The Los Angeles Lakers being one of the NBA’s biggest franchises means that they are constantly under scrutiny. However, the team is far from being taken seriously as a contender at the moment. Despite having LeBron James, who seems to be unaffected by the passage of time, the Lakers’ roster is severely lopsided and the absence of Anthony Davis has been a huge problem for them.
The team has been urged to make a move, at times by their stars. However, with just two first-round picks left for the rest of the decade, the Lakers are seemingly waiting for a star to become available before they decide to trade those. And that might not work out exactly the way they’re hoping for, but in the meantime, former 7-time champion Robert Horry has laid out what they need to do to make it happen (via Sportskeeda).
“You think about LeBron, 20 years, another player of the week,” Robert Horry said. “For him to get healthy is gonna make the Lakers a dangerous team. When they got him in the game it makes it easy for other players.
“If Westbrook goes out and he’s in attack mode, Schroder’s on attack mode, and our guy Thomas Bryant … He’s a double-double machine and we don’t talk about it. This team they have those moments when they piecing things together, they’re figuring each other out.
“I think these 41 games they have left, they have to win 30,” Horry said. “Take care of home court, sneak a couple of wins here and there and then they’d be fine. Because that’s gonna be the major key, take care of your business at home because they haven’t been great at home. Now they need to be extraordinary.”
Can The Los Angeles Lakers Win 30 Of Their Next 41 Games?
At the halfway point of the season, the Lakers have won three games less than they have lost. But they have missed Anthony Davis quite a bit for a lot of those. He is now ramping up to a return, and if they can keep him healthy for the rest of the season, then they can certainly win enough to make the play-in tournament.
LeBron James is chasing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record, so he seems to be going off even more than usual. If this can keep them around .500 till AD’s return, then no sane NBA fan would bet against those two superstars carrying that team to the playoffs and making some noise.
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