Heating Up Some Nuggets To Go With My 'Big-Face Coffee'! | Official Miami HEAT (#8) vs. Denver Nuggets (#1) | 2023 NBA Finals Thread

[Hawala Man]

Sometimes the whistle goes in your favor and sometimes it doesn’t

I was frustrated with some calls/non-calls but I don’t think that’s why we lost

We had some legitimate fouls called against us that were a result of just dumbness and lack of focus and discipline

The Nuggets getting caught up with the refs did not help them in trying to win this game

@CP3. That's a Nuggets fan telling you the truth take notes you casual...

 

[Koli_Kat]

MPJ fukking trash. He gives them an efficient 12 points and Denver wins

He's in the same box I put cats like Jordan Poole, Jr Smith and Nick Young in

 

[Derek Lee]

 

[In The Zone '98]

He's in the same box I put cats like Jordan Poole, Jr Smith and Nick Young in

Gotta be a star in your role.

 

[CP3.]

@CP3. That's a Nuggets fan telling you the truth take notes you casual...

The fukk you talking about?

I don't think the refs are the reason Miami won. I think they're a reason. Bigger reason is Denver played like shyt to even make the refs relevant in the first place.

We acting like NBA refs don't regularly decide the outcome of games with their bullshyt now? That's what we're doing? Okay

Seriously whose alt is this?

 

[DJK]

Yes, it's an oversimplification.
But Spo didn't have to do ole girl like that.
Bc there IS a big difference btw 27pts/14 Assts and 41 pts/4 Assts.
Heat much more likely to lose if Jokic has 14 assists again. .

 

[nightwing2016]

MPJ can’t have a game where he is missing wide open looks. He missed 4 wide open 3s this game. KCP can’t foul three point shooters on two second occasions in the fourth. Murray can’t be biting on the head fakes from Duncan Robinson or letting him blow by them. Jeff Green is too big to be pushed out of the paint by Kyle Lowry leading to a foul and a five point swing. Denver needs to play a compete game and people need to show up

 

[MarcP]

MPJ an honorary Heat lifer with Jaylen Brown. I'm loving this nikka's court vision.

 

[im not you]

Jokic's defense, or lack thereof as you perceive it, has been a talking point all season. It was one of the main reasons why he didn't win MVP because it used as propaganda to take away from the season he was having. What rock have you been living under that you didn't witness that?

But to that point - if your takeaway was how bad his defense was, when he contained Butler on almost every drive, held his own on switches (even drew an offensive foul on Lowry) and played good positional defense for most of the game, then how bad do you believe the rest of the team played on that end?

butler is playing on a bum ankle but even on that bum ankle, jokic blew pnr coverage on a key play down the stretch allowing bam to get sent to the FT line

the play previous to the offensive foul, lowry hit a 3 on him out of a pick n pop when he was too slow to recover. bam got an and1 dunk rolling off a screen because jokic blew the coverage.

mpj, kcp were also bad tonight, but we're talking about jokic. kcp got called out multiple times by the analyst but not a word was said about jokic mistakes throughout the game

 

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

The Heat is like a Mexican boxer, they gotta get punched in the face the first 4-5 rounds to get comfortable

 

[BK The Great]

 

[threattonature]

Lol you’re finally playing a team that can shoot open 3s. Has absolutely nothing to do with effort

I think part of it to is that Miami is on that old Golden State shyt where they leverage all their shooters and force the defense to make so many reads that they start to mentally tire out.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Miami's going to be rocking for Game 3; all the Heat needed to do was split in Denver.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

They’re trying to limit the Heat’s success to “They made 3s and Denver missed them” like the Heat didn’t play suffocating defense while being extremely aggressive.

No mention of what the Heat did well, the mental toughness, Bam’s playmaking and passing, and the role players playing properly.

Well, that's what the game essentially came down to.

Miami made 17 threes at 48% and Denver 11 threes at 38%.



That doesn't mean the Heat didn't show mental toughness and it doesn't mean the role players didn't rise to the occasion. You can talk about them both, together, they're not mutually exclusive concepts. The game was decided by three points in a back-and-forth battle where both teams had double-digit leads; Miami shooting that well from behind the arc is the most important component in them winning.

MPJ's lack of contributions on both ends had more impact on the result than Miami's "suffocating defense".

 

[jdubnyce]

Small ass TV