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G2, the Lakers lost to the Nuggets 103-108, the Western Conference finals were 0-2, and the factors of loss were all kinds of details, but the analysis of the "50 words" given by James, I personally believe that it is the main reason for the Lakers' final collapse, returning to the home court, they are expected to complete a strong rebound.
The Lakers were blasted by a three-point Nuggets in the final quarter
In the face of the media's question of "how to view Murray's play", James praised it (I don't think he was surprised that he had such a play), noting that he then focused on describing it in 50 words: "We did very well on the defensive end, against the league's number one offensive team, shooting only 43%; It's just that their five three-pointers in the last quarter hurt us too much. "So is that the case? We look at the details.
Note that James used "5 three-pointers", not the actual "7-pointer", not that he did not remember the data, but that two three-pointers were caused by the Lakers' defensive errors, which the team can accept, typical case:
Porter's first three-pointer
Nuggets sideline ball, when the teacher blocked Porter, Vanderbilt bypassed the defense, even if he poked out his long arm, but Porter is 208 tall, 213 arm span, athleticism elite level, most importantly, he is an elite level shooter, since the playoffs has a 42.2% three-point shooting percentage, so, even if Vanderbilt has a height of 206 and 216 cm of arm span, it still cannot play an effective interference, Porter Jr. hit a three-pointer, James knows that this is a teammate's mistake, acceptable.
Murray's first three-point shot in the final quarter
In the first three quarters of the game, the Lakers were basically winding defense Murray, especially Schroder basically squeezed through cover to interfere with Murray's three-pointer, so that the latter was 2 of 9 from outside the three-point line, but this defense, he rarely squeezed Gordon's cover, but chose to go around the defense from behind Gordon, Murray directly bombarded into the three-pointer, James knew that this was the mistake of his teammates, and he could also accept it.
But the next five threes?
Murray scored a 2nd 3-pointer
Murray and Green blocked, thick eyebrows and Schroeder changed defenses at the first time, although thick eyebrows gave up slightly more space, but with his athleticism and arm span can still form interference, as a result, Murray is on top of thick eyebrows to hit the whistle three points.
Thick eyebrow miss, Brown three points
Thick eyebrows hanging James missed, when the Nuggets counterattacked, Hachimura's first choice is to retreat, and then pounce on interference, the entire defensive choice is not wrong, after all, Brown's playoff three-point shooting rate is only 31.3%, averaging 0.8 per game, the breakthrough lethality is much greater than his three-point threat, there is no problem with the anti-breakthrough shot, but Brown just bombarded.
Even more incredible last three threes:
Murray scored a 3rd 3-pointer
Murray and Mr. Joe's classic two-man turn, James and Hachimura clearly completed the change, and when Murray shot, James not only expanded to the three-point line, but also extended his long arm to interfere, but Murray still hit the whistle for three points.
Porter's second 3-pointer
Nuggets classic three-man cooperation, about the teacher free throw line to hold the ball, Murray used Porter to block the right side, Russell squeezed through the pursuit; Porter then raised to the three-point line to catch the ball, James decisively switched to Yoshima, Hachimura stepped up to interfere, and almost knocked Porter Jr. to the ground, but the latter still slammed into an unreasonable three-pointer.
Murray scored a 4th 3-pointer
Half a minute later, the Lakers had gone all out defending for three points, and James had changed his defense in place as soon as Murray came out to catch the ball, and also leaned out his left hand to interfere, but Murray was still able to score three points.
Above five three-pointers, the Lakers' defense is not a little faulty, and even can be called the ultimate defense, Porter, Mu Shuche and Brown can hit three points and five consecutive shots, in James' words, "really too hurt", as for the reason?
What we often say about home court advantage is not only the cheers of home fans and home whistle, but also the familiarity of players with the basket, and the unfamiliarity of the away team with the basket, after all, the home team players have tens of thousands of projections in their own games and training; The visiting team only played four regular-season games in a season, so as we have seen, the Lakers are hard to find three-point in the final quarter, and the Nuggets all kinds of unreasonable three-point shoots hit the net.
From this point of view, the next game will move to Los Angeles, once the Nuggets can not guarantee the magical three-point feeling, the Lakers are expected to complete a strong rebound, defend their two home courts, drag the game to the battle of Tianwang Mountain, although will return to Denver, but after two games of grinding, the Lakers will no longer be stranger to the road, they are not without the possibility of completing the counterattack, not to mention the long-term resume, two years ago, the Suns were staged by the Bucks 0-2 big reversal.