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Speaker 1: You're twenty and twenty three NBA champion Denver.
Speaker 2: Nuggets has been crowned.
Speaker 1: If you watch that game and they did not look
Speaker 1: to you as if the Denver Nuggets have won a championship,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you were watching. And by the way,
Speaker 1: not in a disrespectful way, right, not that they're looking
Speaker 1: past the next win that they need to get. None
Speaker 1: of the raw rah they sleep. No. I told y'all
Speaker 1: this entire city dinner, Denver has been finishing their breakfast
Speaker 1: and last night, these last two games was another example
Speaker 1: of that they finishing their breakfast. They're not playing with
Speaker 1: their food. You go, you start off one one at
Speaker 1: home and listen. That's a very common NBA Finals thing,
Speaker 1: to let one get away at home. Happened with us
Speaker 1: last year. I can recall twice that that happened with
Speaker 1: us with the Calves and our finals runs. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, it's a very common thing to happen. You
Speaker 1: got two great teams playing in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: That's just what it boils down to.
Speaker 1: You can say what you want about the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: and they don't have this, and they don't have that.
Speaker 1: They've beat every team that you said was great and
Speaker 1: are in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: So you have great teams that end up in the
Speaker 2: NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: They probably are they're probably capable of going on the
Speaker 1: road to winning one. And so that's what happened in
Speaker 1: Denver and what has proven to be true Denver fashion
Speaker 1: in these playoffs. Finish date, breakfast, no penic. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go to Miami. We're not going to Miami to win
Speaker 1: the game. We're actually gonna go to Miami and win
Speaker 1: two games and take entire control of this series. Not
Speaker 1: get it back home court to the two. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: We're going to go to Miami and by the way,
Speaker 1: leave no doubt. First game in Game three, we're up
Speaker 1: twenty points, not playing well. Second game, which is Game four,
Speaker 1: jokers in foul trouble.
Speaker 2: All the things. Jamal Murray is.
Speaker 1: Not having a great shooting night, okay, Christian Brown is
Speaker 1: not having the night that he had before in game three, Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: Jokers not having his typical dominant night. Twenty three and
Speaker 1: twelve is actually in four assists. It's very pedestrian for Joker,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to think, but that's a very, very
Speaker 1: very pedestrian night for Joker.
Speaker 2: No big deal, and they just win.
Speaker 1: Like I got no point where you're watching that game, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Denver's probably going to lose this game, and we'll get
Speaker 1: into the specifics of how it all happened. But ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, you're twenty twenty three NBA champion, the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 1: The Nuggets beat the Heat, And like I said, I
Speaker 1: told you what Joker had I thought. If you remember,
Speaker 1: I was discussing the pick and roll with you with
Speaker 1: Joker and Bam, and initially, if you watched, Bam kept
Speaker 1: getting strung out.
Speaker 2: And when I say strung out, that.
Speaker 1: Means Jamal Murray is pulling Bam further and further away
Speaker 1: from Joker and the pick and roll coverage, and a
Speaker 1: couple of times you see it looked like they wanted
Speaker 1: to switch, and it was kind of washing. Then a
Speaker 1: couple of times you see they trap. To me, what
Speaker 1: it looked like their game plan was was to mix
Speaker 1: it up on their pick and roll coverages and not
Speaker 1: give them a steady diet. And I can understand that
Speaker 1: when you're playing against great players in this league, if
Speaker 1: you give them a steady diet of anything, they normally
Speaker 1: figure it out unless you can perfect your coverage. And
Speaker 1: so the coverage in which I was describing, which was
Speaker 1: BAM being all the way up at the level, so
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray can't stream him out, can't turn the corner.
Speaker 1: They did not do and he started struggling out and
Speaker 1: then they start to switch it. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray did not like that switch with BAM. When
Speaker 1: he was getting to switch with BAM. We've discussed this before.
Speaker 1: BAM can guard guards like and not switch onto a
Speaker 1: guard and keep him in front.
Speaker 2: Bam can guard a guard.
Speaker 1: He's very very well capable of actually sitting down and
Speaker 1: guarding a guard no problem. And so Jamal did not
Speaker 1: like that switch with BAM. When they start going to
Speaker 1: the switch, Jamal did not like it. And I can't
Speaker 1: recall that. I can't recall him scoring on the switch
Speaker 1: on BAM. I can't even recall him getting a good look.
Speaker 1: They were like step back's feet are like twisting the
Speaker 1: other way. Because Bam has gray speed, great length, grace, strain.
Speaker 1: He got everything you need to be a great defender.
Speaker 1: So he has all of those things. So not only
Speaker 1: was Jamal not getting great looks, I mean are getting
Speaker 1: a bucket, he actually wasn't generating great looks and his
Speaker 1: ISOs were BAM. And I thought that was a very
Speaker 1: interesting development because that was actually something that we discussed
Speaker 1: earlier in the season. I mean this series, which is
Speaker 1: maybe you want to put Jimmy there and maybe you
Speaker 1: just want to switch it. If they're going to beat
Speaker 1: you one on one, you may have to live with that.
Speaker 1: Haven't quite seen that yet, although they went to it
Speaker 1: a little bit, we haven't quite seen them go to
Speaker 1: that yet. And so, and just going back to last
Speaker 1: game adjustment and what I thought, which is putting Bam
Speaker 1: at the level of that screen almost into a contained blitz,
Speaker 1: so Jamal is not turning the corner.
Speaker 2: I think they could have used it, and they didn't.
Speaker 1: And then they started adjusting their coverages and at that
Speaker 1: point you're kind of battling uphill. But let's really get
Speaker 1: into these performances. Aaron Gordon twenty seven point six rebounds,
Speaker 1: six assists, three for four from three. Aaron Gordon three
Speaker 1: for four from three. I'm sorry, there's nothing you can
Speaker 1: do about that. Aaron Gordon started hitting threes. Good luck.
Speaker 1: One thing that I have thought is very interesting is
Speaker 1: number one, give Aaron Gordon his credit. When he see
Speaker 1: one of those smaller guys on him, he is putting
Speaker 1: his head down and going to the rim, no questions.
Speaker 1: I asked, I got a small, Gabe, Vincent, you name it.
Speaker 2: He immediately goes down, I'm to the rim.
Speaker 1: Give him credit because I can't recall many times where
Speaker 1: he actually had a small on him and his head.
Speaker 2: Didn't drop going to the rim.
Speaker 1: And that is that's game plan discipline, because that is
Speaker 1: something that they've discussed in their game plan. Coach Mo, Aaron,
Speaker 1: when you get a small on you, we want you
Speaker 1: attacking every single time. And for him to actually do
Speaker 1: it like attack every single time they get a small
Speaker 1: on him, it has put so much pressure on Miami's
Speaker 1: defense that they really don't have an adjustment for that.
Speaker 2: And it's not like if you're Denver, you're getting.
Speaker 1: All outside of yourself or out of character with telling
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon when he got a small on him, just
Speaker 1: put your head down and go to the rim, because
Speaker 1: quite frankly, Denver keeps the floor space uh, Joker space,
Speaker 1: Jamal space, Michael Porter's space. Aaron Gordon would be the
Speaker 1: one that's not spacing, and he actually has the ball
Speaker 1: in his hand, and of course KCP is space, so
Speaker 1: when he put his head down and drive, it's not
Speaker 1: like the spacing is thrown off. The spacing is actually
Speaker 1: there for him to just put his head down to drive.
Speaker 1: Oh and if you help the guy that you would
Speaker 1: say that is our worst shooter. Of these next four
Speaker 1: guys that's on the floor, be the four guys that
Speaker 1: I name would actually be Joker, who's actually shooting the
Speaker 1: highest percentage of all of these guys from three? Is
Speaker 1: that like fifty percent from three? At one point it
Speaker 1: was fifty seven percent from three in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's still there, don't really care if
Speaker 1: he's still there. I know he's shooting the lights out.
Speaker 1: And so which one of those guys, are you going
Speaker 1: to help off of the one who's struggling the most
Speaker 1: with their shot?
Speaker 2: Is? I mean, on a given day it's been KCP
Speaker 2: or Michael Porter.
Speaker 1: Joy good luck, just going to help off those two
Speaker 1: guys because all they need to see is one of
Speaker 1: them go in and then an onslaugh of threes can come.
Speaker 2: So what are you actually going to do to stop that?
Speaker 1: To stop Aaron Gordon from putting his head down and
Speaker 1: driving and getting to the rim every time? And sir
Speaker 1: Kevin Love, they've done that, but they only play Kevin
Speaker 1: Love so many minutes. So the moment that Kevin Love
Speaker 1: goes off the floor, Aaron Gordon had down, Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: is living at the front of your rim and you're
Speaker 1: pay I thought that was very interesting. I can respect
Speaker 1: him making a concerted effort that he has made to
Speaker 1: do that, and his paid dividends twenty seven points last night.
Speaker 2: Absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: Now, another interesting thing that I thought has been incredible
Speaker 1: is Jamal Murray as a playmaker. That's been great. We
Speaker 1: all know Joker is an incredible playmaker, but Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: has made it in this series to where his shooting
Speaker 1: has not mattered in the games that he has shot well. Great,
Speaker 1: but there's been a couple games now in this series
Speaker 1: that he has not shot the ball well and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because he's been so incredible as a distributor
Speaker 1: that like, how do you guard that? Remember we discussed
Speaker 1: them wanting to make Joker a score and not allow
Speaker 1: him to pass, and they went a heavy dose of
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray in.
Speaker 2: A pick and roll.
Speaker 1: He's making the plays. He is making the play, ten
Speaker 1: plus assisting all for NBA Finals game.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: I've played against Jamal Murray and if y'all out there
Speaker 1: knew this, and maybe you're much smarter than me, but
Speaker 1: I did not know Jamal Murray had in his bag
Speaker 1: to go a ten assists in a row in for
Speaker 1: NBA Finals games and to do it within the offense,
Speaker 1: like to do it with making simple plays not you know,
Speaker 1: you get guys in the NBA to hold the ball,
Speaker 1: hold the ball, hold the ball, hold the ball until
Speaker 1: something pops open and they can get an assist. It
Speaker 1: ain't that it's I'm coming off up. You take that away.
Speaker 1: I got this read here. It is delivering the ball
Speaker 1: on time, on target passes and guys are finishing shots
Speaker 1: making plays, making it happen. Got to give a lot
Speaker 1: of credit to Jamal Murray. Like I said, normally, when
Speaker 1: or in past times, we see Jamal Murray struggle with
Speaker 1: his shot and it just looked like, man, he can't
Speaker 1: get it going. You have not thought that one time
Speaker 1: with his shot because of how he's making plays, how
Speaker 1: he's making plays with the ball in his hand, getting
Speaker 1: other guys involved. As I said, we all know what
Speaker 1: type of playmaker. Joker is one of the best in
Speaker 1: the league. I think a very underrated thing in jokers playmaking.
Speaker 1: And then Jamal Murray's playmaker is. Aaron Gordon has like
Speaker 1: high level, elite hands. If you be comparing his hands
Speaker 1: to a wide receiver, it's like Larry Fitzgerald. When Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald got his hands on the past, you can forget
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: He was catching the past. Aaron Gordon, he.
Speaker 1: Gets his hand on any ball that comes near him
Speaker 1: from Joker or that comes from Jamal Murray, even if
Speaker 1: it's a tough pass to.
Speaker 2: Catch, he gets his hands on the ball.
Speaker 1: Not only is he coming up with the ball, he's
Speaker 1: finishing every single one of them.
Speaker 2: Joker had to pass over top yesterday.
Speaker 1: And he kind of caught it in front of him
Speaker 1: and just flipped flipped it backwards. That's a common play
Speaker 1: for them, and let me tell you that's not an
Speaker 1: easy play to convert. Hey, you're passing it to a
Speaker 1: guy on the same line as you. What do I
Speaker 1: mean by that? That means if I'm at the free
Speaker 1: throw line, it is a very tough to throw a
Speaker 1: pass that turns into a lib for a finish with
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon, who's on the straight line path with me,
Speaker 1: that is a very, very very tough thing to do.
Speaker 2: They're finishing those like nobody's tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon catches the ball underneath the rim, it don't
Speaker 1: matter who down there, he getting a layup or dunk.
Speaker 1: Very underrated thing in Jokers Assists and Jamal Murray's Assists
Speaker 1: is Aaron Gordon as a receiver and a finish. He
Speaker 1: is incredible at that elite once he gets the ball
Speaker 1: in the painted area, in the restricted area, whether it's
Speaker 1: off a lib, a bad lib, a good pass, a
Speaker 1: bad pass, he is elite at finishing that. He's been
Speaker 1: doing it all year and it has showed up in
Speaker 1: a major way in this series.
Speaker 2: All throughout the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But in this series we spoke about Christian Brown stepping
Speaker 1: in for Bruce Brown and Bruce Brown not having a
Speaker 1: game that the Denver Nuggets need them to have. And
Speaker 1: I told you all, I am of the mindset that
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown is no longer adding to how good you play, like, Oh,
Speaker 1: if Bruce Brown plays well, that's a bonus. No, Bruce
Speaker 1: Brown have to play well. Bruce Brown has played well
Speaker 1: and he had a great bounce back game last night.
Speaker 1: I am actually of the mindset if Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 1: plays well, if Michael Porter Junior shoots well, that's your bonus.
Speaker 1: But Bruce bro have to play well. He's proven that
Speaker 1: he's going to play well. He's actually proven almost to
Speaker 1: be the like the Nuggets third option, because if you
Speaker 1: think about it, when Jamal Murray goes out of the game,
Speaker 1: if Joker's not handling, who's handling the ball, who's making
Speaker 1: the plays out of his pick and roll, it's actually
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown. And so Bruce Brown to me, has proven
Speaker 1: to actually be like the third option of the Nuggets,
Speaker 1: And which is why you're not like it's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: you just get to play like if you play good, great,
Speaker 1: that helps us if not, don't know. He had one
Speaker 1: bad game and Christian bron stepped up. But Bruce Brown
Speaker 1: has to play well, and just like I thought, Bruce
Speaker 1: Brown played extremely well, extremely well, twenty one points, four boards,
Speaker 1: three assists, and a huge eleven.
Speaker 2: Points in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Now, if you didn't watch the game, or if you
Speaker 1: did and you missed this, that is when Joker was
Speaker 1: in foul trouble. Joker picked up his fourth file I
Speaker 1: think with ten minutes left on the clock, I mean
Speaker 1: his fifth file. Excuse me, he picked up his fifth
Speaker 1: file I think with they were up ten points. I
Speaker 1: can't remember exact time on the clock, but I know
Speaker 1: they were up ten points. And due to Bruce Brown
Speaker 1: playing the way he's playing, or played last night, Aaron
Speaker 1: Gordon playing the way he played last night, when Joker
Speaker 1: came back in from that long extended day break, they
Speaker 1: were no longer up ten.
Speaker 2: Sorry, they were up nine.
Speaker 1: So within that Miami covered one point with Joker on
Speaker 1: the bench. I'm sorry, but it would be impossible to
Speaker 1: beat Joker if you can only cover a ground and
Speaker 1: make up one point when Joker's not in the game,
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happen because when Joker's in the game,
Speaker 1: he's getting them into everything that he wants to get
Speaker 1: them into. And if all else fails and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get these guys into something, then I'll just go
Speaker 1: score the basketball. And that's what he's doing. So how
Speaker 1: can you combat that if you can't cover ground when
Speaker 1: he's on the bench. And it wasn't just like that
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. They stood pretty well when Joker
Speaker 1: was out the game in the first half as well,
Speaker 1: And so I think Denver has found something with their
Speaker 1: matchups or what they're willing to go to.
Speaker 2: When Jokers out of the game.
Speaker 1: Whereas they had Jeff Green like up at the top
Speaker 1: catching the ball and making plays, They've switched that and
Speaker 1: moved Jeff Green to the wing and they got Aaron
Speaker 1: Gordon making the plays. So now you're not helping off
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon crowd in the spacing up. They can kick
Speaker 1: the Jeff Green and knock a shot down, but it
Speaker 1: opens the floor for everyone else when Jokers not in
Speaker 1: the game, and it keep keeps its keeping the floor space.
Speaker 1: They're running the spanoolus action out of it. Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: hit a huge three when Miami was trying to make
Speaker 1: a comeback off the Sperneolus action. We talked about the
Speaker 1: spernoolish action before. Man, I don't you're twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: NBA champion Denver Nuggets now again.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I always watched press conferences after the game. I want
Speaker 1: to know what people thinking. And coach moe speech after
Speaker 1: the game number one, they were chopping it up and
Speaker 1: it was long. So it was a long speech that
Speaker 1: Coach Moe had after the game. But if you listen
Speaker 1: to him, it was pretty much listen fellas, it was
Speaker 1: like what I read his speech. Ass was like he's excited.
Speaker 1: They're excited, and so I'm not. You know, most coaches
Speaker 1: will come in and be like, Yo, we're not done yet.
Speaker 1: We got one more game, let's move on, let's get
Speaker 1: it done. He didn't try to contain their excitement. He
Speaker 1: didn't even try to contain his excitement. You can feel
Speaker 1: their excitement through the TV screen when you were watching
Speaker 1: his Fresco his postgame speech and they were chopping it up.
Speaker 1: You can feel the excitement from him. You can feel
Speaker 1: the excitement from that team buzzing through the TV. And
Speaker 1: like I said, it wasn't like a let me try
Speaker 1: the dimness, let me try to tone it down. No,
Speaker 1: he was cool with being excited. He was cool with
Speaker 1: them being excited. But the message was, I'm not pushing
Speaker 1: his energy down. We need his energy going back home
Speaker 1: and close this thing out. But the message was, but
Speaker 1: we still have to go win one more game. This
Speaker 1: is great, played incredible, came out here, won two games,
Speaker 1: got the job done, Fellas. Now let's go home and
Speaker 1: take care of home court. I can appreciate that. I
Speaker 1: can appreciate that, Nah, feel those emotions. Enjoy it because
Speaker 1: it's a part of the journey. Enjoy the emotions. One
Speaker 1: thing that I noticed actually during the game, and then
Speaker 1: once I saw coach Mole's press conference, I actually have
Speaker 1: on my notes because I take some a few notes
Speaker 1: during the game of important things that I see that
Speaker 1: I may want to speak to you about. And I said,
Speaker 1: Denver smell that championship. Them boys are showing emotion. It
Speaker 1: looked like a one shining moment on.
Speaker 2: Those replays before break.
Speaker 1: It's like Choker doing this twice, Jamal Murray life like
Speaker 1: it looked like if For those of you who don't
Speaker 1: know what I mean by one shining moment if you
Speaker 1: are a fan of the NCAA tournament at all, at all,
Speaker 1: Coach Izzo's cell was always us like one shining moment,
Speaker 1: Like there's no feeling like standing in that arena after
Speaker 1: the National Championship game, looking up at the Jumbo, trying
Speaker 1: at those highlights, confetti falling down, and one shining moment
Speaker 1: playing five.
Speaker 2: I've never experienced that gout one game away. It didn't
Speaker 2: quite work.
Speaker 1: But I am a huge fan of the NCAA tournament
Speaker 1: and I watch one Shining Moment every year, like after
Speaker 1: someone when like you're looking forward to one shining moment.
Speaker 1: It's a staple. And Denver looked like a one Shining
Speaker 1: moment video. Over the last couple of series, Joker is
Speaker 1: like showing emotion, and in this series even showing I
Speaker 1: mean Joker had probably ten fist pumps last night. I
Speaker 1: remember like Joker wouldn't like just wouldn't show emotional, like
Speaker 1: drop you off and just run back. Like the emotion
Speaker 1: that he's showing is making it okay for everybody else
Speaker 1: to show that emotion. And they're thriving off that, like
Speaker 1: you can see in their body language. And so when
Speaker 1: I said to you, and there's your twenty twenty three champions,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, Denver Nuggets. That's actually where that mindset, like,
Speaker 1: that's where that thought came from, is that these guys
Speaker 1: know they smell that championship. They know like they know like,
Speaker 1: oh no, this is ours, we got it, we won,
Speaker 1: and yes we still have to go finish the job.
Speaker 1: No disrespect to the Miami Heat, but this is ours
Speaker 1: and we're NBA champions. It's just a date now getting
Speaker 1: to the date that they can be NBA champions. I
Speaker 1: told you all before this series that I had the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets in five. I don't see that changing. Denver's
Speaker 1: been finishing their breakfast. I got Denver going home and
Speaker 1: getting it done, and you're twenty twenty three, twenty two,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three NBA.
Speaker 2: Champion, Denver Nuggets.
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