Where on earth should Wood go? This would not be a problem last season. At that time, no one expected that a wood would become a hot cake in the free market. But now, when the Lakers signed Wood, the bull and the heat became obstacles. The advantage of the bull was that it gave more money. How should Wood choose? Do you choose to be closer to the champion or get more money?
Wood is a drop draft (from this perspective, it seems that the heat is more matched). In the early stage of his career, when he played for 76 people, Wasps and Bucks, his performance was dispensable and basically a marginal player. In the 2018-19 season, he switched to Pelican halfway. Wood’s playing time rose instantly from 4.8 minutes to 23.6 minutes, with an average of 16.9 points and 7.9 rebounds, with a hit rate of, soaring to the sky. However, due to too few games for Pelicans (only 8), Wood’s performance was not convincing enough.
In the 2019-20 season, Wood came to the piston, whose performance tended to be stable, with an average of 13.1 points and 6.3 rebounds, and the hit rate reached 56.7 percent, ranking a new career high. A year later, Wood moved again. This time he came to the Rockets. He played 109 games. After a short cooperation with Harden in the 2020-21 season, he handed over an average of 21:9.6 rebounds, the highest light performance in the career with a hit rate of 51.4%. The second season is his only season with two pairs.
It became his nightmare to come to the Lone Ranger in the 2022-23 season. Although he still had a score of 16.6 points and 7.3 rebounds, The Lone Ranger finally failed to enter the play-off and was blocked outside the playoff gate. And Wood’s performance on the court was also unanimously criticized by the fans. The Lone Ranger is considered to be useless at the defensive end, and his opponent is like no man in the world. The inside line led by wood is hard to blame.
Dan Woike, a Lakers reporter from Los Angeles Times, can see exactly what kind of player wood is. He pointed out two major defects of wood, one is weak defense and the other is inaccurate positioning of himself. He complained that a big man who can open space and has great athletic ability should have been the ideal partner of Dong Qiqi and Owen, but it backfired. An insider who was sold by the Lone Ranger can imagine how bad he was.
But Wood is not without advantages. On the offensive end, he belongs to the type that gives a little sunshine to shine. He is 2.08 meters tall. With the continuous deepening of his career, he has developed a three-point ball, which conforms to the trend of the times. Last season, he averaged 4.2 times and 3 points, with a hit rate of 37.6 percent. Therefore, if a team knows how to hide him on the defensive side, he is still a good player on the offensive side. The Lone Ranger was disappointed with him last season because the team did not “hide” his defense, which made him often exposed to the concentrated attack of the opponent’s artillery and soon showed his timidity.
Therefore, the Lakers targeted Wood and wanted to cooperate with him, but they were competing by the other two teams. Let’s see the bull first. Because of the knee injury of longzo-Bauer, the bull got a special deal of 10.2 million dollars. The bull can either trade a player or reach a one-year contract with the player. However, the bull is now in the critical moment of whether Lavin wants to send away. At this moment, the bull still doesn’t care about wood. At this time, it broke out that the bull intended to wood, but the media watched the bull’s special deal and were greedy.
It is much more reasonable to look at the heat again. The premise of the introduction of wood by the heat is that after completing the deal of Lillard, it may also pursue the big player wood. The demand of heat for internal attack Fire is strong. A loafers cannot meet the demand of heat Fire. They had chased Saric before, but the latter signed up with warriors and now they may be eyeing Wood. The heat also seems to have a fatal attraction for the drop draft. If Woodwood joins in, his attack power inside seems to share some pressure for Adebayor.
Finally, let’s talk about the Lakers. They could not offer the bull’s big contract, but could only offer Wood a basic salary. Wood has just passed two seasons without a basic salary and has to return to the original point. However, the Lakers are the same as the heat and can provide wood with the opportunity to get closer to the finals, which is a height that Wood has never reached so far. After all, Wood has not even tried the playoffs so far.
When he came to the Lakers, he was beside Anthony Davis and could also be used as a supplement to Davis. He shared Davis’s pressure on the offensive side and let him turn to the defensive side. In addition to the high exposure rate of the Lakers, Wood joining the Lakers is also helpful for him to rebuild his reputation. To sum up, Wood is an alternative answer to the Lakers’ question “who should sign Next.
Wood once played a good show against the fall draft, which was the benchmark of the league’s fall draft against the attack. However, his career was always wandering, which made him tired of shooting a gun to change a place, but wandering is still continuing. When he came to Lone Ranger, he exposed his technical defects, which made him fall into the condemnations of the fans. In order to prove that he is not the chicken rib of “find it tasteless, it is a pity to abandon”, he needs to find a new boss, a new boss who can let him play his strengths and tolerate his technical defects, A new boss who will not part with him after the end of a season. Can he find it?
(Mao Mao dad/supine support)
