"Primarily we're focused on bats in the draft. When it comes to trades, we'll try to pry the best talent that we have. It could be pitching, it could be position players. But going into it, we're looking to improve our offense long-term."
In the previous matchup against a healthy Houston squad, the Lakers closed with this same five. Rockets head coach Ime Udoka spoke on the challenges of that unit. "It's obviously a spacing unit that shoots a lot of threes and the spacing is totally different, obviously, without Hayes in there." Udoka said before Friday's matchup.