The Los Angeles Lakers are 7-1 over their last eight games, the best record in the NBA over that same stretch. The team is playing mostly really solid basketball, and if a 7-1 scenario during this slate was presented to fans as an option heading into the season, most probably would not have guess that the one defeat would have come against the Orlando Magic, of all teams.
That's exactly what happened of course, because the NBA is weird like that. If the Lakers want to avoid it happening again, there are some things the team will have to do differently this time around.