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

[holidayinn21]

12 seconds and two fukking timeouts. Extend the game and get an extra 2-3 possessions to tie or win

But that would make too much sense. Let's just settle for one shot at the buzzer

Yet people get mad when playoff coaches get fired. These muthafukkas are DUMB, and can't manage a game for shyt

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I like the Jimmy Butler Jamal Murray matchup for the Heat

Lock his ass down if you really really like that

Let’s go Himmy

 

[CrimsonTider]

12 seconds and two fukking timeouts. Extend the game and get an extra 2-3 possessions to tie or win

But that would make too much sense. Let's just settle for one shot at the buzzer

Yet people get mad when playoff coaches get fired. These muthafukkas are DUMB, and can't manage a game for shyt

Playing the result

 

[MarcP]

Finals MVP Bam?

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

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. .

It makes sense, making him a scorer means less threes.

 

[Stone]

Heat also made like 50% of their 3s too. Any game plan looks good when that happens

 

[iamduval]

It makes sense, making him a scorer means less threes.

Joker is going to pass whether you double team him or not. They run off ball actions every set. Miami played with more force and didn’t give up easy switches. That made joker look at the basket bc the plays had essentially broken down.

Spo isn’t “making Jokic a scorer”. The Heat are playing with more connectivity on defense

 

[Braman]

One again modern analytics types reinventing the wheel. You don’t NOT call timeout when down 3 with 13 seconds left.

You call timeout and drive bc the defense will practically give you a free 2. Then you foul, then they may miss one or if not you’re right back at the same position. Probably the same time left to initiate.

Bc it took Murray a whole 7 seconds to initiate a pick——they initiate a pick to go from Vincent on Murray to jimmy butler ——and he doesn’t start downhill until 4 seconds. So 9 useless seconds. Thats the time it takes to do the whole quick 2, foul, timeout sequence

 

[CarltonJunior]

MPJ is useless a good 75% of the time. No one seems to miss more open threes than he does.

Funny you say this because I feel like I haven't seen this nikka miss a open shot all playoffs until the finals

He was automatic in the phoenix series in particular

 

[Somebody]

Joker’s whole offense is fouling. He just lowers his shoulder like a full back every time.

Spo understands that game planning around the refs letting the nuggets foul on both sides of the ball is his only path to winning.

Murray is a defensive liability. Gordon is a hack. Joke is a hack. Brown is a hack. KCP is a hack.

Accept that the nuggets have been conditioned to be able to get away with football moves and you’ll have the chance to make them pay.

 

[#1 pick]

Butler locked Murray DOWN in the second half when in the first half he was going absolutely ballistic.

Butler is the leader of the team for a reason. He’s the closer. Without him there IS NO Eastern Conference Finals for anyone to win an MVP.

He's critical. He's the producer. He's the only 1v1 guy on the roster thats good at defending.

 

[#1 pick]

Joker’s whole offense is fouling. He just lowers his shoulder like a full back every time.

Spo understands that game planning around the refs letting the nuggets foul on both sides of the ball is his only path to winning.

Murray is a defensive liability. Gordon is a hack. Joke is a hack. Brown is a hack. KCP is a hack.

Accept that the nuggets have been conditioned to be able to get away with football moves and you’ll have the chance to make them pay.

No.

 

[#1 pick]

Funny you say this because I feel like I haven't seen this nikka miss a open shot all playoffs until the finals

He was automatic in the phoenix series in particular

Hes one of the most automatic open shooters in the NBA.

 

[Draje]

Heat also made like 50% of their 3s too. Any game plan looks good when that happens

Yes, the Heat’s two stars are offensive players that push pressure on the rim and operate from inside the 3P line so they can draw attention from their role player shooters. That’s why they’re both great playmakers for their position and high IQ passers.

It was a similar game plan to G1 and it generated great looks there, they just didn’t fall.

 

[iamduval]

The adjustment is to have Joker guard Kevin love. Put Gordon on Bam instead of jimmy. Dare jimmy to get 40-50