#Los Angeles Lakers at Denver Nuggets
Ball Arena- Denver, CO
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401547682)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/lakers/comments/13lefvq/game_thread_los_angeles_lakers_01_at_denver/jkpbl50/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|LAL |27|26|26|24|103|
|DEN |27|21|28|32|108|
###Player Stats
**Los Angeles Lakers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|L. James|40:08|22|9-19|0-6|4-4|0|9|9|10|4|2|3|2|4
|J. Vanderbilt|16:48|4|1-2|0-0|2-2|0|2|2|0|0|0|0|1|-10
|A. Davis|40:56|18|4-15|1-3|9-11|1|13|14|4|1|4|4|4|-10
|A. Reaves|36:03|22|8-16|5-9|1-1|1|2|3|5|1|0|2|3|13
|D. Russell|32:50|10|3-8|1-5|3-4|0|3|3|5|2|1|1|2|-16
|D. Schroder|29:56|4|2-9|0-3|0-0|1|5|6|0|1|0|1|2|5
|L. Walker IV|12:58|2|1-3|0-2|0-0|0|1|1|1|0|0|0|1|-6
|R. Hachimura|30:06|21|8-10|1-2|4-4|1|1|2|1|1|0|1|4|-5
|T. Thompson|:12|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
**Denver Nuggets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Porter Jr.|31:17|16|5-10|4-7|2-2|0|7|7|3|0|0|3|3|1
|A. Gordon|38:55|10|5-9|0-2|0-0|2|2|4|2|0|1|3|2|4
|N. Jokic|41:57|23|9-21|0-3|5-6|4|13|17|12|3|0|5|3|7
|K. Caldwell-Pope|25:39|8|3-8|2-5|0-0|1|2|3|2|0|0|1|3|-9
|J. Murray|42:42|37|11-24|6-14|9-10|2|8|10|5|4|0|3|1|8
|B. Brown|37:17|12|5-11|2-4|0-0|1|4|5|3|1|1|0|2|16
|C. Braun|4:30|0|0-2|0-1|0-0|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|2|-2
|J. Green|14:45|2|1-4|0-2|0-0|0|2|2|0|0|0|0|2|-1
|R. Jackson|2:56|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|LAL|36-82|8-30|23-26|26|19|10|12|7|4|36|48|
|DEN|39-89|14-38|16-18|27|18|8|15|2|11|38|53|
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Winning on the road against the #1 seed when your two stars don’t show up on offense is pretty much impossible
Thanks AD! Very cool 👍
I’m heartbroken.
Anthony Davis has been exhausting to watch this playoffs.
Reaves got the most heart on this team and it’s not even close.
Learn to just sit back and observe, not everything needs a reaction.
Lebron 3 pointers and AD on offense is all you need to know on why they lost this game
Ham and Bron lost us the game.
Bron chucking stupid 3s and missing wide open gimmies.
Ham playing D-Lo in the 4 qt while Murray is cooking and sitting Schroder for so long.
Idiotic, we again had so many chances to win this game and tried absolutely hardest to lose.
It’s the first time I got extremely angry at Ham in the post season.
Absolute choke job
The amount of selling LeBron and AD did in the 4th is insane. That series was tied if one of them shows up. Both of these games were winnable
We’re going 2-0 in LA. Book it.
On to the next
Just win the next 2!
Listen man we lost this game, but this team does not give up. I really appreciate that about them.
It’s a team game and it’s many reasons for this loss but one big one is lebron shooting all those 3s when Denver was coming back. It wasn’t needed. Live by the 3, die by the 3.
Lebron, AD, and D’lo need to walk home
Wtf
Only positive for this game. Rui has to start. Only consistent role player & outshining Vando on both ends.DLo has to be benched he’s been consistently garbage. Reaves is our best guard for offense.
Please stop dooming. It’s not a series until one team loses at home. We are undefeated at home in this playoffs. I believe in this team. Lakers in 7!
usually role players struggle on the road but tonight our stars shit the bed
Lot’s of poor play around. Had every opportunity to win but let them get back into it. Didn’t help we let them catch fire.
The sequence that was the catalyst for them getting out of the 10 point deficit was: The missed charge call on Reaves led to 2 FTs. Would have been 3 on MPJ I beelive malone would have taken him out. Dlo proceeds to chuck a terrible 3 and then MPJ comes down to hit an other 3.
the game remained in that 5 point range till they caught fire.
Trying to stay positive 💛💜
LeBron and AD cost us the game
I feel like we’re the better team, and the dumber team, both at the same time.
When they call a flagrant on you but don’t even review the headshot on Rui.
They call a charge on Rui but give MPJ free throws for a clear charge on Reaves.
They take away a putback dunk for AD.
AD can’t hit the shots he always does.
Bron blows back to back free dunks.
Bron chucks 3 awful 3s to start the 4th.
Murray hits all his bullshit in 4th.
And just overall we generate much better shots and miss them and they just hit theirs. Brutal loss and makes Ham wasting great game 1 performances with obviously terrible lineups that much worse.
LeBron just had no more legs at the end
I still believe we can win this series
LeBron & AD wasted the Rui Game
What a disasterclass. Only AR and Hachimura showed up offensively tonight
We need more Reaves and less D’Lo.
Lebron needs to be banned from 3s too.
LBJ pull-up 3s are such a momentum killer
Ik he’s hurt but man Lebron missing 3 layups and just losing the ball multiple times is just wild to see
Bruh
This was so winnable
Bron three blown layups, two dumb 3s. AD too many missed shots. This was winnable but not when you have these careless plays. If AD had shot 50% this would be a WIN
So AD has the easy assignment of not covering Jokic, but can’t do shit on offense all of a sudden. Lebron sold the game by chucking 5 covered 3s. Ham sold the game by keeping in DLO past rip off.
Coaching has to find a way to get Rui more touches when he’s hot. He’s hot then gets iced out for extended periods.
Let’s protect homecourt and make it a series. It’s not yet over.
Really hate to see that. LeBron isn’t right and something tells me he won’t jack 3s any more, but it’s still tough to see that he can’t will a win anymore. 4 missed layups and 3 terrible 3s plus that turnover, ooof
It’s crazy how AD can go for 40 one night then completely be non-existent the next game on offense
jamal murray is who dlo thinks he is
I wish I was a media member, “Hey Lebron, why after the first 4 missed 3s did you take more missed 3s even though you saw your team giving up a big run? Are you fucking stupid? Why would you do that? Follow up question, why can’t you ever just drive the fucking ball when it’s working wtf?”
Pain. Bron old age and that foot clearly bothering him. Dlo no show.
Fuck I love Lebron to death but that dude needs to stop shooting so many three’s.
Seen enough. Dlo is not a winning player. -31 in 2 games when he’s on the floor
he better come off the bench next game
Austin Reaves needs more respect from the vets. Nobody passed it to him late in the 4Q. Holy shit it’s so tilting.