2023 Western Conference Finals | (1) Denver Nuggets VS (7) Los Angeles Lakers (DEN leads 3-0)

[BayArea408415]

This come back has 3 soft shooting fouls for Lakers for Shcroder and Reaves, more Contact ignored against Murray, and a 50/50 loose ball foul go against Jokic

A little biased? Jokic literally shoved Reeves and fell on top of him when Reeves had inside position.

I do think there was a missed foul on a Murray drive and make, that should have been called.

Reeves is already at shameless level flopping and he’s a role player. He learned from daddy LeBron and Schroeder. Jokic flops too but he also gets so many flops against him.

[Liam_Gallagher]

Personally I would still play DLo. Murray can’t keep this up and DLo can get hot.

Stick with what got you here. What’s the other option? Murray is killing Dennis too.

[levon]

LeBron completely losing his 3 pt jumper really limits his ceiling to take the Lakers home. Hopefully he fixes it this summer. I have no idea why he suddenly lost it this year. It doesn't look like legs either. Eyesight?

[Jkam31]

Rui and AD got Jokic in hell. This yall best player in the league ???

Kids do your job and ban this dude probably the worst post in 3-5 years

[RB34]

Some team is going to throw Reaves a bag and then realise he’s not going to get that Lakers/LeBron whistle respect.

[GeorgeSears]

Austin Reaves has more FTA than Jokic and Murray combined. Murray exploded and almost got a technical because she should've gotten an and1 on the same type of call that Brown picked up on Reaves.

[jehosafats]

I'm not sold on Reaves like other people seem to be. He makes a lot of harebrained decisions in traffic and costs them more than people would like to admit.

He's a second year undrafted player. He's allowed to have weaknesses. His impact metrics rate him highly though so it's not just a perception thing

I totally get that. I like his tenacity on both ends of the floor, plus his willingness to shoot. He's a def a Laker, if they can keep him. What irks me is his downhill vision and some of his decisionmaking in the half court. He's not ready to orchestrate their offense just yet.

[duppyy]

The ESPN coverage is so boring...zzz

I’m watching in Taiwan, I don’t understand anything but they don’t say lakers as much as espn so that refreshing.

[Young Stapler]

Nobody can hate on Reaves especially when you consider what Dlo is doing. Undrafted and playing fearless basketball even if he does make mistakes it doesnt seem to bother him.

[Up-And-Coming]

What happened to Beasley? Why don't the Lakers give him some burn since Russell has become unplayable.

Russell's been a better shooter, scorer and passer but has been doo doo this series. Of anyone, Troy Brown will probably get minutes before him especially because of defensive matchups.

[JorgeVG]

Cut Joker some slack lol.

[Jkam31]

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[Goomba3666]

This come back has 3 soft shooting fouls for Lakers for Shcroder and Reaves, more Contact ignored against Murray, and a 50/50 loose ball foul go against Jokic

A little biased? Jokic literally shoved Reeves and fell on top of him when Reeves had inside position.

I do think there was a missed foul on a Murray drive and make, that should have been called.

Reeves is already at shameless level flopping and he’s a role played. He learned from daddy LeBron and Schroeder. Jokic flops too but he also gets so many flops against him.

There's no comparison. Reeves, Bron, and Schroeder put a lot of pressure on the refs all game through their constant flopping. Not good for the sport or good for TV.

[jigga_man]

Lol. Espn PASSIONATE about the Lakers winning. Just openly pro-Lakers.

To paraphrase Wilbon:

The game IS EVEN. Murray is not going to go off like that again, maybe he'll end up with 45 but LEBRON IS ON THE BLOCK! OLD SCHOOL BASKETBALL!

[KyRo23]

2-8

5 points

3 fouls

Best player in the league for sure.

LOL his first non-amazing half during the entire playoffs. You guys are so silly.

Jokic has averaged like a 30 point triple double on insane efficiency these playoffs and these kids are like "he sucks" because of one bad half

Welcome to what we call “it comes with the territory”. People are calling him the offensive GOAT gotta deal with the trash that people spew with it

[Marvin Martian]

Personally I would still play DLo. Murray can’t keep this up and DLo can get hot.

Stick with what got you here. What’s the other option? Murray is killing Dennis too.

Murray can get whatever he wants against Dlo

[Castle Black]

I fully expected Denver’s role players to disappear on the road as they often do (I said they would before the game). But Jokic playing this poorly is really surprising. He looked like a total scrub that half. Completely disinterested. Lakers win this one easily if he has another half like that.

[NBA4Lyfe]

that "transition take foul" is so stupid. how are you supposed to play proper transition defense when 6'9 athletic freaks like giannis, and lebron are running at you full speed to score. Get rid of that dumb rule and foul these poor free-throw shooters and make em earn it instead of just givin it to em

adam silver making the game to easy

[BayArea408415]

Austin Reaves has more FTA than Jokic and Murray combined. Murray exploded and almost got a technical because she should've gotten an and1 on the same type of call that Brown picked up on Reaves.

Welcome to Staples Center reffing. I expect Lakers to shoot 40+ FT’s. They can’t beat Denver without it.

[baksuzz]

Gordon looks scared to shoot out there and is playing indecisive.

i said it before, ever since lakers started playing hachimura on Jokic, gordon is killing the offense, he cant hit an outside shot and seems afraid to even take them, davis literally doesnt even pay attention to him and nuggets are playing 4on5
he is not any defensive stopper on Lebron anyway

cut his minutes, play brown all the minutes with joki, he can make threes, beat his man on the closeout and plays very good defense
If denver loses this series it will primarily be because of gordon and malone not doing anything about it