Lakers go from ‘uncomfortable’ to ‘positive’ after Christmas collapse

EL SEGUNDO — The Lakers reconvened at their practice facility Saturday morning, knowing full well their effort and execution over the previous three games had landed well short of their baseline.

Lakers coach JJ Redick said after a 119-96 loss to the visiting Houston Rockets on Christmas Day that the next film session would be “uncomfortable,” but that those words must have arrived in the heat of the moment because the second-year coach chose softer descriptions like “recalibration” and...