This former Laker defends coach Darvin Ham, who is going all in for tonight's game

Even when the Lakers Nation doubts coach Darvin Ham and his capacities as a head coach, he has the team in the first round of the playoffs and with a great opportunity tonight of getting into the second round.

Time will tell how well coach Ham fare in his first time as a head coach in the playoffs, but at the moment, the former Lakers star Lamar Odom is sending a message to the fans.

Odom says the Lakers fans need to trust Darvin Ham's rotations: "For all the Lakers fans out there, we were in a terrible hole to start the season, right? We got out of the hole and are now 3-2 over the two seed. It's not a good time to question the captain."

Los Angeles jumped out to a 3-1 series lead over the Grizzlies, and it's hard to ask the team to win every game in Memphis, especially since the Grizzlies went 35-6 at home during the regular season.

Ham made a great move before the regular season ended, and the playoffs issues

Ham made a great move at the end of the regular season to put Austin Reaves in the starting lineup, which has helped the team with his scoring boost. The issue for the Lakers at points in this series has been the non-Anthony Davis minutes, as the team has yet to have an answer at the backup center position. Wenyen Gabriel saw minutes for Los Angeles in that role in Game 5.