Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I'm Trevor Lane. You can find me on Twitter at Trevor underscore Lane over on Instagram at Trevor Lane NBA. Lots to get into today. A lot going on in the world of the Los Angeles Lakers. As always, joining me today. We've got Ron Gutterman from Lakersnation.com. Ron, how are you doing? Welcome back onto the show. Yeah, it's nice to be on after the holidays. Yeah, we're just getting right. We're still in the swing of things with the Lakers, and they're just trying to improve day by day as a team, and hopefully we see it happening soon. Are you surprised that right now, 10 games without Anthony Davis,

I'm counting the game where he went out halfway through against the Denver Nuggets,

10 games, they're 5 and 5.

500 basketball without Anthony Davis.

Maybe you can talk a little bit about, you know, the opponents during that stretch.

But nonetheless, is that surprising to you?

No AD and they're still, you know, tread water?

It's a little surprising to see them tread water because, you know, the way it's been the last

couple of years is when he goes down, like, LeBron has been able to keep things afloat for some

time, but like it tends to fall apart when he's out. And it's kind of happening again

where LeBron is is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting. And I'm worried that it will fall apart at

some point. You know, they've beaten, you know, who are the five? The Nuggets win was was super

impressive. But, you know, that was the game he got injured.

Since then, the wins are against the magic.

The hawks who, I mean, we could talk about the hawks.

They are falling apart as a franchise.

The Hornets who aren't very good.

So it's like, it's a little tough.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

So those are their wins.

You know, none of those are super impressive.

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