On April 26, Beijing time, the Lakers ushered in the third game of the series with the Nuggets, this game is a life-and-death battle for the Lakers, and when they return to their home court, they must win the opponent first.
And this time the Lakers started like a rainbow, bombing the Nuggets mercilessly, and the Lakers played an 8:0 lead when they came up, and Anthony Davis attacked James and Hachimura in a row, and on the other hand, the Nuggets felt sluggish in the whole team, and it was not until the timeout came back that Porter Jr. completed a three-pointer, but it was obvious that the Lakers had an advantage at the beginning, and the Lakers wanted to grab the start of this game.
The bigger point is that the Nuggets were targeted by the Lakers after the opening game, and Jokic had already committed two fouls with only 4:09 left in the game, and all of them were with Anthony Davis.
The first ball was a foul by Mr. Yoo, and the second ball was a bit controversial, in the words of commentator Yang Yi: "At that time, when Russell missed, the ball fell into the hands of Brother Thick Mei, and as a result, Thick Mei continued to scramble, and the referee blew Jokic again." ”
In the opening 4 minutes, Jokic committed two fouls, and not only Jokic, and soon Porter Jr. also got into foul trouble. First, when he was grabbing an offensive rebound, he was whistled for a foul that pushed James down in his back. Next, Porter Jr. singled out Dinwiddie's breakthrough, this round was a relatively big controversy, Dinwiddie stretched out his hand to support Porter, but the referee blew Porter Jr.'s foul, and soon opened 9 minutes, Porter Jr. also encountered foul trouble, and there were also two fouls.
In the opening game, Jokic and Porter, these two points were obviously pinned down by the Lakers, causing the Nuggets to change their defensive strategy, they can only shrink to protect Jokic, if you don't protect Jokic, then if he has a third foul, this game will not have to be played.
And it's clear that the Lakers' strategy this game is to make the Nuggets foul like crazy, and everyone rushes to make fouls when they get the ball. The effect of this strategy is very obvious, in the first quarter of the game Nuggets had 3 free throws, but the Lakers have already made 8 of 8 free throws. Although the number of fouls is only one difference between the two sides, the problem is that the Lakers can make free throws directly after causing fouls, and the Nuggets can't make free throws when they cause fouls, so the Lakers have taken a 10-point lead at the end of the first quarter, and it looks like they are going to win this game strongly.
And after the start of the second quarter of the game, the Lakers continued to suppress the Nuggets, with Vincent's mid-range shot, James's inside strong layup, the Lakers have taken a 47-37 lead, Zhan Huang 7 of 6 slashed 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, thick eyebrows also have 14 points, the Lakers now have a huge advantage, just waiting to win.