Reeves exchanges for Murray + two first rounds? What can this deal bring to the Lakers?

This summer, to be precise, Reeves rejected the Lakers' contract renewal in advance for nearly 90 million yuan in four years before the NBA free agent market opened.

Let's not talk about how big Xiaoli wants the contract. It is not impossible for him to leave the Lakers if he refuses to execute the player option tomorrow summer.

From the Lakers' perspective, the preferred contract must be renewed at a reasonable price and a second-choice premium, and of course, the possibility of giving up is not ruled out.

Considering that Reeves may leave the team tomorrow, the US media "Fadeaway World" recommends that the Lakers and the Kings make a deal. Specifically, the Lakers sent Reeves to get two first rounds, Keegan Murray, 27 and 29 years. So what can this deal bring to the Lakers?

Position

Murray played a total of 7,580 minutes in his NBA career, of which 59% played the third position and 40% played the fourth position. Combined with his height of 2.03, he is obviously a "three or four" forward swinger with Porter Jr., Tatum, Durant, etc.

For the Lakers, James' departure has basically entered the countdown. Therefore, Murray can fill it. With a forward swaying man, this is one of them.

Defense

In this round alone, Murray does not sway and always keeps his body's center of gravity in his disposable state. Secondly, he is mobility and flexibility are not inferior to the defender, and his ability to confront and explosive power are excellent.

If Jaylen Green's card is not big enough, then this round is exactly the same as the one just now. The difference is that when defending Alexander, Murray showed better defensive enthusiasm - to play squatball.

In fact, from the real positive and negative value of career-0.8, Murray's defense quality is very average. But it shows very good plasticity with both mobility, flexibility and confrontation. To put it more, since entering the NBA, Murray's real positive and negative values ​​of defense have shown an upward trend of -1.0, -0.8, and -0.5.

To put it more, Murray's career three-point rate is 37.2%. It is certainly not enough to reach the top level, but it is definitely not as easy as Vanderbilt's. There is a space point where defense is plastic, which is the second. Before Ayton got Ayton, the Lakers were obsessed with Kessler. The main reason why they could not get was that they did not have enough chips. Now, the two first rounds in 27 and 29 will greatly enrich the Lakers' trading chips. I mean, when there are players similar to Kessler, to be precise, Pelinka can be taken out directly if the opponent asks for at least two first rounds. Enriching Lakers' trading chips is the third one.

In summary, what this deal can bring to the Lakers are:

1. Having a forward swinger;

2. Having a defensive and malleable space point;

3. Enrich the team's bargaining chips.

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

First of all, the Lakers do not lack offense and relatively lack defense when they have Doncic. Although Murray's arrival cannot be completely solved, at least there is a solution.

Secondly, Murray's three-point advance can open up space for Doncic and others' attacks, and retreat can receive passes and convert points.

From this perspective, Murray and PJ Washington are very similar. You should know that the latter and Doncic are very well matched.

Finally, for this plan alone, I suggest that the Lakers do it.