If this is the ride the Lakers are going to take people on this season, the destination will undoubtedly stay murky.
They are, indeed, the team with offensive struggles bad enough to open the season on a five-game losing streak, the misses at the rim and three-point line almost impossible to imagine.
They also are capable of putting together runs of impossibly good basketball, their defense feeding their offense feeding their defense — a high-speed wrecking machine that can flip a game in an instant the way they did Sunday against the Denver Nuggets.
