3 of 18 shots in two games, Brownie performed poorly in the preseason! Should the Lakers consider trading him?

The NBA preseason kicked off in the new season. The Warriors brought many surprises to fans in the first game of the preseason. For example, Horford seamlessly connects the team's offensive and defensive system, and supports the organization with one hand, including the coverage of the basket defense, giving Cole more tactical imagination space in the new season. Moody's improvement is also obvious. With two big shots, Curry and Butler, he gets more opportunities. As the defending champion, the Thunder, unreasonable preseason, made a complete set of rotations. They only used the third lineup to play the Hornets, a championship trophy, which improved the confidence of the young people in the team. Here in the Nuggets, several new players and the team's inherent lineup still need to be adjusted, but compared to the lineup that was stretched last season, the new season is still worth looking forward to.

But the most surprising thing is the Lakers. After James chose to execute the 1-year 52.6 million player option in the offseason, the Lakers bid farewell to Finney Smith and met Doncic's tactical requirements to sign Laravia + Ayton + Smart in succession. In the preseason, James and Doncic were absent, defeating the Suns with 22 points in the first game and losing to the Warriors again in the second game. Of course, the two core members of the team are not there, and the offense has almost no reference significance, but defense is pointing to this family background. But it is obvious that the tactics are chaotic and there is no tacit understanding between them. Ayton's butterfly player, Laravia became the opponent's eight times mirror, but the Lakers' most embarrassing situation in the new season is Brownie, because he is indeed not suitable for playing in the NBA.

played against the Suns for 24 minutes, and with the ball in hand, he made 12 shots in 24 minutes, scoring 8 points and 5 rebounds. Brownie himself explained that his projection trajectory was very good, but his strength was slightly shorter. In the game against the Warriors, Brownie played 23 minutes and made 2 of 6 shots. This time he did make progress, scoring 5 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, but there were 5 turnovers and 4 fouls! Even the Bay Area media are joking that it seems that the sophomore player with full protection on the opposite side is not as good as some two-way contract players. The former paramount pick Kwame Brown even publicly criticized James and Brownie on his own show. In his words, when Brownie played, he was like a deer illuminated by a headlight, at a loss and could only play Xia Lian, and he had no progress.

Browny has indeed been under a lot of pressure in such an awkward public opinion environment. You should know that he has just turned 21 years old. In this case, as a father, Zhan supported his child and forwarded the scene of a one-arm patch in the match between Brownie and the Warriors. But Los Angeles media also raised questions, is Brownie worth having more playing time in the new season? Last season, Brownie played 26 games and averaged 2.4 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.8 assists per game in 7 minutes. The shooting percentage of both events was as low as 31% + 28%. Among them, Brownie's On-Off value was -21.8. In the statistics of the Lakers playing for at least 180 minutes and playing for the entire season, Brownie was the last, Kneckett was the second to last, and James's -5.2 was the third to last.

Last summer, under the warning of Ricci Paul, no one of the other teams dared to touch Brownie, and was finally selected by the Lakers in the 55th pick. Then the Lakers gave him a four-year, $7.9 million guarantee contract, including the option to lead the team in the fourth year, but the guarantee amount in the first three years was 5.4 million. Is the NBA Business League money easy to make? Not! Grimes, who averaged 21 points per game last season, only signed a qualification offer of 8.9 million yuan. Kam Thomas, who averaged 24 points and 4 assists per game last season, only signed a qualification offer of 6 million yuan with the Nets. The NBA is only generous to those stars with traffic and potential, but is cruel and ruthless to role players. To give another simplest example, the Lakers signed a undraft guard RJ Davis this summer with a two-way contract.

Two preseason games, they scored 14 points in 5 of 8 shots in the Suns, and scored 11 points in 19 minutes, with a plus-minus value + 22 highest in the game. Even if the team lost points, RJ Davis made a breakthrough again and again, seriously testing the Warriors' defense. No matter how good RJ Davis performs, the highest salary he can get is up to 630,000, which is half the minimum salary of a rookie! So, is that fair compared to Davis and Brownie? I can only say that Brownie does have a good father. It’s nothing to be proud of her son by her father, and it makes sense wherever she goes. But the Lakers are different in the new season, because the management has released their military power with wine, and no longer intends to renew their contract with James. James' departure next summer is a foregone conclusion! In the words of a salary expert, ideally, Brownie is just the top spot for James' next stop.

must give Brownie enough respect, with James' status and wealth, and with Brownie's previous heart injury, he would not have had to work so hard. His talent is not the strongest, and he is even mediocre in high school, but he has indeed paid his sweat and has persisted all the way here, representing the second year of his career in the Lakers. This is already the limit of his career. Looking forward to the new season, it is difficult for the Lakers to have a place in the rotation lineup, and the Lakers don’t need to consider James’s ideas anymore. If James chooses to retire at a certain point in the future, Brownie will not have much time to stay in the league.