![]() Lakers: Los Angeles made 23 of 26 free throws. ![]() But overall the energy was there, the effort was there, the urgency was there, we just caught a bad stretch.” We addressed a lot of the things that we said we were going to try to do better. But instead he came off the bench again, scoring 17 first-half points but just four thereafter. The outstanding defense Hachimura played on Jokic in the fourth quarter of the Lakers’ loss in Game 1 led many to believe coach Darvin Ham would start Hachimura to try to stymie the Nuggets’ star center from the start. The Lakers won the series openers at Memphis and Golden State to reach the conference championship. ![]() Davis scored 18 after pouring in 40 in the opener and Rui Hachimra scored 21 points off the bench.įor much of the night, it appeared as though the Lakers would wrest home-court advantage from the Nuggets, who are the top seed for the first time in their history. James and Reaves both scored 22 for Los Angeles. The Nuggets improved to 41-8 at home, best in the NBA, including 8-0 in the playoffs. They pulled to three points on Austin Reaves’ jumper before Murray sank two free throws with 12 seconds left and Bruce Brown stole the ball from James, then dribbled out the final 8 seconds. Just like in Game 1, the Lakers didn’t go down easily.
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