After the NBA Trade Deadline, the roster of the Los Angeles Lakers saw some much-needed upgrades. The addition of D’Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, and Jarred Vanderbilt to the team helped fans gain some hopes of advancing to the postseason after it’s all said and done for the 2022-23 NBA season.
Whenever a team adds new players to the roster, the said players need some time to get adjusted to each other. Unfortunately, time is something that the Los Angeles Lakers do not have this season.
With the Lakers losing against the shorthanded Portland Trail Blazers, they have now fallen to a 26-32 record, and their hopes of advancing to the postseason seem bleak for the team. However, the Lakers’ new acquisition, D’Angelo Russell, has other thoughts about the same.
D’Angelo Russell On Fans Already Criticizing The New-Look Lakers Roster
D’Angelo Russell played the first two years of his NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers and recently returned to the team via a blockbuster trade involving the Lakers, Utah Jazz, and Minnesota Timberwolves.
Russell already knows how hard it can be to play for the Lakers due to the highly enthusiastic fanbase. Keeping that in mind, after the defeat against the Trail Blazers, Russell decided to give a reality check to the Laker Nation.
D'Angelo Russell with a postgame reality check: "Knowing that we have every excuse in the world to use, are we going to use it or are we going to just kind of go out there and try to make something happen? … It’s not going to happen right away. As much as everybody are Laker…
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) February 14, 2023
“Knowing that we have every excuse in the world to use, are we going to use it or are we going to just kind of go out there and try to make something happen? … It’s not going to happen right away. As much as everybody are Laker fans in the world, they want it to happen right away. Just like any other team, you got to build.”
What Russell said is definitely true and applicable to a team with new players on the roster. But at the same time, if the Lakers need to advance to the postseason, they need instant results with just 24 games left in the season for the team.
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