Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in Trevor Lane here for the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

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NBA. We've got a number of topics to get into on today's show.

Kick things off with the big question about whether or not the Lakers are actually on the right track.

So after the Lakers lost to the Denver Nuggets,

which snapped their win streak,

remember no LeBron, no Anthony Davis,

no Troy Brown Jr., Lonnie Walker, Austin Reeves,

heck, even Patrick Beverly had to leave partway through the game.

The Lakers had a skeleton,

skeleton crew out there and wound up losing that one.

But before that, they'd won five in a row. Darvin Ham, despite the lost Denver, argued that the Lakers are on the right track. And you know what? I agree with him. I think he's actually right. You know, they started off the season terribly, just two and ten. But since then, they've found ways to put together wins. And that's been even without a healthy roster. We've seen Anthony Davis in and out of the lineup. I'm now out for a big chunk of time. Hopefully, fingers crossed. He can be back in a couple of weeks. LeBron James has missed some games. Now they're dealing with basically all of their wing depth being out with Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker, Troy Brown Jr.

All of these players being out of action, yet still they've found ways to win basketball games.

But basketball isn't always just about the wins and losses in the NBA.

Ultimately, yes, your record matters and it matters whether or not you win the game.

And of course it does.

But you also measure a team by how well they're playing, how they're competing.

See, the NBA, sometimes it's an oversimplification to say it's a make or miss league.

But it's also not wrong.

Like you can play a great game and just have a subpar shooting night and wind up losing.

Conversely, you can play a terrible game and have a hot shooting night and wind up winning a game.

That type of variance game to game does exist.

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