The Lakers are obviously struggling early in the season with a record of 2-8 through the first ten games, with a variety of reasons to blame for the early season woes; including the recent dip in defensive execution and effort that kept the team in games as they slogged through a historically bad shooting start to the season.
Not everything has been terrible, however. One — if not the most — encouraging sign from early in the season has been the play of wing Troy Brown Jr., who was signed over the summer and quickly was inserted into the starting lineup by head coach Darvin Ham.