NBA 2018-19 Season: 5 Issues that will bug the Lakers

#5 Growing pains

Sacramento Kings v Los Angeles Lakers

Any team with such great year-on-year turnover and an unproven head coach in charge is quite suspect to a slow start to their regular season campaign. The Lakers are exactly that, on top of all 4 of the aforementioned problems.

Rotations need to be decided, players need to hit peak form and acclimatize to playing with the pressure of playing on a LeBron-led team. Anything short of a peak performance from the start will consign the Lakers to playing catch-up with the rest of the Conference, given how good teams around the league have gotten through the course of this summer.