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Lakers News: L.A. Now Tied For Worst Start In History Of Team

The Lakers keep taking punches and it doesn't look like they are getting up soon

Ryan Menzie

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The happy times are slowly slipping away for your Los Angeles Lakers as the team lost five games in a row for the second time this season. The 2-10 start to the season also ties for the worst start in the history of the franchise, a phrase many didn't expect to say coming into the season.

Per Tim Daniels of Bleacher Report, L.A. also started off 2-10 during its 1957-58 and 2015-16 seasons. Neither of those clubs won more than 20 games, Daniels notes.

The early schedule hasn't been easy for the Lakers, but it doesn't excuse the Lakers poor shooting early into the season mounted by bad defense once the scoring came into place. Pretty much, it's been bad all around. 

The Lakers are now ranked with the Houston Rockets for the worst record in the league and it took them just 12 games to be eight games below .500 when last season it took them 62 games. The mistakes need to be fixed and Darvin Ham is well aware of how bad the Lakers have looked (via Jovan Buha, The Athletic).

“It’s self-inflicted mistakes,” head coach Darvin Ham said. “Whether we’re fouling or we’re losing assignments or we turn the ball over. Again, we gotta be better. We gotta coach them harder. Coach them better.”

There was noise early when the schedule first came out and fans were predicting about how many games the Lakers would win. The Lakers beating the Nuggets wasn't apart of the question, but they prevailed, yet no fans would've predicted seeing the Lakers lose to the Kings.

Outside of the 3-10 Detroit Pistons and the 6-7 San Antonio Spurs, every other club the rest of the way this month sports a .500 record or better. The Spurs are still pretty chippy, having not gone into full tank mode just yet. If the Lakers don't figure things out soon, they could end up the worst team in the history of the franchise by record. 

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RYAN MENZIE

Ryan Menzie | Lead Contributor Ryan is an LA Native who has grown up praising the greatest athletes LA has had to offer. A love for sports ranging between basketball, football, volleyball and golf, a future Sports Management Masters graduate, and being engulfed into organized sports since seven years old, the passion and love for sports never ends for Ryan. If the words he writes don't paint the full picture of his true fandom, he will find more ways than one to tell the story and be more than willing to open up a nice LA sports debate with you. Favorite Player: Kobe Bryant  Favorite Moment: Kobe Bryant Final Game. Too many moments to choose from between Derek Fishers 0.4 second buzzer beater, the Lakers 3-peat or game seven against Boston, but can't beat a final memory like Kobe's final game. 

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