He has a +/- of +5.1
The rest of the usual starters have :
Cam : -0.7 DLo : -1.1 Davis : -2.4 Austin : -3.1 Prince : -4.5
Now when it comes to BPM.
Lebron : 8.4
Davis : 3.7 DLo : 0.4 Austin : -1.3 Cam : -1.5 Prince : -5.3
That’s a monumental carry job on paper. I have never seen anything quite like it in terms of numbers. Even when it comes to the eye test, the Lakers are looking like a G-League team without him on the court, especially on offense. Their set plays look terrible and sloppy. This fuckery can’t go on forever, the man is 39.
AD is definitely the biggest loser of the new offensive scheme. He’s too good of a finisher to be reduced to a screening role.
It’s a catch 22.
Build the offense around him and he is out injured after 60 games. So now who is your offense built around?
Make him a secondary piece to preserve his health and you are now under utilizing your supposedly best player.
At some point Bron gonna have to kick up that Trade Machine…AD is 30 now, many bigs are washed by 30.
He is but I think people are really underestimating how much energy he has been expending on the defensive end. We’ve got a whole bunch of supposedly good offensive players this year it’s those guys that need to step up.