Today, the Lakers welcomed their arch-rival Nuggets, and the final outcome was a joy for many Lakers fans, as they finally swept away the previous gloom and beat the Nuggets on the road. In this game, the Lakers defeated the Nuggets 123-100, and the Lakers played very well overall, with four starters scoring more than 20 points. Its Doncic scored 32 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists today, playing the best game since joining the Lakers, James scored 25 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, and Reaves chipped in 23 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists.

The reason why the Lakers can win the Nuggets today has a lot to do with their strategy on the defensive end. Strictly speaking, after Davis left the Lakers, the Lakers are extremely weak inside, and it may be reasonable to think that the Lakers will still be difficult to beat the Nuggets in this game. But even with the Lakers sitting on such a weak interior line, Hayes is completely unable to guard Jokic, but why are they still able to win? This is thanks to Redick's defensive set-up.

The direct characteristic of Davis and Hayes is that Hayes moves faster than Davis, maybe Hayes doesn't have a good frame protection ability, but his movement speed is faster. It is more suitable for the Lakers' rotation defense, Redick's defensive strategy today is to pinch Jokic, when Jokic receives the ball in the low post, the Lakers players decisively go up to the pinch attack, at this time Jokic will choose to pass to other teammates, and the Lakers will quickly rotate the defense, and the Nuggets are still difficult to find good shooting opportunities. Overall, it was the Lakers' unmisplaced defense today that made it difficult for the Nuggets to play and made Jokic not complete the outburst.

Ham hasn't found such a good defensive strategy for two seasons, and Redick has already discovered this secret in just two games. Redick used more of the small lineup today, which had a good effect, because one of the characteristics of the small lineup is that the rotation defense is very strong. Ham hadn't thought of using a small lineup because he relied too heavily on Davis at the time. However, Davis's single defense of Jokic also did not have a very good effect, so the best strategy against the Nuggets was to pinch Jokic and the other players quickly rotated to defend. So it's better to use a five-small lineup. This is the wisdom of Redick, Hamm is indeed inferior to Redick in terms of on-the-spot personnel and layout, including tactical thinking.