BBallBreakdown did a video on the game last night highlighting all the issues with the Lakers defence:
-
The numbers look pretty bad for AD: 5 games in a row hes had a massive negative rating vs the Nuggets. Lakers aren’t using him effectively at all in this matchup on both ends
-
Ham is absolutely a dumbass. They ran the same plays that they ran against the Lakers in the conference finals games last night and Ham had zero counters, that to me is insane because I would have expected him to watch film all summer. They also ran the same play 4 times in a row with no adjustment from Ham late in the fourth
-
AD always tries to ISO but he’s not a great ISO player, he needs a PG to set him up and Reaves/Gabe/Dlo DID NOT PASS HIM THE BALL EVEN WHEN HE WAS OPEN ROLLING TO THE RIM. That’s an issue that needs to be fixed
No one can guard him, just like no one could guard LeBron for 10 years, you need to stop the players around him, no point going all in to beat 1 team if we might not even match up in the playoffs
you didn’t watch the video, it’s mostly talking about how we couldn’t stop the players around jokic