For three quarters Thursday night, Jamal Murray was pedestrian.
He short-armed shots he normally buries and bypassed teammates with better looks.
For three quarters, the Lakers’ clever wrinkle — deploying length with Jarred Vanderbilt or LeBron James on him — appeared to work.
When the Lakers double-teamed Nikola Jokic, Murray wasn’t making them pay like the Nuggets needed. But by the fourth quarter . . .