Lakers fame is finished as kobe bryant finished his journey to that team and for now lakers really getting a hard time to compete to another team since we all know that they dont have reliable teammates who they can rely on,
Theirs no doubt really that they are talented but they dont have what you called one teammates that can lift up there team to have spot in playoffs.
Im not really going to be surprised if these current lined up will be easily elimanate since i dont see any rooster changes to their team even though they have clarkson but still hes to young to brought responsibility to lift and step up for his team.
Lift is not the right term that can applied to Lakers rosters now. They will work now as a team.
Dissapperance of Kobe opens door for other all the players in their lineup to give what they really capable of. Since some of them are young and new, they can't move freely on the floor since it's must be on Kobe, Kobe and Kobe. If they perform bad they will be blamed by Kobe,Kobe and Kobe. Kobe controls all players in the floor that's why there's no freedom in every plays they want to made.