolves averaged 118 points, the 8th in the league; The Lakers averaged only 102.2 points, and the 30th in the league. Downs and Edwards represented the absolute talent of the Timberwolves, while Gobel supported the attack and defense system. Finch embedded the talent into the system, and the practice of the twin towers was also smooth.

The Lakers met the same defensive mode in the final match: the main defense of the opponent’s center was few, while jokedge was few when digging gold, while zubatz was few when playing Clippers, this battle was played by Gobel, who had little defense and was completely empty of the powerful COSCO investment. The big center retreated to guard the Forbidden Zone and guard basket-partially formed 5 defense 4, bullying the Lakers with poor projection and no sense of space on the court, even though LeBlanc became the center of the small ball, the four men did not respect the three points of the Lakers.

Since the beginning of the season, the three-point projection of the Lakers has completely met the “expectations” of the formation of this lineup: the three-point shot percentage of LeBlanc is 24.4%, the 23.8% of Nunn, the 18.2% of heavy eyebrows, the 17.6% of Beverly, walker 14.8%, Anderson 12.5%, Wei Shao 12.5%, the team only Ryan 50%, Reeves 46.2%, Brown 36.4% Three People three-point shot percentage more than 30%.

The most deadly thing is that the two starting flanks Walker and Beverly three-point shot percentage of the Lakers are less than 20%. Ryan and rives project well but the defense is targeted by the opponent. The outside lines of the Lakers are generally functional and single, those who can vote cannot be prevented, those who can be prevented cannot vote, the lineup construction is deformed, and there is a lack of 3D players.

The Lakers can’t afford to sign 3D players during the off-season team building. This season, Wei Shao’s salary is 47.06 million, leblan44.47 million, and heavy eyebrows 37.98 million. The three giants add up to 0.129 billion and the salary cap is 0.1236 billion. Beverly salary is 13 million, the contract of the three giants + Beverly + Nunn exceeds 0.145 billion, and Pelinka can only pick up leftover material to build a lineup. There is really no money and no salary space, and a monk can’t keep it, what’s more, configure the 3D Group for Zhan Mei-The Lakers are a set of patchwork lineup playing the third defensive efficiency of the league, and everyone actually did their best.

Five consecutive defeats. Except for trading, the Lakers have no room for Breakthrough. Lying flat can only be cheaper than pelicans who have the right to exchange the first round draft of the Lakers in 2023. The worse the Lakers are, the happier the Pelicans will be. Losing is not terrible. What is terrible is that it is even more difficult to get rid of them!

In addition to giving up the picks in 2027and 2029for heavy deals, the road ahead of the Lakers can already be seen at a glance.

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