Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

My name's Trevor Lane, and I'm in a great mood, as I'm sure a lot of you are. The Lakers are seven and two-two on the season. They're the two-seed in the Western Conference. The sun is shining. The weather's cooling off a little bit and all is well. The Dodgers are world champions. Let's go. We've got a lot to talk about on today's show. Mainly, I want to look at

how, how is this happening with the Lakers? Look at the context around this team right now.

Currently, the Lakers, and this is just the numbers, the Lakers have played nine games.

LeBron James has played zero games. Luca has played five games.

Austin Reeves has played seven games.

Austin Reeves and Luca Donchich have appeared together in just four games.

And the Lakers in nine games have had seven different starting lineups.

This team has been crushed by the injury bug.

So how are they seven and two?

Think about it.

The Lakers are built around a big three effectively.

Luca, LeBron, Austin.

That's their big three.

They have played zero games with all three of those players available because LeBron has not played a single game.

And more than half of their games,

five of the nine, they have been playing with either just

one of their three best players or none of their three best players. They played one game

with none of those guys and still one. So how are they doing this? How are they pulling this

off right now? I want to dig into the numbers. So we're going to spend the first half of the show by the numbers,

looking into how the hell is this happening for the Los Angeles Lakers?

What are the numbers tell us right now?

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