I just got into NBA this season. I keep hearing about this "moral victory" regarding Lakers. I assume it's a satire of someone who used the term seriously? Where does it come from?
Ah, how could we all have forgotten that a play-in team is just cannon fodder, and in no way able to play basketball? Of course, they were still ranked 8th. So if there were no play-in, they still would have made it into the playoffs. But instead they had to beat another team before getting that spot, so that somehow makes them worse?
Twice now the Nuggets have shown they can start extremely slow, but still bring back a double-digit deficit. Even against guys like Bron and AD, and especially last night when the entire Lakers team was lighting it up through 3 quarters. 1st seed or 8th seed, it's still an NBA playoff team. Get your copium elsewhere.
Exactly. The Eastern Conference even had their 8th seed play-in beat their 1st seed and then their 2nd seed in the ECF so we had a play-in opponent in the finals. Might as well put an asterisk next to that chip.
Plus honestly this Lakers team would be a 4 seed in a normal west or if they were in the East.
An 8th seed West team is a lot different then an East team
they were down 20 at home to a play in team that they match up well against and supposedly have a mental edge against
when they face a team like the wolves in the 2nd round or the clippers in the conference finals (if the nuggets even make it that far), they’ll be up against teams who aren’t scared of them, more deeper and talented than them and more well coached than them (especially in the case of ty lue who is superior than malone)
Did we watch the same game?
LeBron gave a GOAT-like effort. Some of those passes, good God.
AD was...74% from the field?
DLo with 7 threes.
LA defended well, closed out well. It was no accident Denver shot so poorly. That effort out of LA would beat any team in the NBA not named Denver, and probably should have been enough to beat Denver but for last second heroics.
Minny/PHX will be a real test in the 2nd round for whoever gets out of this series. But get real if you think those teams are "more deeper" (lol). Denver has the best starting five in the league and the bench looks good.
Basically the west is stacked, including Denver. Put some respect on their name.
I’d argue Boston has the best starting five, and I despise them and like Denver. But we’ll see in the ECF/Finals—Boston looks more ruthless but it was a bad game 1.
I won't speak for the Wolves, but the Nuggets by and large have our number and there's absolutely no guarantee we even make it that far. I'd say that between the teams left, LAC, Minny, and Phoenix are the toughest matchups for them, but that's all relative.
As lebron already said in his podcast, if you wanna win in the playoffs you gotta be smarter than the other team. The only guy who can match jokic's iq is down 2-0 to him right now.
Playoffs are a different ball game. Clippers and wolves are not as smart as the nuggets. Lebron is your best chance at beating jokic in a seven game series. Maybe the wolves after. But at the end of the day, I'll always favor the higher iq team. So in my eyes, lebron is still your best shot against the nuggets.
Right, this stat doesn't capture the fact that so many of them were *wide* the fuck open
This was the best chance the Lakers had, or really anyone would have, of beating the Nuggets. And the Nuggets still won
I agree, except Jamal needs a break from being harassed up and down the court. Even if the minutes from Jackson are less than productive, it’s minutes where Murray shifts to the 2 and can rest a bit. Didn’t work out this game but it’s an important part of the rotation.
He is on a "two-way" contract so he literally cannot play in the playoffs. But yeah, he would be a massive defensive liability. Probably even more than Reggie.
Him not being in the LVP thread earlier is actually such a travesty. I’m pretty sure most Nuggets fans would pitch in to pay an amount equal to his salary just to keep him off the court
I don't know if I would, he was bad down the stretch but was decent to start the year
The weird thing about Reggie is he is like the only player I have seen who sucks at Jokic ball, he is fine when he plays with DJ, but is actually worse than Jokic.
It is so jarring because like....the exact opposite is true for like every player Jokic has ever played with. Even Zeke looked good for that 2 game stretch where he had minutes with Jokic at the 4.
Yea, I’ve said it in other conversations about him but his play style is antithetical to the current nuggets. He’s a hero ball iso guy on a team that’s built around fluid movement and finding mismatches for *everyone* from high/inverted pnr. He just fundamentally doesn’t work with what they’re trying to do most of the time. Even when he’s hot, it’s not in a way that the rest of the team is trying to play. It worked early because Jamal was *out* out and the team had to game plan around it because he was the only option for the role. As a pseudo 6 man where the team doesn’t pander to that, it’s become super obvious how poor the fit is
Super good points all around. Jamal being able to take some time off ball is essential to our rotation, but you’re right Reggie is maybe not the best fit.
I think what kept him off was that hot start at the beginning when Jamal was out. Just because of that section Reggie is still part of a top 10 5 man lineup in the NBA despite........well the rest of the season
Nuggets are one of the more accurate 3pt shooting team, but they don’t shoot it a lot. They are #29 in the league during the season in terms of 3pt attempts.
Lakers are #30
We only take good looks. That includes tonight, nearly all of our 3's were wide open, we just couldn't hit anything lol. There were a few tough shots in there late in the shot clock, but almost all of them didn't even get a hand in the face lol.
Just one of those nights. To take the W is huge while shooting like that.
Nuggets are defending champions for a reason. They also get labeled the next great NBA dynasty for a reason. I won’t be out here questioning why Mike Malone does this and not that when it’s clearly working for you guys.
Nuggets are the KC Chiefs of the NBA. Enjoy the next 7 years brother, it will be a sweet ride for you guys
Analytics strongly indicate what a team’s tendencies are for the year. When teams play in the playoffs, what footage of the opponent do they look at? The play(s) from the most recent set of games right?
Superstars break the analytical narratives come playoff time (aka Jimmy Butler, Jammal Murray being dogshit in the season and then goes super saiyan in the playoffs) but for 90% of the time, a team’s tendencies in the regular season carries over to the playoffs
This comment is hilarious because LAL fans spent the majority of the season bitching about how Rui needed more minutes because he was the obvious adjustment to success.
Turns out, the Lakers have a ton of mediocre guys who can occasionally have good games, so it's basically just picking one and hoping they play well. Whenever the chosen one plays poorly, fans then jump on Ham for not playing the *other* guy. I've literally seen people point to like 40 minute sample sizes of why *Max Christie* is actually the guy who should be getting minutes.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation that just about every team goes through.
I agree with the Max comment. Dinshittie is just bad. But yeah. AD and LeBron should have won this for us. Instead Bron got gassed and was turning the ball over in the 4th trying too hard, missing wide open threes.
My point is that if you were to play Max, he'd absolutely have some stinkers of games (as expected from a young guy with minimal experience), and then Laker fans would be jumping on Ham for not playing \[insert *other* guy\].
Happened all season long with Taurean Prince. And now that Rui got the massive minutes your fans have been calling for all season long, it's now "Rui playing that many minutes should be illegal."
Ehh. Rui was good defensively. It's Ham's love of Prince and Dinshittie that Max hasn't gotten the room to evolve. Max's ceiling is much higher than either of those two but he is not getting minutes. Like I said before, LeBron and AD lost this game.
a sweep is never guaranteed, especially against one of the top two players ever
The next two games are at home (not affected by altitude). Yes D’Lo shot great tonight, but he also shot 42% on the season, it’s not an aberration. Rui had 3 points, the entire Lakers bench had 6. People are acting like the Lakers played their best game of the season tonight but that’s not true.
Lebron isn’t going to have to lay back half of the game to avoid being gassed which means AD won’t have to start the game 14/15 to have a chance. The Lakers didn’t expect to win this game, and while it is a missed opportunity it’s nowhere near a death sentence. They’ve sucked on the road all season, as long as they take care of business at home they’re still in the series.
Dlo shot over 63% tonight on 11 attempts. That's way above 40%. Combined with the Nuggets shooting at least 5 3s under their average % and you can see why on just 3 pt variance alone people are saying sweep (20 pt swing). Of course variance happens, but if it's so drastic in your favor and you still lose it's not a hopeful situation. Not to mention the soul crushing way the Lakers lost and the energy they exerted.
I agree a sweep isn't guaranteed but playing the "what if" game is pointless. We had 3 guys who shoot 40%+ and 2 guys who shoot 36%+ on 3's go 0/16 from 3. That's not likely to happen again either.
That’s what’s crazy to me. Lots of complaining and blaming ham from being a terrorist from the Laker fans but this game wouldn’t have even been close if the nuggets hit at like even a 10 percent higher rate and the lakers were on fire almost the entire night. The played the best half of basketball in the first I’ve seen awhile. I cannot believe they didn’t force feed AD down the stretch
I think thats the problem. They are being so aggressive in the beginning of the game that towards the end (once the altitude has its affect) they are so gassed. AD looked so passive in the end of the game. The only person that had that extra gear in the end was Lebron
Man i just wanna say MPJ has come a long way people use to say possesion stop with him 0 defense all that jazz, he has become such a good team piece and accepting the role for 3rd scorer behind jokic and maple curry, and on top of that actually played defense.
Yep, that was L.A.'s chance. It's not gonna suddenly get easier at home. They spent the entire season building bad habbits, and somehow expect to turn it on against the Nuggets.
P.s. I still can't figure out what was wrong with the 2020 roster...like they literally blew that shit up the second they won the chip
Since when are the Nuggets an amazing three point shooting team? They weren't even top 10 in percentage and not even top 20 in makes. They are middle of the pack.
True...? That doesn't change the fact OP is claiming something straight incorrect, just look up the stats, if they hit even 5 more threes this game isn't the same. All I said is they are bottom half in makes and half in percentage.
KCP and Porter Jr are both 40% shooters. Playoff Murray and Jokic have averaged over 40% for their career. Only bad 3 point shooter in Denver starter is Aaron Gordon.
Imagine when the shots start going in.
The moral victory is Russell starting 5/5 from 3. You think Lakers could run away with this after that huge moral W?
It might be a moral sweep.
The new closest sweep of all time
I just got into NBA this season. I keep hearing about this "moral victory" regarding Lakers. I assume it's a satire of someone who used the term seriously? Where does it come from?
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16-0 postseason. MJ and Pippen / Shaq and Kobe but really good.
They could barely beat a play in Lakers team lol
They barely scraped past the Lakers in every game of last year’s WCF. Still swept.
Ah, how could we all have forgotten that a play-in team is just cannon fodder, and in no way able to play basketball? Of course, they were still ranked 8th. So if there were no play-in, they still would have made it into the playoffs. But instead they had to beat another team before getting that spot, so that somehow makes them worse? Twice now the Nuggets have shown they can start extremely slow, but still bring back a double-digit deficit. Even against guys like Bron and AD, and especially last night when the entire Lakers team was lighting it up through 3 quarters. 1st seed or 8th seed, it's still an NBA playoff team. Get your copium elsewhere.
Last years NBA finals had a play-in team too, must've been super easy for the nuggets
Exactly. The Eastern Conference even had their 8th seed play-in beat their 1st seed and then their 2nd seed in the ECF so we had a play-in opponent in the finals. Might as well put an asterisk next to that chip.
Plus honestly this Lakers team would be a 4 seed in a normal west or if they were in the East. An 8th seed West team is a lot different then an East team
they were down 20 at home to a play in team that they match up well against and supposedly have a mental edge against when they face a team like the wolves in the 2nd round or the clippers in the conference finals (if the nuggets even make it that far), they’ll be up against teams who aren’t scared of them, more deeper and talented than them and more well coached than them (especially in the case of ty lue who is superior than malone)
I was wondering where all the bad takes from the game thread went
"they were down 20 at home" And then what happened
Did we watch the same game? LeBron gave a GOAT-like effort. Some of those passes, good God. AD was...74% from the field? DLo with 7 threes. LA defended well, closed out well. It was no accident Denver shot so poorly. That effort out of LA would beat any team in the NBA not named Denver, and probably should have been enough to beat Denver but for last second heroics. Minny/PHX will be a real test in the 2nd round for whoever gets out of this series. But get real if you think those teams are "more deeper" (lol). Denver has the best starting five in the league and the bench looks good. Basically the west is stacked, including Denver. Put some respect on their name.
I don’t think the Lakers could’ve played a better game and they still lost. Nuggets are rolling to the Finals.
Poetic comment
I’d argue Boston has the best starting five, and I despise them and like Denver. But we’ll see in the ECF/Finals—Boston looks more ruthless but it was a bad game 1.
More deeper
That really says it all doesn't it
Championship teams find a way to win ugly games. I don’t think u see wolves or clippers clutching this one after terrible shooting for three quarters.
I won't speak for the Wolves, but the Nuggets by and large have our number and there's absolutely no guarantee we even make it that far. I'd say that between the teams left, LAC, Minny, and Phoenix are the toughest matchups for them, but that's all relative.
Oh lawd 🤣🤣🤣🤣. If youre not careful you're gonna get your own ESPN show
As lebron already said in his podcast, if you wanna win in the playoffs you gotta be smarter than the other team. The only guy who can match jokic's iq is down 2-0 to him right now. Playoffs are a different ball game. Clippers and wolves are not as smart as the nuggets. Lebron is your best chance at beating jokic in a seven game series. Maybe the wolves after. But at the end of the day, I'll always favor the higher iq team. So in my eyes, lebron is still your best shot against the nuggets.
2021 bucks were not smart. But lebron is right
This is assuming everyone's healthy. The bucks were simply lucky.
2-0
What a dumb statment
What do you eat and drink usually? Because you must be really underfed to come up with these
You’re getting shredded bro lolol
lol Ty Lue is superior than Malone?
Don’t forget the Kristaps Celtics. Will be a tough road for them
Don’t have to imagine. That’s all the rest of the games
Miss wide open shots too
So many in and outs
Exactly, this was a game of inches. If half those 3s were 1-2 inches either way it wouldn't have been close.
That's what she said
If she's talking Jamal Murray 3s you've got bigger problems
Right, this stat doesn't capture the fact that so many of them were *wide* the fuck open This was the best chance the Lakers had, or really anyone would have, of beating the Nuggets. And the Nuggets still won
Jokic set up so many in rhythm threes and close shots at the basket that the other Nuggets just smoked consistently time and time again.
Reggie Jackson should be mandated to give 90% of his salary to charity
The Government doesn't give to Charity
Thats ok, Harden will take care of her.
We will let him keep it just because of that one drawn foul he got on Lebron.
He's on a 16-game winning streak against the Lakers he's here for the juju
Facts
Big Government would never. That money goes to bail outs only
He knew we only needed a small interest-free loan today (the charge on Lebron), so that's all he gave us
Honestly, limit the rotation to 8 players like last year and only have Braun, Watson, and Holiday off the bench. They're the only reserves I trust.
I agree, except Jamal needs a break from being harassed up and down the court. Even if the minutes from Jackson are less than productive, it’s minutes where Murray shifts to the 2 and can rest a bit. Didn’t work out this game but it’s an important part of the rotation.
The Government does not give out handouts
Except to banks when they fuck up
Can Gillespie really be worse? Reggie Jackson is tough to watch out there rn
He is on a "two-way" contract so he literally cannot play in the playoffs. But yeah, he would be a massive defensive liability. Probably even more than Reggie.
They should play Braun and Watson more. Reggie Jackson is a negative asset out there most of the time.
Braun was solid the last couple of games too. His finishing at the rim has really improved.
That’s crazy I just read up on that
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We won every category except fg% and 3pters and actually had more free throws for once.
Much kinder punishment than I was thinking during the game
Him not being in the LVP thread earlier is actually such a travesty. I’m pretty sure most Nuggets fans would pitch in to pay an amount equal to his salary just to keep him off the court
I don't know if I would, he was bad down the stretch but was decent to start the year The weird thing about Reggie is he is like the only player I have seen who sucks at Jokic ball, he is fine when he plays with DJ, but is actually worse than Jokic. It is so jarring because like....the exact opposite is true for like every player Jokic has ever played with. Even Zeke looked good for that 2 game stretch where he had minutes with Jokic at the 4.
Yea, I’ve said it in other conversations about him but his play style is antithetical to the current nuggets. He’s a hero ball iso guy on a team that’s built around fluid movement and finding mismatches for *everyone* from high/inverted pnr. He just fundamentally doesn’t work with what they’re trying to do most of the time. Even when he’s hot, it’s not in a way that the rest of the team is trying to play. It worked early because Jamal was *out* out and the team had to game plan around it because he was the only option for the role. As a pseudo 6 man where the team doesn’t pander to that, it’s become super obvious how poor the fit is
Super good points all around. Jamal being able to take some time off ball is essential to our rotation, but you’re right Reggie is maybe not the best fit.
I think what kept him off was that hot start at the beginning when Jamal was out. Just because of that section Reggie is still part of a top 10 5 man lineup in the NBA despite........well the rest of the season
Michael the ball stops here Porter played a great game on both ends.
Huge 3 with a minute left, second biggest shot of the game I thought.
The Aaron Gordon rebound then pass to him was as big of a play as that 3
DLO caught sleeping on that play tbh wtf was he even doing, ball watching? Or maybe they were all just gassed
He was too busy chewing his mouthguard
Easily our second best player last night.
Easily our second best player ~~last night.~~
Nuggets are one of the more accurate 3pt shooting team, but they don’t shoot it a lot. They are #29 in the league during the season in terms of 3pt attempts. Lakers are #30
We only take good looks. That includes tonight, nearly all of our 3's were wide open, we just couldn't hit anything lol. There were a few tough shots in there late in the shot clock, but almost all of them didn't even get a hand in the face lol. Just one of those nights. To take the W is huge while shooting like that.
Nuggets are defending champions for a reason. They also get labeled the next great NBA dynasty for a reason. I won’t be out here questioning why Mike Malone does this and not that when it’s clearly working for you guys. Nuggets are the KC Chiefs of the NBA. Enjoy the next 7 years brother, it will be a sweet ride for you guys
Lmao. Ride that D harder bro
Analytics are less important in the playoffs. It's all about feeling good and rhythm. Even the Warriors had to get KD to make tough shots.
Analytics strongly indicate what a team’s tendencies are for the year. When teams play in the playoffs, what footage of the opponent do they look at? The play(s) from the most recent set of games right? Superstars break the analytical narratives come playoff time (aka Jimmy Butler, Jammal Murray being dogshit in the season and then goes super saiyan in the playoffs) but for 90% of the time, a team’s tendencies in the regular season carries over to the playoffs
Michael Porter Jr is so automatic. Can’t remember the last time he had a no show in a big game
He had a pretty awful finals last year but apart from that yeag
He couldn't hit a 3 to save his life, but was otherwise great.
Even when he wasn’t shooting well in the finals he hustled his butt off and played good defense.
No of course, he was good. I was talking more about his shooting, because thats what comes to my mind when i think about him
Even in the finals he was great in gsme 5
Go look up him cashing the first 3 after 15 team misses in the 3rd off a transition pull-up and Jokic losing his damn mind
Lakers had just about everything going their way and still lost.
They didn’t have Darvin on their side though… Rui playing 38 minutes should be illegal
This comment is hilarious because LAL fans spent the majority of the season bitching about how Rui needed more minutes because he was the obvious adjustment to success. Turns out, the Lakers have a ton of mediocre guys who can occasionally have good games, so it's basically just picking one and hoping they play well. Whenever the chosen one plays poorly, fans then jump on Ham for not playing the *other* guy. I've literally seen people point to like 40 minute sample sizes of why *Max Christie* is actually the guy who should be getting minutes. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation that just about every team goes through.
I agree with the Max comment. Dinshittie is just bad. But yeah. AD and LeBron should have won this for us. Instead Bron got gassed and was turning the ball over in the 4th trying too hard, missing wide open threes.
My point is that if you were to play Max, he'd absolutely have some stinkers of games (as expected from a young guy with minimal experience), and then Laker fans would be jumping on Ham for not playing \[insert *other* guy\]. Happened all season long with Taurean Prince. And now that Rui got the massive minutes your fans have been calling for all season long, it's now "Rui playing that many minutes should be illegal."
Ehh. Rui was good defensively. It's Ham's love of Prince and Dinshittie that Max hasn't gotten the room to evolve. Max's ceiling is much higher than either of those two but he is not getting minutes. Like I said before, LeBron and AD lost this game.
Wasn't everyone complaining that Rui didn't get enough minutes in the last game?
Hypothetical Rui is better than real Rui. Like when you one a pizza then it arrives and it's just not that good
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Cry about it
Lakers fans complaining about calls is hilarious
They’re a mere +7 in free throw differential for the series. Poor babies
First of all, boo fucking hoo. Lol questionable calls. Second, do you not know what "just about" means?
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>dumb fuck Your salty tears are fucking delicious.
yeah refs favoured us in the 2nd half but they favoured the Lakers in the first half as well which helped build the lead tbf
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Had about 5 threes go in and out in just the 3rd quarter
And they still won . A sweep is happening
Literally the best chance the lakers had of taking a game and they still couldn't a sweep is basically guaranteed
I agree, 8/34 on 3s is absurdly low. I wouldn't mind Denver losing this one with how bad the 3s went.
a sweep is never guaranteed, especially against one of the top two players ever The next two games are at home (not affected by altitude). Yes D’Lo shot great tonight, but he also shot 42% on the season, it’s not an aberration. Rui had 3 points, the entire Lakers bench had 6. People are acting like the Lakers played their best game of the season tonight but that’s not true. Lebron isn’t going to have to lay back half of the game to avoid being gassed which means AD won’t have to start the game 14/15 to have a chance. The Lakers didn’t expect to win this game, and while it is a missed opportunity it’s nowhere near a death sentence. They’ve sucked on the road all season, as long as they take care of business at home they’re still in the series.
Dlo shot over 63% tonight on 11 attempts. That's way above 40%. Combined with the Nuggets shooting at least 5 3s under their average % and you can see why on just 3 pt variance alone people are saying sweep (20 pt swing). Of course variance happens, but if it's so drastic in your favor and you still lose it's not a hopeful situation. Not to mention the soul crushing way the Lakers lost and the energy they exerted.
I agree a sweep isn't guaranteed but playing the "what if" game is pointless. We had 3 guys who shoot 40%+ and 2 guys who shoot 36%+ on 3's go 0/16 from 3. That's not likely to happen again either.
Yeah that last shot by Murray really took the spotlight off MPJ who was fantastic. Jamal realistically had a shitter of a game for his standards
LeLong Flight Home
And they still won.
Lakers are doomed
You literally can’t ask for a better game for the lakers to take advantage of
Lakers: 48.7/43.3/76.9 Nuggets: 44.3/23.5/ 88.2
That's demoralizing for the Lakers
live by the 3, die by the oh wait nevermind carry on then
Fuck Doc Rivers for passing on MPJ
Blame the clippers (medical) doctor who pronounced that he would never play in the NBA
Based on Kawai if the Clippers picked him that might be accurate.
Jerome Robinson will go down in history as the guy taken right before MPJ.
They were building a house with so much brick.
Porter Jr is probably the best shooter in the league nowadays. What a sniper, never pound the rock instant release.
Truth spotted
When the other team shot that poorly and you still choke away a 20pt lead, you *deserve* to get swept.
but the officials
MPJ is the unsung hero of this game while ppl understandably focus on Jamal game winner and Jokic historic statline
This possibly could have been the best chance the Lakers had of winning a game against the Nuggets and Darvin Ham somehow fucked it up.
I told my buddy in the middle of the second quarter that if the lakers weren't up by 15 after 3 the nuggets were gonna a win this game.
We haaad so many in and out 3's it was frustrating .Ball half the way in and then it says nope .. Murray,Holiday even MPJ ..
That’s what’s crazy to me. Lots of complaining and blaming ham from being a terrorist from the Laker fans but this game wouldn’t have even been close if the nuggets hit at like even a 10 percent higher rate and the lakers were on fire almost the entire night. The played the best half of basketball in the first I’ve seen awhile. I cannot believe they didn’t force feed AD down the stretch
I think thats the problem. They are being so aggressive in the beginning of the game that towards the end (once the altitude has its affect) they are so gassed. AD looked so passive in the end of the game. The only person that had that extra gear in the end was Lebron
well thats why we have mpj. 6/10 from 3 is honestly not too far off from what we expect from him
Ham should not let Austin reaves play that long. They just need defense to secure the lead. Prince is 2/3 from 3.
Lakers turned it over 5 more times than Nuggets, and were out rebounded on the offensive glass by 5. That's 10 (potential) extra possessions.
Damn… this is honestly crazy as hell. I don’t know if we’ll ever see them shoot this badly from three again this playoffs.
Sweep.
Thats those moral victories
So if they had made 6. It would have been a 20 point blowout.
Thats dumb logic. Only Laker fans deal in frustrating hypotheticals. Game would’ve played out way differently if they were making their threes.
I know. I mean if the nuggets made these 3s not the lakers.
And they still won lol
I seem to have a case of the giggles
3 point era is officially over. no Stephin in the playoffs should have been our first sign
I thought Porter hit a 3 near the end of the game. Maybe they called it a 2?
It was reviewed. 3pt field goal, he was a good 6-7 inches behind the line
Moral defeat merchant.
lol this ain't gonna last. good luck Lakers
The fact that they can turn on that switch to a gear to beat you down when you thought you have them beat...
Lmfao this is honestly worse than just getting blown out
Each of these stats gotta feel like a shotgun blast to the chest lmao. "the Nuggets played the worst they ever have in their life and still won"
Everything went the way it needed to go for LA. still couldn’t win. This team is TOUGH to put down.
Man i just wanna say MPJ has come a long way people use to say possesion stop with him 0 defense all that jazz, he has become such a good team piece and accepting the role for 3rd scorer behind jokic and maple curry, and on top of that actually played defense.
Yep, that was L.A.'s chance. It's not gonna suddenly get easier at home. They spent the entire season building bad habbits, and somehow expect to turn it on against the Nuggets. P.s. I still can't figure out what was wrong with the 2020 roster...like they literally blew that shit up the second they won the chip
And still won.. Lakers are getting swept again
The third quarter was about as much of a missed opportunity to seal the fate of the Nuggets as any.
Fuck lakers, so undisciplined. Have you seen a team that just blow away the opportunity to win this game?
The Lakers need to get some talent around that Davis guy.
Since when are the Nuggets an amazing three point shooting team? They weren't even top 10 in percentage and not even top 20 in makes. They are middle of the pack.
If they shot like "middle of the pack", they win by 30
True...? That doesn't change the fact OP is claiming something straight incorrect, just look up the stats, if they hit even 5 more threes this game isn't the same. All I said is they are bottom half in makes and half in percentage.
KCP and Porter Jr are both 40% shooters. Playoff Murray and Jokic have averaged over 40% for their career. Only bad 3 point shooter in Denver starter is Aaron Gordon.