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Trading for Russell Westbrook isn’t the only reason the Los Angeles Lakers have disappointed so dramatically the past two seasons. The list of other contributing factors includes but is not limited to the injuries that have cost LeBron James and Anthony Davis a combined 103 games since the start of 2021-22; the ill-fated decision to pay Talen Horton-Tucker rather than Alex Caruso and a pair of free-agent signing periods that produced two separate crops of rotation-fillers — one mostly old, one mostly young — who couldn’t really shoot.