With the end of the regular season, which coincided with the victory in the away match against the Denver Nuggets per 141-146, per i Los Angeles Lakers It is time to take stock of a season that started badly and ended worse, with a market that did not meet the (high) expectations of the Gialloviola fans at all.
With the post-season thus starting now for the players trained by Frank Vogel, it is time for them to sit down and discuss. Among the most accused players there is certainly Anthony Davisthe team’s All-Star big forward and “shoulder” of LeBron James, a player with whom he won the NBA title in the 2019/20 season, which ended in the Orlando bubble. When questioned by ESPN, the University of Kentucky product expressed their opinion on playing alongside LeBron by saying: “I think the two of us can play together and we have also shown that. I don’t think it’s something we need to reevaluate. He and I will talk about this season and what we would like to see next season and in a certain sense we will be able to understand it ”.
Davis also added: “We will come together as a group to get back to the champion mentality that we had in our first year. So it would be a very interesting conversation just from the point of view of what has changed. I mean, injuries affected us, but even when we were in good health, I don’t think we were able to reach our full potential, for whatever reason. So I think we want to understand it and go back to that mentality that we players know we have ”.
Davis, despite the injury, did better than the 2020/21 season. He increased his points (from 21.8 to 23.2), shot rate (from 49.1% to 53.2%), rebounds (from 7.9 to 9.9) and blocks (from 1.6 to 2.3) this season but despite these averages, the fate of the Lakers has been the same for everyone. With Davis wasting so much time and James being sidelined for 26 games due to various injuries, even for him, the Lakers have never really seen what Davis, James and Russell Westbrook as a trio. They only appeared in 21 matches together as a group, setting a record of 11-10.
In light of the above, it is very likely for the Los Angeles Lakers to go through a revolution that can see many people leave the Crypto.com Arena forever.
