It's day one. Everybody take a deep breath.
The Los Angeles Lakers missing out on big names in free agency doesn't mean they've failed. It's easy to overreact to the Lakers inability to sign any top-talent right away while the pool of available players is drying out. The individual context each of these situations is important to keep in mind, though. It isn't really an indictment of the Lakers that the names they have been linked to in rumors since the NBA Finals ended are signing elsewhere.
From early on it seemed LaMarcus Aldridge was leaning toward signing with the San Antonio Spurs or another win-now team.