Based on their play thus far, I don't see the Lakers playing .500 ball for the rest of the season. With the games left, that would put them as a 34 win team. Looking at last years standings that would put a team at the 9th or 10th worst record.
Looking at the remaining schedule, they have 18-20 games remaining against the bottom 10 teams.
So they would have to run the table on those games AND stack a few wins against playoff and playoff contending teams to get to that 30-35 win range to get them in that 8-10th worst record, which makes it very unlikely for the pick to convey.
A more likely scenario is they win about half of those bottom 10 matchups. That would give them 9-10 more wins. Throw them another 5-10 wins against contending teams, and you have a realistic projection of around 16 wins by the end of the season.
That would put the Lakers at 27 wins, and looking at last years standings, that is good enough for the 4th worst record in the NBA, or right where we want them to be.