The Lakers still sent weishao out. After talking quietly with jazz and Timberwolves for a few days, they gave weishao to jazz less than 24 hours before the trade deadline came-of course, weishao didn’t need to go to Salt Lake City.
The three-party deal was reached between the Lakers, jazz and Timberwolves. The details are as follows–
Lakers Russell/Malik Beasley/Sir Vanderbilt Westbrook/Toscano-Anderson Damion Jones/2027 Lakers first round Timberwolf Conley/Alexander Walker/two rounds
The Lakers are not “SoHa”, just a smart choice under the existing structural conditions, but this choice is very important to the fate of the Lake People’s year, and the ending depends on this. Until recently, James still believed that the Lakers had the chance to win the championship, although only ranked the last three in the West. Where does James’s confidence come from? One thing can be guessed from this deal. He seems to know that the Lakers are trading quietly.
Before James broke the record, there were a lot of rumors related to trading weishao. For example, it was widely rumored that the Lakers would change weishao and rives to the Raptors and get siacam and Thadius young. They said that they had a nose and eyes. James broke the record yesterday. After the game, a reporter asked Wei Shao what he thought of the recent rumors. He was depressed and said that when he was ten or eight or nine years old, his father told himself that this was all business, so I will treat it with professional attitude. Obviously, he already knew something at that time.
It was a bit ironic to say that when James broke the record, Davis lost the game without any action, but Wei Shao scored 27 points. Instead, he didn’t enter in several baskets in the fourth of his three-point goal 7. However, this time it was replaced because it was not in tune with the Lakers in the past two years. It could not shoot, but only lay in the basket.
Wei Shao will not go to Salt Lake City, and his contract will be bought out. Anyway, there is less than half a season left, and the Jazz team is not expensive. Which team will Major General Wei join after buying out will become a hot spot again. Once he only plays a substitute and does not spend much money, Wei Shao will become a hot cake. The biggest opportunity now is the Clippers, because Wei Shao is not willing to leave Los Angeles, and he has opinions on the Lakers. He feels better when he is a rival in the same city.
The ending of Wei Shao is almost fixed, and the fate of the Lakers this season is still a mystery.
Russell was the top choice of the Lakers in the kubcek era. Because he was not sensible, he was abandoned by the Lakers. Later, he played in basketable nets, Warriors and Timberwolves all the way, just like a league. In the second year of basketable nets, Russell made great progress and became an All-Star. In the fourth grade, Russell scored the highest average score of 23.1 in his career. In the last three years, Russell was like a roller coaster. At first, the Warriors had high hopes for him, and then they were disappointed and replaced him with Wikins. After Russell arrived at the Timberwolves, the desire to attack declined every year.
With the fierce turmoil in the Timberwolves lineup, Russell’s future became more and more confused, but one thing he was taken by the Lakers was three-point shot percentage 39.1%, 7 shots per game, which was something weishao could not compare. Russell is not a high-scoring point guard, but he also scored 52 points in a single game.
In the Lakers, Russell does not need to be productive every day. He only needs to understand the basic style of the Lakers, that is, to defend well and push back quickly. A simpler way of playing is conducive to exerting Russell’s technical characteristics. When James takes the ball, he only needs to open the space and watch Zhan Mei block and tear down.
Obviously, Russell is under a little pressure now. This year is his contract year. The size of the next contract depends on the performance of the last twenty or thirty games.
Compared with Russell, the other two people the Lakers got were surprised. Malik Beasley was a pitcher and Vanderbilt was a backboard player. Both of them were very characteristic.
Although Beasley hit less than 36% of the three points this year, he has been regarded as a pure pitcher for 7 years in his career. 70% of his shots are downtown, and he can score up to 11 three points in a single game in his career. Due to the main substitute, Beasley’s playing time is only more than 20 minutes, but if it takes 36 minutes to convert, he will shoot 11.5 times in three points per game. You should know that Curry shoots 11.9 times every 36 minutes, hilde 9.9 times, you can imagine how often he cast three points when he was present.
Russell and Beasley will effectively improve the three points of the Lakers and change the embarrassment at the bottom of the league. Moreover, both of them are only twenty-six or seven years old and have just entered the golden age. Vanderbilt is younger, only 23 years old.
Although the Lakers have Davis, the inside line is still weak. Thomas Bryant has a good attack but a general defense. It is really a surprise to grab Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt is THEBEAST, can jump, height 206 has 216 arm show, standing and touching height is 2.70 meters. In the past, he didn’t throw three points. This season, he tried to increase the number of three points. So far, he has scored 57 out of 52 goals, 19, and can only say that he has entered one occasionally.
However, Vanderbilt also has a characteristic that few people pay attention to: he is thick and meticulous, and he is good at passing. This season, he has an average of 2.7 assists, and the total number has reached 142, ranking third in the Jazz team. His athletic ability and passing characteristics are very important to the Lakers, because the Lakers like to fight back, and the fast attack ability of receiving long passes is very important, as is the long pass after rebounding.
Therefore, the Lakers did not seem to get any stars in this deal, but it is still worth the overall value, which has improved from the inside line to the outside line. General manager Pelinka looked at the two first rounds as treasures. Only one was released this time, and both of them were accounted.
As for the Timberwolves, getting Conley was an amendment to the previous deal Gobel. Gobel’s deal was not successful enough. Russell and Gobel were both very awkward because downs were out for a long time and could not break in. Although Conley is 35 years old and has cooperated with Gobel for three years, it almost covered the years when Gobel scored the highest score. This time it is also a kind of gambling to make him the outside main control of forest wolves. However, Conley’s merger of 24.36 million next season is not fully guaranteed, and Timberwolves got his “bird right”. If they want to stay, the cost is much lower than that of renewing Russell.
Jazz is willing to participate in the transaction, or for the sake of picks, proving that Danny angji still focuses on rebuilding Jazz. Now the Jazz has taken off Cinderella’s crystal shoes, and it is very likely that they will encounter consecutive defeats, withdraw from the playoff and even play-off competition, and concentrate on the lottery draft.
At this time, there were only a dozen hours left before the trading deadline. When Wei Shao left, most of the excitement had passed. Only after the All-Star weekend, the war that hit the playoffs began.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Times change! Russell returns to the Lakers Wei Shao to Jazz