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'Super confident that we're going to be all right,' Westbrook said. Like James, Westbrook maintained that L.A.

'What I'm doing right now ain't good enough. 'Got to be better overall,' Westbrook said of his play. Westbrook's woes, of course, have plagued the team since training camp. They fell down by as many as 21 points in the first half, a theme of theirs, and Russell Westbrook struggled mightily, shooting 5-for-17 from the field. looked better against Dallas, but several of the Lakers' persistent problems were there. The Lakers were coming off perhaps the worst loss of the season on Sunday when they were booed off the court by the home crowd en route to a 28-point loss to a New Orleans Pelicans team that is chasing them in the standings. 'And I don't have the luxury of having rest.

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'The only way it'll be back to full strength is with rest,' he said.

Just before last month's All-Star break, James was asked about the status of his knee and said that he will need more time to get back to 100 percent. In James' first season with the Lakers in 2018-19, he sat out nine of L.A.'s final 14 games - including the last six straight - after missing a significant portion of the season prior to that because of a groin injury. James is committed to play out the season, wherever it goes. James, who has missed 17 games this season because of various injuries and most recently sat out five games from late January through early February with swelling in his left knee, has no plans to shut his season down at any point, sources close to James told ESPN.