Despite being 12 games above .500 at the break, through the first 54 games of the season the Lakers have scored 6,264 points -- and allowed their opponents to score 6,264 points. "I know that when we've played some of our best basketball this season, we look very good," LeBron James said. "On the other side, when we've been terrible, we've looked disgusting. I think the most important [thing] is if we can get healthy, how many minutes we could be on the floor, how much chemistry we can build with the sprint starting. "You would hope that you can have the regular season and kind of build that cohesiveness and things of that nature, but I'm hoping that if we can get healthy, that we can start to build that."
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