Theory Behind Lakers Struggles Emerged As LeBron James Questioned For Doing This

LeBron James’ Lakers played against the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night. It was a game they needed to win in order to reach playoffs.

Unfortunately, they lost and the prospect of playing post-season basketball got slimmer due to the Lakers’ faltering against teams they should be beating.

Everything was going great during the Western Conference with coach Luke Walton’s team taking the fourth place, but James picked up a groin injury that forced him to miss 18 games.

Since then, it all started going downhill and James faces the daunting challenge of propelling the Lakers from 11th to 8th in the west with 22 games left to play.

Barnes, who won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors two years ago, has his own theory about the situation.

“I think he has to sit back and drink this right now – he rattled the cage,” Barnes said.

“Rich Paul rattled the cage, Magic Johnson rattled the cage, they were fourth in the east then LeBron got injured and now they lost London, so they had minor setbacks.

“But then they shook everything up during this trade deadline, I respect that hey tried to get it [Anthony Davis trade] done.

“I don’t like the way they went about it, but they rattled a lot of young, fragile players that lean on you for stability – but the Lakers were just trying to get them out.

“LeBron has to sit back and take this and hopefully he can get them to play hard and play the right way.”

“But mainly, LeBron has to play defense, he has to play defense, this is such a switching league now, LeBron isn’t defending,” he added.

“Some of the guys are probably getting tired of hearing ‘you need to do this’ but he’s not doing his job defensively.

“He’s amazing offensively but he needs to give a little more effort on defence so this team thinks ‘okay, our leader’s doing it, now we need to follow behind him’.”

On Thursday morning the Lakers are playing against the New Orleans Pelicans in a game that they simply have to win to keep playoff hopes alive.

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