Draymond Green’s Analogy: Like Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney Fight, Lakers Lost Series at Halftime in Game 3 Despite Leading Nuggets

What more can the Los Angeles Lakers do to get at least one win against the Denver Nuggets? Even LeBron James and the rest are looking for the answer, probably since they last beat the Nuggets, in 2022. And despite leading by over ten points in all three games of this year’s series, the Lakers have failed to break their lengthy losing streak against Denver, which is now at 11 games. With that, the Lakers’ long-time rival, Draymond Green made a unique analogy, comparing the Nuggets vs Lakers series to the recent Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney fight.

Addressing the Lakers’ Game 3 loss on The Draymond Green Show, Draymond said the Lakers are in the same situation with Denver, like Haney was with Garcia during their fight on April 20. At one point, when Haney got some good punches in against Garcia, Ryan knew he could not lose that fight. And Draymond claimed Garcia realized mid-fight or even before that, “If Devin Haney gave me his best shot, it couldn’t hurt me.” Similarly, the Nuggets understood the Lakers’ best effort is not enough to defeat them.

Up four points at halftime, the Lakers were cruising early in the game yesterday. But it all went downhill in the second half as Nikola Jokic and Co. outscored the Lakers by 34-22 in the third quarter. And the Lakers could never recover after that. After witnessing a deflated Lakers squad give up a commanding lead three consecutive times against Denver, Draymond claimed, “Needless to say, this series is over.” Green strongly believes if not tomorrow, then Game 5 will be the end of the Lakers’ season.

Why was Draymond Green disappointed in Anthony Davis?

After his take about the series, comparing it with the Garcia-Haney fight, Draymond also expressed his sheer disappointment in Lakers superstar Anthony Davis. And that was because of AD’s comments after their heart breaking Game 2 loss in Denver. A viral statement saying, “We have stretches where we just don’t know what we’re doing on both ends of the floor.” Davis indirectly blamed the team’s failure on head coach Darvin Ham. And that rubbed Draymond the wrong way, maybe because of his bias toward Ham, because of their connection from Saginaw, Michigan.

“To throw him (Darvin Ham) under the bus like that, I didn’t like. I didn’t appreciate it, I didn’t respect it.” Green said about AD’s comments. Now, the reason Draymond defended Ham was because the head coach was doing something right on the floor that helped the team take a 20-point lead mid-way through the third quarter. So, did he suddenly go into the Lakers’ huddle and switched the game plan, that eventually caused the Lakers to blow their lead, and lose the game? Probably not.

Even the players failed to execute the plan and maintain their lead, in what could have been an easy and crucial win for the Lakers. So, AD might need to take some accountability for the Lakers’ crumbling under pressure. Do you believe Draymond’s prediction of the Lakers getting eliminated tomorrow or in Game 5 will come true?