On April 30, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs Nuggets vs. Lakers series results should already be known, in the end the Lakers lost to the opponent 102-104, and the big score was 1-4 and was eliminated, the Lakers played their due performance in this game, but like the series G2, the team just lacked some luck, although it was swept away by the gentlemen, but everyone should have found that the difference between the strength of the Lakers and the defending champion is actually not big, and they only lost 11 points in 5 games.
We won't go into detail about the process of the game, let's mainly talk about the last 3 minutes of this round of the series, Reaves hit a difficult mid-range to help the Lakers chase to 97 draws, Murray broke through to help the Nuggets establish a lead, Russell broke through the kill response, Jokic made an inside kill, Reaves hit a three-point shot to help the Lakers overtake, Murray responded with three points, James hit two free throws in the last 26 seconds of regular time to tie the game, and Murray hit a mid-range kill in the last 4 seconds.
In this game, Jokic scored 25 points, 20 rebounds and 9 assists, Murray got 32 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists, and Porter Jr. scored 26 points and 4 rebounds.
Although the Lakers lost, they also gained, and now the thick eyebrows are more like the cornerstone of a team, the previous thick eyebrows played only in the face of Jokic, but after this round of the series, the thick eyebrows are not afraid of him now, and even in the past two games, there is a trend of pressing Jokic, if it weren't for the injury he suffered in the third quarter of this game, the Lakers may not lose this game in the end, the thick eyebrows scored a total of 1 point in the entire second half, and got 17 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists in the whole game, and the injury ruined the Lakers' season.
James also tried his best, he didn't lie, after he solved his ankle injury this season, he did play a better dominance than last season's playoffs, 11 of 21 shots, 3 of 7 three-pointers got 30 points, 9 rebounds, 11 assists and 4 steals, a 39-year-old veteran, fought for 43 minutes, played like this, to be honest, although James and Durant were eliminated in this year's playoffs, but James's dominance I think is better than Durant.
In the playoffs, James averaged 27.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, 8.8 assists, 2.4 steals and 1 block per game, and his points, assists and steals were all in the top 10 in the league, shooting 56% from the field, 38% from three-point range, and he averaged 2 three-pointers per game. In the playoffs, Thick Eyebrows averaged 27.8 points, 15.6 rebounds, 4 assists and 1.6 blocks per game, shooting 63% from the field, ranking first in the league per game, and ranking among the top five in the league in points and blocks.
It can be said that Zhan Mei's performance is not inferior to Jokic and Murray, and even may be greater than them in terms of influence, but the Nuggets have a better lineup configuration, they have an excellent three-man Porter Jr., and Gordon and Pope will play occasionally, on the other hand, who are the Lakers?
But everyone knows that his performance in this round of the series feels like a limit, playing spicy in odd-numbered games, and excellent in even-numbered games, this is G5, and the result is 6-of-15 shooting, 2-of-10 three-pointers and 14 points, 1 rebound and 6 assists. To be honest, Shuila shouldn't take the blame, a player with 17 million in 1 year, with the heart of the three masters, is obviously unreasonable, and the opponent's three masters, Porter Jr., is 31 million.
Speaking of this, we have to mention Pelinka, it can be said that the Lakers' loss this season is caused by Pelinka's money-saving, they blindly want to make the owner happy, save Jeanie Buss, and want to get results, but they chose to die on Zhan Mei and reduce expenses when introducing role players, and the result is that the Lakers are out in the first round of this season, if there is a qualified three-leader, maybe the Lakers have a chance to win this round of the series.
Ham also tried his best, he was not a famous coach in the first place, the Lakers were unwilling to spend money to bring in big-name coaches, which was a performance they deducted, and even said that in last offseason, thick eyebrows expressed the hope that the team could bring in a suitable center, he could play the No. 5 position at critical moments, but for the sake of health, he wanted to appear in the No. 4 position most of the time, but Pelinka directly ignored his request.
If you talk about bringing in a suitable center, maybe the Lakers will be better now, and the thick eyebrows are injured in this game more because the confrontation with Jokic is too expensive. Compared to Hamm's damage to Zhan Mei, perhaps Pelinka is more pitiful. If the Lakers still want to build a team around Zhan Mei next season, I hope Pelinka can spend more money, after all, the old Zhan is running out of gas. Speaking of which, what do you have to say about the current Lakers? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.