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Speaker 2: the NBA Finals are here. I picked the Nuggets in five.
Speaker 2: If you miss that, may want to go check that
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Speaker 2: like wow, like dang really and then you start like
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Speaker 2: you got time. Just like last year, one thing different
Speaker 2: than last year's we're not playing, but just like last year,
Speaker 2: we're gonna break down these finals games, get into the
Speaker 2: teeth of it, the meat of it, and talk about it.
Speaker 2: And by the way, next episode may have a surprise.
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Speaker 2: The Nuggets beat the Heat one oh four to ninety
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Speaker 2: am walking into the locker room, and I'm like, fellas,
Speaker 2: we gotta like, we gotta do some things better. We
Speaker 2: can really like shore some things up. Which is true,
Speaker 2: you can. I'm walking out of the locker room. If
Speaker 2: I'm Mike.
Speaker 1: Malone, like yes, yes, and you know why I'm saying yes.
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Speaker 1: Number one. We won, Number two.
Speaker 2: We won in a very good way, which is dominated
Speaker 2: the game. Didn't play great, dominated the game. They fought back,
Speaker 2: made it respectable, made it feel like they didn't get
Speaker 2: blown out. So the final score is one oh four
Speaker 2: ninety three, not one oh four to eighty one, not
Speaker 2: one oh four to eighty five. Wasn't a blowout. It's
Speaker 2: my point. When you blow someone out in any playoff series,
Speaker 2: NBA Finals, whatever you name it, that team then comes
Speaker 2: out with extra motivation. That team comes out like embarrassed,
Speaker 2: like we just like we just got embarrassed. We got it,
Speaker 2: And so you find extra juice because you come out
Speaker 2: there playing off crazy emotion, like the emotions of the
Speaker 2: playoffs are insane. The emotion of the NBA Finals is
Speaker 2: out of this world. So the last thing you really
Speaker 2: want is to be up against the extra added motivation
Speaker 2: of we got embarrassed last game. We need to come
Speaker 2: out show who we are. We got the extra juice
Speaker 2: you feeling yourself, It wasn't that. And so if I'm
Speaker 2: Mike Malone, I'm walking away and I'm walking in, well,
Speaker 2: I'm walking in the locker room. I'm telling guys, we
Speaker 2: got to get better. We can play much better. That
Speaker 2: team's gonna play better next game. Blah blah blah. And
Speaker 2: I'm walking in with my coaching staff and I'm like perfect, Perfect,
Speaker 2: because our guys aren't going to relax now, because usually
Speaker 2: that's what happens. You blow them out. They're pissed off.
Speaker 2: You relax. You got a problem on your hand. That
Speaker 2: is not the case here. And also, like I told
Speaker 2: you before, Denver is not fucking around. They're not playing
Speaker 2: with their food, not playing with the breakfast. They eating
Speaker 2: their meal, getting it out the way. Did it the
Speaker 2: first series, did it the second series, and definitely did
Speaker 2: it the third series, and they did it tonight. Everybody's like,
Speaker 2: oh man, they're in the layoff ten day layoff or
Speaker 2: whatever it is. They're gonna be tired or I mean,
Speaker 2: they're gonna you know, they're gonna be winded.
Speaker 1: They're gonna that's a.
Speaker 2: Team that's not messing around. Man, them guys been in
Speaker 2: the gym. You can tell they came out, guns blazing,
Speaker 2: locked in. That's a team that's locked in. I knows
Speaker 2: the look of a team that is locked in. If
Speaker 2: you don't know the look Look at Denver, look at
Speaker 2: their eyes, Look at all of Mike Malone's press conferences,
Speaker 2: look at their guys press.
Speaker 1: They locked in.
Speaker 2: So no ten day layover, hangover layoff, none of that garbage.
Speaker 1: Them boys locked in.
Speaker 2: Miami, on the other hand, had a chance to win
Speaker 2: the series, burstus the Celtics pretty easily. Never easy, but
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, pretty easily as far as
Speaker 2: the record goes. Took care of business in the first
Speaker 2: three games, looked like a totally different team for two
Speaker 2: and a half games, closed out the six games strong.
Speaker 2: But play with your breakfast. There is a carryover effect
Speaker 2: from that. So you fly in the altitude from Boston
Speaker 2: to Denver long flight. Probably got in at two three
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, which then makes the next day
Speaker 2: at zero because everybody's tired switching time zones altitude. And
Speaker 2: by the way, I thought, I saw something that Chuck
Speaker 2: said earlier, which I totally agree with. Denver's never been
Speaker 2: in the finals stopped the altitude talk. Yes, it is
Speaker 2: harder to play an altitude After a little while, you
Speaker 2: know your first couple of times up and down first half,
Speaker 2: you get your win.
Speaker 1: You figure it out.
Speaker 2: Where professional athletes at the top of the top highest
Speaker 2: level you can go, you figure it out. So let's
Speaker 2: not try to take away from what those guys are
Speaker 2: doing about Oh, the altitude. I've never heard so much
Speaker 2: about altitude in my life. Now, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: When you go and play, you feel it.
Speaker 2: But let's not try to dim their light or take
Speaker 2: away from what those guys are doing with the altitude.
Speaker 2: But altitude does have different effects. It affects some people
Speaker 2: sleeping because it affects your breathing, and so you're breathing
Speaker 2: when you're sleeping is uber important. That's why they have
Speaker 2: machines for people to sleep, apnea and different things because
Speaker 2: your breathing, your breathing flow is super important. Well, as
Speaker 2: we know, sleep and rest is important for recovery, especially
Speaker 2: on a short turnaround like Miami's on coming from Boston.
Speaker 2: So you figure that next day they probably have film
Speaker 2: and all of this stuff, like it's a dud, Like
Speaker 2: you're tired, you're mentally drained from a seven game series.
Speaker 2: Next day is a dud. So they essentially have one
Speaker 2: day of preparation and recovery to like get ready for
Speaker 2: the next series. Differ's probably been watching them for the
Speaker 2: longest because they were up three to zero, so they're
Speaker 2: more prepared. Not that the coach didn't prepare them enough.
Speaker 2: It's a time like sposure was great. It's a time thing.
Speaker 2: It's not like some Oh they're coach prepared. It's a
Speaker 2: time thing. So that's what I'm getting at, and Miami
Speaker 2: would have had the same amount of time. Unlike other series,
Speaker 2: both series finished. The NBA Finals start June first. It
Speaker 2: don't start May twenty first. If everybody's done May twenty,
Speaker 2: it starts June first. That's that, so Miami could have
Speaker 2: had the time. I thought they looked a little tired. Uh,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the shots didn't go. One could
Speaker 2: say that's the fatigue. One could say they shot, they load.
Speaker 2: Miami it hasn't been known to be a great shooting
Speaker 2: team all year. They have some really good shooters, but
Speaker 2: as far they didn't hang their hat on shooting the basketball.
Speaker 2: So if I'm the Celtics in that series, when they're
Speaker 2: hitting those shots, you're kind of walking back to the
Speaker 2: locker room.
Speaker 1: You're like, man, they ain't gonna do that again, And
Speaker 1: they come out and do it again. You're like that,
Speaker 1: they ain't doing that again.
Speaker 2: However, they kept doing it, but that's the mindset, so
Speaker 2: they so they missed the shots tonight. Like I said,
Speaker 2: I think that was a little bit of fatigue. I
Speaker 2: think they'll shoot better, but will they shoot as good
Speaker 2: as they shot against the Boston Celtics. That's what the
Speaker 2: the story, because they shot the lights out versus the
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics from the field from Miami thirty percent from three.
Speaker 2: They didn't get it done on the offensive. Ended day
Speaker 2: rough shooting night. Jimmy had thirteen points on six six
Speaker 2: or fourteen from the field, did not shoot a free throw.
Speaker 2: That was interesting. Jimmy Butler. You know, he's a guy
Speaker 2: who finds rhythm through the free throw line. He slows
Speaker 2: the game down for the Miami. He through the free
Speaker 2: throw line allows Miami to get their defense set, and
Speaker 2: they weren't able to do that. Especially early on. Aaron
Speaker 2: Gordon came out the gate and showed everybody who got
Speaker 2: on him they were too small, got to the cup
Speaker 2: at will. I thought he needed to do more of
Speaker 2: that and as the game went on, but he got
Speaker 2: them guys going out the gate. It was incredible to
Speaker 2: see force myami to make some adjustments, but I think
Speaker 2: the number one adjustment is just getting mashed up. There
Speaker 2: was one play in the first quarter, with maybe about
Speaker 2: two minutes and twenty seconds left or so, Michael Porter
Speaker 2: Junior fell down. Michael Porter Junior trails, so they walked
Speaker 2: the ball up. Michael Porter Junior trails in. They walked
Speaker 2: the ball up, So in walking the ball up, you
Speaker 2: have uber amount of time to get mashed up.
Speaker 1: Miami still didn't get mashed up.
Speaker 2: And because they didn't get mashed up, I can't remember
Speaker 2: exactly who it was, but one of the smaller guys
Speaker 2: ended up on Joker, So then you collapse your defense
Speaker 2: and Michael Porter Jr. Trails in four three. That's initially
Speaker 2: it was like transition. They're getting out there, pushing, they're
Speaker 2: getting cross matches. Aaron Gordon Dominic. That was one where
Speaker 2: we're talking about fatigue. Team could possibly be a little
Speaker 2: fatigue because why not get matched up on that play again,
Speaker 2: The one thing that's hurting you is them getting out
Speaker 2: in transition. And no, it wasn't them scoring in transition,
Speaker 2: but it was the cross matches they got and then
Speaker 2: they took advantage of them quickly, so you have an
Speaker 2: opportunity to get mashed up. That's like a mental error,
Speaker 2: mental fatigue. Mental mental errors happened most when you're fatigued.
Speaker 2: So that to me was another sign of fatigue from
Speaker 2: the Miami heat, a rollover from the Boston series, which
Speaker 2: they could have handled.
Speaker 1: A lot sooner.
Speaker 2: So I thought that was that that was really important.
Speaker 2: That was important today start. That's how they got going
Speaker 2: because and quite frankly, like if you look at the numbers,
Speaker 2: Denver did played great offensively, like Joker was twelve or
Speaker 2: eight from the field, didn't shoot the ball for the
Speaker 2: first quarter.
Speaker 1: It seemed.
Speaker 2: Murray, Jamal Murray had a really good game. Him and
Speaker 2: Joker's two man game is almost unstoppable. It's about as
Speaker 2: close to unstoppable as it gets. Obviously, you know, it's
Speaker 2: much different and better when Jamal's hitting shots, which he's
Speaker 2: been hitting shots at a high clip, and it was
Speaker 2: unstoppable tonight. Joker quietly dominated the game with twenty seven points,
Speaker 2: fourteen assists, and ten rebounds on only eight for twelve shooting.
Speaker 2: Maybe five of those shots came within the last three
Speaker 2: four minutes of the game, where he iced the game
Speaker 2: and you know, down the stretch, had the ball in
Speaker 2: his hands, made everything happen as Heat as he does
Speaker 2: all the time, but he was aggressive to score down
Speaker 2: the stretch, catching the ball in the pocket with a
Speaker 2: two on one with Joker and Aaron Gordon. Good luck
Speaker 2: Bam stayed backup times Joker hitting that floater. But if
Speaker 2: he step up, Aaron Gordon catching a lot. So there's
Speaker 2: gonna be some adjustments that need to be made there
Speaker 2: and we can get into those. Another thing that I thought,
Speaker 2: uh well, another person that I thought played a huge
Speaker 2: role in the game, as he has been all series long,
Speaker 2: is I mean a playoffs long and season long.
Speaker 1: It's Bruce Brown. We we've discussed.
Speaker 2: The impact of role players like Miami Miami Heat role
Speaker 2: players outplay Boston role players last series, which is why
Speaker 2: the Miami Heat won the series. Like because their role
Speaker 2: players severely outplayed Boston's role players.
Speaker 1: And that's why they won the series. Bruce Brown.
Speaker 2: Outplayed just about any role player at Miami half today.
Speaker 2: They won the game because again, you win championships six, three, eleven.
Speaker 2: Now that gets shorter, that shrinks in the playoffs because
Speaker 2: most coaches go eight deep, maybe nine, So it shrinks,
Speaker 2: but the eleven is still important throughout the course of
Speaker 2: a season. You're talking having a depth to where you
Speaker 2: don't have to run your guys into the ground, all
Speaker 2: of those things. That's where you win championships in the margins.
Speaker 2: And so Bruce Brown playing the way he played, Jeff
Speaker 2: Green gave some good minutes off the bench, really good
Speaker 2: minutes off the bench. But Bruce Brown has been playing
Speaker 2: absolutely amazing. Bruce Brown. Actually, I was really good in
Speaker 2: the two man game with Joker today as well. Had
Speaker 2: a couple of pocket passes, had a couple floating, had
Speaker 2: a couple turnovers in there, but who cares? Who cares?
Speaker 2: And nobody tripping on that. Bruce Brown is playing really, really,
Speaker 2: really good basketball. Michael Porter Junior was only five for
Speaker 2: five for fifteen from the field, fourteen points and twelve rebounds,
Speaker 2: though double double. And that's so encouraging to see Michael
Speaker 2: Porter Junior with a double double because at times his
Speaker 2: SHOT's not working and he doesn't have an impact on
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Twelve rebounds and two blocks.
Speaker 2: Two blocks, which we know he's not known as a defender. Yeah,
Speaker 2: one block on Jimmy, remember that block. But he's doing
Speaker 2: something other than just shooting the basketball, and that's very important,
Speaker 2: especially on the night where he didn't shoot extremely well. Now,
Speaker 2: something tricky about that. He missed some open looks, and
Speaker 2: he not gonna keep missing those open looks. So I
Speaker 2: hope they're going to make an adjustment to make sure
Speaker 2: he don't get those open looks because next game he
Speaker 2: gonna make those. Like, you can't rely on Michael Porter
Speaker 2: Junior missing open looks. So I think there's something there.
Speaker 2: And I expect Michael Porter Junior to shoot the ball well,
Speaker 2: but it's very important that you continue to do to
Speaker 2: other things like rebounding.
Speaker 1: He's sixteen. You gotta take advantage of that size.
Speaker 2: Especially Miami guards are a little smaller and definitely shorter
Speaker 2: than sixteen. So the guy who's gonna be on him,
Speaker 2: he's going to have an advantage on. He caught a
Speaker 2: couple of them in the posts and I thought he
Speaker 2: faded away. Nah, seek contact. You six inches smaller than
Speaker 2: these guys. Seek contact, Go over the top. No, that's
Speaker 2: not what he does. You gotta do it. It's time
Speaker 2: to win a championship. He needed to take advantage of
Speaker 2: some of those Bam had a good offensive night. Twenty
Speaker 2: six points, thirteen rebounds, five assists. I thought something interesting.
Speaker 2: They were essentially giving BAM the floaters in the mid
Speaker 2: range and taking all the passing lanes away, and I
Speaker 2: thought that was interesting because although BAM finished with good numbers,
Speaker 2: I think he may have taken like twenty four shots
Speaker 2: or something, twenty four to twenty five shots.
Speaker 1: And for BAM, I love their aggressiveness.
Speaker 2: I'm always rooting for an aggressive BAM, but for BAM
Speaker 2: to take twenty five shots, that means other guys aren't
Speaker 2: as aggressive or aren't getting as many shots. And again,
Speaker 2: we all want BAM to be aggressive. But what they
Speaker 2: were pretty much saying is we're gonna live with you
Speaker 2: taking those mid range twos, the little floaters.
Speaker 1: We're gonna live with that shot. We need to take the.
Speaker 2: Three away, Duncan Robinson, Max Struce, Gabe Vincon, Caleb Martin,
Speaker 2: Kyle Lawry, we need to take the three away. And
Speaker 2: they took the three away and that was huge. Now,
Speaker 2: another thing about this game is Denver ended up making
Speaker 2: I think three less threes then the Miami Heat and
Speaker 2: they still won that game convincingly. That's something to watch for.
Speaker 2: Denver is gonna shoot the ball better, like they're gonna
Speaker 2: shoot better. They still won that game pretty easily. Like
Speaker 2: to think that Denver only scored one hundred and four
Speaker 2: points and they won that game pretty easily. That's not
Speaker 2: very encouraging for Miami that they won the game that
Speaker 2: way and only scored one hundred and four points and
Speaker 2: didn't shoot the ball well. So another reason why from
Speaker 2: coach Malone, I'm walking away like, yes, absolutely, we spoke
Speaker 2: about Jimmy, we spoke about the Miami Heat, and they're
Speaker 2: shooting percentages. Another thing the Miami Heat did in the
Speaker 2: second half, which actually helped them get back in the game,
Speaker 2: was they win zone. Now the zone works when Denver
Speaker 2: isn't shooting the ball well. So yes, it to a
Speaker 2: certain extent today until they start getting the ball on
Speaker 2: the teeth for the defense to Joker at the mid post,
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, like again, their zone work. But if
Speaker 2: all else fails, you just throw the ball as Joker
Speaker 2: at the mid post. Ay, the defense has to collapse.
Speaker 2: If not, he's hitting that shot at a seventy percent rate.
Speaker 2: And if they collapse or even overhelped just a tad
Speaker 2: we know he's making a play at one drop off
Speaker 2: to Jeff Green. Really nice past to Jeff Green as
Speaker 2: he snuck behind the defense, like Joker gonna make the.
Speaker 1: Play out of a high post.
Speaker 2: I don't think outside of Steph Curry, I don't think
Speaker 2: there's a tougher player at the zone in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Steph could Steph shoot the lights out of it like
Speaker 2: he's shooting it from anywhere. And if you get get
Speaker 2: them in a bad way just a little bit, you're
Speaker 2: in trouble with Steph with the ball. Joker, he makes
Speaker 2: every play his touch. It's crazy, can shoot it, float,
Speaker 2: get to the cup. I don't think there's a tougher
Speaker 2: player to guard in a zone in the NBA than
Speaker 2: Stefan Joker. So yes, the zone worked in theory tonight.
Speaker 2: It got them back in the game. A coach Malone
Speaker 2: will have something for that next game. He'll have some
Speaker 2: stuff to combat the zone. I know he will. And
Speaker 2: again I think they'll shoot the ball better and that
Speaker 2: automatically combats the zone because if shots are going up,
Speaker 2: now you're overreacting. Now you're closing out hard. Now they're
Speaker 2: getting offensive rebounds too. Makes the game a lot tougher.
Speaker 2: Now you're playing against their set defense. Their set defense
Speaker 2: is really good. Transition defense not great, sec set defense
Speaker 2: really really good. So now you're playing against a set defense.
Speaker 2: It's all a trickle down effect. So yes, I expect
Speaker 2: Miami to try more zone. Yes, I expect that Denver
Speaker 2: will be prepared for it, better equip for it, and
Speaker 2: like I said, most importantly, they will shoot the ball better.
Speaker 2: A couple more things I thought Denver did really well
Speaker 2: is they defend it without filing.
Speaker 1: Defend in defending the Miami Heat.
Speaker 2: Without filing, you're making them score the basketball. And if
Speaker 2: you make them score the basketball hasn't been one of
Speaker 2: their strongest suits all year.
Speaker 1: It's just making them score. They do. They do it great.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say they rely on the free throw
Speaker 2: like as if they rely on the whistle, but they
Speaker 2: rely on the free throw to get easy buckets. They
Speaker 2: rely on the free throw to get their defense set.
Speaker 2: Their defense is really good. They rely on the free
Speaker 2: throw because all of a sudden, now you start filing,
Speaker 2: you collapsing. Now those threes that Max Strus is getting
Speaker 2: a little more open, Now those threes that Duncan Robinson
Speaker 2: is getting, he don't have to put the ball on
Speaker 2: the floor and then shooting they are more open. So
Speaker 2: they did a great job of defending without falling and
Speaker 2: making the Miami he scored points and they didn't do
Speaker 2: a great job scoring points tonight. But you got to
Speaker 2: give a lot of credit to Denver's defense to not
Speaker 2: put Jimmy Butler on the free throw line one time.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's tough.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler not shooting free throw Jimmy Butler shooting nine
Speaker 2: ten free throws a game.
Speaker 1: And rightfully so he gets filed.
Speaker 2: Like Jimmy is great at drawing files and it's not
Speaker 2: flopping like he's not a flopper for files either. He
Speaker 2: is great at seeking out contact, catching the defender in
Speaker 2: the bad way and seeking out the contact and getting
Speaker 2: foul calls and going to the free throw line. So
Speaker 2: that was something that I thought Denmer and I'm sure
Speaker 2: they emphasized the mess out of it, right like that
Speaker 2: has to be a huge emphasis against the Miami He team.
Speaker 1: Do not put them on the free throw line.
Speaker 2: Bamshoots a lot more free throws this year as well,
Speaker 2: like they they do a good job of getting fouled,
Speaker 2: and so for them to not go to the free
Speaker 2: throw line tonight.
Speaker 1: It's huge for Denver. That's what saved Denver.
Speaker 2: On on a off night and not so great offensive
Speaker 2: performance for them. It's not filing, something we talk about
Speaker 2: all year with the Warriors, but with anyone to find
Speaker 2: without filing, it's hard for people to score, Like it's
Speaker 2: hard to make a shot. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: internet trolls and stuff talk about like, oh man, you
Speaker 2: didn't make it. It's actually very hard to throw that
Speaker 2: basketball into that rim. It's a very hard thing to do.
Speaker 2: If you're absolutely incredible, you do it one of every
Speaker 2: two times. If you're great, it's hard. It's really hard.
Speaker 2: And they forced them to do that tonight and they
Speaker 2: did not do a good job of it. So I
Speaker 2: thought that was great on Denver's part.
Speaker 1: Miami. I think Miami has to get more ball screens.
Speaker 2: They when they were in ball screens, whether it was
Speaker 2: Kyle Larry, whether it was Gay Vincent, they were I
Speaker 2: thought they did a really good job and playing out
Speaker 2: of the ball screen.
Speaker 1: They're going to have to get more ball screens.
Speaker 2: Involved in order to just get into Denver the teeth
Speaker 2: of Denver's defense a bit. They also got a lot
Speaker 2: of open looks off the ball screens, and that's when
Speaker 2: the threes start falling, because the threes were not falling
Speaker 2: from Miami. Then they started playing out of ball screens.
Speaker 2: They got some threes to go, they made a push.
Speaker 2: I think they cut it. The nine was the lowest.
Speaker 2: They ended up cutting it too, but it was all
Speaker 2: ball screen dominant and off of their defense. They forced
Speaker 2: a couple turnovers with zone, got a couple easy ones,
Speaker 2: then they hit a few threes and got it going
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I thought the zone they did a really good job.
Speaker 2: And also their ball screen offense was really good and
Speaker 2: I will expect to see more of that, just to
Speaker 2: io or like post up like Denver has length. Nikola
Speaker 2: Yoki is just seven feet. Michael Porter Junior sixteen, Aaron
Speaker 2: Gordon six a sixty nine. Bruce Brown we all know
Speaker 2: has like some crazy wingspan. Jamar Murray has a very
Speaker 2: very very good wingspan. Jeff Green like, they have a
Speaker 2: bunch of size KCP six to six. They have a
Speaker 2: ton of size, and so trying to get into the
Speaker 2: teeth of their defense into the paint, it's tough just
Speaker 2: trying to break it down and get there.
Speaker 1: So I think they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna have to play more out of ball screens, out
Speaker 2: of some high high splits. They'll probably play more out
Speaker 2: of the high splits that's bound. With the ball guards
Speaker 2: setting guard guard screens coming out top, they'll need more
Speaker 2: high splits. They're on offense, they'll need more ball screens.
Speaker 2: But most importantly, they'll need stops so they don't have
Speaker 2: to play against a set defense. Now all of a
Speaker 2: sudden Max Shrew's first three ain't coming. First five threes
Speaker 2: ain't coming against a contest. You get a couple in transition.
Speaker 2: You see the ball going, Kayler Martin get a couple
Speaker 2: buckets in transition, You see the ball going, Gave Vins
Speaker 2: a couple buckets in transition, see the ball go through.
Speaker 2: Then it changes everything. So I think they'll need to
Speaker 2: do more of that. As far as adjustments both teams
Speaker 2: can make. I think for the Miami Heat, like I said,
Speaker 2: we just discussed some of the ball screen things, But
Speaker 2: I think on defense they are going to have to
Speaker 2: go Jimmy on Jamal Murray, Bam on Joker, and I
Speaker 2: think they're going to have to switch that pick and
Speaker 2: roll with Jamal Murray and Joker.
Speaker 1: Now, if you switch that with Jimmy number one.
Speaker 2: I'm telling Jimmy, if you get caught in a bad
Speaker 2: way on the switch with Joker, I don't need you
Speaker 2: in foul trouble. What I do need is for you
Speaker 2: to fight him, battle him. We know Jimmy battle Jimmy
Speaker 2: a dog, Jimmy baddling anybody, and Jimmy's strong as hell.
Speaker 1: So Joker just not going to just run over Jimmy.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's gonna get him called in the bad ways
Speaker 2: a couple of times, like that's this Joker number one MVP.
Speaker 1: He's damn good and like it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: That's not Jimmy Nash position guard in the five man
Speaker 2: in the painted area. But I think Jimmy can put
Speaker 2: an up enough fight to where you can least better
Speaker 2: contain Jamal Murray. Bam can guard guards. I don't know
Speaker 2: if anyone knows that. I'm here to tell you, Bam
Speaker 2: can guard guards very well. Not that he's going to
Speaker 2: go lock Jamal Murray down or anything like that, but
Speaker 2: he's going to contain him enough to where you're playing
Speaker 2: one on one. So you're playing this guy one on one,
Speaker 2: you're playing Joker one on one, you're not overhelping. You're
Speaker 2: not letting other guys get off because remember, those guys
Speaker 2: miss those shots today, they won't miss him on Sunday.
Speaker 1: They won't miss him on Sunday.
Speaker 2: So you switch that, you make them guys play one
Speaker 2: on one, You force all the other guys to now
Speaker 2: get their buckets. Is not off help. We're not switching on.
Speaker 2: We're not switching on Aaron Gordon. Ally's like, now we're battling. Now,
Speaker 2: we're one on one. Now, we're not giving advantages. I
Speaker 2: think that's something that we're gonna need to see from
Speaker 2: the Miami Heat as far as the defensive side goes. Now,
Speaker 2: the question would then be okay, so if you put
Speaker 2: Jimmy on Jamal Murray, who's going to guard Aaron Gordon. Well,
Speaker 2: I asked you question is are you going to let
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray and Nicola Jokis beat you? Are you going
Speaker 2: to force Aaron Gordon to beat you? Because sometimes you
Speaker 2: have to pick someone to beat you, Like, we're willing
Speaker 2: to live with this. We're not willing to live with that.
Speaker 2: Quite frankly, no disrespect to Aaron Gordon. I think Aaron
Speaker 2: Gordon will say the same thing I'm definitely not going
Speaker 2: to pick Jamal Murray and Nicola Yokish to beat me.
Speaker 1: We know they will beat you. Not they can, they will,
Speaker 1: they'll beat you.
Speaker 2: So you have to force someone else to beat you,
Speaker 2: and you have to force them to do it doing
Speaker 2: what they're not accustomed to doing. Like if you let
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon get a mismatch, if you let Aaron Gordon
Speaker 2: catch lib dunks or get drop offs on the rim,
Speaker 2: yeah he can't be. But if you make him do
Speaker 2: what he's not comfortable doing, make guys do what they're
Speaker 2: not coming but doing and beat you, then it's a
Speaker 2: totally different story. And so I think that's going to
Speaker 2: be very important from Miami is to try to figure
Speaker 2: that out.
Speaker 1: I think switching that with.
Speaker 2: Jamal and Jamal, a Joker, Bam and Jimmy is one
Speaker 2: way of figuring it out. As far as Aaron Gordon go,
Speaker 2: you may have to put Kevin Love there, may need size,
Speaker 2: may have to go bigger.
Speaker 1: Every series calls for different things.
Speaker 2: It's not always going to be as rarely is it
Speaker 2: ever the same from series to series. It calls for
Speaker 2: different things when you're trying to win championships. Sposal super smart,
Speaker 2: great coach, not afraid to make adjustments. He'll make some.
Speaker 2: He'll figure it out. Will they win, that's another story.
Speaker 2: But Sposal definitely makes adjustments and we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: I was downstairs watching the game and this guy said, yeah,
Speaker 2: so Draymond, you said Tyler hero now.
Speaker 1: Now we need Tyler back.
Speaker 2: Now, right, And I said, well, yeah, you could probably
Speaker 2: use He's like, cause that's twenty points. And I said, well,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it's going to just be twenty points.
Speaker 2: That's been out for a while. It's the NBA Finals,
Speaker 2: and if it is twenty points, it does matter if
Speaker 2: it's a good twenty points or bad twenty points, because
Speaker 2: there are bad twenty points. But I also said to him,
Speaker 2: I said, but you don't want to panic and overreact
Speaker 2: to losing game one on the road, because you're supposed to. Yes,
Speaker 2: Miami had one or three on the road in Game one,
Speaker 2: but you're supposed to lose game one on the road.
Speaker 2: That's why it's game one, and it's on the road
Speaker 2: because they were the better team in the season and
Speaker 2: they got home court.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to lose that. Now the goal is to
Speaker 1: go get one.
Speaker 2: I don't say, whether it's one, two, five, seven, you
Speaker 2: just gotta get one on the road. So I wouldn't
Speaker 2: overreact though that we lost one on the road. That's
Speaker 2: not the time to overreact and kill everyone's confidence and
Speaker 2: and ring the alarm. Because when coaches overreact, players overreact.
Speaker 2: Players follow coaches energy. Don't get it twisted. They follow
Speaker 2: the coach energy. You say, oh, man, it's got nervous.
Speaker 2: You make it nervous. Oh he confident. Oh let's go.
Speaker 2: We confident. So you don't want to overreact to game
Speaker 2: one either. Now, again, there's an opportunity. You feel like,
Speaker 2: I think we should throw Tyler in here. Great, see
Speaker 2: what's what you got. But to just move somebody and
Speaker 2: slot in, it's a dangerous thing. It's a very dangerous
Speaker 2: thing when guys are in the rhythm. One game. Ain't
Speaker 2: saying these guys not in the rhythm. They've been in
Speaker 2: the rhythm. Tough night. Charge it to the game, watch
Speaker 2: the film, learn from it, make your adjustments, get back
Speaker 2: at it. We'll see. It's a good game though. And
Speaker 2: like I told y'all, denver locked in. That's a wrap
Speaker 2: from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Sunday. I was surprise. Until then peace