Anthony Davis Shares Ominous Reason For Lakers Potential ‘Downfall’

The Los Angeles Lakers try to regain full control over their game, but things don’t really look good right now. Lakers players share their thought on the downfall they deal with and Anthony Davis was just being honest.

“There’s going to be our biggest downfall this year: Just been not being able to stay healthy,” Davis said via Spectrum SportsNet on December 31. “You already missing Cam [Reddish], [D’Angelo Russell], obviously, Gabe [Vincent] is out for a extended period of time. But then Rui [Hachimura] goes down. Now our rotation is smaller, you lose another body as far as scoring.”

Health has been a concern for a really long time. Players lost time due to injuries and hopefully, most of them will return into game action before the end of the season.

Big man Davis hopes that he and his Lakers teammates will overcome the downfall

Davis has been relatively healthy and so is LeBron James. They did miss time, but it wasn’t much of a problem.

“We gave up a lot of threes [to the Pelicans]. They had 10 in the first half,” Davis said. “It’s some guys that we wanted to shoot, and they made them. There’s nothing you can do about it. But I think our effort … was very low from the point of CJ [McCollum], a lot of his threes were butt naked, and that’s tough to deal with.”

The Lakers offense ranks 22^nd and the defense has dropped to No.20 so far in the season.

CJ MCCOLLUM.

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— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) January 1, 2024

It was not an easy battle for the Lakers but they have to embrace the struggle and get the best of it.

“We’ve been a pretty good home team thus far, and now we got to take advantage of it,” Davis said. “The road has been very brutal for us. We get to sleep in our own beds and don’t have to worry about travel, use our own resources, get some practice time in, and let guys get healthy.”