There's no experiment happened. It's just that high expectations are built prior to the opening of NBA Season because of the "big names" here which are mostly now out of their prime and can be considered as hitting the "veteran period" already.

Now that they now see the result, I'm sure Lakers already have a plan in the post-season in the so-called "rebuilding".

Trading Anthony Davis should be considered too. He's good overall but the Lakers didn't utilize him well because of him being an injury-prone at a young age.

^^ I think it is expected that the Nets will have a hard time to win against the Raptors.

But they almost did upset them without Irving again and Drummond who has a bad fall against the Raptors the last game. It was another close and tough lost for the Nets, and there chances are getting slim now to make the playoff without Durant.

This season Los Angeles Lakers are having a bad season in the league. At the beginning of the season, there was hope for the championship but things did not go well. Despite the team's poor performance LeBron James leads the team with superior performance. I hope the Lakers don't go the way of trading their best player for now.

I think Toronto Raptos' superiority in offensive rebounds was very effective in winning this match. It was a very competitive game and the Raptors played very well in the final period. The Nets lost the game because they couldn't score last minutes. The Raptors' defense was also pretty good and the final minutes were very exciting

Better than taking the early break, Lakers still have that chance but if they will continue losing games, the chance also to them to exit

without moving to the second round is also possible. Let see if what adjustments they needed to workout, still can't find the right combinations

to win a game. Even how hard LeBron played the game if the help from his teammates are not working on both defense and offense, nothing will

change, they will continue losing.

That would be a huge problem for them if they'll lucky to qualify in the playoffs, just like before, they will again lose to the Suns because by far the Suns are the most consistent team in the West now. I'm not saying it's a guarantee but what we are seeing on how the Lakers are playing now, I don't expect them to give a tough competition against the number 1 team in the West.

I don't expect anymore that they will create chemistry, they have been playing for a while now and we can still see their incosistency. They might continue to lose and they will fail this season, next season we are not going to see the same faces again, and who knows, Lebron might get traded.

I guess that Lakers felt the absence of Anthony Davis last night and that's why they barely lost to Mavericks by 104-109 home. Mavericks were already being favoured to win and they did what was expected. Doncic had a decent performance in this game too by 25 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists. This wasn't one of his best performances maybe but it was still enough for a win here. And as always, Lebron was the most scorer of his team by 26 points and made a double-double too by having 12 rebounds. But they still lost by a small score gap.

Honestly, I want to see this happen Maybe the thought of getting kicked out would spark a new fire in his belly. Unfortunately, I don't think the Lakers have the guts to do that.

I'm not defending his poor performance but four attempts isn't really that bad to keep them guessing. If they know you'll just drive for a lay up/dunk or kick the ball outside, it's easier for them to defend.