The NBA regular season continues, the West ushered in a strong dialogue, and the Nuggets sat at home to meet the Lakers.
Despite being plagued by injuries this season, the Nuggets have maintained a good record under Jokic's leadership, ranking sixth in the West.
The Situation with the Lakers was even worse, with the introduction of the third giant, Westbrook, the team's big three completely unable to integrate, and the team barely occupied the seventh position in the West with a 50% win rate.
As soon as the game began, both teams quickly got into shape, both hoping to get a win to turn the team around.
Howard returned to the starting lineup, bringing the Lakers huge energy and defensive help, but the team's outside line was lost, coupled with the Nuggets' outside line, at the end of the half, the Nuggets bombed 73 points, successfully establishing a 13-point lead.
Easy side to fight again, the Nuggets continue to feel hot, the Lakers on the defensive end can not bring any restrictions to the Nuggets, the point difference also quickly broke through 20 points, after which Westbrook and James had briefly narrowed the point difference with a strong play, but the Nuggets bloomed in full bloom, the point difference also soared all the way through 40 points, and finally the Nuggets won 133-96 against the Lakers by 37 points.
Throughout the game, the Lakers played uncompetitively, the offensive end is still a piecemeal play, and there is no formed offensive routine to speak of.
In the case of more than half of the season, there is no tacit understanding between the players on the field, and there is even a situation of overlapping running positions.
In this case, the Lakers can only rely on the individual ability of the players to solve the problem, but the problem is that the Lakers lack a stable projection endpoint in the position war, and only James and Westbrook can hard resist the defense to complete the end.
Due to this season's competition, the referee blows the penalty scale is more relaxed, and the strategy of ignoring some small bumps is adopted.
This has led to the Lakers' already difficult position attack, becoming more inefficient, especially James, who has tried to eat Reed through the body many times, and has been successfully defended by the opponent, and James can only stop showing his dissatisfaction to the referee.
On the other hand, the Nuggets have Jokic's inner axis at the offensive end, with Jokic's huge pulling power, the Lakers only need a package of clips, Jokic will assist teammates to easily complete the roll cutting attack frame.
Coupled with the Lakers' mess on the defensive end, giving the Nuggets a large number of empty shots on the outside, the Nuggets' efficiency on the offensive end is amazing.
He hit 23 three-pointers and shot a gruesome 65.7 percent from the field, almost treating the game like a shooting training session.
With such a performance, the Nuggets beat the Lakers by 37 points, which also created the largest score win in the history of the Nuggets against the Lakers, and 37 points also created the Lakers' biggest loss point difference this season.
Although he lost the game, Howard, who was in jokic's position, was not ashamed.
He was put back in the starting lineup for the game, playing 21 minutes and finishing 13 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal on 6-of-8 shooting.
Although the game once became the background board of Jokic's dreamy footsteps, howard's solid defense and enthusiasm are still worthy of recognition, especially considering that the Lakers have put it on the shelf, and the veteran Howard can still be so desperate.
Another player who tried his best was Wei Shao, who played 26 minutes in the whole game, shooting 7 of 15 from the field, 1 of 2 from three points, 4 of 4 from the free throw line, contributing 19 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, and not a single mistake.
It is clear that Westbrook has begun to complete the transformation, he no longer handles the ball too much, but gives full play to his impact of the longboard, as far as possible to adapt to the Lakers.
Helplessly, not suitable is not suitable, coupled with the downturn in this game James, 23 shots 9, three-point shots 8 shots 2 of 2, only 25 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, the Lakers can only swallow a 37-point defeat.