Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis says the prospect that he’ll miss time with a painful foot harm that flared up in a loss to Detroit on Monday is simply one of many issues going through the floundering NBA staff.
Davis is averaging a league-leading 32.6 factors per recreation and scored 37 in Detroit regardless of clearly struggling after aggravating a left foot harm within the fourth quarter.
However the holes within the Lakers defence had been on full show in a 115-103 loss in Detroit, the place the Pistons took management with 67 factors within the first half.
Since opening the season with a three-game profitable streak, the Lakers have misplaced three of their final 4 regardless of excellent offensive performances from Davis and LeBron James.
Even in a 131-125 victory over the Raptors in Toronto on Friday, the cracks had been displaying because the Lakers let a 26-point lead dwindle to single digits earlier than pulling out the win.
“We’re simply two completely different groups proper now,” Davis mentioned in Detroit. “One recreation, we’re this staff who showcased it may be one of many higher groups within the league. Then the subsequent, we’re this staff, who — I don’t even know who we’re.
“We’ve simply received to be higher. We’ve received to place a full 48 (minutes) collectively, and we will’t proceed to do that if we anticipate to do something this season.”
Davis’s foot harm solely complicates issues. After one awkward touchdown, he fell to the courtroom, rubbing his foot earlier than standing and persevering with.
“I simply form of landed immediately on the spot that’s been killing me,” mentioned Davis, who mentioned he has been “managing” the issue for months.
“We’ll take it a day at a time and form of see the way it feels and the place it goes,” he mentioned.
The Lakers play the Grizzlies in Memphis on Wednesday.