Los Angeles Lakers star center Anthony Davis made pointed comments about the coaching in the team's devastating Game 2 loss to the Denver Nuggets, and one expert believes they indicate a deeper problem with head coach Darvin Ham.

While debating Davis' comments on Thursday's episode of First Take, ESPN's Brian Windhorst said they show that the big man feels that Ham should be held accountable for the Lakers blowing a 20-point lead and falling into a 0-2 hole in their first-round playoff series.

"You guys are dancing around your point, which is that Anthony Davis blamed Darvin Ham for this loss," Windhorst said around the 5:20 mark. "That is exactly what he did. He did that very clearly with those comments."

After Los Angeles' Game 2 collapse in which Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray hit a buzzer-beating jumper in Davis' face, Davis said, "We have stretches where we just don't know what we're doing on both ends of the floor." Ham has faced outside criticism throughout the year for his failures to adjust in crucial moments, and Windhorst said this is an instance of that happening in-house.

"It really irritates Lakers fans, some of the strategy decisions Darvin's been under fire from people from L.A. for a lot of this year. It drove them crazy that he ended that game where they blew a 20-point lead in the second half with two timeouts in his pocket," Windhorst explained. "Anytime you have a loss like that ... someone's gonna get the finger pointed at them, and Anthony Davis pointed it right at Darvin Ham. And that is basically ... taking public what have been some clear private tensions."

Ham didn't agree with Davis' comments and said he felt the 31-year-old was speaking out of frustration. However, Windhorst believes going back and forth in the media is not a good look for the Lakers.

"This was two guys kind of throwing mud at each other, publicly, in a playoff series, and it's not a sign of a functioning and smooth-running organization," he said.

Windhorst added that Ham is doing his best to work through the deficiencies within the Los Angeles roster. It was just a year ago that he led the team on a run to the Western Conference Finals. While that doesn't appear to be on the horizon this time around, there appears to be a deeper problem that needs to be addressed soon.

"The Lakers are not a good defensive team, they're a worse defensive team than they were last year, and [Ham's] scrambling to figure that out," Windhorst said. "But it is not good in the middle of the fight, which they are right now, where you've got a star player and a coach going back and forth with microphones, and that's exactly what we've got here."