Lakers News: Darvin Ham Wants To Move On From Embarrassing Rockets Loss

Don't we all?

Last night, your Los Angeles Lakers fell 114-110 to the 17-52 Houston Rockets, after mounting a half-hearted, too-little-too-late comeback effort in the game's waning minutes.

First-year Los Angeles head coach Darvin Ham seems to like to make a point of recovering quickly from tough defeats. It could in part be a coping mechanism, a strategy for LA to not dwell on a past it cannot change. He was very much trying to pivot to discuss the Lakers' next few games, rather than this one, while ostensibly being asked about the Wednesday night debacle in his postgame presser with reporters.

“We don’t have time to feel sorry for ourselves, we gotta go back and fill our cups up tomorrow and get ready to take advantage of a 5-game home stay.” Darvin Ham with his takeaways from the game tonight and look ahead to Friday’s game against the Mavs. pic.twitter.com/IUIUJXWRYH

— Spectrum SportsNet (@SpectrumSN) March 16, 2023

“We don’t have time to feel sorry for ourselves, we gotta go back and fill our cups up tomorrow and get ready to take advantage of a five-game home stay," Ham said. 

Ham loves to use this "fill our cups" phrase to describe re-energizing for LA. Not that it isn't apt, it's just funny to hear it in every press conference he's ever had.

As Ham says, the team now is heading back to the friendly confines of Crypto.com Arena for a five-game spell, following its uneven two-game road trip, which it split.

Lakers center Anthony Davis was shelved during Wednesday's bout as he continues to recover from a right foot stress injury. It was apparently more of a precaution than anything else, but it probably cost the team a very winnable game. Prior to the bout, Ham had revealed that LA intended to rest Davis on one night of all the team's back-to-back sets. Among the 34-36 club's final 12 games of the regular season, there is just one more back-to-back pair of contests: April 4th against the Utah Jazz and April 5th against the Los Angeles Clippers.

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