on Liberon James“The forty birthday of more than two months ago, presented a very sincere evaluation of Los Angeles Lakers.
“Are we at the tournament level?” James asked on December 30. “Can we win a championship now?
Things have changed significantly since then.
Lakes Anthony Davis Luka Densic has been tradedAdd the player of the best three players in the league to their list. They won eight consecutive games for the first time since 2020, when they won their last championship. They climbed from the potential play team to sit in second place at the Western Conference No. 40-21. During their last 14 games, they had the best defense in the league.
Now, James changed his opinion.
“With a full group, we can go out and compete against anyone,” James said on Tuesday.
The king returned.
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During the past few weeks, Lakers has been the team to watch, permeate them 113-109 additional work over New York Nix Thursday. Lakers returned on a road of 13 points, as James ended with 31 points, 12 rebounds and eight decimal passes, and Densic added 32 points, seven rebound balls and 12 assists.
During the last hot Lakers series, all their eight wins, with the exception of eight teams against teams worth 500 or better.
Lakers was improving astronomical. They moved from the twenty -sixth place in the league in the defensive classification through their first 23 games, to lead the league in that category last month. This motivated them Dorian Fini SmithIn addition to adding Doncic, which was liberated to pour himself in this aspect of the court. It is crazy that the Lakers defense had improved without Anthony Davis, who was a permanent defensive player per year.
But it seems that this can happen when one of the greatest players ever gets his teammate, which is the talent of generations. They take out the best in each other. They inspire each other.
When the trade occurred, who knew that she would go in this direction?
At that time, there were real questions about whether this thing could In reality a job. Each of these men loves the ball in their hands.
Not to mention, James was not consulted about trade, and he had to say goodbye to his dear friend Davis and had to wrap his head around Lakers and not for him TEAM, difficult birth control pills to swallow the player who has the right to control each team.
Then there was Densic who destroyed – and embarrassed – the fact that Marax was ready to deal with him. Unprecedented for a 25 -year -old Megastar trading team. Densic had to deal with the repercussions of this, including all the accounts that leaked to the media on its adaptation cases and discipline.
But the James-DonCic conjugation was smooth.
James Densic embraced. Doncic has flourished, even has already strengthened himself in Lakers’ history books by becoming the only player alongside James, Jerry West and Sahar Johnson getting a performance of 30 points, 15 points in the normal season or qualifiers in a victory over New Orleans on Tuesday.
James said: “I am a wide -born recipient and he is a natural generator, so it fits perfectly,” James said.
The acquisition of Doncic clearly ignited the James fire.
He moved from ridicule in December because he lost 20 consecutive throws, with some critics inviting him to stop embarrassing himself and retirement, to be considered a legitimate competitor in the MVP team in a team that has a real opportunity to go along the way.
James continues to challenge the father’s time. In fact, since his forty years of age, an average reached 26.5 points, 8.3 rebound balls, 8.3 decisive passes, and almost identical numbers when the last time he won the MVP Award in 2013 (26.8 points, eight rebounds and 7.3 decisive passes). Not to mention that James was also Linchpin’s defensive Linchpin, where Lakers coach JJ Reders recently said he plays at the level of everything.
As for Densic, he laughs. He complains about traffic, such as real Angelino. It no longer excels in the disintegration of Maverx. Regardless of the harm, there is no way he could not enjoy.
“I think we are all well connected,” Densic said on Thursday. “So I am excited to be part of this team.”
With James and Dunicic in court, defenses have no good options. Each of these men needs a double difference. Someone will be open. It creates a nightmare for the opposition teams.
James was enjoying every moment of the catastrophe that did not communicate for the rest of the league.
“I think there is one play against Clippers, where they fill in Luca at the top of the key and its brilliance,” said James at the end of last week. “I was in the hole, postponed it for me and started reading. Then I managed to find Gap [Vincent] To get 3 wide open because it was a discrimination and it was a numbers game.
“So, it’s a kind of selecting your poison when you have two brainiacs when it comes to basketball game on Earth at the same time.”
Now, Lakers can actually be competitors. This is an exciting league that was struggling to watch. The Lakers Championship was awarded 17 times for the American Professional League championship pumping the fourth, as it turned the level of excitement from black and white to the tentolor.
At this point, it is fair to wonder whether the team’s success can affect James’s life.
Although he stressed that he may have a season or two only before retirement – and insisted that playing alongside Densic will not change his plans – if he has a real opportunity to compete for his fifth or sixth episode, you think he will walk away?
No chance.
James knows something or two about winning. He won four championships with three different privileges, including Miami Heat (2012 and 2013) Cavalier Cavaliers (2016) and Lakers (2020). He presented 10 matches of the American Professional League, including eight in a row of 2011-2018.
It is now believed that Lakers can compete against anyone.
For the other 29 teams in the American Professional League, this should be annoying.
Melissa Roalin is a writer in the American Professional League at Fox Sports. The league has previously covered the photographer, Los Angeles Times, Gulf News Group and San Antonio Frankly. Follow it on Twitter @Melissarin.
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