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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
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Speaker 2: to break down Game three of the NBA Finals. The
Speaker 2: Nuggets went into Miami and got a one oh nine
Speaker 2: to ninety four win, and quite frankly kicking it with
Speaker 2: the homies now right now, and every single one of
Speaker 2: them yesterday's like I got Miami. I got Miami, and
Speaker 2: like every single one, it's maybe what five.
Speaker 1: Six, six of them?
Speaker 2: They all bet against me and the bet was three
Speaker 2: shots in under ten minutes, which was very nice, by
Speaker 2: the way, Like ten minutes, that's a long time. And
Speaker 2: I said, I asked him, I said, yo, like, when
Speaker 2: all y'all bet together and y'all bet against me and
Speaker 2: I got not one point, did y'all think like if
Speaker 2: all of us are betting this way and he's saying
Speaker 2: Nuggets are gonna win.
Speaker 1: I let one of us flip to his side.
Speaker 2: No, they didn't, and I watched all of them take
Speaker 2: three shots in under ten minutes and it was great.
Speaker 1: So I said all of that to say.
Speaker 2: I was heavy Nuggets last night, and going back to
Speaker 2: what I said to y'all before, which is they aren't
Speaker 2: playing with their breakfast. They had the slip up in
Speaker 2: game to where it just didn't seem like they had
Speaker 2: the energy. You probably saw coach Malone's press conference saying
Speaker 2: lack of sense of urgency, blah blah blah, all of
Speaker 2: those things, and I said, they have not had that
Speaker 2: game on I didn't. I said this to myself, they
Speaker 2: haven't had a game like that. All playoffs, anything that
Speaker 2: they've had to do, they've they've taken care of their
Speaker 2: business when they needed to take care of their business.
Speaker 2: So I personally think they're going to go out there
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Speaker 2: think they're going to win game four, and they did
Speaker 2: exactly that. You could see right from the beginning of
Speaker 2: the game. The focus, you can see the intensity level
Speaker 2: locked in. That's the Denver Nuggets team that we've seen
Speaker 2: all playoffs long. How did they get there? Was what
Speaker 2: I thought was very interesting. Joker had thirty two twenty
Speaker 2: one and ten on twelve to twenty one, shooting great numbers,
Speaker 2: incredible numbers. The ten assists I thought was very very
Speaker 2: interesting because usually when when Joker is like Diamond, guys
Speaker 2: like it's like wow, like this guy getting everybody to
Speaker 2: me the tennis sists. He had seven assists in the
Speaker 2: first half, and to me, it didn't feel like he
Speaker 2: was dicing Miami up. It felt like he was cooking Miami.
Speaker 2: But it didn't feel like your typical him dicing Miami up,
Speaker 2: And I thought that was interesting. But who it did
Speaker 2: feel like was dice in Miami up when it came
Speaker 2: to play making was Jamal Murray. Now, when I was
Speaker 2: watching that game, I had no idea that Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: had a triple double until I looked after the game
Speaker 2: and saw they had a triple double.
Speaker 1: Now, that for me was very interesting because.
Speaker 2: Everyone's been talking about, you know, taking Joker out out
Speaker 2: of his pass and making him a score, and I
Speaker 2: thought one of Denver's adjustment was to just go heavy, heavy,
Speaker 2: heavy pick and roll with Jamal Murray and Joker, and
Speaker 2: Miami was taking the pocket away. So if you if
Speaker 2: you notice, Miami was taking the pocket away and Joker
Speaker 2: was kind of doing like a not not quite a
Speaker 2: short roll.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like a.
Speaker 2: Little pop not popping far out though, like he was
Speaker 2: almost like popping behind the pocket, and so Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: couldn't get the ball to him in the pocket, but
Speaker 2: he just kept stringing it out and then it's almost
Speaker 2: like a little toss back and that's where Joker was
Speaker 2: getting those little touch shots in the middle of the paint,
Speaker 2: which is where he found his rhythm. Now, I thought,
Speaker 2: I thought, and I've been watching this, and I thought,
Speaker 2: the way Miami is guarding Joker like, yes, their their
Speaker 2: mindset is to take the pocket away. I think we
Speaker 2: all know you want to take the pocket away, not
Speaker 2: let Joker catch the ball in the pocket with an
Speaker 2: advantage to hire to score and make plays because you
Speaker 2: a man down who's in the pick and roll coverage.
Speaker 2: And so I thought, and I still think, and this
Speaker 2: is a little more of an adjustment when Jokers setting
Speaker 2: the screen unlike Bam, he's not a fast roller. Like
Speaker 2: if Bam gets one step behind his or even even
Speaker 2: with his guy, if Bam sets the screen Jokers in
Speaker 2: pick and roll coverage or whoever else, if Bam now
Speaker 2: starts to roll and he ends up even with the guy,
Speaker 2: like not even behind me, because he ends up rolling
Speaker 2: and you get behind your man, it's all best are
Speaker 2: off coverage is done. If Bam, Bam is such a
Speaker 2: good roller that if he gets even with a man
Speaker 2: with his man, you throw the lib up. You can
Speaker 2: counted they converting that at an eighty five ninety percent clip. Bam,
Speaker 2: I'm saying, incredible lob threat. However, Joker is not He's
Speaker 2: not a fast roller. He's not a lot threat at all.
Speaker 2: And so something that I thought was very very interesting.
Speaker 1: Was that Miami.
Speaker 2: I think Miami needs to move Bam up to the
Speaker 2: level of the screen, like all the way up to
Speaker 2: the level, almost in like a contained blitz, Like not
Speaker 2: that he's necessarily blitzing Jamal Murray, but it's almost like
Speaker 2: a contained blitz that then allows Ay. If he's up
Speaker 2: at the level, it doesn't allow Jamal Murray to turn
Speaker 2: the corner. And if you don't allow Jamal Murray to
Speaker 2: turn the corner, Ay, that naturally takes the pocket away
Speaker 2: because you can't turn the corner to create the separation
Speaker 2: b it doesn't allow Joker to continue to catch the
Speaker 2: ball in the middle of the paint and where he's
Speaker 2: automatic from. And if you make one false movement off
Speaker 2: a guy, he's making a play. So I think Miami
Speaker 2: really needs to like move BAM all the way up
Speaker 2: to the level of the screen and there's Jamal Murray,
Speaker 2: Joker pick and rolls and stop Jamal Murray from turning
Speaker 2: to the corner, because what's happening is you're allowing Joker
Speaker 2: to get into a great rhythm with those little push
Speaker 2: shots right in the middle of the paint that if
Speaker 2: he gets the ball on the rim, he has such
Speaker 2: incredible touch and it's going in. But even more importantly,
Speaker 2: what you're allowing is Jamal Murray to find a rhythm,
Speaker 2: and Jamal Murray finding the rhythm has proven to be
Speaker 2: very problematic, not only for this team, Miami Heat with
Speaker 2: the a couple of games he's found a rhythm, but
Speaker 2: everyone in the playoffs. And if you look, Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: had a pretty tough goal in Game two. They put
Speaker 2: Jimmy on and we discussed that and he had a
Speaker 2: tough goal. I think he had seventeen points on eighteen
Speaker 2: shots or eighteen points on seventeen shots, something like that.
Speaker 2: So what's proven to really be a big issue is
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray four the Miami Heat, and he got it
Speaker 2: going last night. As I said, he had thirty four
Speaker 2: ten to ten on twelve for twenty two shooting.
Speaker 1: They're going to have to do a better. Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: had said.
Speaker 2: Something earlier in the playoffs, and I thought it was
Speaker 2: very interesting. I want to say, I want to say
Speaker 2: it was against Phoenix. I'm almost positive it was against
Speaker 2: Phoenix and he had a great game, maybe like great
Speaker 2: game one, and he's and in his interview after he
Speaker 2: was like how much do I have to do to
Speaker 2: get respect or something like that or that nature that
Speaker 2: he said, and like y'all.
Speaker 1: Gonna respect me? Yet to respect me now?
Speaker 2: And when I saw that, I was like, that is
Speaker 2: very interesting because Jamal Murray is a very good player.
Speaker 2: But quite frankly, when he said that, he didn't proceeded
Speaker 2: the next two games I.
Speaker 1: Think to play like have pretty rough go.
Speaker 2: At it, next two maybe three games, pretty rough go
Speaker 2: at it. And when I saw that, I was like,
Speaker 2: you can't come out and say that, like where's my
Speaker 2: respect and all of that.
Speaker 1: And then not follow up on the next.
Speaker 2: Game, because the reason you're not getting to respect is
Speaker 2: because people don't think that you're consistently doing it. Like
Speaker 2: you may have a game and then you know two
Speaker 2: three games, you don't have to well. I said all
Speaker 2: of that to say, Jamal Murray has completely changed that
Speaker 2: in these playoffs, completely changed that ain't no one or
Speaker 2: two games. It's now like he have one game and
Speaker 2: then two three bad ones or mediocre game. It's now
Speaker 2: great game, great game, great game, maybe one mediocre in
Speaker 2: there right back to it. And so I think the
Speaker 2: growth of Jamal Murray in these playoffs has actually been
Speaker 2: a incredible but b as much of a key as
Speaker 2: Denver being as dominant as they've been in the playoffs
Speaker 2: as Joker has been as much of a key for
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 2: To me, it was very evident that Okay, y'all want
Speaker 2: to make Nicola score, not allow others to get involved.
Speaker 1: This is what we're doing. We're going heavy.
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray, allowed Jamal Murray to get Na Coola involved,
Speaker 2: allowed Jamal Murray to get everyone else involved, and then
Speaker 2: start rolling from there. So that's actually why I think
Speaker 2: it didn't feel like some old like like Joker just
Speaker 2: dicing you up like you normally get the feel, you
Speaker 2: get the sense when they're playing. I thought that was
Speaker 2: very interesting. I thought that was to me, again, I'm
Speaker 2: not in their locker room. I don't know what's being said.
Speaker 2: I'm not in their shoot arounds, I'm not in their practices,
Speaker 2: I'm not in their team meetings. But to me, that
Speaker 2: looked like a point of emphasis and making adjustments. That
Speaker 2: looked like something that coach Mo said, this is what
Speaker 2: we're doing. This is how we're going to come back them.
Speaker 2: Just trying to make Nicole scored the ball over and
Speaker 2: over and over again and not get anyone else involved.
Speaker 2: In turn, like I said, you got two guys ending
Speaker 2: up with a triple double. Another adjustment that I saw
Speaker 2: that I thought was very interesting and even from the
Speaker 2: first half to the second half, is remember Miami zone.
Speaker 1: That's been a talk of the series. First couple of games.
Speaker 2: They went zone, especially laid in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 2: they were really able to stifle Denver's offense. And in turn,
Speaker 2: Game one they almost came back. Game two, they did
Speaker 2: come back and take the game. Another key in them
Speaker 2: coming back and taking game two was Duncan Robinson's ten
Speaker 2: points to start the fourth quarter. After if you remember
Speaker 2: me telling or you know, what I saw was Duncan
Speaker 2: Robinson couldn't get a shot off before the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: and then he come out, he gets it going in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, and I mean it proved to be
Speaker 2: too much for Denver, and Denver couldn't hit a shot.
Speaker 2: Miami took control of the game, took control of the series,
Speaker 2: headed back to Miami. I noticed Denver do something at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the game or not the beginning of
Speaker 2: the game. When Duncan Robinson first came in the game,
Speaker 2: I noticed Denver do something that I've seen in the
Speaker 2: playoffs before, which is when I saw that it was,
Speaker 2: you know, going back to the Cleveland Golden State Warriors
Speaker 2: Finals days and what that was. If you remember Cleveland
Speaker 2: had Kyle Korver, and you give the bron James a
Speaker 2: guy like Kyle Korver, He's going to find him, He's
Speaker 2: going to get him involved, and getting him involved it
Speaker 2: just changes it changes everything. It changes the team. And
Speaker 2: so what we ended up doing was we ended up
Speaker 2: calling it Corver. We ended up anytime Kyle Korver came
Speaker 2: off of a anytime Kyle Korver came off a pin down,
Speaker 2: anytime he came off a handoff, anytime Kyle Korver came
Speaker 2: into any action, we just switched it. So, if I'm
Speaker 2: on the big I'm garding Trisian Thompson, they handed off
Speaker 2: to Kyle Korver, I'm jumping out and almost like a
Speaker 2: blitz without the second guy pursuing is just switching.
Speaker 1: But I'm like heavy jumping.
Speaker 2: Out to Kyle Korver, making Kyle Korver have a panic
Speaker 2: attack and cost the ball up. You take the ball
Speaker 2: from Kyle Korver, or Kyle Korver had to make a pass,
Speaker 2: and it took Kyle and turned. It took Kyle Korver
Speaker 2: out of the series, which made it very I mean,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say easy. It's never easy to win, but
Speaker 2: it made our defense a lot more a predictable. It
Speaker 2: made it a lot easier for us to contain the
Speaker 2: Cavaliers offense. If I'm not mistaken, I think that's the
Speaker 2: year that we swept him, which would be twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, Kyle Korver could not get a shot, He
Speaker 2: couldn't get a shot off. And then Kyle Korver got
Speaker 2: a three pointer in the left corner in front of
Speaker 2: our bench the fourth quarter, very meaningful three, and he
Speaker 2: threw that mud over the rim airball because the rhythm
Speaker 2: just wasn't there, so you're jumping out every time. He
Speaker 2: never gets into a rhythm. He get that wide open
Speaker 2: corner three and throw it over the rim. It doesn't
Speaker 2: feel so open because guys have been draped all over
Speaker 2: Kyle Korver whenever he's in the game, and so now
Speaker 2: you take Kyle Kova shooting away, not the strongest defender,
Speaker 2: that allowed us to really roll, really really rolled, taking
Speaker 2: that shooting away. That's what Denver did last night to
Speaker 2: Duncan Robinson, especially early in the game Duncan Robinson came
Speaker 2: into an action, they just switched it Duncan Robinson not
Speaker 2: getting off, and it really really really neutralized Duncan Robinson.
Speaker 2: If you can continue to neutralize Duncan Robinson, Gay Vincent,
Speaker 2: if you can Neutra Max Strus, if you can neutralize
Speaker 2: all of those guys and not you know, even if
Speaker 2: it's one of them that get off, you can't have
Speaker 2: two and all three getting up of them getting off
Speaker 2: at the same time. And so I thought that was
Speaker 2: a very interesting thing for them to kind of just
Speaker 2: take Duncan Robinson right back out of the series and
Speaker 2: not allow him to have the impact that he had
Speaker 2: in Game two. Denver, on the other side, has someone
Speaker 2: that's playing similar to Duncan Robinson, Michael Porter Jr. Shooting
Speaker 2: a lot of jump shots threes and he can't get
Speaker 2: it going. And Michael Porter Jr. Is going to He's
Speaker 2: putting Coach Moe in a very tough spot now, you
Speaker 2: go out there and you win Game three, so you know,
Speaker 2: you never hit the panic button off off a win.
Speaker 2: But Michael Porter Jr. Is going to have to play better.
Speaker 2: We spoke about it earlier in this series, or at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the series, or leading up to or
Speaker 2: maybe a couple of series ago.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: Michael Porter defensively and not the strongest defender. I will
Speaker 2: say I've noticed him given more effort on the defensive end,
Speaker 2: and you can appreciate that.
Speaker 1: You know, he had one interesting thing. I saw.
Speaker 2: Denver really doing this when they were they're sending the
Speaker 2: ball screens to the middle.
Speaker 1: They're sitting there not icing it.
Speaker 2: They're sending all the ball screens to the middle, the
Speaker 2: guards chasing over the top of the ball screen. Miami's
Speaker 2: taking a lot of mid range jump shots to pursuit
Speaker 2: and contest that they're getting off those ball screens. It
Speaker 2: looks to me as if that's a point of emphasis
Speaker 2: because everybody was doing it, even Michael Porter was doing it.
Speaker 1: But he's going to have to play better.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, even like, Okay, that's great,
Speaker 2: that's better. But this is the NBA Finals. I think
Speaker 2: Michael Porter Junior Is going to have to give even
Speaker 2: even more effort. There was one Max Shrews three in
Speaker 2: the first half where Max Shrews slipped out, KCP ran
Speaker 2: to help. When he ran to help, Max Shruce was open.
Speaker 2: He was at the ran to the top of the
Speaker 2: key to help Max Shruce is open. They kicked the
Speaker 2: Max Strus. You have Michael Porter Jr. In the corner,
Speaker 2: like you gotta make that next rotation. Michael Porter Jr.
Speaker 2: Doesn't make the next rotation. KCP comes running back from
Speaker 2: helping to get back to Max Shrus when you should
Speaker 2: get the next rotation from Michael Porter Jr. He comes
Speaker 2: running back. Max Shrews lines it up now. Doesn't cost
Speaker 2: you yesterday. But all of a sudden Max Shrews see
Speaker 2: that one go in which he did, but then he
Speaker 2: catch a rhythm off that, and those are the type
Speaker 2: of plays that can cost you.
Speaker 1: So I think they're going to need a little more
Speaker 1: from Michael Porter Junior.
Speaker 2: Miami's making a very conscious effort to not leave him,
Speaker 2: to not give him open looks. And then once he
Speaker 2: does get the open looks like Kyle Korver, it doesn't
Speaker 2: feel so open and he's and he's not knocking him down.
Speaker 2: So for Denver to continue to dominate the series or
Speaker 2: they've took taken control of the series.
Speaker 1: They're going to need more from Michael Porter Jr. And
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown.
Speaker 2: Bruce Brown, to me, I view Bruce Brown as one
Speaker 2: of the guys that has to play well, that you're
Speaker 2: expecting to play well. Not quite your typical role player
Speaker 2: who's like if they do play well, that's a bonus
Speaker 2: for you know. I view Bruce Brown as like he
Speaker 2: has to play well, he needs to. They need him
Speaker 2: to play well in order to win, in which they
Speaker 2: would have last night. But the rookie came in. Christian
Speaker 2: Brown comes in fifteen points, all back door cuts, all
Speaker 2: hustle plays, still transition dump play this role extremely well.
Speaker 2: And so I yesterday Christian bron covered for Bruce Brown
Speaker 2: in turn, you know, and helped him win the game.
Speaker 2: But can you are we going to expect the rookie
Speaker 2: to play like that again?
Speaker 1: Now I'll give him kudos. I take my hat off
Speaker 1: to the rookie.
Speaker 2: You go get fifteen points in nineteen minutes for rebounds,
Speaker 2: couple steals, affecting the game on your first NBA Finals
Speaker 2: role game.
Speaker 1: That was very impressive.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a that's a kid who got taken
Speaker 2: out of the starting lineup, I mean out of the
Speaker 2: star lineup. Excuse me, out of the rotation, was taken
Speaker 2: out of the rotation last series. Stays ready and is
Speaker 2: ready for his moment. Professional rookie going to have a
Speaker 2: long career in this league. That very thing right there
Speaker 2: is so valuable. And for him to do that on
Speaker 2: this stage in the NBA Finals as a rookie, I
Speaker 2: take my hat off to him because he helped he
Speaker 2: He won Denver that game last night. His hustle, plays,
Speaker 2: his back door cuts, timely buckets finishes, he won Denver
Speaker 2: that game last night. So I take my hat off
Speaker 2: to the rookie. I thought that was the job well
Speaker 2: done for him. And you know, shout out to his
Speaker 2: vets for I'm sure they're giving him that message stay ready,
Speaker 2: and he did that and he helped them take control
Speaker 2: of the series again. And like I said, be interesting
Speaker 2: to see what happens in game four. But I got
Speaker 2: Denverer in Game four. Another couple of things that I witnessed. Listen,
Speaker 2: So Steph Curry is like he made me aware of this,
Speaker 2: like over through the years, it's guys holding on to
Speaker 2: the ball at the end of a quarter, like so
Speaker 2: they don't lessen their shooting percentage. And I saw a
Speaker 2: couple of guys do that yesterday, Like this is the
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs, man, it's the NBA Finals. Who cares if
Speaker 2: your shooting percentage drop a little bit? You see that
Speaker 2: a lot in the regular season where guys don't want
Speaker 2: to like throw that he they hold it till after
Speaker 2: the shot, after the buzzer go off, and then shoot
Speaker 2: it because they don't want to drop their shooting percentage.
Speaker 2: That that very things drives Steph Curry nuts. Now, quite frankly,
Speaker 2: if Steph shoots, he's Travis Walton, my trainer, my brother.
Speaker 2: He gets very mad at me for shooting. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 2: I played with Steph Curry, Like, Steph gonna get very
Speaker 2: upset if you're just holding the ball and not shooting. Now,
Speaker 2: quite frankly, Steph is the best shooter we've ever seen,
Speaker 2: the greatest shooter we've ever seen.
Speaker 1: So his numbers are going.
Speaker 2: To even out anyway, and he's going to get to
Speaker 2: attempts to even out when you don't quite get the
Speaker 2: attempts is a tough thing. It's saying that I'm watching
Speaker 2: guys do that in the playoffs, and it's so unacceptable
Speaker 2: to do that during the playoffs. Because Jordan Poole actually
Speaker 2: helped us win the NBA Championship by hitting two shots
Speaker 2: last year before the buzzer, and one of them was
Speaker 2: he came across, he crossed cross right in front half
Speaker 2: court line.
Speaker 1: He shoot it and he make it.
Speaker 2: Another one, if I'm not mistaken, he banked it and
Speaker 2: he was like going up the left side of the court.
Speaker 2: And the shots were so important because one of them
Speaker 2: that he made it gave us the lead going into
Speaker 2: the going into the fourth quarter, and Boston had made
Speaker 2: this crazy run, and so to go on this crazy run,
Speaker 2: I think it ended up putting us up one or
Speaker 2: two points going into the fourth quarter. And the run
Speaker 2: that they were on, it's like if they go in
Speaker 2: tied up or with the league, they're feeling good going
Speaker 2: into that fourth quarter. But when you go on a
Speaker 2: run like they went on in that third quarter, to
Speaker 2: have to claw and fight your way back into the game,
Speaker 2: and then you look up and even if it's one
Speaker 2: point or two points, you look up and you down.
Speaker 2: It's just a gut punch and so Jordan not being
Speaker 2: that way due to Steph Currys tu the lich.
Speaker 1: Actually helped us win in NBA Finals, like.
Speaker 2: Two very important shots, just like and you may not
Speaker 2: think like, oh that was a good shot, Oh that's exciting,
Speaker 2: but what it did to the momentum of the game
Speaker 2: was huge. So I just want to say, guys, stop
Speaker 2: holding the ball at the end of the quarter, like, like,
Speaker 2: shoot the ball like you if I can make go
Speaker 2: in and they can win you in NBA Finals, Like
Speaker 2: who cares about your shooting percentage?
Speaker 1: Another thing that I saw.
Speaker 2: From the Denver Nuggets coach Malone, Like coach Malone adjustments
Speaker 2: were on point last night. Another thing that I saw
Speaker 2: was in the first half, first quarter or ish maybe
Speaker 2: top of the second quarter, late first top of the
Speaker 2: second Joker goes to the bench. When Joker went to
Speaker 2: the bench, they went that zone and Denver struggled again.
Speaker 2: They couldn't get into any offense, couldn't get any good looks.
Speaker 2: Struggled they had. That was the lineup with Jeff Green
Speaker 2: at the fire. I think it was Jeff Green and
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon and at the same time, but I'm certain
Speaker 2: Jeff Green was in and it really hurt Denver. If
Speaker 2: you see at the end of the third, top of
Speaker 2: the fourth, Joker was in and Miami wasn't able to
Speaker 2: go zone, which hurt them. There's another adjustment, y'all, zoning
Speaker 2: us every fourth quarter as soon as because Joker is
Speaker 2: starting on the bench, killing our rhythm and now it's downhill,
Speaker 2: Mike Malone goes to Joker at the top of the
Speaker 2: fourth not to allow Denver, not allow Miami to get
Speaker 2: in that zone. In Denver Road, the chess match. Got
Speaker 2: to enjoy the chess match, got to pay attention to
Speaker 2: the chess match. So I thought Mike Malone's adjustments were great.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to seeing Miami's adjustments. I already kind
Speaker 2: of hinted at one of them, which I think is
Speaker 2: a very important one, which is getting Bam up to
Speaker 2: the level of the screen almost in a trap, not
Speaker 2: quite a trap, because you're not just trapping and selling
Speaker 2: out and then giving the cola pass and allow him
Speaker 2: to go make plays with numbers. But you're up at
Speaker 2: the level. Now you're up at the level. You got
Speaker 2: Jimmy on. You need to get Jimmy on. Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: BAM's up at the level doesn't allow Jamal Murray to
Speaker 2: turn the corner. If Jokers start rolling, you're up at
Speaker 2: the level, then you just start to drop with Joker
Speaker 2: as he dropped. Pocket never opens up, Jamal never quite
Speaker 2: turns the corner. You got your athletic defensive stopper, Jimmy
Speaker 2: Butler pursuing making it tough getting the review contests if
Speaker 2: he needs to, but you're keeping the ball contained so
Speaker 2: it won't be too much review contesting and saying that
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler's capable more than capable. So I think that's
Speaker 2: something that the Miami Heat needs to do. I also
Speaker 2: think Miami has to find a way to get those
Speaker 2: shooters going again. Gave Vincent getting in foul trouble. I
Speaker 2: thought it really hurt them last night, threw off their rhythm.
Speaker 2: Gay Vince has been playing incredibly well. Miami has to
Speaker 2: find a way to get those guys involved. And if
Speaker 2: they're going to switch like they were doing on the
Speaker 2: shooters coming into action, maybe you need to get some keeps.
Speaker 2: Bam is really good at the keeps. Bam actually gave
Speaker 2: me a couple of pointers on the keeps when we
Speaker 2: were playing in the Olympics, so may need to mix
Speaker 2: in some of that to loosen the defense up. But
Speaker 2: I got Denver taking game three. In Game four, Denver
Speaker 2: got outscored from the three. I think Miami had maybe
Speaker 2: six or seven more threes than Denver. Denver also turned
Speaker 2: the ball over more than their usually turn the ball over.
Speaker 2: I think they had ten more turnovers, and yet they
Speaker 2: won by fifteen points. They did outscore Miami sixty to
Speaker 2: thirty four in the paint, so that's good. But ten
Speaker 2: more turnovers and six less threes and lose by fifteen points.
Speaker 2: That is not very promising from Miami. But Miami is Miami.
Speaker 2: They're never quitting and going away spostra great. Sure you
Speaker 2: got some adjustments coming, looking forward to checking those out.
Speaker 2: They gonna need them because you can't go down three
Speaker 2: to one headed back to the Mile High City.
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