Una ausencia resuelta / A resolute absence | ESP-ENG
In basketball as in all sports, there are performances of their players that truly attract fans, like watching a game with many points, this being the main ingredient of the board, and more if it comes from a single player, who happens to be your favorite, the performance of a member of the team, sometimes goes beyond, this because sometimes exceed the limits, and enter into historical territory, breaking records that have been set decades ago, or their performances are truly impressive in scientific terms, in a very high level professional league such as the National Basketball Association, or popularly known by its acronym in English, the NBA.
UNA AUSENCIA RESUELTA / A RESOLUTE ABSENCE
The total record in the entire 2022-2023 season for the Los Angeles Lakers is not all good, they have a record of 5 wins and 11 setbacks, which lead them to occupy the penultimate place in their conference, except in their last games, which managed to accumulate 4 wins in 5 games, 4 of them in a row, which have managed to lift them from that bad start and curiously, without their main figure as is Lebron James, falling the total of the protagonism in Anthony Davis who during that absence, has had simply impressive numbers, opening the debate and say. ? will he be the new star of the team ? or is the figure of Lebron James no longer needed in the Los Angeles team ? these are serious questions, which we will answer with numbers and performances in these last games.
The figure of James, is indisputable for any aspect that we can analyze throughout his career in the league, but there is one, which in particular strikes me powerfully attention, and in which very few have noticed, and is that sometimes his presence on the court, does not contribute much collectively to his team, and his numbers are more individual than collective, they are very outstanding, of all a superstar, but they are not valuable for the final result, which is the obtaining of the victories, for sample the numbers of the quintet of the Lakers with him and without him inside the court.
The California team before these absences of James, I mean! with him on the court, had a record of 1-10, yes! it seems incredible but sometimes we get a little carried away by the fame and the long trajectory of a player, but that in recent times has ceased to be collective; but if we analyze the performance of the Angelinos without James, we find that it is better, they have won 4 games and lost only one game, perhaps that is the easiest and most visible to determine and observe, but we find other aspects that are also important, and is that it has allowed Anthony Davis to excel in such a way, it seems that with James can not do the same thing he is doing and the only thing he did is to have that talent retained.
Everything is because the difference is very noticeable in terms of collective and individual numbers, in terms of collective, we see that they are still second to last, but the last victories have been against teams from the same conference, which have allowed them to get closer to the top places, such as San Antonio, Oklahoma, and Golden State, still out of the classification radal that implies being in the top 10, but only 3.5 games away from the last qualifying place, which gives you access to the post-season.
DESDE EL TABLONCILLO / FROM THE FIELD
Let's analyze now the individual level of Davis, his numbers are truly amazing in these last games, against Brooklyn, in 34 minutes he was on the court he scored 37 points, but the best thing was that he got 18 rebounds, not bad; for the next game against Detroit, he grabbed 16 rebounds and scored 38 points, and continuing with his magnificent work against San Antonio, Davis again scored more than 30 points, reaching more than 15 rebounds, with 18 more that day, reflecting performances of a true phenomenon, want more.?
But the best was what happened against the Phoenix Suns, the opponent in theory to beat in this ''west'' conference despite losing to them 115-105, Davis managed to do something magnificent on the court, he scored 37 points in 38 minutes he was in the game, one of the highest averages in minutes reached by him this season, if we take into account the frequency of his injuries, added a total of 64% of shooting from the field and the majestic figure of 21 rebounds, yes! 21! when the normal for a player of his qualities is 12 or 14, to go down in history, as the third Laker to join Elgin Baylor and Shaquille O'Neal with more consecutive games getting more than 30 points, and more than 15 rebounds per game during a span of 4 games, that giving only 3 of Elgin Baylor who managed to total not only 4 but up to 7 commitments.
Anthony Davis statistics in the last 5 games
AYUDARÁN SUS NÚMEROS.? / WILL THEIR NUMBERS HELP?
That day where he managed to surpass 20 rebounds against the Suns, also put him in history, his more than 35 points, and his more than 20 rebounds and 5 steals, managed to match another NBA icon in the 90's as it was Charles Barkley, who in 1988, had a similar performance of up to 41 points, 22 rebounds and 6 steals, when he was a player of the Sixers, numbers that are simply taken from a video game console and that only players of this type, Barkley-Davis can achieve.
Esos números mostrado por Davis han ayudado a los Lakers a salir del pozo en donde estaban sumergidos, la pregunta está resuelta, si! han ayudado y de gran manera, pero surge ahora otra interrogante.? que pasara cuando el día viernes, Lebrón James regrese a la acción.? volveremos a ver al mismo Davis, o seguirán las malas rachas con los 2 en cancha.? es algo difícil de asimilar, que estos 2 talentosos jugadores que una vez fueron campeones en 2020, logren compenetrarse, admiro el talento de James y todo lo que ha logrado, pero me toca ponerme esta vez del lado de los haters de James, y decir que creó James ya no es un jugador de conjunto y sus actuaciones por más buenas que sean cada noche, en la cual el está en la cancha, en vez de ayudar, perjudican al equipo, en este caso los Lakers de los Ángeles, no es lo mismo 1-10 que 4-1.
Those numbers shown by Davis have helped the Lakers to get out of the hole where they were submerged, the question is solved, yes! they have helped and in a great way, but now another question arises? what will happen when Lebron James returns to action on Friday? will we see the same Davis again, or will the bad streaks continue with both of them on the court? I admire James' talent and all that he has achieved, but this time I have to side with James' haters and say that James is no longer a team player and his performances, no matter how good they are every night when he is on the court, instead of helping, they hurt the team, in this case the Los Angeles Lakers, it is not the same 1-10 than 4-1.
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