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Dennis Schröder and Thomas Bryant may not fix the Lakers, but they can solve some key problems

In Darvin Ham’s final media availability of the preseason, he made a fairly obvious, yet honest observation about his team — and what he wanted to see as they transitioned from the exhibition games (in which his team went 1-5) to the games that actually mattered. He said, flatly, that he just wanted his team to “get whole,” implying that health had been and would be a factor in his team’s success.

They’d need health for continuity purposes, but also to simply have all the players and their respective talents available to him to deploy as he saw fit.