2. A respectable shooting performance
The Los Angeles Lakers have been so bad in shooting the basketball in the Orlando bubble. The team has been the most inefficient scoring team in the bubble thus far and these are the things that should worry fans.
Cold shooting is cold shooting, no matter which way you spin it. And yes, cold shooting eventually does heat up, but the one limited thing that the Lakers do not have much of is time. If they shoot like this in the playoffs then they are toast.
To be fair, the shooting got better against Indiana. The Lakers made 42 percent of their shots and 33.3 percent of their threes. That is better, sure, but is still not where the team should be if they want to win an NBA Championship.
The Lakers have set a new season-low in field goal percentage three times in the six games played in the Orlando bubble. The team has also shot a combined 24.2 percent from beyond the arc in the bubble.
That is unacceptable. While the Lakers are not a three-point dominant team, you cannot win in this league in 2020 by shooting under 30 percent (let alone 25 percent) from beyond the arc.
The team made good strides against Indiana and need to continue that against Denver.