For much of the season, frustration from the fans came, at least partially, because of a perceived lack of urgency from the Lakers themselves. As things were going awry, the Lakers' calmness was encouraging early in the year before becoming far more concerning as the season progressed.
But while they were putting on a face for the cameras, behind the scenes, the Lakers were searching for answers, or at least one Laker in particular.
The Lakers’ calmness may have come from a belief that, if they ever got healthy, they would find solutions. That faith remained only because of work done in the offseason by Anthony Davis this season.