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In this unique 2020-21 season, what can LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers have to look forward to?

The Los Angeles Lakers don’t have much time to celebrate the team’s 17th championship-because the regular season has already started, the Lakers have officially embarked on the journey to defend their throne.

This is an important year for LeBron James, because the defending champion Lakers are still the favorites to win this season, and if he can win the championship, then he and Kobe Bryant (and others) will be in the championship number. Tie-5 times, 6 times closer to “that person”.

The unprecedented new season will also bring a new feeling to LeBron James that has never been experienced in his career. Here are three bold predictions of the author for Zhan Huang.

1. The lowest average playing time of a career

If Zhan Huang also played the least total season time of his career, I would not be shocked either, because in a 72 regular season season, he is likely to truce on some nights. His current minimum total playing time is two years ago-it was his first season with the Lakers and only played 1937 minutes.

Zhan Huang averaged 35.2 minutes per game in the 18-19 season, and played a career-low 34.6 minutes in the 19-20 season. The author believes that this number will continue to decline-perhaps we will see Zhan Huang only play 32-33 minutes per game.

The Lakers management should be cautious about Zhan Huang’s physical condition. We can all see that he can still contribute to a high level of athleticism, but it is undeniable that he is slowly getting older. The Lakers need to save his physical fitness, especially considering This offseason is only two months, and the Lakers’ primary goal is definitely to make the playoffs.

This is not to question Zhan Huang’s ability to output with all his strength, but the team wants to aspire to the championship again, it needs him and AD to save their energy and go all out in the playoffs. The current Lakers are a team with sufficient depth and talent to win many games, even if the role of Emperor James is diminished-the new lineup is to a certain extent to ensure that the team is still competitively prepared after Emperor James declines.

2. Not selected to the NBA First Team

So far, LeBron James, who spent his rookie period (03-04 season, the best rookie of the season), has only failed to make the first team four times in his career. He was selected to the third team in the 2018-19 season when he played the lowest playing time of his career, and was selected to the second team in 2005 and 2007.

He was not selected to any NBA All-NBA team in his rookie season-even though he played a solid performance that lived up to expectations. In the 2003-04 season, James averaged 20.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.6 per game. He intercepted 0.7 hot pot and entered the annual lineup is an honor he should enjoy.

Looking back to the present, due to the reduction of his role in the 2021 season and other players’ new historical stage (or return from injury), the author believes that Zhan Huang will not enter the first team, but is likely to get the third of his career. The second team.

From the author’s point of view, if I were to form the NBA All-NBA first team for the 2021 season, I would choose Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, and James Harden or Stephen Curry. Yes, I know, Harden is dissatisfied but he can still contribute a lot of energy.

You may think that Zhan Huang can be selected as a defender, but I don’t think this will happen after he reduces his workload. I still think he will be selected as a forward, along with Curry/Harden, Damian Lillard, Jayson Tatum and Nikola Jokic.

3. He made 150 three-pointers for the first time in his career

Yes, in this year, LeBron James will have the lowest average playing time per game and will be selected to the NBA bench, but I think he will usher in his career high in the number of three-pointers. It may sound crazy, but all signs are moving in this direction, and when you look closely, this makes sense.
Zhan Huang last season created the second-most three-pointers of his career-148. If this season can end normally, he will be expected to break through 150-his career’s most season three-pointers.

The most three-pointers he made in his career was 149 in the 2017-18 season. In the past four years, Zhan Huang’s three-point attempts per game have steadily increased.

This was not an accident. Emperor Zhan seemed like a macho from the sky, and he could almost cut into the restricted area like a stroll in the courtyard-but it also required a lot of physical energy. He can’t be a “tank” every night-as he did earlier in his career.

Time has passed, he is looking for more outside shot opportunities, and he remains cautious this year. I think that although his playing time per game will drop slightly, his outside shots will continue to grow. Even if he averaged 7 three-pointers per game for the first time in his career, I wouldn’t be shocked at all.

I tend to think that King James will play 60 of the 72 games, which means he must average 2.5 three-pointers per game. This means that he takes seven shots per game, and his shooting percentage is higher than 35.7%.

Last season, his three-point shooting percentage was 34.8%, but his career has exceeded 35% several times, so this kind of reasoning is certainly possible.
Let’s wait and see how it ends.

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