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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff that I want to hit from last
Speaker 1: night's game. You know, it's funny. We talked about how
Speaker 1: the two things that Miami had done to kind of
Speaker 1: disrupt my Denver's offense was Jimmy Butler on Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: and bam on Nikol Jokic kind of credibly guarding the
Speaker 1: Jokic Murray two man game two on two, which was
Speaker 1: allowing them to stay home off the ball and then
Speaker 1: some of the success that their own defense had. And
Speaker 1: one of the many counters that I had put out
Speaker 1: there was like, hey, try to run more dribble handoffs
Speaker 1: in action with maybe some off ball action like wide
Speaker 1: pin downs for KCP and Michael Porter Junior, to try
Speaker 1: to get them into a rhythm more in game three
Speaker 1: so that they're more available to you to make big
Speaker 1: shots when it matters. And that was the exact opposite
Speaker 1: of what Denver did. They leaned entirely into the Murray
Speaker 1: Jokic two man game, which ended up being a smart decision.
Speaker 1: You saw it, like KCP and Michael Porter Junior both
Speaker 1: played way better than they did in Game two, particularly
Speaker 1: on the defensive end of the floor. I thought Michael
Speaker 1: Porter Junior actually had a really good game. I was
Speaker 1: talking with liv Liv Moods are resident Nuggets fan here
Speaker 1: at the volume in a show two days ago, and
Speaker 1: she was like, over under MPG game three fourteen points,
Speaker 1: and I said, under, but I expected him to play
Speaker 1: way better. And I said, it's because I don't really
Speaker 1: expect as part of the scheme for him to get
Speaker 1: a ton of points. But he is a six to
Speaker 1: ten athlete and he's got to make plays on the
Speaker 1: defensive end of the floor. And those guys were much better.
Speaker 1: But it was the two main game for Denver that
Speaker 1: they just leaned one hundred percent into on the offensive
Speaker 1: end of the floor. And it was working in large
Speaker 1: part because Jimmy Butler in particular wasn't as good as
Speaker 1: he was in game two. In Game two, Jimmy Butler's
Speaker 1: back pressure was hillatious. He was right on Jamal's backside
Speaker 1: the entire game. It's a couple of different things, like
Speaker 1: Jokicic not doing quite as good of a job screening
Speaker 1: as he did in Game three, Jimmy just being more
Speaker 1: locked in defensively. He was clearly a step slow last night,
Speaker 1: and Jamal just made him pay for it. To give
Speaker 1: you an idea, there were only five possessions in game
Speaker 1: where Jamal Murray was able to either get a shot
Speaker 1: off in pick and roll or make a pass to
Speaker 1: a guy who was able to get a shot off.
Speaker 1: Only five in the entire game. He had six in
Speaker 1: just the first quarter of Game three, fourteen total in
Speaker 1: the game. So he was able to shake free of
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler far more frequently in this particular game than
Speaker 1: he was in Game two. And this is like where
Speaker 1: that unguardability concept comes in. Jamal kind of provides that
Speaker 1: unique combination of pull up jump shooting that forces you
Speaker 1: to stay attached chasing over the top. And he's kind
Speaker 1: of an underrated rim attacker. He's got a good amount
Speaker 1: of size in athleticism, He's got a great floater, he
Speaker 1: can finish around the rim with either hand. He just
Speaker 1: flat out for the record, has played at a superstar
Speaker 1: level in this entire postseason through the playoffs so far
Speaker 1: to this point, twenty seven six and seven on sixty
Speaker 1: percent true shooting in the finals, twenty six, seven and
Speaker 1: ten on sixty one percent true shooting. That's tennisis per game.
Speaker 1: That's thirty assists. He's leading the series for both teams,
Speaker 1: including Jokic in assists. He's having an amazing playmaking postseason.
Speaker 1: Seven assists per game in an entire postseason tennisis per
Speaker 1: game in a finals. That's really impressive playmaking from Jamal Murray. That,
Speaker 1: in combination with everything we said last night about Nicolea
Speaker 1: Jokic being the master of size, leverage, shot making and
Speaker 1: playmaking together makes that action extremely difficult to guard. And
Speaker 1: if you guard that two on two, you have to
Speaker 1: be nearly perfect in your defensive execution, and Miami just
Speaker 1: wasn't as sharp as they were, And like it's hard,
Speaker 1: I get it. They're an extremely difficult team to guard.
Speaker 1: I mean, they can even go to a pick and
Speaker 1: pop type of thing with Nikola Jokic and he's shooting
Speaker 1: damn near fifty percent from three in this playoff run.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sitting here acting like it's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: go do your job and it'll work. But we've seen
Speaker 1: in game two that Miami has been better at guarding
Speaker 1: this action than they were in Game three. A couple
Speaker 1: of things i'd like to see again. Jimmy just has
Speaker 1: to do a better job chasing. But i'd like to
Speaker 1: see the mix in some switching, particularly in late clock situations.
Speaker 1: So if you run a switch and there's fourteen seconds
Speaker 1: on the shot clock, they have plenty of time to
Speaker 1: target you in a post up. But if they run
Speaker 1: a two man game because you dissuade the first one
Speaker 1: and they turn around and run it again and there's
Speaker 1: only seven seconds on the shot clock, you can get
Speaker 1: away with a switch there, because it's just gonna be
Speaker 1: really hard if they come off the action seven six, five, Okay,
Speaker 1: you identify it's a switch, You dribble back out four.
Speaker 1: Now he's posting up. You throw it to him. He
Speaker 1: has to turn and shoot right away to get a
Speaker 1: decent look, which allows your defender to not have to
Speaker 1: worry about pivots and fakes and things along those lines
Speaker 1: from Nikole Jokis. So i'd like to see them mix
Speaker 1: in some switching in late clock situations. I liked how
Speaker 1: they brought out the blitz a little bit too. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see them use that specifically, just not like
Speaker 1: repping at every single possession, but just randomly because there
Speaker 1: were possessions where Jamal was caught off guard by it
Speaker 1: and he just started retreating out to half court because
Speaker 1: he didn't know what to do. And then there were
Speaker 1: possessions where Jamal made the read quickly and got that
Speaker 1: drop off pass and started that four on three and
Speaker 1: Denver got good looks. So the timing of the blitz
Speaker 1: I think has to be very careful, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: But I do think Miami's capable of doing a much
Speaker 1: better job in that two man game than they did
Speaker 1: in Game one. Denver's defense, like I said at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the show last night with Colin, they cut
Speaker 1: it off in the YouTube one, but we talked about
Speaker 1: it on AMP for those of you guys who listened
Speaker 1: to it there. But I thought Denver's defense was by
Speaker 1: far the biggest element to their win last night and
Speaker 1: on tape, and just everything was better. Just the execution
Speaker 1: was better. They're over the top, pursuit on guards was better.
Speaker 1: Their rotations were better, especially on pick and roll situations
Speaker 1: with bam Adebayo. To give you an idea look at
Speaker 1: these numbers. In pick and roll, Miami scored one point
Speaker 1: four to seven points per possession in game two down
Speaker 1: to zero point eight to one points per possession in
Speaker 1: game three. That's almost half so so so so much better.
Speaker 1: Rollman possessions two point one to three points per possession
Speaker 1: in game two, one point per possession in game three.
Speaker 1: That's less than half. Spot up situations Miami one point
Speaker 1: sixty seven points per possession in game two, way too
Speaker 1: many comfortable in rhythm catch and shoot shots for good shooters.
Speaker 1: In game two they limited those a little bit. In
Speaker 1: game three they were down to one point zero eight
Speaker 1: points per possession. I talked about this a lot with
Speaker 1: Live in the show that we did two days ago.
Speaker 1: But like, again, to me, there is luck in any
Speaker 1: one shot, right, Like if I have a catch and
Speaker 1: shoot jumper on the move, I might you know, a
Speaker 1: good NBA shooter in a game, if it's a good
Speaker 1: look from three, he's gonna make fifty percent of them, right,
Speaker 1: like a good looks. Right, So there's luck, right, half
Speaker 1: of them he's making, half of them he's missing. They're
Speaker 1: pretty good looks. But the thing is is that over
Speaker 1: the course of a game, your team might take forty
Speaker 1: or fifty jump shots, so the luck kind of evens out.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like I was talking about with the
Speaker 1: voting pool for MVP and the eye test. I think
Speaker 1: I was having this conversation with uh, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember who it was I was talking with. I think
Speaker 1: it was with my Titus from barstool, But I was
Speaker 1: talking about how like the voter pool compensates for the
Speaker 1: mistakes and the eye test, Like the eye test is imperfect,
Speaker 1: but get one hundred guys together. There are one hundred
Speaker 1: men and women together, they're probably going to center around
Speaker 1: what the reality is. Right. That's kind of the way
Speaker 1: I feel about shot variants. If you're taking forty to
Speaker 1: fifty jump shots in a game, while there is luck
Speaker 1: or variance in any one shot over the course of
Speaker 1: forty or fifty jump shots, it's probably going to result
Speaker 1: in something based on what the defense is allowing. Right,
Speaker 1: If you're getting good in rhythm looks, the vast majority
Speaker 1: of those luck situations are gonna be favorable for you.
Speaker 1: In over forty or fifty jump shots, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: one point sixty seven points per possession. But when you
Speaker 1: defend better and the easy in rhythm catch and shoot
Speaker 1: jumpers are few and far between, and as a result,
Speaker 1: all the shooters are in less rhythm all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it is more likely that over forty or fifty shots,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hold them to one point zero eight points
Speaker 1: per possession in spot up situations. Generally speaking, I think
Speaker 1: it's a loser mantality, and I think it's a loser
Speaker 1: mentality to focus on luck as it pertains to shooting
Speaker 1: and as a team. If that was the case, then
Speaker 1: what's the point of doing anything If it's literally just
Speaker 1: a slot machine. That's not the case. Your defense controls
Speaker 1: the shooting outcome. Denver had, I thought, their worst defensive
Speaker 1: performance of the postseason. In Game two, they gave up
Speaker 1: a million good looks. Miami made him pay. In Game three,
Speaker 1: they were much better. Miami came back down to earth.
Speaker 1: That's the reason why it wasn't just because they hit
Speaker 1: the slot machine again. In the zone I talked a
Speaker 1: lot about and again we're still staying on Denver's defense,
Speaker 1: but for their zone offense, if you guys remember I
Speaker 1: listed a bunch of potential counters. I mentioned like bringing
Speaker 1: the guy out of the corner to screen away, which
Speaker 1: we did not see any of. I mentioned driving the zone,
Speaker 1: which we saw a lot of which we'll talk about later.
Speaker 1: And if you remember, I said defense, defense, defense, I said,
Speaker 1: by far, the best way for them to get away
Speaker 1: from attacking Miamis zone is just get stops, because Miami
Speaker 1: will not run their zone unless it's a made basket
Speaker 1: or a dead ball situation. So by getting stops, you
Speaker 1: avoid having to attack Miami's zone. Well, I tweeted at
Speaker 1: the end of the third quarter, I was like, Denver's
Speaker 1: in great shape, but the zone is coming in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. They've got one last test they need to
Speaker 1: pass to get out of here. Well, Denver got stops
Speaker 1: on ten of their first thirteen possessions in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: ten of their first thirteen. As a result, by the
Speaker 1: time that thirteenth possession had happened, they were already up eighteen.
Speaker 1: The game was over, and so Spolster barely used the zone.
Speaker 1: He only used it four possessions in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So Denver's defense literally kept them from having to attack
Speaker 1: Miami's zone and put them on this massive run and
Speaker 1: the game was over. And I thought Spolstra kind of
Speaker 1: smartly pulled back from the zone the rest of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, essentially saying we're not getting this one. Let's
Speaker 1: save it because maybe we can disrupt their rhythm a
Speaker 1: little bit in a later game in this series. So
Speaker 1: let's now into Denver's offense against the zone. Because in
Speaker 1: the four possessions they ran it. In the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: Jokic had a miss in an offensive rebound, they immediately scored,
Speaker 1: and then they scored on the last two. So it
Speaker 1: was four possessions, but technically three total defensive stops that
Speaker 1: flew in that flowed into Denver possessions, and Denver scored
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Speaker 1: we talked about, by defending, you keep them out of
Speaker 1: their zone. But they did. One of the interesting counters
Speaker 1: that Mike Malone had was, if you remember, Miami Zone
Speaker 1: was taking a top guy in fronting Jokic at the
Speaker 1: high post to prevent the high post entry. Which is
Speaker 1: the best place to enter a zone. Why is that
Speaker 1: the best place to enter the zone. It's the one
Speaker 1: place where it kind of overlaps a bunch of responsibilities. Right.
Speaker 1: If I've got two guys at the top, a guy
Speaker 1: under the basket, and two guys on the wing, the
Speaker 1: guy in the high post is right in the middle,
Speaker 1: and so it's very easy to get the defense to
Speaker 1: collapse as multiple guys kind of converge on that spot. Well,
Speaker 1: the other best place to enter is the short corner.
Speaker 1: Same concept on the wings. The zone is lined up
Speaker 1: for you, they're ready for you. If you're in the
Speaker 1: corner on the wings, they're ready for you. But that
Speaker 1: short corner in between where Bam is and a guy
Speaker 1: on the wing is another soft spot where if you
Speaker 1: catch there, you can attract multiple bodies. They ended up
Speaker 1: getting two buckets out of Jokic operating out of the
Speaker 1: short corner in this game one at the late third quarter.
Speaker 1: Actually the Spoltra actually brought out the zone a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier, but they dumped it to Yokic on the
Speaker 1: short corner. Multiple bodies came in. Christian Brown attacked a
Speaker 1: cut out of the top of the key, Yokic hit
Speaker 1: him for a layup. In the fourth quarter, the mist
Speaker 1: that they had was another action where they started Jokic
Speaker 1: in the short corner on the left side, and what
Speaker 1: they did is they waited, and they had Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: downscreen on BAM and Jokic flashed high posts. They hit
Speaker 1: him on the move before the front could come, and
Speaker 1: he actually ended up getting a nice little fl one
Speaker 1: that Jokic normally makes. He just missed it off the
Speaker 1: right side of the rim, but he saw it come
Speaker 1: in and chase it down, got the offensive rebound, and
Speaker 1: they got back into their zone attack. So I thought
Speaker 1: that was a really interesting wrinkle, either catching Jokic in
Speaker 1: the short corner or starting out of the short corner
Speaker 1: and quick flashing so that the guard doesn't have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to front the post because he's catching before he
Speaker 1: even gets there. Even so smart adjustments from Mike Malone
Speaker 1: and then the other one. Like I said, if you
Speaker 1: guys remember driving the zone. I broke this down after
Speaker 1: Game two. I said, in his own defense, they're not
Speaker 1: double teaming you. Like, if I'm dribbling the ball on
Speaker 1: the left wing and Jokic is at the high post
Speaker 1: and he's getting fronted, Kyle Lowery is coming out of
Speaker 1: the top to deny that swing pass and Duncan Robinson's
Speaker 1: over here and he's denying that swing pass and Bam
Speaker 1: is waiting under the basket. Yeah, they're taking away the
Speaker 1: post entry, but the fundamental beginning of the defense is
Speaker 1: still Jamal Murray dribbling the basketball with one defender in
Speaker 1: front of him, and so if he can beat that
Speaker 1: one defender, he will engage another defender, which will start
Speaker 1: to create openings. That's like the driving the zone. You
Speaker 1: don't see it a ton at the lower levels because
Speaker 1: ball handling is not good enough in high school and
Speaker 1: in college for guys to penetrate the zone off the dribble,
Speaker 1: But in the NBA it's one of the best ways
Speaker 1: to attack. That's why a lot of times in the
Speaker 1: NBA teams will run their man to man offense against
Speaker 1: zone defenses, because if you can get dribble penetration, it
Speaker 1: accomplishes the same thing as the pass. Well, those three
Speaker 1: buckets that they scored three for three in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: all three of them were on dribble penetration. First one,
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray dribbling at the top. He's got Caleb Martin
Speaker 1: on him, beats him to the right. Caleb Martin takes
Speaker 1: a couple hard recovery steps, but Jamal like does a
Speaker 1: little bump off dribble, Caleb's gone and he's shooting a
Speaker 1: wide open, like ten foot jump shot at the lane
Speaker 1: line that he of course makes because he's in good rhythm.
Speaker 1: And then back to back possessions were Christian Brown, who
Speaker 1: was phenomenal last night. I'm not gonna go too much
Speaker 1: further into it because I talked about it a lot
Speaker 1: with Colin Coward last night, but he just beat Caleb
Speaker 1: Martin off the dribble, drew that second defender, dropped it
Speaker 1: off to Nikole Jokic, who made a little short jump shot.
Speaker 1: And then there was another possession where Christian Brown caught
Speaker 1: it in the corner on the left side and did
Speaker 1: a rip th remove over the top on Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: beat Jimmy Butler to the middle, brought Bam up, occupied
Speaker 1: Bam dropped it to Jokic. Bam was out of position,
Speaker 1: so he closed out too hard on Jokic and ended
Speaker 1: up fouling Yokic, and he made both free throws. So
Speaker 1: all three of their buckets against the zone in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter were from just driving the zone, so a
Speaker 1: very good adjustment there from Mike Malone, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of the obvious adjustment when they're denying the easy
Speaker 1: entry passes. If they're going to do that, that's the
Speaker 1: only counter you have, really is I mentioned a couple others,
Speaker 1: some complicated screening things, but it's a lot easier to
Speaker 1: just be like, hey, I'm faster than you and I'm
Speaker 1: a better ball handler. Let me beat you to the
Speaker 1: basket and we can go from there. But big time
Speaker 1: game from Christian Brown. I excellent, defensively, excellent in transition.
Speaker 1: He's just so athletic, so difficult to guard. I tweeted
Speaker 1: this out last night. But he's the latest in a
Speaker 1: long line of kind of like smaller guards that are
Speaker 1: succeeding at this level I should say, smaller wings that
Speaker 1: are succeeding in the late rounds of the playoffs. These
Speaker 1: guys that are between like six three and six six,
Speaker 1: but are built like trucks, freaky athletic, low centers of gravity,
Speaker 1: that are difficult to screen, that run and transition well,
Speaker 1: that can beat guys off the dribble. All that stuff
Speaker 1: is super valuable. You saw that this year with Christian Brown.
Speaker 1: You saw this year again with Bruce Brown has been
Speaker 1: a very similar type of player for Denver last year,
Speaker 1: a guy like Gary Payton, the second impossible to screen,
Speaker 1: brings a bunch of stuff to the table. There. As
Speaker 1: an athlete Alex Cruso on the twenty twenty Lakers, Pat
Speaker 1: Conneton was a little bit like this. In the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one Bucks. We talked so much about these six
Speaker 1: to eight wings that are super long armed and can
Speaker 1: do all these things defensively. The problem with most wings
Speaker 1: is most of them are very upright, have high centers
Speaker 1: of gravity and aren't as strong, and so they're easier
Speaker 1: to screen, and so they can struggle. Sometimes in these situations,
Speaker 1: they're the guys that you can bump off their spots.
Speaker 1: So sometimes those lower center of gravity wings have more success.
Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting trend in the NBA, So
Speaker 1: shout out to Christian Brown. But I thought, even in
Speaker 1: spite of all that stuff that I said, I still
Speaker 1: think zone is the best option for Miami to get stops.
Speaker 1: So Denver had some nice counters. They got three buckets
Speaker 1: against the zone in the fourth quarter, two buckets in
Speaker 1: a foul for two free throws in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but they ran eight zone possessions in the second and
Speaker 1: third quarters and got stops on six of those six
Speaker 1: of those eight possessions, including three stops in five possessions
Speaker 1: with Nikolea Jokic on the floor. They were right over
Speaker 1: just over eight tenths of a possession overall eight tenths
Speaker 1: of a point per possession overall in last night's game
Speaker 1: against the zone, which is not very good. Right, So
Speaker 1: Miami's defense has consistently been better in this series. When
Speaker 1: they run zone versus man de man, it takes Denver
Speaker 1: out of their two man game, it disrupts their rhythm.
Speaker 1: That's been clearly one of their best options. So for Miami,
Speaker 1: they might have to consider running their zone after missus.
Speaker 1: They might have to consider like at least giving Bam
Speaker 1: the authority to call out zone and transition situations when
Speaker 1: he's back, and he could just be like zone, zone, zone,
Speaker 1: and everybody kind of gets into it, and then when
Speaker 1: Denver's really pushing the pace and attacking in transition, maybe
Speaker 1: they stay with man to man, but they might have
Speaker 1: to try to at least experiment with running zone and
Speaker 1: live ball situations instead of made baskets and dead ball situations.
Speaker 1: Because I think they need to try to find a
Speaker 1: way to get more than twelve possessions a game. In
Speaker 1: of zone Miami's offense, I thought their process was fine.
Speaker 1: When I went back and looked at the film. They
Speaker 1: had twenty five spot at possessions for one point zero
Speaker 1: eight points per possession, which is better than Denver did.
Speaker 1: So like Denver didn't shoot well, Miami Astra shot better again,
Speaker 1: But I thought the difference of the game was they
Speaker 1: just missed way too many shots in the paint. They
Speaker 1: were seventeen for forty six, and the paint Jimmy and
Speaker 1: Bam miss a ton of bunnies. That's just thirty seven percent.
Speaker 1: By the way, I do want to give Denver's defense credit,
Speaker 1: they were much better rotation to Cooley, Jokis was much
Speaker 1: more active with his hands around the basket to suading guys.
Speaker 1: But Bam and Jimmy both missed a lot of bunnies,
Speaker 1: and so that's something they're gonna have to clean up,
Speaker 1: and that causes a chain reaction, like if you have
Speaker 1: rim misses against Denver, that equals death, especially when Jimmy
Speaker 1: and Bam are your two best athletes and they're under
Speaker 1: the basket they're under the opposing basket, Denver's looking to
Speaker 1: push in transition. A miss at the rim often leads
Speaker 1: to transition opportunities unless you can get an offensive rebound,
Speaker 1: and look, Denver missed. Here's the thing. Miami had ten
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds last night, but that's just because they missed
Speaker 1: so many damn shots. Denver usually is going to control
Speaker 1: the defensive glass and get out in transition. Those paint
Speaker 1: misses are the beginning of an ugly chain reaction. Not
Speaker 1: only those transition situations, but every time you make one
Speaker 1: of those bunnies, that's an opportunity for you to set
Speaker 1: your defense or to set your zone. Like we talked about,
Speaker 1: more paint makes equals more reactive help from Denver's wings.
Speaker 1: If Jimmy and Bam go twenty seven for forty six
Speaker 1: instead of seventeen for forty six when they get into
Speaker 1: the paint, it's human nature that those wings will just
Speaker 1: coalesce more around them while they're trying to shoot as
Speaker 1: part of Denver's health defense, which generates the higher quality
Speaker 1: three point shots that they got in game two. So
Speaker 1: that is the chain reaction they need to reverse. Instead,
Speaker 1: they got the opposite of that so better focus and
Speaker 1: lyft in particular around the rim from Jimmy and Bam
Speaker 1: will go a long way to reversing that trend for
Speaker 1: the heat, so kind of insummation Miami's adjustments. Jimmy has
Speaker 1: to do a much better job of chasing Murray overscreens,
Speaker 1: and we know he's capable of it because he did
Speaker 1: it in Game two. They need to switch any Murray
Speaker 1: Yokic action that happens with less than ten seconds on
Speaker 1: the shot clock. It'll make it much more difficult for
Speaker 1: Denver to post up mismatches were in the posts they
Speaker 1: continue to dominate. They need to mix in the occasional
Speaker 1: blitz to throw off Jamal Murray's rhythm and just the
Speaker 1: overall rhythm of the action. They need to run more zone.
Speaker 1: It's been by far their most effective defense in the series,
Speaker 1: and they need to consider running it on misses when
Speaker 1: Denver is not on the attack. Give Bam that leeway
Speaker 1: to kind of call it out. Last, but not least,
Speaker 1: Jimmy and Bam have to make their short shots in
Speaker 1: the lane to start the chain reaction of drawing more help,
Speaker 1: getting more high quality three point shots, and allowing them
Speaker 1: to set their defense so after Game two I did
Speaker 1: say with liv I predicted Denver would win comfortably in
Speaker 1: Game three and that Game four would be the most
Speaker 1: competitive game of the series. I do believe that's what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. I think Jimmy Butler will have his
Speaker 1: best defensive game of the series. I think the Heat
Speaker 1: will finish in the paint better and make more threes.
Speaker 1: I also think Denver will shoot better. They really haven't
Speaker 1: shot well in the last couple of games, so I
Speaker 1: think this is going to be a really close game
Speaker 1: with a crunch time situation that's going to come down
Speaker 1: to the final few possessions. I really don't have any idea,
Speaker 1: and I hate making predictions. If I have to, I'll
Speaker 1: pick Miami to win closely and tie the series at two,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Denver
Speaker 1: came out on top of that situation. I think Game
Speaker 1: four is going to be the most entertaining game of
Speaker 1: the series, and I am very, very excited to see it.
Speaker 1: We will be going live with Colin Coward again after
Speaker 1: the final buzzer of Game four, before we break down
Speaker 1: the film on Saturday morning. As always, I sincerely appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys, and I'll see you tomorrow night. The volume