The Lakers have 24 hours to turn things around. Twenty-four hours to find the rare pearl that will allow them to straighten the bar and perhaps save their season. Defeated in large widths by the Bucks, the 2020 champions are 9th in the Western Conference with a largely negative balance sheet. The return of Anthony Davis has not changed anything. This team is poorly built, and its level of play is far, and even very far from the best.
“This defeat tells me that we are not at their level” replies LeBron James when asked about the gap between the Bucks and his Lakers. “I could have told you before the game… Do I think we can reach Milwaukee’s current level? No. Is this what we want to hear? No. Obviously, we always try to take advantage of the matches to see where we are. But we know where we are: we are a few matches below 50% of victories and we did not play the basketball we would like to play”.
“We have to change things before things go really badly”
According to ESPN, LeBron James is in constant contact with Rob Pelinka to try to improve the team. It was together that they built the team last summer, and it is together that they will try to correct it. So far, no franchise has taken the bait represented by Talen Horton-Tucker. Last summer, the Lakers preferred to bet on THT rather than Alex Caruso. Today, everyone realizes that it was a beautiful dumpling. Not to mention Russell Westbrook who doesn’t even play late games anymore…
Result: it will be very complicated for the Lakers to improve the team, and LeBron James has almost made up his mind. The objective would now be to work for… next season. But with what room for maneuver since the Davis-LeBron-Westbrook trio weighs more than 100 million dollars in the payroll?
” There’s still a lot of basketball to play recalls the four-time NBA champion. ” There is still an opportunity for us to leave an imprint on this season, but it will take a lot of us. Very much. But we have nothing for nothing. “
Same speech at Anthony Davis.
“I don’t think we gave up…I know we haven’t. Like LeBron said, there are still a lot of games left. Things can be changed, but it will take a lot of work. To achieve this, it must be done as a team, collectively. We have to join. We have to play for each other. We have to give our all. We must play without thinking of ourselves. We have to change things before things get really bad. “
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| lebron james | 38 | 36.7 | 52.4 | 35.2 | 75.2 | 1.1 | 6.6 | 7.7 | 6.4 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 29.0 |
| Anthony Davis | 34 | 35.4 | 53.3 | 17.5 | 72.0 | 3.0 | 7.1 | 10.1 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 23.7 |
| Russell Westbrook | 55 | 34.6 | 43.5 | 29.8 | 66.5 | 1.4 | 6.5 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 18.3 |
| carmelo anthony | 50 | 26.5 | 43.7 | 39.2 | 82.4 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 13.4 |
| Malik Monk | 49 | 27.1 | 47.2 | 40.5 | 78.7 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 13.1 |
| Talen Horton-tucker | 39 | 25.7 | 40.5 | 24.8 | 79.7 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 9.4 |
| isaiah thomas | 4 | 25.2 | 30.8 | 22.7 | 72.7 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 9.2 |
| Sekou Doumbouya | 2 | 8.2 | 62.5 | 50.0 | 75.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 7.0 |
| Avery Bradley | 47 | 23.5 | 41.1 | 37.5 | 85.7 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 6.6 |
| Stanley Johnson | 21 | 22.2 | 48.1 | 31.2 | 68.0 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 6.5 |
| Wayne Ellington | 33 | 19.4 | 39.5 | 38.8 | 80.0 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 6.2 |
| Austin Reaves | 36 | 21.3 | 47.1 | 31.8 | 85.7 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 5.9 |
| Dwight Howard | 41 | 14.5 | 62.1 | 66.7 | 61.2 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 5.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 5.2 |
| Deandre Jordan | 31 | 12.9 | 67.0 | 0.0 | 48.0 | 1.6 | 3.9 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 4.2 |
| Trevor Ariza | 17 | 19.4 | 35.4 | 32.1 | 70.0 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 4.1 |
| Kent Bazemore | 31 | 14.7 | 32.8 | 35.4 | 76.5 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 3.7 |
| Rajon Rondo | 18 | 16.1 | 32.4 | 26.7 | 50.0 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 3.1 |
| mason jones | 2 | 4.4 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.5 |
| jemerrio jones | 2 | 7.4 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| Darren Collison | 3 | 12.4 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| Chaundee Brown | 2 | 10.3 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Jay Huff | 4 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
