This is quite surprising information for anyone who has followed the NBA a little this season. Los Angeles media announce… that no movement is planned to strengthen the Lakers’ workforce. In view of the sporting situation of Darvin Ham players, this is surprising.
You know that adage that says “Insanity is keeping doing the same thing that isn’t working and hoping it will eventually work”? Yes, yes, you have understood correctly, we are in the process, in the greatest calm, of qualifying the leaders of the Lakers as crazy. At the same time, we must also see how the season is going on the Purple and Gold side. Despite having two of the league’s best players on paper in LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the 2020 champions aren’t even today. not in the qualifying places for the play-in. The King and the Brow are doing their best to tow all these beautiful people, but the first cannot fight once morest the passage of time indefinitely, and the second, unlike Booba, has trouble detaching himself from his second home (it’s not the infirmary that leaves me, it’s me I’m leaving the infirmary).
AD’s foot problems (absent at least until mid-January) can’t explain everything, however. The stats are overwhelming for the Angelinos: 19th in the League in offensive rating, 22nd across the field, 26th in percentage behind the arc… It seems like a long time ago the good old days of the Orlando bubble when the team then coached by Frank Vogel was the 3rd defense in the League. As you will have understood, we are far from a team that is aiming for the title. Patrick Beverley has never looked so much like a dog running and barking without effectively defending (nice backlash by the way for the author of this statement who is now his teammate), while in the shoot, we just impression of seeing fifteen Ben Simmons with a Mauve and Gold jersey.
This does not seem to alert Rob Pelinka and the Lakers board more than that since, according to what journalist Dan Woike of the Los Angeles Times, on the side of the Crypto.com Arena, the time is not really to dream of a trade to strengthen the workforce. However, it is not the equipment that is missing to carry out an operation. The Purple and Gold still have all of their first-round draft picks through 2029, with the notable exception of the 2023 one sent to the Pels in the Anthony Davis trade (yes we know, the Wemby–Zion racquet blah blah). On the player side, Russell Westbrook certainly receives $ 47 million, but the fact that he is coming to the end of his contract next July as well as his very respectable season in a sixth man role are likely to make him a good asset to strengthen. short term. But no, on the side of California, we always seem to think that a supporting cast composed of Dennis Schröder, Thomas Bryant, Lonnie Walker and Kendrick Nunn, it’s more than enough to top a ring. Anyway, we don’t know how to close this paper so we leave you with a video of LeBron joining Drake and Travis Scott on stage.
Despite a chaotic start to the year (mild understatement), the Lakers still seem in “we take the same and start over” mode. The future will tell if GM Rob Pelinka was right or not, but the Angelinos’ strategy is still puzzling.
Source texte : Lakers Daily
