When You Finally Realize You’ll Never Beat Them
The future of LeBron James and Anthony Davis in Los Angeles is uncertain. After another demoralizing loss to the Denver Nuggets, there are now more questions than answers. Let’s break down how the Nuggets, once again, triumphed in a series that was tougher than the record indicated.
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41 Comments
You had me until you defended the foul differential. Lebron fouls and travels all the time and I look forward to when lebron gets the f*ck out
actually Murray will come to mind
jokic is indestructible. have you seen his brothers? now you know why
Dear lakers fans iknow its hurts to lakers loose but its time for rebuild like thunder
Boston vs. Nuggets in Finals, it’s gonna be a wild series
looks like the era of "intelligent white guy who can pass" is back
Must be super embarrassing for the bigger,stronger and faster LBJ to keep loosing to the plumber
honestly Jokic is just a different breed, and with Jamal Murray also playing like a superstar come playoff time, it's just too much, Jokic is an all time great and a 39 year old LeBron really just can't do enough against the current best player. LeBron has FINALLY been phased out, still a top 20? player maybe, but the BEST player in the NBA since 2020-2021 is probably the best to defeat LeBron.
Now, there's a more acceptable explanation for the Lakers' disparity in free throw.
Jamal Murray is one of if not the biggest Big Ballz player for playoffs of all time, Porter Jr. Gordon are the forward line that both covers offense and defense with a perfect balance, KCP is solidified as one of the best "old school" 2 guard ever, he make open shots, he defends, and he occasionally run point when Murray or Jokic was crowded, which if you don't know is the original job for a 2 guard, the nuggets starting five is as good as 96 Bulls, 01 Lakers and 17 Warriors. At the same time, the wolves have very good 8 players rotation, everyone plays well together, and they have Ant this new MJ (he might not and prbly not gonna get there, but he sure has MJ and Kobe in him), they figure out how to take the positive out of Gobert not the negative, this matchup is a dream for all the real basketball fans, there hasn't been two teams that are good in all aspects face to face for a while, it's always style vs style.
But no, it is not about the Nuggets nor the Wovles, it's the Lakers and Suns being beat, it's Lebron and KD, it's even Bronny for god sake.
Murray is the one hitting the game winning shots 💯 #bbn
Murray has the points and the game winner. Yall gotta stop blaming everyone but him when we legit saw Murray play hero ball. Why couldn't that be Lebron hitting those game winners
You showed you are nothing to take seriously when you think Lakers are not favored by the league in free throws…
Lebron with the lakers they was a era
“The 3 pointer is the most inconsistent shot” meanwhile curry: do i look like a joke to you?
10:42 I agree on this part. The last time the Lakers defeated the Nuggets was when they still had Howard and McGee. When AD was on the bench, they had these two guys defending other big men in the league. Now they're out of their roster, it's now tougher for them to defend Jokic and Nuggets.
if the lakers can somehow get zach eddy it would give them a chance
TWolves can beat the Nuggets
Lol making excuses just to save lebrons legacy .
Not only their teammates but also lebron and AD has a poor defense
nah they foul and it doesn't get called all the time id say above average it happens to all but LA favored forsureee
The downfall of "Andy Hoops"?…
I like ur channel but this kind of video disappoints me because of lack of interesting topic.
Everyone knows Lakers can't beat Nuggets. There's a no brainer.
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Y'all really thought Lakers is a championship contender with DLo as the pg? Lol
Ham needs to go. Keeping Russell in the game while he was ineffective on both sides was just asinine. And then you let Murray burn you twice with the same shot? He's not doc riverst bad but he's getting there
Jaxson haze literally is good enough to let play ham jus a bad coach how the young boy supposed to get confidence u don’t play him he got the size n skill they needed he jus a bad coach
The Nuggets are just playing old school fundamentals basketball. It's nothing fancy, it's just by the book. Because even tho L.A. has the ft advantage, it didn't matter because Denver is ready to play down to the wire basketball if need be.
I don't understand why they didn't kept Dwight. Not saying he was the answer, but it didn't hurt to have someone as strong as he is guardian Jokic, not to mention, giving AD some time to rest. Hell thats how they stopped Jokic in the bubble, just throwing big bodies at him with Dwight, AD and even McGee, because damn, watching Hachimura trying to do something was absolute pain.
Dwight Howard
The Lakers don't foul much, eh? Lebron's an intelligent defender now? People don't say the truth about this team I swear.
No blame for Lebron's so called "clutch" play in the 4th quarters vs this team. Shocker.
Also reminder that the lakers drafted Jaden mcdaniels in 2020 and traded him to the thunder for Dennis Schroeder. Also passed on Jacques jr. last draft. Two players that would have made a crazy difference.
Back when smallball became I think I heard or read somewhere that it's not the rise of smallball but the rise of skillball, just the most skilled players are the smaller ones. The nuggets now led skillball to the logical conclusion where they have the most skilled AND the most physically dominant players.
"His last rival" lol they're 11-1 against lakers how is that a rivaly?
The Lakers don't foul B.S x100
I’m a fan of lebron and I’ve watched every single laker game for the last four years and lebron just ain’t good enough to lead a team anymore, he doesn’t play any defence and rarely boxes out and takes a lot of plays off even on offense, we were actually a better team when lebron wasn’t playing, yeah he puts up good stats but it doesn’t lead to winning basketball
Nah, Lakers fouls the same amount as any team, the refs just don't call them.
Last foul called on AD got reversed even though we can clearly see him fouling jokic in slowmo.
Bron be retired and these youtubers will still be riding on him lol
Free throw fakers got whooped by a real team
People keep saying lakers have weak bench..bruh other than AD and bron, the other starters ain't much either 😂😂
lol ppl keep rooting for a 40 year old to win a championship 🌚
refs are not calling fouls against lakers
that is the TRUTH
lalakers "not commiting fouls" is the truest forms of bs if i ever heard one
Jokic gets to the line in very low frequency playing against any team comparing it to his postup play, meaning for the same play embiiatch is getting abnormal calls his way
so the theory "lakergirls not commiting fouls" is a complete crap and bs