Annihilation

Is that I turned before halftime and they were close and then turning back again later in the game and they were being trounced. The boxscore doesn’t really show a huge difference in why they were blown out so bad besides extremely poor bench production. of course the +/- was way down, but I think it’d be easier to tell what went wrong when we get the flow chart tomorrow

43-18!!
lakers scored only 23 points in the 2nd half
their worst 2nd half offensive output ever!!!!!!!!!!!
0 points for Kobe in the second half
0 points for Dfish
Freethrows:
Lakers 16
Nuggs 29
16 turnovers
the story of the 3rd quarter:
lakers settle for jumpshots…stop giving the ball to bynum and kobe or turn it over
poor ball movement….afflalo excellent D on Kobe forcing tough shots
D fish hesitant to shoot, making boneheaded passes with 3 seconds on the clock
nuggs drive to the paint and get calls all night (yes i know thats not why we lost but still)

easily the worst game for the lakers so far in the young season
we will bounce back sunday
on the bright side, at least we beat this team when it mattered the most
i will take a blowout loss in november over a blowout loss in may any day of the week

i swear thats only the 4th time in the last 20 meetings including playoffs that they beat us! we own all things related to denver and nuggets

They didn’t come through this time. It rarely happens, but it happens. Kudos to Denver for executing their defensive strategy of letting the others try to beat them in the third quarter.

• Ty Lawson is good, REALLY good. Could be Chris Paul level good if he develops a consistent jumper. There’s going to be multiple GM’s pissed off that they didn’t draft this kid in June, especially the Wolves, who took Jonny Flynn over both him AND Brandon Jennings.
• Fisher can’t guard anyone anymore, seriously. An old Chauncey Billups beat him off the dribble multiple times and Lawson made him look like he was standing in cement. He also passed up a three pointer (which resulted in a turnover and a Denver layup) after hefting up two horrible bricks in previous possessions. I love the guy, but if he’s passing up shots after not making a couple, time to get him out of the lineup. Phil obliged and immediately put in Shannon Brown. Can someone explain to me why this team is playing Fisher and Jordy when Kobe and Lamar bring the ball up the floor?
• They were definitely tired last night, and any team playing the second game of a back-to-back IN DENVER is probably at an incredible disadvantage coming into the game to begin with — but especially when Denver didn’t play the two nights before.
• This was the first team that really doubled hard on the post ups, and I think that Kobe may have to move away from the basket a bit against the Nuggets if they’re going to play him like that. I think he can own Aaron Afflalo on the wing or in the pick and roll, but he’s going to struggle on post-ups, especially when the Nuggets get to play the entire game without getting called for defensive 3 seconds….
  *…which brings me to the officiating last night. When a set of players play the entire game with a foot in the lane (Birdman, Kenyon Martin, Nene) you would think that they might call it once or twice. C’mon refs — they’re DARING you to call it. Give out 4 technicals for it and see if they stop it. Please, just enforce the rules, that’s all I ask.
• Pau was very effective against the double teaming last year in the playoffs, so when he gets back in the fold I think that will help the team offensively. Kobe really hasn’t been doubled down in the post yet, but I’m guessing he’s already watched the first three quarters of this game multiple times on the way home to figure out how to beat that defense. George Karl is a one trick pony, as he proved in last years playoffs when Kobe picked them apart in the last two games and he made no adjustments.
• The Nuggets can and will beat anybody if Melo and J.R. Smith play like that in the same game. J.R. Smith is a fucking head case though, so I don’t anticipate this happening very often.