Three games in and it’s not hyperbole to suggest the Lakers' season is in danger of unraveling, writes SIChrisMannix
Westbrook has regressed after playing 34 minutes per game over 78 starts under Vogel. He’s averaging 10 points in three games this season. He’s handing out four assists. His shooting percentages—28.9% from the floor and a dismal 8.3% from three—are career lows. He has made three of his 17 jump shots this season, per ESPN. He’s looked uncomfortable taking every one.
His decision making has been brutal. With the Lakers clinging to a one-point lead late in Sunday’s loss to Portland, Westbrook pulled up for a mid-range jumper with 18 seconds on the shot clock … and missed. According to ESPN’s Kirk Goldsberry, it was the first time a player attempted a jump shot with under 30 seconds to go and more than 15 seconds left on the shot clock with their team up by one possession in the lastLakers coach Darvin Ham disagreed.
“If you’re going to go two-for-one, I think it has to be either going downhill to attack the rim or going downhill for a draw-and-kick,” Ham said. “I felt like we settled on that.”. It didn’t work last season. It won’t work in this one. Everyone knows it. The Lakers know it. Holding onto Westbrook isn’t about some naïve notion that he will suddenly fit. It’s about waiting to see if there is a blockbuster deal worth attaching two first-round picks to move him.
There isn’t. The Wizards aren’t trading Bradley Beal in the first year of a five-year contract, Kyrie Irving isn’t going anywhere this season and, if you hadn’t noticed,There are deals, however, that will make them better. One, specifically. . The Pacers reportedly were willing to send Buddy Hield and Myles Turner to L.A. if the Lakers attached two first-round picks—in 2027 and ’29—to Westbrook’s contract. Los Angeles, specifically GM Rob Pelinka, declined.was the penciled-in date to re-survey the landscape.
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