It's entirely too early to determine the importance of a team meeting for the Los Angeles Lakers.
According to Arash Markazi of ESPNLosAngeles.com, the Lakers met the morning before the 106-93 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. Following that defeat, Los Angles has beaten the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder.
Markazi quoted Dwight Howard in particular who was praising the after-effects of the meeting:
"It really helped," Howard, when asked for details of the meeting, said after the Lakers' practice Monday. "It helped [us] and it helped everybody on the team. It was great. People have said it, it was a 'come to Jesus' meeting. It was good. Stuff like that takes time. We all got to a point that whatever needed to be said was said but none of the stuff was taken personal. We all want to add another banner up there and all have rings, and in order for us to do that we all have to do it together."
It's all well and good that the players have apparently resolved all of their differences. The team has clearly failed to gel together on the court.
That morning in Memphis could help the Lakers immensely; however, until the Lakers s ...
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