Murray destroys the Lakers: terrible day, great shot

Mister great game in Denver. The resolution is not suitable for cores. These playoffs in its purest form. And what a moral victory, and we might call it a double one, for some Nuggets who saw him lose no matter what. They scored twenty points against the Lakers, who now trail by two in this game and are already heading to Los Angeles with this shot on the table.

Jamal Murray He was the brave solution to this mess that the current champions had gotten themselves into. He only improved in the final minutes, but his numbers speak for themselves: 9/24 on shots and five missed triples. But, alas, what matters here is what matters. At the last second, he stepped in front of Anthony Davis, who played brilliant defense for the rest of the night, and at the sound of the final horn, he hit a jump shot from the right wing of the attack, ending up buried on the bench due to the momentum that gave the Nuggets their second victory. in two games. This time with a score of 101-99 on the scoresheet.

Very serious damage to the Lakers. Because they saw that it had won. Your options in playoffs They need to win at least one game on the road and they will have few more opportunities like the one they had this Monday. During the first half and part of the second, they had, without any exaggeration, the Colorado team on the field, and only the quality of the opponent and the loss of concentration on themselves changed the course of the game.

Once again it was clear that the spirit of camaraderie between Nikola and Jamal, this time in bad times, extends the Nuggets game to limits similar to those marked in this game. The Serb scored a triple-double. (27 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists) and yet, in the decisive part of the match, he wanted to get his teammate into rhythm by refusing to take shots, knowing that this way they will have more opportunities to win. So it was. The Canadian’s very poor performance came to nothing after seeing the result. Davis, who made the first half -24 of his 32 goals were scored there- in which Jokic ate ​​from his hand, he was the one who took the final punishment in an action that decided: there was too much room for Murray given his quality, whatever his performance for the rest of the evening.

Russell and his seven threes. James and his plays about the change of order. And a little more glitter. None of them, and hoping that list If Vanderbilt and Wood returned to the Crypto Arena, that would be enough to win. Ham’s team gradually fell apart before the revolution suggested by Porter (22) or Brown (10) in Denver, ending with the usual players: Jokic and Murray.

The Lakers started the game with a bang. Especially Russell, who first hit three threes in a row. A sample of how they were going to approach the meeting. Yes, Jokic had ten points and ten rebounds in that first quarter, but he didn’t have the dominance to match those numbers. Davis had the upper hand. The Serb made up for in the first quarter what he could not do in the second.

Because Davis was hurt by the season’s nominations, in which he wasn’t one of the top three defensemen, and he wanted to send a message. What better way to stop by than with the NBA’s best interior. Sometimes this took him out of the game. And offensively, he led the Lakers to a split point, famously taking a 2-11 lead after D’Angelo’s fifth triple and then leading 2-10 to go into the break with fifteen remaining. Hooks, block extensions, mid-range strikes and landing shots, etc. Advertising display

The Lakers continued their winning streak on defense. Prince and Hachimura tormented them with constant changes and made life easier for LeBron, who initially blocked Murray. However, things started to go wrong. Davis committed his fourth foul, albeit a controversial one, and Denver won. This was going to eventually conquer everything. Kentavious raised the flag with a dunk. They were returning.

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