Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach: LeBron James Will Return This Season!
It's been three weeks since LeBron James suffered a cruciate ligament injury in his right leg and the Los Angeles Lakers are in a mild state of crisis. After 10 days of playing well with a stable performance, the yellow and purple shirt team started to flutter and lost 3 of the last 4 matches (as of before the match on March 20).
In the midst of fans feeling worried and gradually pessimistic about the Lakers' ability to close the Playoffs, a positive news has appeared, updated by head coach Darvin Ham.
LeBron James - who has been out for the past 3 weeks - is expected to return right away in the Regular Season, the competition period still takes place about 3 weeks.
“We believe LeBron will return at some point this season. Everything is going according to plan and I think he will come back," the Los Angeles Lakers head coach shared.
Speaking more to reporters at the press conference before the match against the Orlando Magic on March 20, Mr. Darvin Ham mentioned that Anthony Davis has been "taken care of" by the opponent since LeBron's injury.
He hopes that the rest of AD's teammates can play more firmly to reduce the load on bigman wearing the number 3: "At this point, obviously we let Anthony Davis be the number one scoring option, but he is also a who is always very carefully watched by the opponent in defense."
"Tactically, we will use Davis in many other games to create more space, and hope that the remaining satellites make good use of the opportunity to finish the outer circle to stretch the opponent's lineup." Captain Lakers added.
LeBron James was injured on February 27 in the historic comeback of the Los Angeles Lakers against the Dallas Mavericks. Initially he fell in a non-impact situation and appeared to be in great pain, but then James endured the pain and continued to play for the rest of the game.
The result was a win that gave the LA team a huge morale advantage, in return it was at the expense of LeBron's somewhat more serious injury.
“On the plus side, I think LeBron James being out shows that the Los Angeles Lakers have a lot of players who can both attack and play well in defence.
When LeBron comes back, these players will give him extra energy to help the whole team work towards the big goal in the postseason period," coach Darvin Ham added.
Statistics show that since LeBron sidelined, the Lakers have had 5 different players score on 24 points spread across 11 games including Anthony Davis, D'Angelo Russell, Dennis Schroder, Malik Beasley and Austin Reaves.
In the ideal scenario, this is a group of players with many different attack points, including inside the 3-second zone and outside the 3-point area. Confronting the Lakers in high form will be any defense's nightmare.
However, fans will have to wait for LeBron James to return to really see the potential for development… or the possibility of the team breaking down.
Referring to the return of the "king", the Los Angeles Lakers superstar is practicing extremely hard to avoid losing time after his return.Dennis Schroder said he was also overwhelmed by LeBron's efforts despite LeBron's efforts. Injury:
“I don't think an injured player trains three times a day like that. He is trying extremely hard to get back in shape to be ready to compete as soon as the medical team allows him. This image shows that we have a chance to go far this season."
