On April 28, Beijing time, the Lakers defeated the Nuggets 119-108, and the big score was 1-3, the Lakers ended their 11-game losing streak against the Nuggets, and LeBron also avoided being swept in the first round and was swept by the same team for the first time in his career, but Lakers fans were still angry, because the Lakers should have been a 2-2 draw, not a 1-3 desperate situation.
In this game, LeBron played 39 minutes, 14 of 23, 2 of 2 free throws, scored 30 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals, 1 block and 0 fouls, with a shooting rate of 60.9% and a true shooting rate of 62.8%, and scored 14 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal in 6 of 8 in the final quarter, and James scored 6 points and 1 assist in the last 5 minutes to help the team lock up the win.
But after this game, the Lakers were still 1-3, looking at the series, the Lakers should have been a 2-2 draw, but the ignorance of the league and Ham led to a 1-3 desperate situation. No team has won four games in a row to advance from 3-0 down 148 times in NBA history.
With 9 minutes and 10 seconds left in G4, James signaled that Pope made a mistake and asked Hamm to challenge, but Hamm directly ignored James' challenge request, is this scene familiar?
With 57.6 seconds left in the final quarter of G2, Jamal Murray broke through to create a James blocking foul, this foul was a pure body hair whistle, and Porter hit Murray's head directly in the third quarter was considered a slight contact, at this time James asked for no problem with the challenge, but Ham didn't listen, giving Murray a chance to equalize with two free throws, and from here the game began to fall into passivity.
47 seconds before the end of G2, James hit a layup to help the Lakers overtake again, Murray obviously hit James in the head, but the referee walked away and wanted to get off work early, James was furious and sprayed the referee, and the next day the referee's report showed that it was a slight contact.
Russell was slightly touched by the big head, James was slightly touched by the head, and Murray leaned on James to block the foul. The G2 referee report showed that there was 1 minute and 53 seconds left in the final quarter, and Jokic defended for 3 seconds, which was a missed judgment, and the Lakers should have made a free throw, in other words, the Lakers still suffered, and in the end, the league still hacked the Lakers.
No wonder Lakers fans say that Ham is an undercover agent for the Nuggets, and the league doesn't want the Lakers to advance, and the Lakers should have gone 2-2.
Reaves after the game: I want to end the series with four straight wins, and I feel like we can do something special.
Text/Yan Xiaobai's basketball dream