The Lakers will go back to Los Angeles for Games 3 and 4 being 0-2 in the Western Conference Finals against the Nuggets.

In a tightly contested Game 2, the Purple and Gold fell 103-108 (27-27, 26-21, 26-28, 24-32). LeBron James and Austin Reaves were the top scorers for the Lakers with 22 points each, followed by Rui Hachimura (21 points) and Anthony Davis (18 points).

Lakers head coach Darvin Ham liked what he saw from his team overall in Game 2, saying that it has improved from Game 1.

“We missed some pretty good looks,” Ham said postgame. “First of all, respect to them [Nuggets]. They did what they were supposed to do, take care of their home floor, hell serve. Now it’s on us to fill our cups back up and go do what we need to do on our own home floor starting with Game 3. That’s all we need to be concerned about is Game 3.

“In terms of efficiency, we were aggressive, came out a whole lot better than we did in Game 1. Again, the increments in which we’re improving as this series foes on, albeit has only been two games, we did a lot of good things out there tonight.

“We had some lulls that they were able to take advantage of. Did a great job defensively in that first half, majority of the third and then kind of got out of rhythm offensively. And they caught fire and that combination usually leads to your demise.

“Proud of our guys. They bounced back. We addressed a lot of things that we said we were going to try to do better. Still got to be better in transition D. But overall the energy was there, the effort was there, the urgency was there. We just caught a bad stretch.”