BBallBreakdown did a video on the game last night highlighting all the issues with the Lakers defence:
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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
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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
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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
Run 2 big lineups. Guys like wood or Hayes are too light to guard jokic one on one, but with one of them on jokic and ad shadowing the paint it could work. Or you could keep ad on jokic and have one of the other bigs roam the paint.
Either way I think we need to find a big who has the weight to match with jokic for our 15th roster spot. Trade or buyout. We as fans should be patient.