On May 19, Beijing time, the Lakers vs Nuggets West Final G2 began, which is equivalent to the life and death battle of the Lakers. The Nuggets led 2-0 all six times in their history to advance to the next round. The two teams were 27-27 in the first quarter, and the Lakers led by 11 points in the second quarter and were narrowed to 5 points by the Nuggets, and the Lakers led the Nuggets 53-48 at halftime.
The Lakers also have a law of undefeated, losing a game in the playoffs and losing the next game 4-0 (winning this game is 5-0), but the Nuggets are 7-0 in the playoffs at home. The match would break an unbeaten run for both teams, with Hamm having Vanderbilt start in place of Schroeder.
Van der Biao opened the game with a steal and dunk, Reeves also came with a three-pointer, Russell made Pope foul two free throws, Malone immediately replaced Brown, Gordon scored a layup and hit a second offensive dunk, Reeves hit another three-pointer, Murray also made a three-pointer, Jokic basketed a single to eat A Biao, A Biao forced a foul under the basket to beat Porter Jr. to make a foul, Russell almost missed AD picked up and forced a foul and made two free throws.
Porter Jr. has already committed two fouls on the Nuggets' side, and the Nuggets are full of fouls to go to the free throw line. After Murray hit a three-point shot, the Nuggets had already rebounded, Brown carried the water to break through, and then Russell singled Brown to make a foul and hit both free throws, and then Russell hit the first three-pointer of the series, and the Nuggets timed. Russell's defense of Murray's fast attack was whistled for a first-degree malicious foul, Murray hit both free throws, and Jokic made an AD foul with two free throws.
Hamm's three guards were blasted again, Hachimura scored twice on the basket, and also defended Jokic twice, but it was a pity that Murray missed Jokic directly. Hachimura defended another mistake by Jokic, and AD made up for the offensive interference ball, and the two teams tied in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, James broke through and scored, Hachimura scored 5 points in a row to play 7-0 to stop the Nuggets, James broke through and scored 9-0, Porter Jr. made a three-point dry shot to stop the bleeding, Jokic made a free shot, Reeves made an empty cut under the basket, James hit the iron with an empty basket, Hachimura made a pass down James, the old Jen wanted to swing the arm windmill but missed, Hamm was very helpless to call a timeout. LeBron, 38, is really old.
James was a little embarrassed by two fives in a single quarter, and in the next round he countered to break through and make two free throws, and Murray's fast attack also came with a dunk. James was fouled by Brown and the referee did not blow, Hamm replaced LBJ to calm down, thick eyebrows broke through to make a foul and hit both free throws, Jokic singled Hachimura hook 2+1 narrowed to 8 points, Pope hit a three-point shot to chase only 5 points away from Hamm's timeout.
Hachimura was hit with a foul and hit two free throws, Brown made a basket, Pope hit a shot to narrow down to 3 points, Gordon fast-break dunks narrowed to 1 point, the Lakers hit 10 consecutive rounds (7:04 to 2:02 the Lakers didn't have a single sports battle), James finally broke the deadlock for the Lakers. Hachimura took the violent buckle and scored points again.
Hachimura shot 7-of-7 from the field and 1-of-1 from three-point range in the half, scoring 17 points and 2 rebounds (Jame's total of 17 points), while Jokic had 16 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists.
Text/Yan Xiaobai's basketball dream