Two hard-fought losses to Denver — the second one in a game the Lakers led by 20 and lost on a dramatic last-second Jamal Murray fadeaway — have brought that frustration to a low boil. You could hear it in Anthony Davis' postgame comment after the Lakers went down 0-2 to the defending champions (and see it in his body language.

Michael Malone tweaked his defense to allow Aaron Gordon to guard Anthony Davis, disarming the Davis-LeBron James pick-and-roll and leaving the Lakers completely disoriented on offense for a significant stretch of the late-third and early-fourth quarter.

It looks like Darvin Ham's job as Lakers head coach may be safe regardless of how their series versus the Nuggets turns out.