All right, welcome on to the continuation possibly not the conclusion because we like to take our time

We get so many great questions here of our West mailbag and the place we are going to start here Danny is with the loss

Angeles not LA Lakers right and the Lakers now the since they've been four and four since the last 1560

They're up to an 11 and 15 record getting significantly closer to the play-in and ideally the playoffs

Though they are still 24th in net rating negative 2.3 points per hundred possessions per cleaning the glass

21st and offense 20th and defense and the 538 models Raptor and Elo are still skeptical

both project the Lakers to win 35 games which is 12th in the West that is outside of the play-in and

Raptor gives them a 15% chance of making the playoffs Elo a

22% chance of making the playoffs. That's interesting

So the system likes the way they've been playing better than their players

And and and perhaps that's because Anthony Davis hasn't been playing at this level recently

So he's not given as much juice in the Raptor ratings. So this one

I thought this is a fantastic

Handle for our first question because maybe one response to the way the Lakers have played the last 10-15 game or so is

It's a trap.

As is any Lakers what foe for me?

So Ed Will Ockbar, Darwin Hams offense is creating a lot of quality shots

The defense pretty basic, but it's been working Davis is playing an MVP level

But LeBron is taking the most field goal attempts of his career. Really is that true?

I'll look that up as I continue here, but the question is we think of Hams offensive and defensive systems

Assume no trades is this sustainable

So that that and the question inspired me to look at the the the the Lakers shot chart to get his get a sense of what the questioner was going at and

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