Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[DanSchwartzgan]

Early on in the season before he got hurt, he was arguably the second best player on the team (we were bad...).  When he played with Kyrie before Luka came back he was also probably the second most important player on the team. 

Good point.  We tend to forget about the injury.  

The O-Ratings for the team when Josh played were in the 128 area.  D ratings were about 112.,7.  They never came close to those numbers with Josh in the game after his return from injury.  Lots of external factors could explain that, but I think you are right to remember Josh was off to a fantastic start pre-injury and recency bias tends to steer us more toward how we remember things ending last season.