Today, the Lakers beat the Nuggets on the road, which can be said to be a shame. After all, in recent years, they have repeatedly lost against the Nuggets, and they are often pressed and beaten by opponents. But today, they were able to beat the Nuggets after Davis left. This really shows the difference between the Lakers at the moment.

Why were the Lakers able to beat the Nuggets today? Largely because they did a very good job of limiting Jokic, fans should find that Jokic's scoring was very low today, and they didn't see the familiar 30+ triple-doubles, Jokic only scored 12 points on 2-of-7 shooting today, and it was difficult to limit Jokic to less than 20 points, but the Lakers did it today.

Ham hasn't had a good way to limit Jokic in the past two years, and Redick found a good way to defend Jokic as soon as he took over. Attentive fans should notice that the Lakers used a five-man lineup a lot of the time today. When Jokic receives the ball in the low post, the Lakers will resolutely pinch and force Jokic to pass, while the Lakers will cut off Jokic's passing lane as much as possible at other points and do it as quickly as possible.

The advantage of the five-small lineup is that it can quickly change defenses and can do it without losing position. This is more helpful in limiting Jokic than Davis went to a one-on-one defense. Because Jokic can't still play hard in the face of two people's defense, he is bound to make passes, and after the pass, the Lakers' quick rotation defense is not out of position, and the Nuggets will still make some difficult shots. That's the biggest difference between the current Lakers and the Lakers before them.

Of course, another reason is also because the Lakers currently have a lot of players who have strong defensive ability, such as Finney Smith, such as Vincent, such as Vanderbilt. It's with these players that they can make quick changes in the rotation. Of course, the premise of all this is due to Redick's adjustment of personnel, he dared to use the five-small lineup, and dared to change the formation on the field. I have to say that Redick's study of tactics is indeed very profound, which may not be something Hamm will learn in his lifetime.