Rafael Barlowe from NBA Draft Junkies, and LakerTom from lakerholics.com, are live to recap the Lakers 114-106 loss to the Denver Nuggets.
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Whether it was over-confidence, the shell zone or the greatness of the Nuggets’ superstars. The Laker bench struggled in general against the Nuggets. It’s funny how McGee’s 8 minutes can sink or swim a ball game…lol. Dwight won’t make it 20 minutes in a playoff series guarding Jokic and the Nuggets pick and roll. In 14 minutes he picked up 4 fouls. Whether he deserves them or not or if other guys would get those fouls isn’t really a debatable point. If you want him to be on the floor when the game matters you need 10-15 minutes of JVMG. While not stellar minutes I don’t think they’re terrible.
Nuggets outworked us, tip the cap and move on. There are plenty of minor tweaks we can deploy: drop that zone earlier and mix the looks up you give Jokic and Murray on D, stop Grant from getting easy buckets on rim rolls and try and activate Kuzma. You could start Dwight but I worry about his late-game availability/effectiveness.