The Los Angeles Lakers are 2-8 to start the NBA season, and not everyone is surprised.
Many identified 3-point shooting as arguably their greatest weakness coming into the season, and it has certainly been the case.
The team is dead-last in 3-point shooting accuracy at 29.1 percent, which is frightfully bad. Although it has shown some signs of improvement lately in fits and spurts, outside shooting is still a huge concern.
Among their main rotation players, the Lakers have only three men shooting at least 35 percent from downtown and only two who are above 36 percent.
This huge deficiency seems to be wearing on LeBron James, who has been struggling offensively to start the schedule.
A few of his former teammates commented on the Lakers’ lack of 3-point shooting and how it is a bad environment for James.