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The Lakers begin their year with a flurry of home games starting with a game in The Crypt against the Heat. But somebody forgot to tell the Lakers they’re in a new year as their New Year’s hangover continued as they stumbled with 21 turnovers and 13% 3-point shooting in a 110-96 loss to Miami to go 17-18. Tune in as the guys from the Lakers Fast Break give you the cold hard facts on the issues going on with the team, why the excuses no longer apply, and if the Darvin Ham rumors will get any louder. Plus “MagicMan” Sean Grice returns and provides an update on him as the community of the LFB rallies around him in his time of need. The Lakers come back home and find new misery in a new year and we’re calling it as we see it right here on the Lakers Fast Break podcast!

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The fallacy is it’s more likely that the good game by Drummond against the Suns a week ago was an outlier because he has traditionally not played well against teams with a high powered center or strong team defense. The issue is many of his stats seem to be empty stats that don’t move the game.

The coach’s job is to create schemes on offense and defense that optimize his players and make it easier to win games. It’s not just rolling the ball out and expecting LeBron and AD to play like superstars and win. It’s about creating a scheme that optimizes their skillsets on offense and defense.

Both the stats and the eye test are telling us that playing Drummond at the five with LeBron and AD is not that scheme. Obviously, Pelinka and Vogel must believe differently and that the problem is we have not had enough time and games to get the James, Davis, and Drummond Big Three working.

If you agree with that thinking, you’re going to change your mind once it costs us a rare shot at our 18th NBA championship. The Drummond experiment could easily result in a first or second round loss for the Lakers.