On April 28, 2024, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs ushered in the fourth game between the Lakers and the Nuggets, the first three games of the Lakers have fallen behind 0-3 Nuggets, this game will determine the Lakers' stay this season, so there is no room for loss!
Despite the odds, the Lakers were ahead
In the first quarter of the game, the Lakers still let Russell attack first, no accident, missed the first layup! James Davis blocks and picks, and James assists Davis for a dunk. Russell broke through the single Porter Jr. and finally completed the layup and scored! It was not easy! Nuggets Murray and Jokic scored four points in a row, Reaves and Russell both grabbed a shot and hit the iron one after another, and Davis singled Jokic to complete the layup. Hachimura made the first three-pointer of the game, Porter Jr. cut inside, and assisted Porter to complete the dunk with a backhand pass, and the top ten assists were booked! Davis also completed a dunk under the basket, and the Lakers led the Nuggets by three points.
After the timeout, James singled Murray to score, Gordon wanted to single James once, was stealed by James, and Reaves converted to complete the layup. There is still a problem with the Lakers' defensive blocking, and they can't grab it and don't delay it to interfere, which will become a big problem for the Lakers' defense, and it has been broken through like this for three consecutive games! Then Davis scored under the basket, but the mid-range shot was not continued, Pop borrowed the block and threw into the middle distance, Reaves scored with a difficult throw, and the Lakers led to 7 points. But Porter came, and Jokic hit a solid three-pointer with a pick-and-roll. Reaves made a passing error, and Jokic singled Davis to score with a hook hand, and the difference was once chased to 5 points. Prince broke through to complete a layup, and the Nuggets got two short men, Reggie and Holiday on the cards!
The Nuggets' own offense made consecutive mistakes, Prince caused a foul free throw to score, James made a basket, Jokic missed three points, James made a pass error, Jokic caused a foul free throw in the next round, and in the last 5.8 seconds, James made another mistake, but fortunately, Vincent also completed the steal, and the Lakers led the Nuggets 28-23 at halftime.
Reaves became the Lakers' offensive dominance, and the offense was much more orderly
In the second quarter of the game, Vincent defended Murray closely, resulting in a passing error, James singled Murray in the low post and hit the shot, Gordon singled Hayes and also made a shot, Prince missed three points, Hayes grabbed the rebound and made up the basket too spicy! Hayes made a single basket and shot across the bridge! Russell came, and finally scored three points against the defense! But immediately let Murray score two plus one, and gave it back. James missed a three-pointer and Watson converted offense and was fouled and scored on a free throw.
The Lakers' defense still has problems, and it seems that everyone is working the court, but in fact, many of them are useless. Fortunately, James scored 4 points in a row on the offensive end, and suddenly a bag in the defensive round made Murray pass out of bounds, and the Nuggets failed to challenge! Vincent hit the iron, Pope scored in the middle shot, Prince broke through the single layup and scored, and Holiday was released and shot into a three-pointer! Vincent made a pass error, Holiday failed to continue the three-point shot, and Reeves hit a three-point shot!
Then the Nuggets relied on Jokic's free throws to score 2 points, Russell broke through the interior and scored a backhand rebound, Jokic was unguarded under the basket and threw it easily. Davis singled Jokic to throw, Porter was unreasonable and hit three points! James assisted Davis to score two plus one, Porter's empty three points did not score, James singled Gordon to turn over and jumper, Jokic pushed the fast break to complete the layup, scored two plus one! Davis injured his right wrist when he made a layup, and it seemed very painful, but he insisted on playing the first half, the specific situation is unknown, judging from his performance of receiving Reaves' empty dunk, it seems that there is no big problem, and the Lakers led the Nuggets 61-48 at halftime.
Letting go of Porter, James made a mistake, and a wave of 0-5 almost made the Nuggets get up, and Russell didn't pull this quarter
In the second half of the game, the Lakers let Russell hold the ball on their first offense, stumbled and almost made a mistake, but fortunately they grabbed it back, James missed in a row, Davis grabbed the offensive rebound, and Hachimura missed the empty three-pointer. In the first half, Murray, who was not allowed to hit James' jump shot, was not a good thing for the Lakers! Hachimura broke through with the ball to complete a layup, Murray missed a single shot from Reaves, and Hachimura scored a single Pope turnover jumper. Porter and Jokic hit hand-to-hand three-pointers, and James assisted Davis for a dunk. Porter continued to block and dismantle with Davis, Hachimura was blocked behind him, Davis didn't go up to grab it, he put Porter directly to the basket, and he fouled when he pounced on it, which was mentioned in the first half, the Nuggets' blocking and dismantling Lakers response has always been a problem, here Jokic and Porter blocking and dismantling, it is Hachimura who is defending Porter, this kind of blocking and dismantling actually does not directly change the defense, what does Ham think, he was originally using Hachimura to defend Jokic part of the time!
Murray broke through with the ball and was blocked by James, James was stealed under the basket, and the Lakers began to attack reluctantly during this time, but fortunately, the Nuggets also continued to play iron, and finally relied on Davis to throw himself to break the deadlock, and the Nuggets chose to take a timeout. After the timeout, Jokic hit a three-pointer, Davis got a layup blocked, and Murray missed a three-pointer from an open position, but Reaves hit a converted layup. Jokic hit a three-pointer against the defense, but Russell returned a three-point shot! Porter drew a three-point foul on Hachimura and made 1 of three free throws.
Then the Lakers let Porter go and let him shoot three points, James made a pass error, Pope steal and complete the dunk! Low-level mistakes, this kind of mistake can be completely avoided, the difference is back to 10 points, Ham called a timeout! After the first round of the timeout, James chose to shoot against Porter's defense, directly hitting the iron, Gordon singled Prince to cause a foul and scored 1 point on a free throw The next round Vincent came with a three-point, Porter converted the offense to complete the dunk, and a wave of 8-0 chased the score to 7 points. Fortunately, Vincent made up for it, made a three-point shot in the bottom corner, Watson didn't have a three-point shot, Russell made a mistake on the dribble, and Porter was unguarded to complete the dunk! Russell missed a three-pointer, Davis grabbed an offensive rebound, and Prince also made a three-pointer, and the margin returned to 12 points.
Then Jokic was fouled and scored 2 points, Prince assisted Russell in the bottom corner to shoot three points, Watson missed three points, Davis layup was blocked by Watson, Porter converted the offensive dunk, Russell singled Porter to hit a shot, Davis fouled Jokic and sent two more points, Prince broke through and caused a foul free throw to score, Murray singled Vincent to shoot and score, and the Lakers led the Nuggets 91-80 at the end of the third quarter.
Today I'm not a water pull, please call me "pull god"!
In the final quarter of the game, James returned to the court and hit the inside line to cause foul free throws to score, the Nuggets missed consecutive shots, James scored a layup, the Lakers hesitated on the court, Dinwiddie and Russell did not shoot, Prince made a mistake in passing, James was angry there, dissatisfied with the referee's decision, he jumped in anger, and did not defend at all, the Nuggets were not polite, Murray completed the layup in the air! Dinwiddie hit a three-point iron, Murray scored in the middle of the shot, but stopped the Lakers first!
After the Lakers timeout, James completed a layup, Murray missed a layup, Prince did not make a layup, Pope was unguarded in the bottom corner, missed a three-point shot, Russell scored on the board, and the difference returned to 15 points. After Malone called a timeout, Pope hit a three-pointer, Russell missed a throw, and Davis scored on a layup. Porter didn't pull out three points, Russell assisted James to complete the empty dunk! Gordon made another pass error, Russell pulled out three points and hit! Pull God is back! Then Gordon scored a mid-range shot, James grabbed a three-point miss, Jokic assisted Pope to complete the dunk, Russell also hit the three-point iron, James caused Porter's offensive foul! The Lakers have been a little wasted during this time, obviously there are better scoring options, but they use the most unreliable three points to solve it!
James was stealing the ball by Jokic, Porter converted the offensive dunk and scored, Russell broke through and caused Jokic to foul and make a free throw to score 1 point, Murray assisted Jokic to complete a layup, James turned over and scored a jumper, Jokic beat Davis under the basket to score two plus one, and the Lakers led by 11 points in 3 minutes. Prince missed a three-point shot, Jokic made a pass error, was stolen by James to complete a dunk, Pope was empty in the bottom corner, a three-point shot was made, Reaves missed a pull-up jumper, and Murray broke through to a layup, and the difference returned to 8 points. Fortunately, James broke through and scored a layup, Gordon missed a three-point shot, and Jokic scored two and one! Reaves scored on a single shot, and the game was out of suspense, and the Lakers beat the Nuggets 119-108, finally completing a victory, and ending the Lakers' 11-game losing streak against the Nuggets, trailing the Nuggets 1-3 in the series.
Full-time player stats
Lakers: James shot 14-of-23 from the field and 0-of-2 from three-point range to finish with 30 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, Davis shot 11-of-17 from the field with 25 points, 23 rebounds and 6 assists, Russell shot 8-of-15 from the field and 4-of-8 from three-point range with 21 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Reaves shot 7-of-15 from the field and 1-of-6 from three-point range with 21 points, 1 rebound and 6 assists, Hachimura had 9 points and 4 rebounds, Prince had 9 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, Vincent had 3 points and 1 rebound, and Dinwiddie had 1 point and 2 rebounds.
Nuggets: Jokic shot 10-of-20 from the field and 2-of-5 from three-point range for 34 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists, Porter had 27 points, 11 rebounds and 1 assist, Murray had 22 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, Pope had 14 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals, Gordon had 7 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, Holiday had 3 points and Watson had 2 points.
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