You have to admit that James, at the age of 38, can no longer stand alone in NBA. He is easily tired and makes some unwise decisions under fatigue. The only comforting thing was that James wanted to fight until the last moment after he was old, tired and hurt his feet.
It’s just that the home court of the nuggets is not so easy to win. Even if you lock yokiki, they still have Michael PROTONIC and Jamal Murray. After playing more than three wind the ball, Murray suddenly went away at the end of the festival, scoring 23 points for a single festival, allowing the Nuggets to escape, defeating the Lakers again with 108-103, and winning 2-0 outscore in the West.
In the fourth quarter of Murray’s rage, the key was to take advantage of James and Davis’s lack of physical strength, and the interference was not enough after the cover was replaced. James especially showed the disadvantage of age in this game. It was originally the adjustment game between him and Davis. Because he lost G1, he had to fight with all his strength, which was equivalent to taking half a tank of oil on the road, so he couldn’t stick to the end.
Moreover, James had been defending yokedge for a long time, and he was embarrassed. The third point was not allowed to be the second. He also voted 6, which showed that he was really tired. In addition, his counterattack layup was short, the quick attack dunk was taken off, and finally the quick whip layup was disturbed, which was all evidence.
Because of losing G1, the Lakers could not control the rhythm of G1, G3, G4 and G6 in the first two rounds. This round was in danger.
The Lakers won the Nuggets 12 points in the second half of G1, which made them feel that although they lost the goal, there was still a way to see the hope of G2. However, after watching the first two rounds of the Lakers, we knew that as long as we lost the first game, trouble would follow. This is how my analysis article was written after G1–
Losing the first hand is very hard for the Lakers, because it is a strategic passive. Through the first round of Grizzlies and the second round of warriors, we can see that the Lakers will strategically arrange physical fitness and go all out, usually fighting G1, G3, G4 and G6, take the two away G2 and G5 as adjustment. This strategy is based on James’s age and Davis’s physical pressure resistance, and adjusts his physical fitness rhythmically, which helps James and Davis win four games in a full state…… Now G1 has not been taken down, and the status of these two in G2 may be discounted. But they can’t allow 0-2 yet, and the next game will still be a high-load battle, which will bring chain reaction to the following games.
G1 lost at the beginning, especially the three-guard team was shot on the rebound, so G2 started again with Vanderbilt and put Schroeder on the bench. Many people think that the G2 starter will directly use eight villages, but there are two disadvantages in that way. One is that eight villages did not start in the playoffs, and the other is that time is tight, with Vanderbilt, you can use ready-made familiar playing methods.
He was still limited in use of brother pug because he couldn’t attack. Although eight villages didn’t start, he played for more than 30 minutes and almost became the hero of this war, just like Lonnie Walker to warrior G4. The third in the first section 3 and the fourth in the second section 4 of the eight village base are a great supplement to the bad state of Zhan Mei. However, the attack of the eight villages is a “secret weapon”, which is hard to hear. Waiting for the outbreak of Lonnie and the eight villages is like waiting for a rabbit. The eighth village scored 17 points in 7 of the first half and 4 points in 1 of the third half. The Attack of the Lakers finally depended on James and Davis.
However, as expected, Zhan Mei had to make full efforts to attack the G2 that should have been adjusted after he finished the G1, but there was not much oil in the tank.
Although Davis played 41 minutes, 4 of the 15 games only scored 18 points, and half of them came from free throws. James scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists in 9 of the 19th, but there were 6 Downtown shots in the game, three of which came from the last section.
Everyone can see that James is not sure of the three points, but he is still shooting. He also knows that he is not allowed. G1 is also 0 in 4, but he still has to spare some effort for the last 5 minutes-he throws three points, it’s just a way to rest on the court.
If Davis can’t roll over the river under the basket, and if James has to pinch and calculate how much power he should exert every minute, it will be difficult for the Lakers to win away in Denver. The strong start of their 6-0 game, with a maximum of 11 points leading in the first half, most of them played the game in the third quarter, indicating that they really prepared for this game. However, after the third quarter, James finally took a break for a few minutes, and this advantage was killed by the climax of the Nuggets.
Murray and Xiao PROTONIC were two key figures in pushing down the Lakers. The Nuggets scored seven points at the end, and six of them came from them. Among them, Murray was 4 out of 5 and 23 points in a single section. In addition to Murray’s personal bravery, James’s severe physical decline is also a very important reason. The following video records Murray’s 37-point performance, but you can watch it from 2 minutes 9 seconds, recording all six goals of Murray’s last quarter and two outstanding defense.
After watching the episode of Murray, you can find that five of the six goals Murray scored were against James, or James was supposed to defend against them, only once against Davis. Of course James is not the one who is lazy in defense. He just has no strength.
After G1 was finished, everyone thought that coach ham would continue to use eight villages to defend yokiki, but in fact, except Davis, James was the real defender of yokiki, which was quite unexpected, but at the same time, it also excessively consumed James’s physical ability, which was originally short of fuel tank.
Coach Ham did not dare to use the three defenders, but Davis had to rest after all. Even if Davis was on the court, Ham needed No. 4 to defend against yokedge in order to form a three-dimensional defensive level for yokedge. So he used a large number of three strikers, such as Vanderbilt + eight villages + James. Even though eight villages were on the court, Ham did not send him to defend against yokedge, which was probably to be surprisingly successful, let the G2 plan prepared by Nuggets fail.
James played for 12 minutes in the last quarter, which showed how much he wanted to win the match and was unwilling to waste the three and a half of the lead. However, they did not expect that Murray, who had only 14 points in the first three quarters, suddenly broke out in the fourth quarter-maybe coach Malone, maybe Murray himself, found that James couldn’t play.
In fact, in the fourth quarter, the Lakers sent all kinds of people to defend Murray, including Schroeder, Lonnie Walker, Russell, and even used the eight villages to defend. However, Murray doesn’t care who defends himself, but calls James by name, who does James defend, who will cover for Murray, let you change, and finally Murray will face James.
Those who had covered for Murray, including jokiki, Gordon and even Jeff Green, were all defending them at that time without exception James.
Sometimes Schroeder would forcibly squeeze to interfere with Murray’s shooting. Sometimes Reeves would toe lasting James, but most of the time, James changed to Murray. He didn’t step forward any more, but stayed where he was, sometimes he didn’t even have time to stretch out his hands. Is James afraid of his breakthrough? Certainly not, because Murray is good at three points, so it must be James who is tired and he can’t move this step.
James did not plan to do so hard for G2. If the fourth quarter is still full, then he will not have much oil to play G3. G2 was supposed to be a break adjustment, but in order to leave a little buffer for the first two games 1-1, James fought, but it was too late.
He didn’t want to lose. He landed on Davis’s foot when gaddun was playing. His foot was so painful that he grinned, but he insisted on staying on the court.
But the oil in the fuel tank is completely gone. At the last moment, he grabbed Murray’s pass to yokeki, but when he rushed to the basket, Gordon destroyed the ball before touching the basket.
At the last moment, James was still making a long-distance attack, catching 101-105 in the shortest time.
In the last 8.3 seconds, Davis passed on to James. He wanted to do the last shot, but his ball was broken by Bruce Brown.
At the end of the game, James and the Lakers ran out of the last drop of oil and broke down in Denver.
