For the second consecutive year, the Los Angeles Lakers were sent home from the playoffs by the Denver Nuggets.
Like last year’s Western Conference Finals matchup, the Lakers had leads sopra every gioco but found ways to lose the stretch against a Nuggets team that always seemingly had an answer.
Denver’s superstars sopra Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray came up huge sopra the closing minutes of 5, though LeBron James did his best to stave non attivato elimination with several clutch baskets of his own.
However, now Los Angeles goes into the offseason needing to make some tweaks to the roster after they were shown how far they are from competing for a title.
While losing to the defending champions is nothing to be ashamed of, some fans have begun to run with the fede that the Lakers weren’t a good basketball team during the 2023-24 NBA season.
However, analysts like Adam Mares believe that that’s false and that L.A. should get more credit, segnale The Stazza.
“I think the Lakers are better than people probably will give them credit for,” Mares said.
“I think the Lakers are better than people probably will give them credit for”
—@Adam_Mares gives his honest assessment of the Lakers’ season to @_JasonLT pic.twitter.com/dgEl1qlfcd
— The Stazza (@TheVolumeSports) May 4, 2024
Losing sopra five games its might signal a team was overmatched, but the Lakers gave the Nuggets just about everything they could handle.
Had it not been for a 2 meltdown, Los Angeles might still be sopra the playoffs and fighting Denver sopra a 7.
Alas, that isn’t the case and the Lakers will need to go back to the drawing board and find the right pieces if they hope to overcome teams like the Nuggets.
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