The streamer will eventually fall on Wednesday night. The loud cheers that came out of the bench in the fourth quarter were to happen. Randy Newman’s “I Love LA” will play.
It was doomed when fans began submitting to the building.
The latest chapter in The The will look quite different with the saying that Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray never played lively before the game.
The script was turned over and their fans saw the Nuggets falling off the injury report before the game against them. But without Denver’s best players, all they could take from the Lakers was intensive performances to get the job done.
Midway through the first quarter, the bar of “focus performance” suddenly dropped significantly.
Donsic’s Monsters 1st quarter is enough to hide the slow, sloppy play that might have cost him if Jokic and Murray were on the floor.
Donsic scored 21 points, including nine innings in the first three minutes, giving the Lakers a lead that grew to 30 in the second half before easing the gas completely.
The Nuggets outperformed the Lakers by age 16 in the fourth quarter, yet still lost at age 12, allowing Don Sic to spend the final 12 minutes on the bench on the Lakers set hosting Milwaukee on Thursday.
This will be the Lakers’ sixth game in eight days. They are 3-2 in the first five.
Doncic finished with 31 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. And he cooled down significantly after the first quarter, but his presence once again allowed the Lakers (43-25) to take all the games and make them take all the games.
Dorian Finney Smith, Gabe Vincent and Dalton Knecht combined to create 10 threes in 17 attempts.
The Lakers have won a 2-2 split with Denver this season, but they should be ahead of the Nuggets in a tiebreaker scenario with valuable assets in the tight West race, but have given them little insight into where either team heads into the final four weeks of the season.
Before the game, Nuggets manager Michael Malone forced him to say that Jokic and Murray wouldn’t “sleep” as Denver missed the dynamic duo in their second straight game. Both deal with injuries, he said.
Without them, Denver would not have had a chance. The Lakers are riding a dominant quarter from Donsic.
