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What Seems Like an Easy Start for the Lakers' Season may mask an otherwise expected Slow Start.
The official schedule for the 2019-20 NBA season released on Monday August 12th at 12:00 pm P.T..
Lakers fans have grown eager for the season to start with exciting matchups announced, like the Clippers on October 22nd for opening night and a rematch on Christmas Day.
Unlike the NFL, in the NBA you play the same teams the same amount of times each year. Despite that, the difficulty of an NBA schedule still may vary depending on who you play when. For the Lakers, they have a rather easy first and last 15 games.
First year LeBron-led teams usually have a slow start to the season. In his first year in Miami in 2010 they started out 9-8 in the first 17 games and finished with a record of 58-24. When he returned to the Cavaliers in 2014, they started out 5-7 in the first 12 games but ended up with a 53-29 record. And last year with the Lakers, they started out 2-5. While this isn’t his first year on the Lakers, a lot of the team has changed and will need time to build chemistry together.
The sub-par competition in the first stretch of the Lakers’ schedule will help the team’s chemistry develop and mask the slow start the LeBron-led Lakers might have had otherwise.
Lakers fans, we only have to wait 53 more days to see some Lakers basketball when the preseason tips off on October 5th vs the Warriors in the new Chase Center.
The official schedule for the 2019-20 NBA season released on Monday August 12th at 12:00 pm P.T..
Lakers fans have grown eager for the season to start with exciting matchups announced, like the Clippers on October 22nd for opening night and a rematch on Christmas Day.
Unlike the NFL, in the NBA you play the same teams the same amount of times each year. Despite that, the difficulty of an NBA schedule still may vary depending on who you play when. For the Lakers, they have a rather easy first and last 15 games.
First year LeBron-led teams usually have a slow start to the season. In his first year in Miami in 2010 they started out 9-8 in the first 17 games and finished with a record of 58-24. When he returned to the Cavaliers in 2014, they started out 5-7 in the first 12 games but ended up with a 53-29 record. And last year with the Lakers, they started out 2-5. While this isn’t his first year on the Lakers, a lot of the team has changed and will need time to build chemistry together.
The sub-par competition in the first stretch of the Lakers’ schedule will help the team’s chemistry develop and mask the slow start the LeBron-led Lakers might have had otherwise.
Lakers fans, we only have to wait 53 more days to see some Lakers basketball when the preseason tips off on October 5th vs the Warriors in the new Chase Center.
