The Lakers have played this season, and there are players at this level who have brought very big surprises to fans, such as this year, they selected the rookie with the 17th pick in the first round, and now he has become one of the main core players of the Lakers, and even the Lakers are now indispensable for him. But there are also players who are extremely disappointing, such as Vincent.
The Lakers didn't make any reinforcements in the offseason, and Pelinka believes he believes Vincent can play really well in the new season, and he believes that Vanderbilt can be a huge help to the team. Therefore, Pelinka believes that the Lakers do not need to be strengthened, and they will be the players that the Lakers will rely on in the new season. But in fact, although Vincent has averaged 16.8 minutes per game so far this season, he has only averaged 2.8 points per game, shooting 33% from the field and 20% from the field.
And in today's game against the Spurs, he came off the bench and played 5 minutes before being abandoned by Redick, with 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 assists in the whole game, without any statistics. You must know that Vincent has handed over such statistics more than once this season, and he has delivered such unacceptable statistics in several games. If he is a two-way contract player or a base salary player, many Lakers fans may be able to accept it. But Vincent is a player with a three-year, $33 million contract. It is equivalent to the Lakers' 10 million contract being wasted.
In the current free market, with an annual salary of more than 10 million, it is completely possible to sign a very good instant combat force. It's time to sign a decent defensive striker and pitcher. The Lakers' inconsistency this season is also due to their very poor bench lineup, Vincent originally wanted the Lakers to play the role of sixth man, but now he is playing the role of a team leftover. It is believed that as his performance gets worse and worse, it may be that Redick will completely abandon him in the future.
Vincent is completely smashed in the hands of the Lakers, and this is only the second year of his contract. He doesn't have any trading value on the free market at the moment. So the management's vision is very important, why didn't the Heat choose to renew Vincent's contract that year? It may be that the Heat management did not consider Vincent to be a capable player from the beginning. That year's playoff performance may have been short-lived. And the Lakers treated him like a baby, which is the result of the short-sightedness of management.