Los Angeles Lakers: 3 reasons why Russell Westbrook should come off the bench

Rajon Rondo fits better with the other starters

Any team that LeBron James is on, he will ultimately be the main ball handler. Hence, it was questionable why the Lakers put such three ball-dominant players on one team in James, Westbrook, and Rajon Rondo.

With that said, they are there now and the results have not been promising as LAL has gone 2-3 in their first five games with their latest loss coming at the hands of the rebuilding Thunder, it was not an ordinary loss either, it was the largest comeback in Thunder history as they overcame a 26-point deficit and the first time in 230 games the Lakers blew a lead of that magnitude.

Russ is simply too ball-dominant to start alongside James and AD, things would flow better if he was manning the second unit.