Darvin Ham broke the silence on the Lakers' signing of Tristan Thompson & Shaquille Harrison

Even when the Lakers still have a Play-In game this Tuesday, they are confident about winning over the Minnesota Timberwolves, which will be shorthanded after the recent news of Rudy Gobert's suspension, which signed two players to improve their roster even more.

The Lakers signed Tristan Thompson and Shaquille Harrison for the rest of the season, meaning they are confident about having a deep postseason run at the playoffs and want backups for any event to prevent what happened earlier in the season.

Coach Ham had learned from what happened when they lost Anthony Davis and Mo Bamba, and now that they are thinking about the playoff, they have prepared themselves. Darvin has opened up on why the team signed Harrison:

"Just to shore up our backcourt and to shore up our front line," Ham said. "Shaq Harrison is a young player, well not a young player but he's fairly young and in his prime. A guy that can score, defend, playmake and guard multiple positions. To have a guy like that who I think has just shy of 200 NBA games under his belt so he's played real NBA minutes and we just saw an opportunity that if anything should happen to our guys health-wise, we'll have someone that we can throw in the mix that is familiar and has been in our program and understands how we want to play and the terminology and whatnot…"

Ham spoke on signing Tristan Thompson

"And then with Tristan, again, the same type of scenario to just have a backup in case of an injury. what he brings, his spirit, his positivity as well as the way he's played for years and years, championship level basketball. Championship pedigree, great guy to be around, I've heard nothing but great things about him and having coached against him for a bunch of years, he and I have always had a great rapport throughout his career. Big fan of his, watched him back while he was at Texas. But just another great guy to have and a serviceable player if we need to go in that direction." Said coach Darvin Ham.