Why LeBron James deserves full blame for Lakers' failures, and should no longer have say in solution By Bill Reiter https://reurl.cc/DdG29Q It's LeBron James' fault. 一切都是LBJ的错。 The Los Angeles Lakers' postseason hopes are officially over, the future seems bleak, and heads are likely to roll. Head coach Frank Vogel is widely expected to face a reckoning. The Lakers would like to find a way to offload Russell Westbrook, unlikely though that may be, after he almost surely opts in to his $47 million, final year option this summer. 湖人这季季後赛正式告吹。需要开始对这季的失败问责。 Vogal预计会被裁掉。 湖人会想要处理掉西河，但西河应该会选择他的球员选项。 Fingers can be pointed all around at a Lakers season that is a wreckage of the high hopes when the season began: At Russ, at Vogel, at Anthony Davis' injuries, at a front office that put as ill-fitting a team as possible around their all-time great superstar. But it is, ultimately, the fault of the person in the Lakers organization with the most say and the most power who is to blame -- the one who used that sway to put into place all the elements that have led L.A. to where it now stands, with a failed season behind them and no clear path forward. 然而赛季失败的最主要原因，追根究柢应该由队上最有发言权和权势的人负责。 是他利用他的影响力，使这些所有失败的因素来到湖人队。 This is all LeBron James' fault. 这都是LBJ的错。 The Catch-22 of LeBron's all-time greatness has always been the out-weighted influence he's exuded on a team. His wants have often been paramount to the plan, even his actual needs. But the juice has always been worth the squeeze. His call for player power in the NBA always had a sheen of success because he succeeded at every turn, regardless of how he wielded that power. LBJ的球员生涯能取得成功，一部分是出自於他对球队超然的影响力。 不管他如何运用这些权利，他最终似乎都会取得成功。 Chris Bosh as perhaps the wrong fit with LeBron and Dwyane Wade? No worries. Championships ensued anyway. Kevin Love for Andrew Wiggins, JR Smith as a key cog and a host of other moves quietly -- or not so quietly -- pushed by the King turning out to not exactly be the stuff for an executive-of-the-year resume? Who cares? Finals appearances, and an actual championship for Cleveland, arrived nonetheless. Bosh、Love都被质疑过与LBJ的向性，甚至有球员不是管理层想要的。 然而最後都打到了Finals，并且夺冠。 But time comes for everyone, even basketball royalty. And we've now reached the point where LeBron requires more help on the court than his influence off it has allowed. 但最终，就算是LBJ，需要的是在球场上的帮助，已经不能单靠他队球场外的影响力了。 It should have been no secret that A.D. was injury prone, and that his only successfully complete and deep run in the playoffs came in an anomalous COVID season in which the shutdown served him, and the Lakers, well. 大家都知道AD是院长，所以Covid造成的泡泡赛季反而对他是利多，湖人才能打出成绩。 Other truths that have turned the Lakers from contenders to disasters weren't exactly hard-to-forecast shockers. Westbrook has been more statistical-marvel than impact-player for a long time, and the notion he -- from his game, from his need to have the ball in his hands, from his track record of disappointment with other stars -- would not work with LeBron was obvious to almost everyone in the NBA. 湖人今年会失败根本不难预测，西河并不是一个有影响力的球员，简而言之是一个刷子。 他根本就没办法跟LBJ搭配。 Except, as we all knew and Magic Johnson recently confirmed, one LeBron James. Remember: Vogel is likely going to get fired, but it's him and his staff who properly wanted Westbrook gone at the All-Star break. Being right in LeBron's universe doesn't matter, just as being wrong often didn't if your name was LeBron James. The rule was simple: LeBron's way was the only way, and the tradeoff was worthwhile. 请记住，Vogal高机率被炒，但他与他的团队都想要西河走。 但在LBJ的宇宙，对的事情并不重要。 规则很简单，LBJ就是唯一的规则。 There's more examples. Alex Caruso and his value to the team being utterly overlooked. Carmelo Anthony as a solution despite his obvious decline and lack of postseason success. Passing on Buddy Hield. Forgetting LeBron, more than anything else, needs to be surrounded by shooters. And athletes who can defend . 还有其他失败的例子，例如放掉Caruso、甜瓜明显也老了、放弃Buddy Hield。 完全忘记LBJ是需要一群射手以及厉害的防守球员。 The ins and outs of building a successful basketball team require a general manager capable of making the right, difficult calls. And on a LeBron James team -- or, at least now, this LeBron James team -- that means telling him no when, say, he decides he wants Westbrook over Demar DeRozan or several promising players in place of one star. 如果要建立一个成功的LBJ球队，需要一个能够阻止LBJ选西河放弃DeRozen的经理。 Remember, LeBron's good friend Rich Paul, who's now his agent, runs an agency that is strongly involved in the makeup of the Lakers. Paul asking or cajoling for something is the same as LeBron doing so, when it was nabbing A.D. or taking Talen Horton-Tucker (a Paul client) over Caruso (not one). LBJ的好朋友也是他的经纪人，富保罗，对於湖人队影响亦很深。 最明显的例子是他留住THT，放弃Carus，THT是他的客户，後者并不是。 Klutch Sports, Paul's agency, at the center of moves that impact LeBron is a very, very thin veneer trying to disguise the fact the Lakers' best player has his hands all over the team's makeup and construction. That was easy to overlook, or not care about, when LeBron was winning titles and rattling off Finals appearances year after year after year after year after year. 这一切原因都很容易被忽略，当LBJ一直打进Finals，甚至赢得冠军。 Yes, LeBron James is still a marvel, even at 37 years old. His 30/8/6 is astounding and means, with the right team, he can continue to be in the thick of NBA title runs. But he can no longer eclipse on the court what he's wrought off of it. LBJ仍然是一个很厉害的球员，但他在球场上的表现已经不能再掩饰他球场外的行为。 LeBron likes to refer to himself as King James. But here's the thing about royalty: The problem with powerful aristocracies included having power without a system in place to force accountability, responsibility and course corrections. That led to sycophants with too much influence, no bad news or candid advice flowing upward and rivals getting stronger and better because they were willing and able to do what was necessary rather than flattering. LBJ喜欢称自己为国王。 但强大的皇室若没有责问机制及改正的方向，将导致阿谀奉承者的影响力过多，没有谏言 最後对手越来越强，因为对手愿意做对的事情，而不是听蜜语。 Kings and queens make fine figureheads. But as rulers, in the long run, they' re much more likely to fail. 国王跟皇后可以当一个很好的代言人。但最为统治者，长远来看，很有可能失败。 It's time for the NBA's king to accept that in order to retain his throne he needs someone else to govern his kingdom: A GM -- Rob Pelinka, maybe, or someone else -- who is fully entrusted with decision-making aimed at giving LeBron James what he needs rather than what he wants. 现在是时候让 NBA 的国王接受，为了保住他的王位，他需要其他人来管理他的王国：一 位总经理——也许是罗伯·佩林卡，或者其他人 一个能够做出LBJ需要什麽决策，而不是他想要什麽的人。 The Lakers are a mess. But all of it -- Westbrook, A.D.'s very-predictable fragility, the lack of depth and defense, the lack of shooting, the entire makeup of the team -- was a LeBron James production. 湖人就是一团混乱，西河跟AD的糟糕表现、烂防守、烂投篮。 这一切都是LBJ的作品。 He's to blame. And until he accepts it, and changes, and gets the help now even he needs, things aren't going to improve for him or the Lakers. 他是罪魁祸首。直到他愿意改变或接受，他跟湖人队才能变好。 ....... 心得： 虽然就是一篇骂LBJ的文章，原因也众所皆知。 但内文其实蛮有趣的，各种比喻。 --

※ 发信站: 批踢踢实业坊(ptt.cc), 来自: 1.200.1.104 (台湾) ※ 文章网址: https://webptt.com/cn.aspx?n=bbs/NBA/M.1649325053.A.46B.html Westbrook has been more statistical-marvel than impact-player for a long time 其实就是这句，我看完之後觉得讲那麽多简单来讲就是刷子没错XD 阿真的没有耶...当时看的太开心 ※ 编辑: hanson90244 (1.200.1.104 台湾), 04/07/2022 22:59:21