Westbrook reappears at the Lakers home court, his eyes full of fierceness and wanting revenge

The NBA preseason continues, the Kings challenge the Lakers away, and Westbrook once again comes to the Lakers' home court, but this time, he appears as a Kings player, and he will not play in this game.

Since joining the Kings, Westbrook has completed joint training with his teammates. Unfortunately, the current Kings team has two former Lakers players. In addition to Westbrook, Schroeder has also joined the Kings. In the new season, they will serve as the Kings' starting and backup point guards respectively. According to the head coach's idea, the Kings are likely to use a one-star, four-shooting tactic. Westbrook and Schroder organize the offense, and DeRozan, Monk, and LaVine are responsible for finishing.

Let’s take a look at today’s game first. Although Westbrook is not playing, through this game, we can see if the Kings really lack Westbrook’s organization.

In this game, the Lakers can be said to have fielded their strongest lineup without James, Ayton, Doncic, Rui Hachimura, Rivers, and Vincent, while the Kings fielded a second team without DeRozan, Monk, or Sabonis. The starting lineup was Schroeder, Eubanks, LaVine, Clifford, and Jones.

At the beginning of the game, the two sides played evenly, and the score quickly reached 10:10. Then Schroeder suddenly broke out. He hit Rivers hard and then assisted Eubanks to complete a dunk, creating 5 points. The score quickly reached 15:10, and the Lakers fell behind to 5 points. The Lakers trailed for a while.

With 3 minutes left in the first quarter, Ayton hit a mid-range shot, and Doncic also hit an extended 3-pointer. The Lakers finally took the lead at 27:25. After that, the two sides fell into a stalemate again. Saric and LaVine hit two consecutive 3-pointers. The Kings took the lead in the first quarter, 36:34.

The game entered the second quarter. LaVine scored a 3-pointer, then made a foul and got 2 free throws. The Kings once again took the lead, and the score reached 41:36. Vincent broke out after that, stealing a layup and assisting Hayes' dunk, directly tying the score at 45:45. The game entered Vincent's moment again, and 3 points rained down. During this period, he scored 3 consecutive three-pointers, and Doncic also added fuel to the fire. The Lakers began to take the initiative on the court. As the half game ended, the Lakers led by 3 points at 61:58.

In terms of statistics, Doncic scored 16 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists, Vincent scored 13 points, Hachimura scored 11 points, Ayton scored 6 points and 5 rebounds, Rivers scored 4 points and 3 assists, and Smart scored 3 points.

For the Kings, LaVine scored 13 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Schroeder scored 8 points and 2 assists, Saric scored 5 points, and Eubanks scored 9 points, 3 rebounds and 2 blocks. And Westbrook was also watching the game from the sidelines, his eyes full of fierceness!

Then the meaning of winning or losing in this game is not significant anymore. All aspects of the game that should be tested are already very clear.

As for the Lakers, there is still an old problem. The defense is really bad. Today, the Kings' main players are not available, and the Lakers, except James, are all the main players. However, in this case, although the Lakers maintain the lead, they are playing very hard.

As for the Kings, the team has blossomed more. The Lakers' defense does not mean much to them. It can also be seen from this game that after Westbrook joins the Kings, it will have no effect on other teams, let alone whether it will have any effect on other teams, but it will definitely have a great effect on the Lakers. Looking at Westbrook sitting on the bench, with his fierce eyes, I believe he will perform at 120% against the Lakers in the regular season. This is because he wants revenge. After leaving the Lakers, he has not given it away.

With Westbrook coming to the Kings, this is already the seventh team of his NBA career, taking the Lakers period as the limit. Before that, he played for 3 teams, and after that, he played for 3 more teams. At the same time, Westbrook also became the second superstar after O'Neal to wear a rainbow jersey. Both of them have common characteristics. In their peak period, they were extremely powerful, but at the end of their careers, they became bargaining chips for repeated trades.

In 23 years, Westbrook could still receive an annual salary of 40 million from the Lakers. In just 2 years, Westbrook has been reduced to the point where he has no ball to play. He joined the Kings with a veteran's minimum salary of 3.6 million US dollars. According to further reports, the contract Westbrook signed with the Kings is only a non-guaranteed contract, which means that the Kings can lay off Westbrook at any time.

Before Westbrook, every time he came to a new team, he would inevitably release some rhetoric and criticize his former club. The overall meaning was nothing more than saying that he was uncomfortable playing in the previous team and did not perform as well as he could. He has his own characteristics, and the new team makes him happy, but this time Westbrook has kept a much lower profile. An unguaranteed basic salary contract has made him lose all his confidence, but no matter what, he has left his brilliant figure in the NBA. I hope he and the Kings can finally get back together.

40 million to 3.6 million are not guaranteed. Westbrook appears at the Lakers home court, full of fierceness and wants revenge