D’Angelo Russell To Blame For Lakers vs Nuggets? Plus Darvin Ham’s Comments On His Guard
The Lakers dropped game one of their first-round series as D’Angelo Russell’s struggles against the Nuggets continued. Is the fate of the Lakers all on DLo? Plus, Darvin Ham’s comments on DLo and the series as Trevor Lane breaks down what it all means for LA…
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48 Comments
Dlo was only one problem. Rui should not guard Jokic. AD needs to take him on.
Our defense needs to improve. Our rebounding needs to improve. Lbj needs to t.o less. AR needs to be more aggressive.
Lakers did not take anything away from Denver vs What Denver took away from Lakers. 2+3 = 5 in Denver favor hello Lakers
Dlo needs to get the P&R with AD going. Opens up so much offensively for everyone. Dlo is key here, he’s our Pg
Austin Reaves needs to step up and start F**k scoring and play some defense.
Lebron turnovers led to 10 points for Denver, and that doesn’t include how many of those 7 turnovers could have been Laker points. They got careless with the ball. It doesn’t take much for a team to lose by 10-12 points
DLO gotta get off this team
Only Lebron Fans not Lakers Fans blame DLo
Its not on any individual player. Lakers win as a team and lose as a team! They got out coached and had poor leadership down the stretch. Its the playoffs people and Denver's the Champs! Lakers can beat this team but its not going to be easy!
Last yr Anthony Davis was blamed for all the failures caused by bad shooting from Bron and bron not willing to attack the basket at all last year and he tried to escape criticism by shifting focus on retirement.
This yr it will be DLo who will take blame for team failures.
Bron didn’t attack the basket in 2nd half of game and lakers didn’t play up tempo game. Lebron slows down the tempo to fit the need of his aging talent.
DLo didn’t get open looks he was heavily guarded because no one else on lakers can shoot.
Blame the guy making $60mil/yr who claims to be the goat but couldn’t take over the game when needed
Dlo and reaves are both trash Denver always exposes this its funny how lakers fans/ kobe fans want to blame LeBron for turnovers 3 of the turnovers where dropped one by rui on a fast brake the other was prince and another drop was from dlo they didnt catch the ball it was right in there hands tgats not lebrons fault smh 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Not blaming leflop ,100 on Russel ? Lolzi . The math Is easy : Gordon own leflop ,Murray dominate Reaves,Jokic is A.D . Daddy . Easy
Yes, Trevor! It is on D Lo … not totally unexpected!!!
Man darvin ham is the reason
J H need to start with A D we need rebounds
Denver play physical. Lakers need to be more physical.
Wood is a good player, but he is not built like Dwight H. He cannot stop Jokic from backing him down. Dwight is underrated for how he defended Jokic. We have to have someone who can be physical with Jokic and frustrate him
We need 2 bigs,but that would mean making an adjustment…we don’t have the coach for that.
We should move on from Ham, LeBron but keep AD and keep building around our star player.
Why is it difficult to see??…. This is one of the worst rebounding Laker team ever …. And the front office knew this and didn't do anything about it…. ofcourse losing Vando and Wood to injuries has exacerbated the situation a lot more…..
The Lakers have no chance if they get outrebounded no matter what DLo does
The NBA cheats for LeBron and they still lose lol. Over 3 times as many foul shots lol. What a joke. it's been rigged for a while.
If you lost don't blame nobody.
So what's on lebron for last night? Only got 2 pts in the 4Q and had 7 errors? Where's the leadership and presence in said 4Q. Also now its a 9 losing streak games so on what blue print of success can the lakers hold on to? Whatever strategies the lakers think to counter denver, cant anyone comprehend, the denvers have already put up a countermeasure to fight back. Definition of madness? So no blame and responsibility for lebron to said out loud, all blame just on dlo the sacrificial lamb?
Lebron had 6 turnovers and D-Lo had 1 the lakers as a whole team need to play better not just D-Lo
Dlo or Lebron or ham ( the dreaded/killer combi of 3 guards plus the CONSTANT inconsistency in players and special ability of ham of just putting his hands in his pocket😅🎉😅
Russell is a good player with him lakers don't win.
Its on Reeves, DLO, and Rui!
just put jax on yoke! let gabe get time on dlo, ez fix!
Dlo is a game winner.
If that’s DLo focused on defense yikes… he was walking around and standing on defense so many times
I placed a $200,000 bet that Denver Nuggets will win the series. No way lakers will win this series.
Darvin Ham failure to match up against the opponent as well as having fave players even it can’t deliver is the big problem of the NBA. Phil Handy should be the one coaching this team. Ham is not affected with every single loss. He should be out of LAkers. If they are beaten less 5 points even with a loss, fans can see progression… but still he can’t beat the opponents coach strategy.
Fire DLO trade reaves and fire Ham
focusued on defense my ass – he couldnt stop shit
Lebron wasnt shooting at all in the 4th. DLo couldn’t hit a shot! That happens as a hooper! There’s more to the game than that! Austin reeves wasn’t aggressive. Darvin should have kept Rui in! There’s a lot that went in to the loss but you can fix them. I’m not worried about this game 1 loss!
Watch the DLo bounce back and I’m a Bron fan!
The problem is that Ham given DLo the green light like he is a super star. He has been the 2nd shot taker.
Darvin Ham is all to blame can’t lead so his soldiers won’t follow
Uplift D-Lo with positivity stop bashing him..when people are doing great yall love em but when they have a bad game your ready to trade them
He was last year was garbage with schroder lol
AD missed threes also caused the team
100% DLO fault
The Lakers were not going bucket for bucket. They will miss and Denver will hit. They weren't closing out on shooters. I watched Austin just look at Murray shoot a three. Those players aren't playing with a sense of urgency. They're playing like they are ready to go home. A lot of their players have no grit.
The team needs to switch to Gabe if DLo shots aren't dropping. I prefer the two big play
Im hoping that DLo bounces back when the series comes back to LA. But they gotta get a road win regardless of Dlo to get this thing back to LA and actually win the series.
LeFake did not even score in the fourth quarter so whose fault is it?????!!!!!!
I am a lakers fan but they are garbage Denver in 4
Lakers must win in game 2, hoping the coaching staff makes defensive and offensive adjustment, play Wise Lakers team…
What about LBJ having ONLY 2 POINTS in the fourth quarter. He disappeared…again. Smh.