The Lakers hurt themselves with turnovers, poor transition defense and by allowing too many offensive rebounds.
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic puts up a shot as Lakers star Anthony Davis defends during the third quarter of Game 1 of their first-round playoff series on Saturday night in Denver. DENVER — Getting time and space away from a game can often help provide a clearer picture of what went right and wrong.
“We really didn’t do a bad job in the halfcourt,” Ham said during a Sunday afternoon conference call with reporters. “They made some tough shots but we didn’t do a bad job defensively. But our biggest problem was transition defense, getting back, getting matched up so we weren’t crossmatched. We didn’t do that as well as we should.”
Anthony Davis said ahead of Saturday’s matchup that the Lakers couldn’t be bad at both defensive rebounding and transition defense – both areas of improvement for the Lakers against the Nuggets after getting swept 4-0 in last year’s Western Conference finals and the 3-0 regular-season sweep this past season.“Obviously giving up second-chance points and some untimely turnovers on our part,” Ham said.
Jokić finished with 32 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists in 39 minutes, and didn’t commit a turnover. “But he’s a tough guard because he’s not a one-way thinking superstar,” Ham said. “He’s thinking all levels of the game. If he’s not passing a ball that hurts you, he’s scoring. If he’s not scoring, he’s on the glass. So it’s multi-faceted.
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