The defending champs built on a 5 point half time lead increasing to 14 during a stretch and leading by 11 with 10 minutes to go only to give up 16 unanswered points and lose for the first time this season. I haven't seen Pau play too many bad games but on this one time and time again he could not buy a bucket even though he scored 17 points. It's bad enough to have their Robin have an average game but when the supporting cast doesn't show up, things don't end well. Lamar hit only 1 of 6 shots and bench support Blake and Barnes combined for just 9 points on 4/10 shooting. Kobe had to resort to old ways launching 32 shots missing 21 of them. The depleted Nuggets playing without K-Mart and the Birdman still produced 43 points from the reserves, led by Ty Lawson's 17, who orchestrated the deciding run. The Lakers won the rebound battle, but lost the assist as they looked to their MVP to bail them out and Denver used a team effort. 118 so far is the most post point the Champs have allowed, disappointing finish.
Player of the game: Carmelo Anthony, did not seem distracted led the Nugs with 32 pts 13 rbs.
X-Factor: Ty Lawson, scored 11 of his 17 pts on the 16-0 run, and also had 5 assists.
Should Have Been Benched: Bench quarterback Steve Blake was pretty much non existent in 16 minutes 3 points in 1/3 shooting 1 assist.
Laker Hater: Nene is one of the few non-Laker players I've liked, but he picked a hell of a time to have his season high points, 18. Thanks for nothing Nene, hater.
Overtime: Kobe Bryant became the youngest player to reach 26, 000 pts, he is currently 12th all-time. Even if he averages just 20 pts for the rest of the season and plays all remaining games he will still end up as the 6th all time leading scorer, behind one time one-two punch The Big Once Was.
Since arriving in LA Ron Ron has had his share of shut downs against the NBAs elite, one player he was brought in to stop was Melo. Hasn't been that way though in 4 meetings, the Nugs have taken 3, with Melo averaging 27 pts per game, scoring only 21 pts in his only loss. Melo has scored 25 pts or more in all wins and shot over 50% on all three as well. Clearly Melo is not impressed with Ron Ron's resume.
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