Couldn’t get my thoughts in last nights Space in #CoachesDen since I had to go midway, so here’s my thoughts:

Lakers start their first 10 games with a record of 6-4, a solid start and beating contenders off the jump compared to last year with a still a flawed roster (bench and defense) under JJ.

So far the team has been a Top 10 Offensively rated team due to LeBron James being the best playmaker in the league alongside Jokic and Luka at such an age, AD having himself a MVP campaign of averaging over 31/10/3 for himself, and the rest of our starters contributing pretty solidly with noticeably Reaves averaging 19PPG 👀.

On the flip side, the major flaws with this team over the last couple years has been losing two-way players, injuries, and running it back with our bench being rated the worst ITL for the 2nd straight year; Gabe Vincent not showing us any of his Miami glimpses and Max not taking that step yet + Hayes IQ overall.

So Coach JJ putting Cam Reddish in the starters definitely just caused changes, allowing Reaves offense to fully flourish and not guard the best guards and shifty players and allowing Cam to do what he does best and for Reaves as well, if you play basketball, you know how taxing it is to play great defense and producing offense on the other end is to your body.

Plus our Laker schedule from November to the very end of February is legitimately stackable, it’s so doable this Lakers team could be win 40 before losing 20 (if they are serious + trades can help and returning players like Vando/Wood).

Overall, I think the Lakers will go on a run, but it will be earlier as of now and post ASG break, if we want to win a championship though, health, mid season trades, and streaks will bring this team to the mountain top again, especially if AD keeps up his MVP campaign all season and Bron continues to ramp up and elevate (3 point demon rn too).

This will be a unique season for the Lakers, and they will be a Top 6 seed

We’ll see what the basketball gods and the Lakers show us as time goes on.

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