You have someone in AD that I think can potentially guard him one on one and he’s one of the few guys that can but then AD is out of help-side - does this become more of a Jarred Vanderbilt series? Because you’re going to need someone off the ball roaming off those drives if AD’s sole focus is Jokic. I’m just really interested how they cover Jokic from a Lakers perspective. They get stuff like that where it’s these guys in big moments they’re getting role players to step up and so they’ve survived those games where LeBron hasn’t been as effective. The Lakers seem to have a little bit of that championship magic a little bit where they’re getting the random Russell game, they get the Hachimura game, they get the Lonnie Walker game. 2, it limits everyone else and then you’re asking him to score that much four games in a row, which plays on his conditioning, plays on their pace and the games every other day, so you’re playing into those factors and the Lakers might have the edge in that.
… I think they’ll try a bunch of different things against Jokic, but my scouting mind would tell me they allow him to score 40 or 50. If you relegate him to one I think you have a good chance. The Lakers tend to be pretty good when they can hone in on one thing specifically.įor Denver, in a perfect world, Jokic scores 30, eight to 10 assists, 10 to 12 rebounds, and he just affects the game in three huge areas.
I actually think they will fare well against everyone else besides Jokic. The Lakers being a bigger and older team - older in a certain sense - struggle with those dynamic, shifty or explosive guards. I actually think that Denver is a better matchup for the Lakers compared to the previous two they’ve had in Memphis and Golden State.
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