Chapter 489 A Great Deal 3
Chapter 489 A Great Deal 3
"Yes, today the entire Los Angeles Lakers team seems to be playing well, but in defense, they are making some mistakes that make the Denver Nuggets team still stand a chance of winning that game."
"The highlight of the game so far seems to be rookie Jake Smith again, he was the best player on the Lakers team so far he is playing very well as a PG on the team."
In the third quarter of the game, coach Harris started replacing some players for a few minutes so they wouldn't get tired, but Jake was always on the court because he himself asked not to be replaced.
For some reason the team coach Denver Nuggets also made some substitutions for a few minutes, he even replaced Raef LaFrentz who was making an excellent game and Nick Van Exel too.
When Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant were replaced, Jake had a few minutes when he decided to attack alone taking advantage of the weakness of the Denver Nuggets' defense, in a few minutes Jake scored 9 points by hitting 3 shots from 3 points from 4 attempts.
This showed one of the reasons Jake was chosen as the first pick of the 1998 draft, Jake also achieved a steal in those minutes and increased the Los Angeles Lakers' lead by 5 points, so the Denver Nuggets fans realized they wouldn't see the team of them winning that game.
In another attacking move by the Los Angeles Lakers team, Jake came at a fast pace for the attack, Kobe Bryant was still off the court and Jake passed the ball to Tyronn Lue from the right, Lue received the ball and the Denver Nuggets team's defense pressed and Lue had to pass the ball to Fox.
Rick Fox had made a good defensive game and helped the team with some points, Stith pressed in the defense and so Fox passed the ball back to Jake, Jake saw that Shaquille O'Neal was asking for the ball and passed it to him.
McDyess pressed O'Neal in defense, but O'Neal did a Power move and passed McDyess and dunk using all his strength and held the hoop making the hoop swing, it was a good move by O'Neal who was annoyed with McDyess's good defense in the game.
The third quarter ended with the Los Angeles Lakers team being close to winning the game with a big points advantage, Jake played for 12 minutes and had 13 points, 3 assists, 3 rebounds, and 3 steals.
"What a great third quarter of Jake Smith we could see, he scored 13 points in those 12 minutes and still got 3 assists, this is the fourth game of the season and Jake Smith has played every minute so far and this has been helping the Los Angeles Lakers team a lot."
"It's true, Jake Smith won several marathons and shows that he really has great stamina at the beginning of the season, his first game as PG shows that he has to stay in this position and help the Lakers team to continue winning."
"With the big advantage in points that the Los Angeles Lakers team has in this game, we can say that they have already won this game, they are more than 22 points and the Denver Nuggets team has only 12 minutes to make that difference."
Just as the commentators said in the last quarter of the game the two teams had already accepted the result and were not putting so much pressure on the attack and defense, so the last quarter ended and the Los Angeles Lakers team won the fourth game this season and the Denver team Nuggets lost the fourth game.