Chapter 7: The Darkness Before Dawn
Seidel Twright, who was traded by the Lakers from the Seattle SuperSonics with three second-round picks in the 1991 offseason, was originally expected to be able to play Johnson off the bench and let Johnson rest for a while. He averaged 15.1 points and 7.2 assists per game this season, and he played relatively well, but without Johnson, the impact on the team's record is also very huge, and the players this season are basically the same as last year, after the absence of Johnson, the record ranked first in the West from previous years, and immediately fell to the eighth place in the West, until the last moment of the regular season to beat the Houston Rockets, and took the last train of the playoffs, James Worthy was hit by an injury at the end of the season and did not play in the playoffs"SHOWTIME" existed in name only, and the Lakers did not make much waves in the playoffs, and were swept out of the game by the rising Trail Blazers 3:0 in the first round.
In 1992, Mike Dunleavy stepped down, and Randy Fender took office, this benevolent brother looks like the former Chinese national team head coach Deng Huade and his own brother, chubby like a doll, not only looks alike, Randy is the same as Deng Huade, eloquent, very good at fooling, very good at negotiation, but as a head coach, there is not much ink in his stomach.
In the 1992 rookie conference, the Lakers drafted Anthony Peeler, a top student at the University of Missouri, with the No. 15 pick in the first round, and he mainly played as a substitute in his rookie season. Averaged 10.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game, in the 1992-1993 season, Worthy has begun to transform from a starter to a bench, he can only average 14.9 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, AC Green averages 12.8 points and 8.9 rebounds per game, and the team's scoring champion turned out to be temporary worker Sedale Tray - 15.1 points, but the Lakers averaged seven double-doubles per game and played a good team basketball, This season's Lakers are still the eighth place in the West and barely made it to the playoffs, facing Barkley's Suns in the first round, even if the Lakers are trying their best, they can't play 2:3 and are eliminated by the Suns with limited strength.
In 1993, the Lakers selected power forward George Lynch with the 12th pick in the first round, and he got 46 starts in his rookie season, averaging 9.6 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, with decent offensive and defensive ability, Lynch is not their only gain, and selected a point guard with a height of only 185 cm with the 37th pick in the second round, Nick Van Exel, this brother is known as the grandfather of "XJBD", typical "The ball is in my hand, I have it in the world", Its signature action is a 360-degree layup in the air, hey, don't really say, turn around in place and really enter, if you don't turn, hey, I really won't let you in.
This year, the once prominent Lakers dynasty completely collapsed, Sam Perkins was sent to the SuperSonics, in exchange for two role players, the meritorious veteran Byron Scott has become a free agent, he does not want to give his all in the trough of the Lakers' inaction, so at the invitation of Pacers general manager Larry Brown, he joined the Pacers on a 2-year $2.2 million contract, hugging Reggie Miller's thigh, This ended his full ten years of Lakers career at the beginning of his career (Scott returned to the Lakers in the 1996-1997 season in the last year of his career, returned to the Lakers, and announced his retirement after playing 79 games), and as of April 20, 2016, Byron Scott's 12,780 points for the Lakers ranked ninth in the glorious Lakers' glory, 2,365 assists ranked 12th, and 232 blocks ranked 17th in team history. 1,275 turnovers ranks seventh in team history.
In the 1993-1994 season, Anthony Piller was focused on training by the team, he was qualified to start, averaging 14.1 points per game, but he only played 30 games this season due to injury, after Piller fell, Van Exel became the player with the most shots on the team, averaging 13.0 shots per game but only 13.6 points back, it was because of his crazy shooting, so the outside world gave him the nickname "Fan Maniac", Fan Maniac crazy performance, in fact, the team's management also has to bear some responsibility, Due to the team's management's lack of resilience to the team's downturns, they changed three managers throughout the season, one of whom was Irvin Johnson, who was a temporary cameo. Elden Campbell, a 211 cm tall big center, he was the 27th pick of the first round of the Lakers in 1990, and he has not had any opportunities in the past few years, after the Lakers dynasty ended, Campbell successfully squeezed into the starting season and averaged 12.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game, the Lakers have always had a tradition of hoarding high school forwards, Bynum also practiced in the Lakers for several years, the Lakers have a record of only 33-49 this season, and missed the playoffs for the fourth time in team history, and one of the best players in the whole season is undoubtedly Verratti Divac, who averaged a team-high 14.2 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, while he was also able to deliver nearly 4 assists, 1.5 steals and blocks per game.
After the end of the season, James Worthy announced his retirement, and the former "big heart Worthy" retired from the world, and spent all of his 12-year career with the Lakers, averaging 17.6 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.1 steals per game in his career, and shooting 52.1% from the field! He has contributed to the Lakers' three-time championship cup, including a Finals MVP, a seven-time career All-Star, and is currently sixth in team history with 16,320 points, ninth in 2,791 assists, third in 1,041 steals, seventh in 624 blocks, and 12th in team history with 4,708 rebounds. James Worthy was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 2003.
In the 1994 offseason, the Lakers brought in Cedric Cebaroz from the Suns for a first-round pick, and Cebaroz was extremely physical, winning the slam dunk contest in 1992, and he reached the peak of his career in his first season with the Lakers, averaging 21.7 points and 8.0 rebounds per game, and shooting more than 50% from the field! However, he suffered an injury in the middle of the season, played only 54 games in the whole season, and after his comeback, the level of the playoffs was not as good as before, and the sophomore Fan Maniac improved. Averaging 16.9 points per game on 13.8 attempts, Divac became the backbone of the team, averaging 16.0 points and 10.4 rebounds per game, in addition to 4.1 assists, 1.5 steals and 2.2 blocks, Eldon Campbell averaged 12.5 points and 6.1 rebounds per game, and Peeler, who returned from injury, returned to the bench and averaged 10.4 points per game, and former Lakers scoring champion Sedar Tray has been hit by injuries this season, playing in only 59 games and averaging 9.5 points per game.
The biggest discovery of the Lakers this season was that in 1994, the Lakers selected guard Eddie Jones at the No. 10 spot in the first round, the latter is a talented scorer, light body, flowing ball, very tough defense, very strong stealing ability, he gradually played from the bench to the starting position this season, Averaging 14.0 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game, he won the Most Valuable Player award in this year's NBA rookie game, and more importantly, Jones and Kobe Bryant, who joined the Lakers in 1996, are childhood friends, and he knows that Kobe will become a great player in the future, and it is Jones who tried his best to persuade Jerry West, the general manager of the Lakers, to watch Kobe's practice games, but he couldn't resist Jones's repeated persuasion before he reluctantly agreed to watch a high school league match-Kobe's Roma Lyon High School and Maddie's Monte Christian College.
This season, the Lakers reached the playoffs with a 48-34 record and fifth in the West under new coach Devin Harris, and their first-round opponent was the Seattle SuperSonics with Sean Kemp and Gary Payton, and of course, Sam Perkins, who was traded by the Lakers.
In the first game, the Lakers couldn't guard Kemp and Detreve Schramf, and the two of them combined to score 41 points to take away the victory, but then the Lakers won three games in a row and led the team to advance, and Van Exel became a key figure in the game in four games, he averaged 24.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5.0 assists and 2.3 steals per game, shooting as high as 50%, and the second round of the Lakers Lakers was the Spurs with "Admiral" David Robinson, The two sides fought six games, and the Lakers were sent home by the Spurs 2:4 to fish, the reason is very simple, the Spurs played more teamwork under the leadership of Popovich, the offense was smooth and the defense was excellent, and the Spurs averaged about ten (ten) more assists and rebounds per game than the Lakers. David Robinson played an invincible statistic of 30 points, 15.7 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 3.7 blocks per game, while the Lakers' Divac did not play at the level he should have, and the data dropped another notch compared to the regular season, averaging only 14.2 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. Averaging 18.7 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game, the Lakers couldn't avoid being swept away.
In the 1995-1996 season, the Lakers basically did not move in the free market, or those people last year, they won 59 games, and entered the playoffs again with the fourth record in the West, facing the Rockets led by Olajuwon and Drexler in the first round, losing 1:3 in four games, and the Lakers are still unable to defend the opponent's high school forward in the whole series, The 34-year-old Olajuwon averaged 26.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 2.5 steals and 2.3 blocks per game, and single-handedly exploded the Lakers' interior, last year's big baby Campbell was not magically absent this year, averaging only 12.0 points and 8.0 rebounds per game in the series, Divac was beaten by the Rockets, averaging only 9.0 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, Nick Van Exel was blown up by Drexler and didn't even know him anymore, averaging only 11.8 points per game, and his shooting percentage was a miserable 29.6%! Although Ceballos and Eddie Jones are doing well, their teammates are too bad, and these two have not yet reached the ability to turn things around on their own.
The Lakers have become a standard non-trivial team, neither winning a championship nor pulling a bad draft pick, but in the mind of Jerry West of the Lakers, the page of the Lakers' stormy situation will soon be turned over, because he has found a way to make the team revival, to glory, that is, the OK combination.
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