That's the quite a crowd Murray is trying to blow through. Nuggets have gotten the Lakers first punch.
the exchange underneath the rim causes enough confusion no one steps up to Jokic's roll. Pretty clever.
I wrote about bigs circling up today off drives, this is similar but Gordon circles underneath the rim on Jokic's post up when LeBron goes.
Here's the piece if you want to read it. theathletic.com/5444846/2024/0…
This is the aggression you want to see when AD has Watson on him. He just bullied him on this play.
I'm not really a big fan of conceding this switch and putting Vincent on Gordon even with the double coming, Gordon still splits the action and gets the put back. Gabe just doesn't have the size.
I love that the Lakers are taking advantage of this size advantage with LeBron just working KCP all the way down the lane.
Great work pushing the ball off the miss, Porter kicks ahead to Gordon who throws a one-handed dime off the bounce to Jokic for the dunk.
Porter can't concede this switch and let Murray go at LeBorn. The Lakers reset and LeBron has a go at Murray it pulls Jokic away and opens up the lob.
Lakers have a small lead and the Nuggets have to be thankful Gordon came to play tonight. He has really kept this form being a bigger lead with his activity on the glass.