Willow's three-way going deal presents a precipitous decline

Recently, several teams have ushered in preseason games, and the much-anticipated Los Angeles Lakers, and the first preseason opponent, the Kings, ushered in a meeting.

At the beginning of the first quarter, the Lakers' starting lineup did give hope, although Willis was in training and performed poorly, after the game began, Willis played with great confidence, also let us see Willis did not seem to be affected by the off season trade rumors, as once MVP got to live the confidence to show, in 14 minutes of court time, 3 shots 2, took 5 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists.

Compared to Willis, James is completely lost, although he woke up at 4 a.m. many times in the off season to train with his two sons, he seems to be overexerted, and overdrawn body, he played a total of 15 minutes, of which 7 sports shooting all lost, only by 5 of 4 free throws, 4 points, plus 1 rebound and 2 assists.

It's worth noting that from Jan. 5, '07, to April 2 of this year, James has never scored less than 10 points in a single game in his career. This preseason 4 points, James showed his weak side, which seems to be a sign that James from now on, perhaps step by step down the altar.

Some sports experts believe that James in the new season, will show a precipitous decline, the new season 30+ games will not exceed three so that he wants to get 40,000 points, I'm afraid it will take a season, or even more.

Compared with James, thick eyebrows Davis may have been ready to serve as the Lakers, after a long recovery, thick eyebrows played extremely excited, in 15 minutes of court time, got 11 points and 11 rebounds. Once again showing the state of the championship-winning period, it seems that as long as he stays healthy, then the Lakers' goal remains the championship.

In order not to waste the state of the thick eyebrows, but also let James as soon as possible to return to the peak of the past state, foreign media have experts still suggest that will be traded Willow, according to the previous relevant reports, the Los Angeles Lakers in the days before the start of training camp, but also had internal meetings to seriously explore the possibility of trading Willow. Now it seems they have made some choices.

For being traded, Willow seems to have had a premonition, the moment before the preseason kicked off, he cleared his entire social media feed, and currently, his social media accounts are blank.

Spurs send Purcell, Josh Richardson, and Doug Dermot, second-round picks in 2023 and 2024.

Get: Willis, the Lakers' first-round picks in 2027 and 2029.

The Rockets sent: Eric Gordon.

Receive: Reeves, Dunn, the Spurs' second-round picks in 2023 and 2024.

With this trade, the Lakers will get Gordon, Purcell, and four other mammoths, which will help the team more than trading with the Pacers.

Gordon is an important member of the Harden era "magic ball" style of play, if not for the Warriors, they would have gotten the championship. They also created a lot of difficulties for James, who was still in the Cavaliers at the time, especially in 2018, so James suffered a lot of ridicule, that is, the Rockets away against the Cavaliers, James and Harden are not in shape, Harden 5 of 16 shots, 1 of 11 three-pointers, 16 points, while James 3 of 10 shots, 11 points. But it was Gordon's outburst that helped the Rockets outscore the Knights 120-88 on the road, winning by 32 points, a battle that also made James fearful of Gordon.

In the post-Harden period, Gordon is still able to create great difficulties for James, in last season's regular season rockets against the Lakers in a game, Gordon also had played James, that is in the rocket chase counterattack, Gordon received a long pass from his teammates, in the outside and his opposite is James. Gordon a broken fake, and suddenly the ball is back, and James eats a shake. Subsequently, another pass fake tricked James into spinning in place. After that James could only watch the basketball steadily enter his ball frame.

Gordon is now older, but also more sophisticated in his style of play, his style of play does not take up the ball, plus he is more familiar with James' style of play, can quickly integrate into the team, and his three-point ability, but also can give the Lakers a lot of help. With him holding the fort on the outside, players such as the Thick Brow will benefit.

The 26-year-old Purcell, who can also help the team a lot, has solid inside skills and was able to score 13.5 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.7 blocks in 29 minutes per game last season, shooting 61.8% from the field. He can hold up the entire team inside. With him guarding the basket, in addition to the Brow, the Lakers inside firepower and defense will not be a problem and will help the team more at the moment. And Purcell is about to enter a contract year, and his salary for next season will be just $9.4 million. This will give the Lakers more payroll flexibility.

Richardson, as a veteran, can bring some help to the team when he arrives with the Lakers. He is experienced and can provide help to young players and share his experience. His three-point shooting is also what the Lakers need. He shot 39.9% from three this season. He also has the good defensive ability, enough to help the team better.

Dermot can shoot the ball from the floor and is a spacing player. And he's not just a shooter, he can run open space by covering without the ball in the low post and hitting throws. With 1.4 goals per game and a 40.9% shooting percentage from three, he is a savior for James and the Lakers.

The Lakers through this deal, although paid the first round, compared with the championship, the role of the first round is not so big, the Lakers' championship number, the reason why the number of the same as the Celtics, is when the operation of the broken, to have the Lakers' glory, and now through this deal, there is a great possibility that their championship number, beyond the Celtics, will also let James to the championship The number of more than Curry, become the first active players.

Of course, the Rockets and Spurs have agreed to the reason, Spurs in the case of not getting the Warriors Poole, a complete rebuild is the best choice, the first round is what they are most interested in, and the value of the Lakers first round, enough to make them agree to the deal. At the same time, Willow came to the Spurs, but also can once again let fly, to find the feeling of three pairs.

The Rockets have started to rebuild early, but next season's Western giants four, obviously not the best time to impact the playoffs, and 2023 is still a big draft year, even if you do not get Wen Banyan, with the second-round picks to select players like the Warriors Green, is also a good choice, so they need to stockpile a lot of draft picks so that they will have the probability to select better players, they also have a reason to agree to this deal.

Overall, this three-way deal has strong interoperability, whether it can be reached, let's wait and see.