Lakers takeaways: What more can LeBron James, Anthony Davis do to beat the Nuggets?
by Yahoo Sports
Yahoo Sports— Five takeaways from a Game 2 loss to the Nuggets in which the Lakers led by 20 points early in the third quarter. Game 3 is Thursday night at Crypto.com Arena.
New York Post—LeBron James, Anthony Davis keep Lakers alive against Nuggets. LeBron James scored 30 points, and the Lakers avoided playoff elimination with a 119-108 win over the Nuggets in Game 4 of their first-round series.
Los Angeles Times—Lakers takeaways: Why Anthony Davis and LeBron James weren't good enough in Game 1. Here are five takeaways from the Lakers’ 114-103 loss in Game 1 of their first-round playoff matchup with the Denver Nuggets. One of the simplest ways the Lakers could turn around their fate from their multiseason struggles with the Nuggets would be for LeBron James and Anthony Davis, together, to outplay Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. Saturday in Game 1, the Lakers’ stars combined for 59 points on 56.4% shooting from the field while grabbing 20 rebounds and dishing out 13 assists. Jokic and...
Los Angeles Times—Lakers takeaways: What more can LeBron James do? Was the officiating off?. Here are six takeaways from the Lakers’ 101-99 loss to Denver in Game 2 Monday night that put them in a 2-0 hole in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series. There was a bit of cruelty late Monday night in Denver, the Lakers’ and the Nuggets’ late-game fates summed up by a pair of shots with wildly different degrees of difficulty. First, with the score tied, LeBron James stood all alone at the three-point line. Whether or not Kentavious Caldwell-Pope got pushed or got his feet tangled up...