On April 26, Beijing time, the Lakers Nuggets played only 1 minute and 55 seconds in the third quarter of the game, and the Nuggets quickly completed the overtake, and the Purple and Gold Army faced two very serious problems on the court, and James had to step up.
In the first half of this game, the Los Angeles Lakers still led the Nuggets by 4 points, and the two sides played 53:49, but after the Lakers halftime, although James slashed 14 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, thick eyebrows also had 16 points. But the key is that Brother Thick Mei's hand is declining, he has already scored 12 points in the first quarter, and the Lakers' main scoring point Russell has 0 points and 4 of 0, which is obviously unreasonable, and the rebounding Lakers suffered a big loss, and the team's rebounding is 21:25.
So if the Lakers want to win in the third quarter, they must not only find their defensive intensity, but also let those few players who didn't fire quickly get back to their offensive feeling. As a result, as soon as the quarter came up, Murray chased only 2 points through a throw, and Reaves also hit the shot, so that all three of James Reeves scored more than 10 points, but at this time, the Lakers were hit by the Nuggets with a wave of 7:0 turnover.
Hachimura is now a very unnecessary action foul to send Porter Jr. two free throws, and Reaves tried to touch porcelain but failed to do so. Then in this round, the Lakers chose to trust Russell again, Russell continued to play iron with three points in an empty position, and the Nuggets took advantage of the situation to fight back, Jokic passed to Murray for a layup and hit a layup, 55-all. With a dry three-pointer from Porter Jr., the Lakers are already behind, and four of the Nuggets starters have scored in double figures.
As soon as the Lakers came up, they were pressed by the opposite side, and now they must make two adjustments, one is that James must find his form, re-show the king's self-picking, stand up and score points, and come up to let the thick eyebrows play, then Davis may not have physical strength in the fourth quarter. James has to come over and break the scoring drought, and another point is whether Russell can just go without it, he has not scored a point on 0-of-5 shooting. Since the Lakers' strategy is to rush to the basket if the three-point shot is poor, if you want to break through, don't go to Russell, and play other players who can break through, Russell is useless if he can't score, and he has no defensive ability.
And then the Lakers quickly overtook the score, and there was the most magical round of the playoffs so far, Brother Thick Mei counterattacked and attacked the basket with a dribble and caused a foul, but this layup did not score, and Jokic grabbed the rebound. At this time, Brother Thick Mei fell out of the court very exaggeratedly, and the referee blew Jokic's pushing foul, and Malone immediately challenged him, because Mr. Jokic had already committed three fouls, and at this time he must find a way to control the number of fouls.
He wanted to add this foul to Pop's body, but he didn't expect this challenge to be a big deal, and a funny situation appeared, and the on-site referee saw that the opportunity had come, and directly watched the video replay to blow Jokic's interference with the thick eyebrows This ball is a defensive interference ball, originally the thick eyebrows didn't score a layup, and it was recounted, and the foul was still about the teacher, and the challenge failed.
It is equivalent to saying that the Nuggets not only gave the Lakers a free throw and gave the Lakers two points in vain, but more importantly, by the way, they also gave Mr. Yoo one more foul and a timeout. One round is equivalent to sending the Lakers 3 points + 1 foul + 1 stop, this challenge made the commentator Yang Yi exclaim: "This ball is amazing, too powerful." But the follow-up challenge did not mess up the mentality of the Nuggets, after this controversial round, the Nuggets rushed to the basket, from 58:59 to 69:61, and played a wave of 11:2 counterattacks, even if this challenge gave points, the Lakers are not easy to play.
In the second half of the third quarter, the Nuggets came off the bench, and the scoring became easier and easier, and at the end of the third quarter, they overtook the Lakers 83-75, and led by 12 points at 34-22 in the single quarter. At the end of the third quarter, Gordon had already cut 24 points and 12 rebounds, the Lakers were completely undefensive, and James scored 16 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in 8 of 11 at the beginning of the third quarter.