After creating a luxurious big three lineup in the offseason, the new season of the Purple and Gold Army Lakers instead of breaking out the expected combat effectiveness, but became the laughing stock in the league, before relying on the continuous outbreak of the thirty-year-old LeBron James, the Lakers only retained their top eight rankings in the West, but the team's recent state has declined, although James's personal performance is still stable and eye-catching, but the team suffered a wave of two consecutive losses, and in this game, the Lakers visited Denver Highlands to challenge the Nuggets As we all know, in the Season when the Lakers won the championship, it was in the Western Conference Finals that the Nuggets were eliminated, which also made this game have more points to watch, but today's two teams are no longer the same as before, the Nuggets firmly grasped the initiative from the beginning of the game, and at most the lead reached a staggering 42 points, and finally the fourth quarter ended, the Nuggets also easily washed the Lakers with 133-96 blood, giving the latter three consecutive defeats!
The Lakers' poor performance this season has made head coach Vogel the target of criticism by many fans, which did not give the Warcraft Howard enough opportunities to perform, which caused many fans to be dissatisfied, and in this game with the Nuggets, Howard was entrusted with the responsibility of starting the debut, the reason is also very simple, that is, the Western Conference Finals that year Howard was very good on the court to limit the play of Teacher Yo, becoming the team's miracle to win the series.
But today is not the past, Jokic has grown into an MVP-level star, and Howard is a year older, in this game, Jokic used flexible footsteps to play magic beasts to leave a very deep impression on the fans, the whole game About the teacher only played 28.1 minutes, 12 shots hit 7 goals, a person bombed 17 points, 12 rebounds, 13 assists and 1 steal, it can be said that he single-handedly destroyed the purple gold team's interior line, under his passing leadership, The Nuggets also played a very smooth overall offense, with a total of seven players scoring double-digit points during the game, including rookie Hyland's three-pointers, hitting six three-pointers to get a game-high 27 points.
On the other hand, the Performance of the Lakers is very bad, the thirty-year-old LeBron James is still the team's best player on the field, in the 30.4 minutes of his appearance, 23 shots hit 9 goals, cut the team's high 25 points, in addition to 9 rebounds and 2 assists of the personal data, has not reached double digits in three consecutive games, the personal status of this game has improved, 19 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in 7 of 15 shots, but in addition to the two of them, The Lakers only had Howard scored in double figures, and only scored 13 points, which was also the root cause of a major rout for the Purple and Gold Army.
The 37-point disparity in the loss of the game, which undoubtedly greatly hit the confidence of the Lakers' generals, as many fans said, the problems of the Purple and Gold Legion today are no longer solved by Vogel's adjustment of the lineup, and the determination to break up the combination of James and Westbrook, which has been proved incompatible, is the only way for the Lakers to return to the right track, but the worse and worse performance of the Lakers makes it very difficult for the Lakers to complete the transaction!