Lakers News: Darvin Ham Defiant Despite Doomed Series

LA's first-year head coach putting on a brave public face.

Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham is donning a brave public face following the Lakers' home loss against the Denver Nuggets.

"The deficit is 3-0, not [4-0]," Ham said, per ESPN. "As long as they haven't gotten to four yet, there's still hope. We're still alive."

While Ham is mathematically accurate, and he probably needs to say this publicly to help motivate his players, it is our duty to point out that, across each of the previous 149 times an NBA team has fallen to an 0-3 start in a best-of-seven series, that club has failed to successfully fight back.

How could the 150th time be different?

It most likely cannot.

Barring catastrophic injury, this Denver Nuggets club feels too talented, big and motivated to drop all of the next four games in the series, but there's a chance that its relative youth and lack of NBA Finals pedigree (beyond starting shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, whom Lakers fans know all too well, and reserve power forward Jeff Green, who of course appeared in the 2018 NBA Finals next to Lakers All-Star LeBron James) could at least spot Los Angeles a game or two in this series.

The Lakers' biggest weaknesses (transition defense, consistent three-point shooting, ball control under pressure) have been utterly exposed against a Denver Nuggets club that can actually better it in terms of size, one of the biggest factors that had contributed to LA's charmed playoff run prior to meeting this buzzsaw of a Denver offense.

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