Are the Lakers in trouble?

Lakers seam to be running to issues with the young and inexperienced players of this season. The Lakers are scoring but lack on defense this season.

The team lacks on experience they have to rely on your players like Jordan Clarkson, Julius Randle and D’Angelo Russell.

Lou Williams said “At some point, we can’t just use our youth and inexperience as an excuse, we just have to go out there and compete and try to win games.”

Concerning coach Byron Scott the Lakers are trying, but the desire to compete isn’t the issue. They have yielded 116.8 points a game while scoring only 106.8.

Kobe Bryant showed some frustration.
“It’s just basic stuff. They ran a top screen and roll, for example, and we allowed the big to roll on the single side,” Bryant said. “[It’s lack of] experience. You can see the action, you make the big roll to the crowded side, so now Faried is rolling to a congested area.

“And those are all just little details. That’s not something you recognize before; you see the action taking place, and then you make the adjustments right then and there. That’s just experience.”

Bryant’s point is that there’s only so much that can be coached. At some point, players become experienced enough to make defensive reads based on what the opposing offense is running.

Bryant, at least, was calm after the team’s loss against the Nuggets.

But should the fans take the same approach — because the early response has been to freak out?

“Freak out. It’s good,” Bryant said. “It’s good for the soul.”