In the just-concluded NBA regular season focus battle, the Lakers lost 96-133 to the Nuggets to close three consecutive losses, a 37-point difference to create the Lakers' biggest loss point difference of the season, and the teacher took turns to teach Zhan Wei.
Both teams have suffered a wide range of injuries this season, compared to the Nuggets' situation is more difficult, Murray, Dozier, Porter Jr. and other main players are out indefinitely, and the Lakers only have thick eyebrows and Nunn have not yet returned. However, the Nuggets can still rank sixth in the West under Jokic's leadership, and the Lakers can only hover on the edge of the playoffs.
At the beginning, the Lakers were not affected by altitude sickness, the two sides quickly adjusted into the game state, Vogel sent Howard to start against Jokic, he played a miracle role at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, but it was still difficult to stop the Nuggets' fiery three-pointer. Back from the break, Nuggets rookie Hyland scored 8 consecutive points to help the Nuggets lead to double digits, the Lakers relied on James's strong attack and Ariza's three-point life, helpless defense was too collapsed, Jokic tandem the whole team easily helped the Nuggets to achieve a double-digit lead.
After the easy side, the Nuggets' outside shots stretched the point difference to more than 20 points, James and Wei Shao attacked to stop the bleeding, and the Nuggets' margin of points was stretched to 23 points. The Nuggets' offensive attack in the last quarter was unabated, and the three-pointer in a row directly opened up the point difference to more than 30 points, and the Lakers had no intention of fighting and disarmed in advance.
As the famous Jamhei Belles said, James' Lakers experienced the worst loss of the season, losing to the Nuggets by 37 points in Denver, and it is hard to believe that the Lakers ranked first in defensive efficiency last year and 17th this season. James' defensive efficiency is in the 200th place, and he's now all offensive and not a little defensive.
This can also be answered from James's data, he played 30 minutes and 42 seconds, 9 of 23 shots, 8 of 8 three-pointers, 5 of 7 free throws, cut 25 points, 9 boards, 2 assists and 2 blocks, plus or minus -17, decisive moment, James led the team to increase the disadvantage from 20 points to more than 30 points.
On the other hand, Wei Shao played the best game of 2022, not only hit the first three-pointer of the new year, but also forced to play in the third quarter, contributing 19 points, 5 boards and 3 assists 0 errors in 7 of 15. However, Wei Shao was very uncool in the game, in the third quarter of the game, he broke through the inside line to stop the ball, collided with Gordon and fell, Wei Shao got up and quarreled with Gordon, the result was that both sides ate the trick, really lost and lost.