Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton took a measured tone after the team's latest loss, a 101-89 defeat at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks. Walton said the team is going to be fine, and that it may just take a few years for them to be good again. It was a subtle challenge to his young charges while also being a public acknowledgement of the youth on their roster.
With the Lakers going an NBA-worst 2-14 in the month of Decmber while falling prey to second half collapses nearly every night, reserve big man Thomas Robinson doesn't want to hear about that youth anymore.