Mingji Wenhorst, one of the closest journalists to James, is considered to be James's royal reporter, has been covering James since high school, and he has talked a lot about the Lakers on the guest show.
One is that James' team experiences a period of fatigue every 4 years.
"James' career is a four-year cycle and he'll make his team 'tired,' a phenomenon I call 'organizational fatigue.'"
The first time was in Cleveland, where they had no draft picks before James left, and there was a group of guys in their 30s on the roster. O'Neal is close to retirement, and there are players like Jamison in the squad. Then he went to Miami, where he stayed for four years and did great and the harvest was outstanding. But again, the Heat don't have a draft pick. After his final game with the Heat, three players in the roster retired.
Then he returned to Cleveland, four years, great, but also used up the draft picks, and the same lineup that was all old guys. It's now the fourth year of Los Angeles' turn, and this team is the oldest team we've seen in NBA history, and they don't have draft picks either, and the Lakers have reached the point of total exhaustion. ”
Second: The Westbrook deal was disastrous.
"No, because he couldn't have been worse. In fact, his performance over the past month has not been so bad. If you look at his stats, his performance in March is acceptable compared to his previous performance. Westbrook's trade was disastrous, not just because Westbrook didn't fit, but also because the assets they spent trading him destroyed their team style — 3D, that is, shooting and defending. They were the league's number one defensive team last season, better than the Bucks.
So it's a superimposed effect of the above two things, and Westbrook doesn't fit them, and they also ruin the depth of the lineup. Then you add the thick-browed injury, you can also count Nunn's injury, he's the most expensive free agent they signed offseason, and it's the series of events that led them to this point. ”
