There’s no sugarcoating a 3-10 record. It’s an ignominious mark to bear for any team. For the Lakers, a franchise whose entire ethos since arriving to Los Angeles has been built around the importance of winning — and doing a lot of it — their start to the season has been an outright disaster by the very definition they penned themselves.
Although it’s difficult to look at the half of the glass that is full in moments like these, the Lakers still have budding developments worth shining some light on. If for nothing else, it is because those unexpected surprises can add up and prove worth clinging onto, and investing in, even when the results may say otherwise.