#Denver Nuggets at Los Angeles Lakers
Crypto.com Arena- Los Angeles, CA
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401547683)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|DEN |32|26|26|35|119|
|LAL |20|35|27|26|108|
###Player Stats
**Denver Nuggets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Porter Jr.|38:06|14|4-11|4-10|2-2|1|9|10|6|1|0|0|2|9
|A. Gordon|32:12|7|2-5|0-1|3-4|1|2|3|4|0|1|1|0|6
|N. Jokic|38:15|24|9-19|2-5|4-7|1|5|6|8|1|0|2|4|15
|K. Caldwell-Pope|34:14|17|6-10|4-7|1-2|0|3|3|0|2|0|1|2|-1
|J. Murray|41:36|37|15-29|5-11|2-2|0|7|7|6|2|0|1|2|18
|B. Brown|28:48|15|6-11|1-5|2-2|2|3|5|5|1|0|0|5|6
|C. Braun|3:22|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|1|-3
|J. Green|23:27|5|2-3|1-2|0-0|0|4|4|1|0|0|0|3|5
**Los Angeles Lakers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. Vanderbilt|13:34|2|1-4|0-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|1|-10
|L. James|42:56|23|8-19|3-9|4-7|0|7|7|12|0|0|2|2|-4
|A. Davis|41:51|28|11-18|0-0|6-8|5|13|18|1|0|2|1|3|-12
|A. Reaves|39:39|23|7-10|3-5|6-6|2|5|7|5|1|0|4|2|-15
|D. Russell|20:01|3|1-8|1-6|0-0|0|3|3|4|0|0|3|0|-12
|D. Schroder|24:39|5|2-5|0-2|1-2|0|0|0|1|1|0|1|6|-6
|R. Hachimura|33:43|13|5-12|1-3|2-2|1|5|6|1|1|0|1|2|-3
|L. Walker IV|18:47|9|2-5|2-4|3-4|1|0|1|2|0|0|0|2|-3
|S. Harrison|:57|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|2
|M. Beasley|:57|0|0-1|0-1|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|2
|T. Brown Jr.|:57|2|1-2|0-1|0-0|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|2
|T. Thompson|:57|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|2
|M. Christie|:57|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|2
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|DEN|44-88|17-41|14-19|30|19|7|5|1|5|34|48|
|LAL|38-84|10-32|22-29|27|18|3|12|2|11|34|54|
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This team is too tired man. They’ve had their foot on the gas pedal since February and they ran out of gas.
Playing against a team as good as the nuggets is going to expose all the holes in a team and that’s exactly what they did.
Step behind all game even with Jokic out, Ham allergic to timeouts and wasting time w/ D’Lo (-54 this series). The latter shouldn’t have the audacity to ask for a high contract this off-season
Some mind boggling decisions by Darvin in this one. Malone put him in a blender.
All the credit to Denver. Exploited every weakness.
Damn
This series is over.
I’ll watch game 4(and possible game 5, but thats as far as it can potentially go), purely out of a pleasure of it, and to pay homage to this team.
What an interesting, excruciating, exhilirating, miserable, spectacular season. From 2-10, staying at sub .500 for the vast majority of the season, to that wild trade deadline and the mad race to the play in/playoff spot.
Wcf appearance out of that entire chaos is incredible. I hope with a full offseason with this team we can build even more chemistry
Lets go Lakers
They should’ve taken over in that 3rd quarter man.
I hope all of you that praised Darvin for doing the minimum by making simple adjustments are ashamed of yourselfs. This man has literally turned 3 competitive games that we were able to win into a sweep for the Nuggets by refusing to bench DLo.
They’re just flat out better. Plain and simple.
I’ll stay game 4.
As we’re one game away from elimination, aren’t we all glad that Ham thought about Dlo’s feelings and let him brick and play no defense for so long? Who cares about winning games? Just let Dlo take all the shots next game. While we’re at it, let’s put Scottie pippen Jr in too and play 5 guard lineup.
That 4th quarter was Denver just being better. Both teams best lineups and they just beat us. Fuck
PAIN
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Got absolutely punked in the 4th quarter of two straight must win games. Really beat a dynasty just to get swept.
Fuck
AD and AR were begging to pull away with that game in the 3rd quarter and Darvin Ham made sure Vando and DLo wouldn’t let them. As if starting the game with that lineup to go down double digits (entirely predictably) wasn’t bad enough. Absolute incompetence.
Heartbroken, nothing more to say.
Reaves getting 1 shot in the 4th was criminal
Jokic picked up 4 quick and then never another one.
DEN went small and they weren’t punished by AD, Bron, and Rui. They weren’t even tested
That’s an awful, *weakass mentality and strategy
pain.
At least this series makes it clear what we need going into next season. Your starting PG can’t turn into a pumpkin in crunch time.
Gentlemen, it’s been an honor 🎻🎻🎻🎻
Well that sucked
**We had this game in the bag, and we just fucked it up.**
We managed to mount a comeback and even had the lead, only to allow the Nuggets to go on a 13-0 run which we never recovered from. Incredibly frustrating. Darvin Ham should have called a timeout there.
LeBron still shooting way too many threes. Attack the rim more! Reaves and Hachimura showed up, and there’s not much more they could have done.
Jamal Murray was the second coming of Kobe Bryant, just like in 2020. Wtf man.
This drastically hurts the chances of Lakers in 6
Bron might as well get that surgery now
The Lakers won all 3 games in non Russell minutes. Glad you could make Russell happy Ham. That’s what’s really important in the WCF.
What a fucking joke.
Can we just not get swept? 😔
Welp lakers in 7 (I’m kms)
Just give Reaves and Rui their fucking money
Don’t let them celebrate on our court. Play with pride in game 4.
Can’t believe this team has failed to show up for a full game for three games straight.. after all the fight they had in the last two series. Identity completely lost
Darvin Bin Laden is trash but honestly the Nuggets are just better.
Nuggets are just better. It’s hard to give props rn but it is what it is
DLO isn’t a player you win a championship with, hope the front office realizes this before they over pay
[LeBron was taken out at 7:50 with the Lakers up 1. Denver proceeds to go on a 9-0 run. LAL never recovered.](https://www.reddit.com/r/lakers/comments/13ncixa/game_thread_denver_nuggets_20_at_los_angeles/jkzd7e1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
The nuggets are so good bro
Let’s go heat!
The NBA subreddit is super toxic right now. I wouldn’t recommend going in there 😂
The Nuggets are elite and full of players in their primes. They deserve this series win and the chip, amazing basketball.
The Lakers have had a great run but it’s about to come to an end. From 2-10 to the conference finals? That’s a half win in my books.
#WE WILL GET SWEPT
We beat the NBA is rigged allegations.
The Nuggets is like playing against a younger, taller Warriors team. Just the amount of offensive weapons they have is incredible. Jokic is truly the best basketball player in the world right now, especially since he empowers his team to be at their best.
Reaves was 7-10, had 23 points, don’t you think that he should get more shots
There are gonna be hot takes and blame. Denver is just a better team, period.
All of our issues caught up to us this series
– Lebron’s horrible 3 point shooting
– DLos inconsistency
– Terrible Transition Defense
– Vando’s lack of offense
– AD’s offensive inconsistency
– Inconsistent quality shot creation
– Bad team 3 point shooting
Etc
We had a good run boys. Rui and Reaves are bright spots for next season but this one still hurts