Los Angeles Lakers: 4 Free Agents to consider signing this offseason
A look at four potential targets the Los Angeles Lakers may wish to pursue during the off-season.
With the upcoming free agency period, the Los Angeles Lakers are presented with another opportunity to acquire players to fill their roster with more talent as they hope to improve last season’s record of 26-56.
For this to be done, the Lakers would benefit from looking into players that are able to fulfill two of the team’s main weaknesses that plagued them during their 2016-2017 campaign.
The first of these weaknesses is their three-point shooting, where they were 22nd this past season in three-point field goal percentage. They shot an unimpressive 34.6% as a team and only had one player, shooting guard Nick Young, who shot 40% or above from deep. Young may not even be on the roster this upcoming season.
The second and possibly most important weakness the Lakers need to address is their defense. The Lakers struggled mightily on this end of the court, evidenced by the fact that they boasted an awful defensive efficiency of 110.6 this past season. It put them last in the league in this category just below the Denver Nuggets.
Thus, in the off-season, these are assuredly two areas the Lakers should look to improve upon. Here are four players that could help the Lakers out in those two areas in the 2017-18 season.