Hi, this is Tania Ganguli, Lakers beat writer for the L.A. Times, here with a bonus newsletter since we skipped last week for Thanksgiving.
In this season of giving, the Lakers have been doing a lot of it. Not in a positive way (though there’s some of that too) but in negative, basketball way. In the last two games, the Lakers have committed 41 turnovers, a feat that has coincided with a time when their passing numbers have decreased.
The Lakers’ pace ranks fifth in the league overall, but during the last five games, they’ve been all the way down to 19th.