Despite Luka Dončić playing in just half of their games and LeBron James yet to even suit up, the Lakers are 6-2 and drowning their opponents with buckets.

Tuning into this team on a nightly basis feels like landing on rerun after the actors swapped roles mid episode. Out of necessity, head coach JJ Redick has trotted out different starting lineups, has handed the keys to different players and rewritten lines on the fly. But the results have remained the same.

Points. And lots of them.

As of this article, the Lakers have the second-most efficient half-court offense in the NBA and fifth-best overall. Surely, witchcraft or extraterrestrials must be involved, given their inauspicious bill of health, right? Not quite.

The Lakers’ offensive success this season is not a matter of who, what o

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