The Los Angeles Lakers spent a ton of their media day on Monday discussing how the team needed to make improvements defensively. Anyone who watched their games last season as the team gave up layup after layup on their way to a franchise-worst 17-win campaign knows why.
"We were all pretty terrible defensively last year,” said Jordan Clarkson during an interview on Spectrum Sportsnet. “I sucked defensively last year."
So it makes sense that to improve a defense that gave up 109.3 points per 100 possessions (the worst mark in the NBA), Luke Walton put most of the focus of the team’s first training camp practice on that end of the floor.