26 million contract expires and willing to exchange any chips! God helps the Lakers, this will get rid of Vanderbilt

This summer, a news about Vanderbilt is like this, and Pelinka is willing to trade him when the time is right.

In my opinion, this is not difficult to understand.

Explanation point 1: Features.

1. It is reflected in defense, taking the half-season traded by the Jazz to the Lakers in the 22-23 season as an example - 24 of 26 appearances were the starting lineup.

In terms of data, the real plus-minus value of defense is 1.9, which is roughly the same as Butler and Jaren Jackson Jr. In fact, the defense effect is indeed good from the perspective of Edwards, Curry against the Warriors, Doncic against the Mavericks.

Of course, due to his thin figure, "Van Debiao" can only assist in defense and make up for defense when facing a tall forward and inside line, but cannot do single defense. Fortunately, the Lakers have thick eyebrows that can support a tall inside line. So the main defense of Davis and Vanderbilt's assisted defense teamed up to build the team into a top inside line-the Lakers averaged 113.2 points per game after the All-Star season in 22-23, second only to the Bulls, Celtics and Pelicans during the same period.

2. It is reflected in the offense. As a forward, Vanderbilt is very similar to traditional inside players such as Gobert, Nurkic, and Kessler. What I mean is mainly about the end of the inside line. In addition, although he has a three-point shooting range, his shooting rates in the past two seasons are only 29.6% and 28.1% respectively.

From the perspective of characteristics, Vanderbilt on both offense and defense is more serious than on both offense and defense - he can only defend against small players on the defensive end, and lacks independent offense and shooting ability on the offense.

Explanation point 2: Injury and the impact.

To be precise, the time you don’t play from season 23 to 24 is far more than the time you play. What is embarrassing is that the team is more efficient in winning the game without him. When Vanderbilt was on the court in the 24-25th season, the Lakers lost 2.8 points in 100 possessions, and when they were not on the court, they won 0.7 points in 100 possessions.

Relatively speaking, I think the second point is the dominant reason.

The reason why the Clippers were willing to give up George and the Warriors were willing to give up Clay was largely due to injuries and the subsequent help to the team to win, and this is the case with Vanderbilt now.

Of course, there are generally three situations when Pelinka trades Vanderbilt.

The first type is garbage contract swap. For example, if you exchange Grant for the Trail Blazers, the latter has three years of contracts of more than 100 million, but the key performance is inconsistent with the contract - the personal efficiency value of 10.9 is not much different from that of Kuzma during the Bucks and Christie during the Mavericks, and both of them have become synonymous with inefficiency.

Of course, garbage contract swaps are not helpful to the Lakers. To put it bluntly, it is from this "pit" to that "pit".

Second, change to high-quality role players or even stars. Such as Jazz's Markkanen and Pelicans' Zion. Just for the latter, it was previously reported that the team owner hinted that the new general manager Dumas could trade Zion.

Of course, using a garbage contract to trade the opponent's high-quality player, the Lakers, must have to increase their chips. However, unlike the Thunder and Rockets, Pelinka can produce the first round, but unlike the Pistons and Grizzlies, Pelinka cannot produce more high-quality player chips.

Obviously, it is very difficult to change Zion and other situations.

Third, an unexpected situation occurs. For example, last summer, the Timberwolves traded Towns to the Knicks without any warning, and then Doncic and Davis exchanged their bosses. In fact, unexpected situations occur every year during the offseason.

The third point needs to be explained:

According to the NBA China official website, the Heat are selling Rozier and are willing to accept any bargaining chips.

is publicly sold and willing to accept any chips, is Rozier so worthless?

22-23 averaged 21.1 points, 23-24 season 19.8 points, and 24-25 season 10.6 points. It is obviously showing a clear trend of regression and the amplitude is very large, but the average combat power of 10+ per game has never fallen to such a level.

The key point is that Rozier still has a large contract of 26 million - although it is an expiring contract, the amount is too large. However, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Lakers to get rid of Vanderbilt.

Reason: Attitude. As mentioned earlier, the Heat are willing to accept any bargaining chips, including Vanderbilt's three-year contract worth 36 million. In addition, in this transaction, Pelinka can also get rid of Kleber's contract of 1 year and 10 million.

For the Lakers, it is of great strategic significance to get rid of Vanderbilt's multi-year contract, which is to maintain the flexibility of salary space, thereby laying a solid foundation for winning Jokic and Antetokounmpo in the summer of 27.

Finally, when such a good opportunity appears, I hope Pelinka will not miss it.