Five takeaways from a Game 2 loss to the Nuggets in which the Lakers led by 20 points early in the third quarter. Game 3 is Thursday night at Crypto.com Arena.
Here are five takeaways from the Lakers’ 101-99 loss to Denver in Game 2 Monday night that put them in a 2-0 hole in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series. There was a bit of cruelty late Monday night in Denver, the Lakers’ and the Nuggets’ late-game fates summed up by a pair of shots with wildly different degrees of difficulty. First, with the score tied, LeBron James stood all alone at the three-point line.
We still got great looks. We just missed them. And they made it.' It’s probably not that simple. If you’re looking for an obvious thing that happened strategically in the game, you can point to Michael Malone’s decision to pull Jokic off Davis once the Lakers went up 20, keeping Davis out of the Lakers’ primary pick-and-roll sets . The end result was only seven shot attempts for Davis in the second half . Rui Hachimura, who took on a lot of the screening, struggled to score at the rim.
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