Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers’ first ten games have left them with a record of 1-9. This is not what the team envisioned when over the summer they added Jeremy Lin, Carlos Boozer, Ed Davis and promising rookies Julius Randle and Jordan Clarkson. At that time, it appeared the team would be solid and much improved from the disasters of last season. Ten games in, that is not the case as the team has not only had the worst start in franchise history, but is rated as one of the worst defensive teams of all time.

The team’s recent loss to the Warriors sums up the season for the Lakers. The team lost 136-115 despite 44 points from Kobe Bryant. The Lakers allowed the Warriors to shoot nearly 54 percent overall along with 50 percent from three. Even worse, the Lakers were held to under 40 percent shooting with an atrocious 18.8 percent from three. Sadly, these two stats are quite common for the Lakers. They continuously struggle on defense and have really struggled to make three pointers.

So far, this season has been all bad for the Lakers. They lost Steve Nash, or whatever is left of him for the season before it even started. Things got worse on opening night when Julius Randle broke his leg. Since then, the only highlights are beating the Hornets and Kobe setting the NBA record for missed field goals.