The Los Angeles Lakers addressed many of their holes with their multiple trades prior to the trade deadline, or so it appeared.
The big trade was the one that sent out Russell Westbrook, little-used Juan Toscano-Anderson and Damian Jones plus draft capital for D’Angelo Russell, Jarred Vanderbilt and Malik Beasley. It was projected that both Russell and Beasley would greatly help with the Lakers’ major 3-point shooting woes.
It seemed like a reasonable expectation to many people, given the fact Beasley is a high-volume 3-point shooter who had made at least 37.7% of his attempts from downtown over the previous four seasons.
However, Beasley failed to measure up.