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Lakers vs Nuggets Live Stream: Denver Nuggets showed incredible effort in Game 3 to pull out a win against the Lakers. L.A. still has the advantage in this series, but Game 3 showed that the Nuggets are starting to figure things out. This team is comfortable playing as the underdogs, and while it isn’t ideal to be playing from behind, we can’t count Denver out until they are absolutely out of the postseason.

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MATCH: Lakers vs Nuggets
When: Thursday, Sept. 24 | 9 p.m. ET
Where: Disney Wide World of Sports — Orlando, Florida
Online streaming: https://accesstvpro.co/nba/
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The Los Angeles Lakers were unable to extend their series lead to 3-0 on Tuesday after they were outplayed by the Denver Nuggets in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals. Here are three takeaways from the game.

The Lakers weren’t able to play the Nuggets man-to-man on Tuesday because the Nuggets just played more physically than the Lakers did on both ends of the floor. With the types of athletes that they have on their roster, that’s hardly surprising.

In an attempt to rectify that, the Lakers switched to a zone defense late in the fourth quarter and it worked for them. The Lakers outscored the Nuggets 31-21 in the fourth quarter. That’s not to say the Lakers shouldn’t try to match the Nuggets’ aggression in Game 3, but if they find themselves in a hole again, that’s a defensive look they could turn to.

Bubble Kuz was the story of the first round and Playoff Rondo was the breakout star in the second. Unfortunately, in the last two games, Playoff Rondo and Bubble Kuz were nowhere to be found — just regular ol’ Rondo and Kuzma. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it should change the way Vogel goes about his rotations, and it hasn’t in the last two games. Now, are their situations fluid? Of course they are! Just look at the impact Rondo had in the Lakers’ fourth quarter run in Game 3!

The problem is that their situations aren’t being treated like they are. Kuzma played crunch time minutes in a game he didn’t play well in. Rondo was a game-low -13 in the box score. That’s a problem.

In Game 2, the Denver Nuggets showed that they’re a force to be reckoned with, but the Los Angeles Lakers were still able to escape with the win thanks to a game-winning 3-point shot from Anthony Davis. In Game 3, the Lakers needed more than 2.1 seconds of magic, and they got it in the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, there just wasn’t enough for them to get the win this time.

After trailing by as much as 20 points — the most they’ve fallen behind by in any game during the entire NBA playoffs — the Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter and closed the gap to just three points. That was the closest they’d get, though, as the Nuggets outlasted them in the fourth to beat them 114-106. The series is now at 2-1.

Whether it was result of their 2-0 lead in the series, or the energy they exuded to get that lead, the Lakers looked flat-footed for most of Tuesday night’s game, and they suffered for it on both ends of the floor. While they still shot a respectable 51.8% from the field, they were abysmal from behind the 3-point line, making just 6 of their 26 attempts. Anthony Davis shot 0-4 from behind the arc.

The most telling stat of the night wasn’t Davis’ 3-point shooting, though; it was his rebounding. In 41:59, Davis recorded only 2 rebounds. No one on the team outside of LeBron James recorded more than five rebounds.

That’s because the Nuggets were just flat-out more aggressive than the Lakers on both ends of the floor, and why wouldn’t they be? A 3-0 deficit in the series likely would have marked the end of their time in Orlando, even with the knowledge that they came back from 3-1 in their two previous series.

The Lakers, on the other hand, played like they knew that they’d still be up 2-0 in the series if they lost this game with the exception of the swarming, zone defense-fueled run they went on in the fourth quarter. Now, the Nuggets will have the opportunity to tie the series up at two games apiece in Game 4 on Thursday.