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Once they see two go down, it could be three, it could turn into six just like that,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said, snapping his fingers. A regression now dooms them.īoth coaches told their shooters not to hold back. Miami is in the Finals partly because of spectacular shotmaking, particularly from their role players, throughout the postseason. It’s simplistic but true - whichever team can find its 3-point stroke will win Game 2. I’ve got to keep shooting those, work on my shots on these couple days off. “Ball felt pretty good coming out of my hands, but yeah, I can’t worry too much about percentages. “I thought I had great looks,” Porter Jr. Miami bounced back in the fourth and hit 6-of-12 3-point attempts, but finished shooting an unimpressive 13-of-39, 33.3% from beyond the arc.ĭenver was 8-of-27 from 3, 29.6% in Game 1. As Malone noted, the Heat had 16 open 3-pointers in Game 1 (using NBA tracking data) and hit just five of them. Much has been made of the Heat’s shooting struggles in Game 1` - Max Strus, Duncan Robinson and Caleb Martin combined to shoot 2-of-23 from 3. You’ve got to understand that about this team.” 2) Which team hits its 3s They will continue to fight through the entirety of the game. You can’t be lackadaisical,” Aaron Gordon said. “You just can’t be complacent with this team. What appears to separate them from the teams the Heat beat before is Denver seems far less likely to get sucked into Miami’s game. It can’t if the Heat are going to win this game and even the NBA Finals. The challenge a more aggressive Heat team faces is part of what led to all the jumpers in Game 1 - Denver is just a physically bigger team. So I have to be the one to come out and kick that off the right way, which I will, and we’ll see where we end up.” They definitely follow suit whenever I’m aggressive on both sides of the ball. “I think that makes everybody’s job a lot easier. “I think I’ve got to be more aggressive putting pressure on the rim,” Jimmy Butler said. Jokić only had to defend two shots at the rim in Game 1, the Heat can’t let that happen again.
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Fewer jump shots, more shots at the rim and more trips to the free throw line (the Heat had just two free throws in Game 1). The Heat need to throw sand in the gears of the Nuggets’ offense and drag the game into the mud with their physicality and tenaciousness. That is how Miami got here, by doing exactly that to Boston and Milwaukee, making those powerhouses play a grinding, defensive game.
The Heat need this to look like a 1990s rock-fight game against the Knicks. Jokic, Nuggets seek 2-0 lead Sunday at 8pm/et on ABC. The man in the middle of the offense was spectacular in his Finals debut! If the Nuggets’ off-ball-movement, transition game, passing and shooting run relatively unchecked, the Heat simply cannot keep pace. If Game 2 is free-flowing and up-tempo, it means Nikola Jokić is orchestrating another symphony. If Game 2 is beautiful, the Heat are in trouble. There has been the GOAT-level brilliance of LeBron James (complete with his passing skills), the overwhelming athleticism of Giannis Antetokounmpo, There has been beautiful basketball played at the highest level. There has been a lot of Stephen Curry and the Warriors with their off-ball movement, passing, shooting and beautiful game. 1) Can Miami force this game to be played in the mud?Īs fans, we have been spoiled watching NBA Finals games over the last decade.
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Here are two things worth watching, plus some betting advice from Vaughn Dalzell of NBC Sports Edge. As I told our players this morning, the fact that they got 16 wide-open threes is problematic.” “I watched that tape, and they were 5-of-16 on wide-open threes. “I don’t think we played well in Game 1,” Malone said. The Nuggets played what felt like an average game for them, although coach Michael Malone didn’t see it that way. The Heat had a rough Game 1 (at least for three quarters) and know they need to be more aggressive in Game 2.
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DENVER - Game 1 was what Denver fans wanted after waiting 47 years for the NBA Finals to come to town: Nikola Jokić was dominating with a triple-double, Jamal Murray was attacking downhill, Denver played to its size advantage and got out to a lead that was up to 24 at one point, then coasted in for a 104-93 win and series lead.
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