Smart went to the Lakers

The Wizards' outdated league disintegrated before it appeared. Olynick was traded, Holmes was laid off, Smart was bought out, and the outdated five-man team went to 3, and there was no fun.

The Wizards sent Olynik away is easy to understand. They were originally used to convert contracts to cash in one hand. The Spurs gave them a good return, so they cash out as soon as possible and take less risk. It is inevitable that Holmes will be laid off. The Wizards cannot really make his more than 13 million guarantee contract come true. The subsequent variables are just to see if the Wizards will sign him back.

The original suspense was Smart, and the suspense was how interested the Wizards were in saving Smart's trading value, and then cashed in before the mid-season deadline next year.

This is quite difficult. Smart's expiration contract amount is 21.3 million. At the same time, he is a 31-year-old (age wear), an injury history (attacking worrying), a poor skill (the team cannot make data when playing bad teams), and a heavy-duty defender (more easily weakened by injuries and age). These keywords have a direction that is not conducive to the Wizards, which will mean that Smart will not be able to show attractiveness that exceeds the value of his expiration contract in January next year.

If Smart only has the value of a large expiration contract, the Wizards will need to accurately appear in the market that wants to clear up the future space. There is a probability of this, but not a great one. In a similar situation, the Wizards have experienced failure cases - the market has not paid for Brogdon's expiration contract, and the Wizards may be worried that this will happen again on Smart. Instead of doing this, it’s better to buy out early, and save money and free up a place (the Wizards have the problem of exceeding the quota).

The large contracts of Ayton and Bill are not easy to make profits for the Trail Blazers and the Suns, and Smart is the same for the Wizards. Compared to Takuko who wants to give up positions for Klingen and our Brother Yang, the Sun wants to avoid taxes, and the Wizards' quota + the reason for saving money slightly may not be so urgent, but it is also a high emotional intelligence. With its unique urban advantages, the two teams in Los Angeles have become the biggest winners of this cigarette butt-picking game. I have to say that it is enviable.

Smart is not as good as before, but it is likely that he can still be worthy of the 2-year and 11 million new contract. What he can bring is not only the quality of leadership defense, but also the enthusiasm for assisting the entire team in assisting defense and command, which will be of some help to the Lakers reshape the defensive system. On the offensive end, Smart is not very skilled even if he has or does not have the ball. If you hold the ball, you like to make your own decisions. If you don’t have B numbers, you will be fluctuating repeatedly while playing the game, which is not stable. However, compared to the shooting in the early years of his career, Smart occasionally has been a slutty player in recent years, and has a lot of courage in three-point shooting. His three-point shooting has exceeded 35% in the past three playoffs. His ending and close-up are also much better than his early years in his career.

Overall, Smart is still a player whose defense is greater than that of offense, and it is more difficult to attack. On the surface, Smart would make mistakes when holding the ball, and there were too many scenes of brain congestion, but judging from his performance in the last few years with the Celtics, a certain degree of dominance of the ball happened to be an activation of Smart's ability, which improved his overall game contribution, which was a little similar to chasing a dream. In the Lakers, Smart is likely to find it difficult to play his offensive diversity. The Lakers have three cores of holding the ball, which can effectively prevent Smart from making too many balls and basically position him as a fixed-point shooter in the three-point line. How to use it is the most suitable depends on Redick's ideas and specific running-in effect.

The Lakers used a full middle-class contract to sign Ayton and Lala, and got stuck in the first rich line, which made the Lakers unable to sign Smart's contract of 5.13 million next season. However, Milton and Goodwin are not guaranteed, and killing them can clear away the technical obstacles to Smart's contract. The interesting thing is that with the news of Smart's signing, the Lakers will make a multiplayer deal to clear the space and ensure the signing of Smart. I wonder if this suggests that the Lakers have some big moves.

So far, the Lakers have freed two potential starters (or starting players) at almost zero cost. Although the electric fan is removed, the Lakers' current rotation that meets the playoff requirements is still 6 places. Considering the low cost, this operating transcript is undoubtedly excellent. The follow-up depends on how willing the Lakers are to complete the championship lineup in the last year of James' contract. Don’t consider the compatibility and running-in effect of the lineup for now. To reach the level on paper, the Lakers may need 1 to 2 key puzzles, and the motivation and necessity of making reinforcement transactions have not been eliminated.

A month ago, I would think it would be fine if the Lakers remained unmoved. Accumulate chips and wait for a perfect epic reinforcement around Doncic's rhythm, it will be better than firing bullets in advance to fight for next season. However, after two zero-cost reinforcements raised expectations, I felt that it was not appropriate to not work hard. To a certain extent, the Lakers have missed James' peak tail in the past few years. The latter seems to be a stock with a clear top signal on the technical side, but it has been maintaining a sideways fluctuation at the top. The story of the wolf coming is not true. At this time, it is really confusing to make decisions.

There are similar ones... Wait, I have been waiting for 20 days, how many days are there? PS: The content of Lillard signing the Trail Blazers is placed in another article, and the construction has not been completed yet. This post is part of a huge series that will last the entire vacation.