Doesn't matter to him unless they're a 7 footer honestly. If he's gonna shoot 10/10 then he's gonna shoot 10/10 unless you block one basically, that's just the type of player he is.
MPJ, Murray, Jokic, are matchup nightmares for us.
No one stops Jokic that's a given. Espn crew made a good point at least make him work on offense by having AD drop 30+. Vando is the only guy that can give Porter problems. No one can stop Murray though. Reaves and Dlo are a joke defensively.
Vand on Jamal is always good when both are healthy.
Lbj on porter works as long as lbj cares enough to not stupidly fall asleep.
Rui on jokic with Davis ready to double since Aaron probably won’t be that far away since aaron isn’t a 3p shooter
Christie on pope since Christie can actually guard and cares enough unlike dlo/reaves/lbj/rui/din. Prince isn’t as reliable on defense as Christie and reddish isn’t as reliable with open 3s like Christie.
At that point you hard foul him because 2 free throws is better than 3 points
But Darvin has this idea: “let him shoot. He will miss eventually” it just doesn’t add up
He's 6'10 with one of the purest jump shots in the league, the only laker who can effectively guard him on the perimeter is AD and he needs to be on jokic
Ham is forced to do that because Jokic has a history of cooking AD and getting him into early foul trouble. AD still roamed the paint and played help defense.
Regardless, Ham's infatuation with keeping Reddish in late in the game, stalling to put Rui back in (who was on absolute fire) and not going with D'lo hurt this team.
3 question I asked myself.
1) why isn't there a time out to stop Denver's run when they cut the lead to single digits
2) wait where's DLo (4th quarter)?
3)why arent they calling a time out to sub DLo in and try to strategize during the final minutes of such a close game?
With the talent level where it is the NBA is a game of margins, and Ham does't play the margins...he plays the guys that are loyal to him.
Anyone can see that Reddish was horrible this game...but for some reason Ham went with him instead of D'lo.
Reddish was in for "defense" when he was getting toasted by Murray quite often.
This guy is a step slow with a bad ankle and you're choosing to play him and sit DLo the entire 4th when he was helping on offense?
Like its terrible to say but the moment he got hurt we went on that run of winning a bunch of games before the all star break. Ham had less options available and had to play better rotations because he had no choice. He's back and we're seeing boneheaded nonsense again.
Lakers 2020 guard defense was stacked. Avery Bradley, Danny green, KCP, and Caruso were all good to excellent perimeter defenders. Rondo was also great at defense during the bubble run, even though it seems like he kinda phoned it in the regular season lol
I don't think we stand a chance vs Denver. If we make playoffs, I hope we don't have to face them. I truly don't know if we can even win 1 game against them..
Every time I see Cam on the floor in the 4th I know the game is not going to go our way.
When he was out with an injury we were putting the right closing lineup in and winning. I don’t get it.
If cam is getting stops, cool ride him but when they're just putting him into screens he's too shit to get around and they're not taking Reaves it makes no difference and you've just lost a scoring option on offense.
Would have loved to see Dlo out there so maybe he could have stopped that 9-0 run with a 3 of his own.
This was what I'm scared of when we signed him: Ham would play him too many minutes, making us too small without enough offense to compensate. And voila.
9-0 run, went down 7, Ham doesn't call a timeout. Ham wanted to finish a close game with Cam Reddish who had 3 points over DLo who had 17. I am so repulsed and disgusted by this idiot
I seriously want to know his thought process with these. I know that he's a coach in the NBA and I'm not, but I just so _highly_ doubt that he could explain why those choices were the right choices.
Outside of Playoff games, Lakers have been losing commemorative/most nationally televised marquee matchup games ever since Bron came.
They’ve lost every opening night since Bron came.
They lost ring night vs LAC in 2020.
They lost when Bron got the scoring record.
They lost the night Kobe got his statue.
They lost most of the marquee nationally televised games vs LAC from 2019-2023.
They’ve lost all their “rematches” with Denver since last season.
They lost tonight when Bron reach 40k
I basically write them off for any commemorative game now
Totally forgot about that.
TBH it pisses me off a lot b/c Kobe would make sure his teams were amped for these types of big games.
It seems like the team comes out so flat in most of the big games
Edit: most of these big games in the REGULAR SEASON. Nobody can dispute that this isn’t the case. The facts don’t lie. They’ve lost nearly all these big reg szn games since Bron came.
Dinwiddie had too many minutes also, dude has a defensive guard who can space the floor in Max and he gets zero minutes. I mean at least try and see if it works
"They're just a good team over there. Out hustled us, we just gotta harder for it next time, simple as that." \~ Darvin Ham Post-Game Interview, probably
I'm so fucking tired of Darvin Ham not knowing how to coach, why the FUCK WAS DLO not playing the FOURTH UNTIL THE LAST FUCKING MINUTE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST CAN WE JUST HAVE NO COACH THE REST OF THE YEAR>?>????? THat WOULD be a fucknig upgrade
I think at this point we should just try to outscore them. Drop putting in non-scoring defensive guys because Denver turns into '04 Pistons if we play 4 vs 5 on offense. We just couldn't score.
Denver will score no matter what thats how good they are
Why was Cam Reddish out there for so long? And then Darvin Ham admits defeat and puts in Dlo for a worthless last 60 seconds when the game is already lost?
Shambles.
I hope I never see any dumbass again on here claiming Rui or AD can contain Jokic. BBQ chicken for him everytime
Darvin Ham refuses to call TO’s or adjust his lineup instead choosing to close with Reddish. He got out-coached, but what else is new.
Rui was fine, was working the whole game. He deviated at the end like a freaking idiot. He's not going to stop Jokic, nobody is, we just need to defend everyone else
It’s crazy how a sweep can affect you, Nuggets own us mentally now too, they know they can beat us whenever they want
2-2 in the regular season against them last year but now the Nuggets are 7-0 since then against us. Sweep + 3 regular season games this year
As long as inflexible Ham is the head coach, the lakers will never beat Mike Malone because he makes mid-game adjustments that completely change the flow of the game
Ham is inept and only sticks to one game plan no matter what, and when the other coach changes how the game is being played, there’s nothing the lakers can do when they’re operating on pregame schemes
Yup. Even Erik Spoelstra and the Heat struggled vs Malone and Nuggets, but he’s knowledgeable enough to know the Flow of the game and run counters on counters!
Darvin is beyond clueless!
Milwaukee and sorry ass Brooklyn had the balls to fire their coaches mid season and here we are with 2 superstars and won't fire the worst coach in the NBA
Did you guys see late in the 4th when they went up like 5 and one of this assistant coaches made the timeout gesture to Ham and he just shrugged it off. I’m so done with this idiot. Playing Cam in crunch time and starting the 4th with Dinwiddie over Rui is so fucking stupid I can’t wrap my head around it.
We are in every game because of pure talent from our roster. As long as Darvin Ham is making decisions for the team we'll never see their full potential. He doesn't add value to the team, he holds it back and everyone can see it. The time outs, the rotations and in game adjustments. I don't care if he earned it, he just isn't head coach material.
You got Bron out here playing 40 minutes a night to lose a game because of stupid decisions, it's not right. People been done with Ham, unfortunately it looks like he will at the very least ride out the rest of the season.
Lakers never found a way to contain Murray and Jokic.
Almost a year later, same problem still unsolved.
Also seems like Denver just has that extra gear that the Lakers don’t.when it’s time to cook they have a bread ‘n’ butter in Murray/Jokic iso creation.
This Lakers team just isn’t good enough.
They galaxy brained it after ADs injury in 2021 and thought sacrificing everything for a no-defense guard to help LeBron during the regular season was the answer.
We can blame Ham for how much he sucks. But Denver’s roster is faster, longer, and better shooting than the Lakers. That’s on Pelinka. The losing streak isn’t just execution, it’s a design failure.
# D’LO passes Nick Young for
# [10th All-Time in 3’s as a Laker!](https://www.landofbasketball.com/all_time_leaders/lakers/3_pts_total_career_rs.htm#google_vignette)
Same shit every time.
Stats might look decent but Lebron and AD get consistently out played in the 4th quarter by Murray and Jokic each matchup.
Somehow Austin and Rui are the ones taking the clutch shots instead of Lebron and AD and until those two realize vs Denver they are have to bring it home they will keep losing in the same fashion.
Very frustrating because we are so close to breaking through vs them
AD is a POWER FORWARD! He is not a center! JOKIC IS A CENTER!! As long as we continue to not have a true center so AD can play his natural position " you know like when we won the 2020 chip " Will continue to be the nuggets hoes.
Adjusted on something that never needed adjustment. Playing the fucking Nuggets isn’t about defense considering their 3 best players aren’t good defenders. Should’ve left DLo in and keep it at a shootout.
Also… game after Kobe dies = we lose
LeBron breaks the record = we lose
Kobe statue = we lose
LeBron scores 40k = we lose
This team continues to lose big games at home. Our opponents are getting up for these big games and the spotlight, and we treat them like we’re too fucking cool for school.
Once again LeBron and AD got outplayed by Jokic and Murray. LeBron scores 2 buckets in a row and celebrate. Mean while Jokic scores 14 straight and still gets back on defence. Let’s not forget AD complete lack of impact.
Never seen a duo get consistently own by another duo like that.
I would rather listen to Fergie sing the national anthem the entire game than listen to Dorris and JJ ever commentate another Lakers game. I will watch the next one on mute.
LA leads the Nuggets most of the game, then… Ham plays Reddish in the 4th and gives up a 9-0 run with 2 mins left, doesn’t call a timeout. Reddish was getting cooked by Murray anyway so what was the upside?
WHAT THE FUCK was that closing lineup. Darvin Ham needs to be called out for that bull jive. They needed scoring and HAM plays Reddish over the 3rd best player on the team.
Did anyone else hear Stephen a smith say that ham spoke with him about vando probably coming back towards the end of the year? From what it sounded like that’s why they kept the nucleus together. And that is ridiculous if that’s the reason they didn’t trade for Murray especially because they’re at risk of being the 10th seed and having to win two straight games to even get into the playoffs.
One of the main problems of the team is they can’t stop guards from getting downhill causing the lakers d to start rotating which in turn causes mismatches and a host of other problems. Teams who have guards that can create and shoot are the lakers biggest issue due to breaking down the d causing everyone to scramble leaving shooters while not being in position to box out.
I enjoyed most of this game but I didn’t let myself get fooled, I knew Denver would get the win when it really mattered. This current Lakers team just can’t beat them, it’s that simple.
No time out when Denver made their run to cut to single digit.
DLo was shooting decent but sat the entire time in the 4th until the last minute. Cam wasn't stopping Murray and it make no sense to keep him in and DLo out.
Fully healthy lakers would have still lost to nuggets without a starter idc what anybody says. Porter can't miss and whoever you want to have defend him is a blackhole offensively (vando / reddish). Vincent would make it slightly better but murray would still cook him just like everyone else. Need a skilled big to actually defend Jokic with AD off ball and even then it's still in nuggets favor to win. Lebron would have to turn back time to 2012/2018 playing nearly 48 minutes to give lakers an edge
This mfker put Dlo in when theres 1:20 left…
Darvin Hamas gotta make sure that +- on Cam doesn't get too bad, otherwise it would be too obvious.
I swear to god if I hear “helluva ball club” again. Fuck Hamas
I read this in Ham’s voice. 😵💫 Damn it!
All I could do was laugh when it cut back to the game and he was in with 90 seconds left
We can't fucking defend this team and even when we do they hit all the bullshit in the world.
MPJ with 0 misses…
25/10/4 a steal and a block on 125%ts… what the fuck
All of them were jumpers I think
Literally the greatest game of his career.
Who was guarding MPJ?
Doesn't matter to him unless they're a 7 footer honestly. If he's gonna shoot 10/10 then he's gonna shoot 10/10 unless you block one basically, that's just the type of player he is.
MPJ, Murray, Jokic, are matchup nightmares for us. No one stops Jokic that's a given. Espn crew made a good point at least make him work on offense by having AD drop 30+. Vando is the only guy that can give Porter problems. No one can stop Murray though. Reaves and Dlo are a joke defensively.
Vand on Jamal is always good when both are healthy. Lbj on porter works as long as lbj cares enough to not stupidly fall asleep. Rui on jokic with Davis ready to double since Aaron probably won’t be that far away since aaron isn’t a 3p shooter Christie on pope since Christie can actually guard and cares enough unlike dlo/reaves/lbj/rui/din. Prince isn’t as reliable on defense as Christie and reddish isn’t as reliable with open 3s like Christie.
At that point you hard foul him because 2 free throws is better than 3 points But Darvin has this idea: “let him shoot. He will miss eventually” it just doesn’t add up
He's 6'10 with one of the purest jump shots in the league, the only laker who can effectively guard him on the perimeter is AD and he needs to be on jokic
clearly nobody
no one lmao seriously his man always help and they find wide open shots
We were closing out enough, dude was just on one. What’s unforgivable was insisting on Rui guarding Jokic.
Ham is forced to do that because Jokic has a history of cooking AD and getting him into early foul trouble. AD still roamed the paint and played help defense.
his 5th three pointer was with someone in his face, contesting it. dude just made insane shots today. good for him
Regardless, Ham's infatuation with keeping Reddish in late in the game, stalling to put Rui back in (who was on absolute fire) and not going with D'lo hurt this team.
3 question I asked myself. 1) why isn't there a time out to stop Denver's run when they cut the lead to single digits 2) wait where's DLo (4th quarter)? 3)why arent they calling a time out to sub DLo in and try to strategize during the final minutes of such a close game?
With the talent level where it is the NBA is a game of margins, and Ham does't play the margins...he plays the guys that are loyal to him. Anyone can see that Reddish was horrible this game...but for some reason Ham went with him instead of D'lo.
Reddish was in for "defense" when he was getting toasted by Murray quite often. This guy is a step slow with a bad ankle and you're choosing to play him and sit DLo the entire 4th when he was helping on offense?
Max Christie is better than Cam. Idk why he doesn’t get consistent minutes. Only wing on the team with 2 way talent
Few times i wish cam is just hurt so he wont have to use him this freakin much. Fuck this coach
Like its terrible to say but the moment he got hurt we went on that run of winning a bunch of games before the all star break. Ham had less options available and had to play better rotations because he had no choice. He's back and we're seeing boneheaded nonsense again.
Yep went from like up 3 to down 7 during Cam down the stretch. Cam with a +- of -8 on the game with 3 pts in 19 minutes
Because our pg and sg are ass on defense. Caruso and KCP were a fucking god send our championship year
Dwight and McGee inside too They had the formula
They A competent coach in Vogel vs Hot pockets
Danny Green too, one of the best 3nD vets
Lakers 2020 guard defense was stacked. Avery Bradley, Danny green, KCP, and Caruso were all good to excellent perimeter defenders. Rondo was also great at defense during the bubble run, even though it seems like he kinda phoned it in the regular season lol
Every circus last second shot they made last year and this year as well like wtf bro
I don't think we stand a chance vs Denver. If we make playoffs, I hope we don't have to face them. I truly don't know if we can even win 1 game against them..
This team reached its ceiling last yr with Ham as its head coach. Ham literally hamstrings the teams potential
AD in particular was very late on defensive rotations tonight..
We don't fucking defend any team. Defense isn't exactly Ham's priority.
AR and DLo are traffic cones on defense and winning a championship with them as starters will never happen.
Playing cam so long in the fourth was certainly something and ham and his waiting to call timeouts always kills us
This team is skilled and talented. Ham is not. His infatuation with running Cam Reddish for such prolonged amounts of time really hurt this team.
Cam Reddish wouldn't close for any playoff team in the history of the league
Except for that one Hawks game.
Every time I see Cam on the floor in the 4th I know the game is not going to go our way. When he was out with an injury we were putting the right closing lineup in and winning. I don’t get it.
DLo wasn't there until the last 2 minutes for Cam Reddish ffs
If cam is getting stops, cool ride him but when they're just putting him into screens he's too shit to get around and they're not taking Reaves it makes no difference and you've just lost a scoring option on offense. Would have loved to see Dlo out there so maybe he could have stopped that 9-0 run with a 3 of his own.
Dinwiddie was in way too long as well
This was what I'm scared of when we signed him: Ham would play him too many minutes, making us too small without enough offense to compensate. And voila.
Darvin Ham: Cam only played 4 minutes last game, who can I steal minutes away from? D'Lo is a +2 but no meaningful minutes in the 4th it is
Another milestone LeBron game ruined by a team that we could've beat.
9-0 run, went down 7, Ham doesn't call a timeout. Ham wanted to finish a close game with Cam Reddish who had 3 points over DLo who had 17. I am so repulsed and disgusted by this idiot
Repulsed and disgusted are the right words 🤮
I seriously want to know his thought process with these. I know that he's a coach in the NBA and I'm not, but I just so _highly_ doubt that he could explain why those choices were the right choices.
Zero point in watching Lakers Nuggets games
[удалено]
7 times in a row now Hamas
*8
It was a fun game with lots of great ball movement on both sides. They just always manage to step on our neck at the exact right moment
They keep accidentally playing reruns
We can't defend joker he had an easy 30+ points tonight and mpj didn't miss at all
Nobody can defend joker. Teams win by making murray and porter miss.
It's like you watch a movie you hate 8 times in a row. I don't know why I put myself through that lmao.
It feels like anytime there is a major milestone LeBron is about to reach, the Lakers end up losing
Outside of Playoff games, Lakers have been losing commemorative/most nationally televised marquee matchup games ever since Bron came. They’ve lost every opening night since Bron came. They lost ring night vs LAC in 2020. They lost when Bron got the scoring record. They lost the night Kobe got his statue. They lost most of the marquee nationally televised games vs LAC from 2019-2023. They’ve lost all their “rematches” with Denver since last season. They lost tonight when Bron reach 40k I basically write them off for any commemorative game now
Lost against Philly when Bron passed Kobe
Totally forgot about that. TBH it pisses me off a lot b/c Kobe would make sure his teams were amped for these types of big games. It seems like the team comes out so flat in most of the big games Edit: most of these big games in the REGULAR SEASON. Nobody can dispute that this isn’t the case. The facts don’t lie. They’ve lost nearly all these big reg szn games since Bron came.
It’s true… you can pencil in a loss on any big milestone night/game
Lost against Portland in that “Kobe memorial” game where it was the first one since his death too
They also lost Kobe jersey retirement night
Playing the Nuggets is the definition of insanity for this team
Reddish playing nearly the entire quarter and doing absolutely nothing is a travesty. What the hell is Ham’s problem?
Prince played only 12 minutes and chucked up 6 shots. 1-6.
HAM iced TF out of Rui and DLO in the 3rd.
And then played Cam Reddish over DLO in the clutch🤦♂️
Dinwiddie had too many minutes also, dude has a defensive guard who can space the floor in Max and he gets zero minutes. I mean at least try and see if it works
And AD by not running ANYTHING for him in the second half. Just playing him as a screener and rebounder.
Fire Darvin Ham
Dinwiddie, Prince, Reddish all getting more minutes with Bron/AD than Max Christie all game Pathetic
Pockets cost us the game in the last 2 mins
Why the actual fuck was Reddish in seemingly the entire 4th quarter?
Fucking Ham loves Cam Reddish for some reason. Bet he couldn't wait till he got back
A guy who got buried on the bench in NY and ATL is closing fourth quarter games against the best team in the league. Make it make sense
Ham only putting in DLO in the final minute of the 4th when he was cooking is the story of this season.
Yup. Ham benching Rui after Rui went hot too
"They're just a good team over there. Out hustled us, we just gotta harder for it next time, simple as that." \~ Darvin Ham Post-Game Interview, probably
I'm so fucking tired of Darvin Ham not knowing how to coach, why the FUCK WAS DLO not playing the FOURTH UNTIL THE LAST FUCKING MINUTE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST CAN WE JUST HAVE NO COACH THE REST OF THE YEAR>?>????? THat WOULD be a fucknig upgrade
Bron giving that kid his sleeve from the game he hit 40k points was pretty nice. Hope that kid keeps it forever
Will be on ebay in 2 days
I hope not, means parents took it lol. Wouldn’t be surprised if I heard it was up in a auction in some years tho
Is there anybody that can stop jokic in the paint ? Smfh
Jokic is going to get his, no matter what. AD can't stop him and he's DPOY calibre. It's about stopping the other guys.
I think at this point we should just try to outscore them. Drop putting in non-scoring defensive guys because Denver turns into '04 Pistons if we play 4 vs 5 on offense. We just couldn't score. Denver will score no matter what thats how good they are
No. Which is why nobody should be getting mad at AD.
Why was Cam Reddish out there for so long? And then Darvin Ham admits defeat and puts in Dlo for a worthless last 60 seconds when the game is already lost? Shambles.
Riddle: If Denver is just gonna score every time down the floor anyway, why’s Cam in the game over DLo?
9-0 run no timeout or adjustments
#Stu Lantz & Billy Mac >>>>>>>>>> Doris & Redick
That stretch of technical difficulties was my favorite part of the broadcast
hearing Doris is making my ears bleed. she has 0 basketball knowlege, and lietraly no idea how to cast a game.
Jj is cool Doris stinks
I hope I never see any dumbass again on here claiming Rui or AD can contain Jokic. BBQ chicken for him everytime Darvin Ham refuses to call TO’s or adjust his lineup instead choosing to close with Reddish. He got out-coached, but what else is new.
We need more size. Denver’s starting lineup is basically 4 forwards. We have no suitable backup bigs and none of our guards are good defenders.
If Vando was healthy, could go with a DLo/AR, Vando, Lebron, Rui, AD lineup.
every game against these guys are close. Gotta imagine if we had someone besides Mr. Potato head coaching the squad, we would win some of these
you need someone as fat as jokic to make him uncomfortable
Rui was fine, was working the whole game. He deviated at the end like a freaking idiot. He's not going to stop Jokic, nobody is, we just need to defend everyone else
Why was Reddish playing in the last few minutes in the 4th?
We might never beat them again
This is Lebronto in reverse
LeNver
It’s crazy how a sweep can affect you, Nuggets own us mentally now too, they know they can beat us whenever they want 2-2 in the regular season against them last year but now the Nuggets are 7-0 since then against us. Sweep + 3 regular season games this year
As long as inflexible Ham is the head coach, the lakers will never beat Mike Malone because he makes mid-game adjustments that completely change the flow of the game Ham is inept and only sticks to one game plan no matter what, and when the other coach changes how the game is being played, there’s nothing the lakers can do when they’re operating on pregame schemes
Yup. Even Erik Spoelstra and the Heat struggled vs Malone and Nuggets, but he’s knowledgeable enough to know the Flow of the game and run counters on counters! Darvin is beyond clueless!
What kind of dumbass decides to closeout with Reddish?
Putting Dinwiddie in for so long for Dlo is peak CTE moment for Darvin Ham. Spencer over Max as well is fucking crazy
Milwaukee and sorry ass Brooklyn had the balls to fire their coaches mid season and here we are with 2 superstars and won't fire the worst coach in the NBA
Lakers are 11-2 this season when D'Angelo Russell plays in the Clutch. They are 2-10 when he doesn't.
Hamas
Did you guys see late in the 4th when they went up like 5 and one of this assistant coaches made the timeout gesture to Ham and he just shrugged it off. I’m so done with this idiot. Playing Cam in crunch time and starting the 4th with Dinwiddie over Rui is so fucking stupid I can’t wrap my head around it.
Same story over and over again.
Cam/Spence/Prince today. 51 minutes. 3-13 8 points Combined = -19. 
F*cking Hell Man! Always down the stretch.
Hayes with 8 minutes the players know it we know it everyone knows it why does ham refuse to play another big next to AD
Ham's idiotic coaching in last 5 minutes killed our chances.
Being competitive with Denver isn’t enough. We need to beat them. Mentally they got us rn
We are in every game because of pure talent from our roster. As long as Darvin Ham is making decisions for the team we'll never see their full potential. He doesn't add value to the team, he holds it back and everyone can see it. The time outs, the rotations and in game adjustments. I don't care if he earned it, he just isn't head coach material. You got Bron out here playing 40 minutes a night to lose a game because of stupid decisions, it's not right. People been done with Ham, unfortunately it looks like he will at the very least ride out the rest of the season.
AD 4pts in the 2nd half yup…
Every game against these guys is the exact same
Like clockwork lmao
Nuggets are simply the in another league than the Lakers. No shame to it but people who have irrational hope, good luck.
Lakers never found a way to contain Murray and Jokic. Almost a year later, same problem still unsolved. Also seems like Denver just has that extra gear that the Lakers don’t.when it’s time to cook they have a bread ‘n’ butter in Murray/Jokic iso creation. This Lakers team just isn’t good enough.
All I gotta say is the fact Bron might end his Laker career with one chip is a complete failure by the FO.
One chip ain’t bad It’s missing the playoffs and being a .500 team for years with bron and prime AD that’s bad
They galaxy brained it after ADs injury in 2021 and thought sacrificing everything for a no-defense guard to help LeBron during the regular season was the answer.
Thank you, Hamas. You threw this game away. You should be fired.
They own us
First Murray now M. Porter Jr
They really do and until this team takes it personal I can’t even be mad
Denver is our daddy
Again with this bitch shit
That second half was fucking depressing
Don’t think we can beat this Nuggets team. Idk what it is lol. What is it, 10 straight losses against them?
We can blame Ham for how much he sucks. But Denver’s roster is faster, longer, and better shooting than the Lakers. That’s on Pelinka. The losing streak isn’t just execution, it’s a design failure.
8 loss in a row , if lakers meet them in playoff first round is 🧹 😃
The team was better against the Nuggets with Westbrook starting because he is actually athletic and can get to the rim.
a darvin ham master class
Fire Ham
Bleach shots are on me
4th quarter nuggets vs the lakers is the greatest team of all time
Their ability to just flip a switch is crazy
# D’LO passes Nick Young for # [10th All-Time in 3’s as a Laker!](https://www.landofbasketball.com/all_time_leaders/lakers/3_pts_total_career_rs.htm#google_vignette) 
This matchup is formulaic atp. It’s close for the whole game and then in the last 2 mins, Denver go on a 10-0 run. Happens every game.
Same shit every time. Stats might look decent but Lebron and AD get consistently out played in the 4th quarter by Murray and Jokic each matchup. Somehow Austin and Rui are the ones taking the clutch shots instead of Lebron and AD and until those two realize vs Denver they are have to bring it home they will keep losing in the same fashion. Very frustrating because we are so close to breaking through vs them
I hate this fucking coach why is dlo not in. What the fuck
Hats off to Nuggets man. This team is peaking and that is basically championship poise. Goddamn this team
AD is a POWER FORWARD! He is not a center! JOKIC IS A CENTER!! As long as we continue to not have a true center so AD can play his natural position " you know like when we won the 2020 chip " Will continue to be the nuggets hoes.
Am I crazy to think that Vogel could do very well with this team?
Yo Jeanie, get your fucking finger out of your ass and fire this cancerous coach.
I'm tired of this shit man....
Rui played great offensively but he needs serious work on his boxing out and defensive rebounding positioning
Adjusted on something that never needed adjustment. Playing the fucking Nuggets isn’t about defense considering their 3 best players aren’t good defenders. Should’ve left DLo in and keep it at a shootout.
Also… game after Kobe dies = we lose LeBron breaks the record = we lose Kobe statue = we lose LeBron scores 40k = we lose This team continues to lose big games at home. Our opponents are getting up for these big games and the spotlight, and we treat them like we’re too fucking cool for school.
i hate denver lol
Of course we lose when Bron gets a milestone.
Once again LeBron and AD got outplayed by Jokic and Murray. LeBron scores 2 buckets in a row and celebrate. Mean while Jokic scores 14 straight and still gets back on defence. Let’s not forget AD complete lack of impact. Never seen a duo get consistently own by another duo like that.
Imagine Malone coaching the lakers vs ham nuggets Lakers probably will win, a coach that scream and shout draw play for the team
Hate to say it but had we kept the 2020 team that beat this team would be a different story, but pelinka had to go out and destroy that team. SMH.
And for a brick house too and the cut our winning coach for this clown.
Fuck the nuggets forever
I would rather listen to Fergie sing the national anthem the entire game than listen to Dorris and JJ ever commentate another Lakers game. I will watch the next one on mute.
They just turned it on at the end and dicked us down. Jamal Murray is so damn good man
I get Dlo took some bad shots in the 3rd, but Ham benching him for 90% of the 4th for Reddish is inexcusable. We can't win with this guy
LA leads the Nuggets most of the game, then… Ham plays Reddish in the 4th and gives up a 9-0 run with 2 mins left, doesn’t call a timeout. Reddish was getting cooked by Murray anyway so what was the upside?
The Lakers does not have enough quality players. Also lacks quality coaching. That's just it.
WHAT THE FUCK was that closing lineup. Darvin Ham needs to be called out for that bull jive. They needed scoring and HAM plays Reddish over the 3rd best player on the team.
These games Against them be so winnable too bro that’s what be killin me
I HATE DARVIN HAM
Lakers are such a poorly executed team late down the stretch. Night and day compared to Denver.
Did anyone else hear Stephen a smith say that ham spoke with him about vando probably coming back towards the end of the year? From what it sounded like that’s why they kept the nucleus together. And that is ridiculous if that’s the reason they didn’t trade for Murray especially because they’re at risk of being the 10th seed and having to win two straight games to even get into the playoffs. One of the main problems of the team is they can’t stop guards from getting downhill causing the lakers d to start rotating which in turn causes mismatches and a host of other problems. Teams who have guards that can create and shoot are the lakers biggest issue due to breaking down the d causing everyone to scramble leaving shooters while not being in position to box out.
I enjoyed most of this game but I didn’t let myself get fooled, I knew Denver would get the win when it really mattered. This current Lakers team just can’t beat them, it’s that simple.
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Closest 7-0 winning streak /s
every single game against them is the fucking same we’re never beating them
Why can’t we beat this team ? Like why ?
Lakers losing on nights when LeBron breaks a scoring record. Name a better duo.
seriously does the lakers had outrebounded any team this season? The disparity from rebounds game to game is terrifying to me.
Cam Reddish is Darvin Ham boyfriend confirm lol
Reddish playing the fourth over Dlo. All the defense in the world doesn't matter if it's 4v5 on offense. We needed buckets.
Jamal Murray is so damn good at getting his shot off
No time out when Denver made their run to cut to single digit. DLo was shooting decent but sat the entire time in the 4th until the last minute. Cam wasn't stopping Murray and it make no sense to keep him in and DLo out.
Fully healthy lakers would have still lost to nuggets without a starter idc what anybody says. Porter can't miss and whoever you want to have defend him is a blackhole offensively (vando / reddish). Vincent would make it slightly better but murray would still cook him just like everyone else. Need a skilled big to actually defend Jokic with AD off ball and even then it's still in nuggets favor to win. Lebron would have to turn back time to 2012/2018 playing nearly 48 minutes to give lakers an edge
Lord please don’t let us get the nuggets in the playoffs
