(1) denver nuggets (8) miami heat 2023 nba finals ft the joker and mommy butler

time to get the small guys off of gordon

just looked up the time in sweden, bless your commitment k3v

― Clay, Thursday, June 1, 2023 8:45 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I stopped at like every bar we passed today to ask if they would be open, sadly ball is not life out here. stockholm beautiful city tho

denver’s size is already the story. other than the playoffs and when they played the nuggs, I haven’t seen a ton of heat games this year, but based on their numbers it doesn’t look like they crash the offensive glass much — and it seems like they’re selling out there to make sure they’re set on defense. will be interesting to see how that plays out

of course as soon as I say that bam has a putback slam

Aaron Gordon all world express

Aaron Gordon has 6 dunks/layups. That is the most in any quarter in his entire career. @ESPNStatsInfo

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) June 2, 2023

jokic 0 fga with less than a minute to go in the first

carving them up with movement and passing

why attempt a field goal if your teammate is open in the paint

he took a shot

ok so now I open the NBA app and the game is streaming live?

JVG watches a guy get completely clobbered in the face and says "thats not a foul to me"

he has his own fouls

JVG is of the mindset that if it wasnt intentional then its not to be called a foul

jokic bulldozing zeller content is good

that was amazing lol

he was like fine fine i'll take this one myself

this is about how i expected the denver games to go

Murray jump shots like buttah

nice finish for the nugs

couldn't go much better for denver than that

Cody Zeller wandered onto the court a while ago and security still hasn’t noticed or done anything about it

— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) June 2, 2023

jokic very much like nash where scoring is his second choice.

I'm having a good time

feel like jokic is fully actualized now, played a perfect clean controlled half to set the tone

watching my boys and eating the world's most mediocre delivery pizza as the sun comes up at 3am in beautiful europe which is technically where jokic is from, the vibes are correct

Murray jump shots like buttah

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, June 1, 2023 6:29 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

top three jump shot form for me for current players. a lot of people like porter jrs but i dont like how close his feet are and it looks a little too floppy for me

beautiful xp

jokic 3/3 from the field with 10 assists no turnovers in the first half lmao

k3v living the dream with a stress free half of basketball

Pat Riley crashing random zooms, hoping to stumble upon some gloating nuggs fans he can show Duncan

if miami continues to miss all the threes they made vs the celtics im going to wait til after the series to whine about it but just know i am harboring a whine

i am harboring a whine

noted

struss and martin 0/12 fg so far

leading with player interviews to start quarter instead of coaches is an improvement

no interviews ever tho

yeah its way better. coaches way too stressed to say anything interesting

heat just not guarding bruce brown

hes been hitting some tough shots tho for sure

a finals wedgie!

where’s nuggs finals fap?

I’d love to see adebayo’a shot chart after this game, he’s got to be like 10/16 from a foot behind the FT line

adebayo baffles me, in game 7 he would barely look at the rim

my suggestion to the heat for game 2 is make shots earlier in the game, that's the time to do it

Denver looked super comfy surprised anyone broke a sweat.

nuggets underperformed from 3, room for improvement there next time

Some ill-advised three-point attempts for sure, they took their foot off the gas which is fine with such a comfortable lead and not enough time but I'm sure Malone had some pointed observations.

watching my boys and eating the world's most mediocre delivery pizza as the sun comes up at 3am in beautiful europe

This reminded me of attempting to watch game 1 of the finals in 2019 while at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Only problem was someone like FKA Twigs or Low was about to start their set or something

seems like the heat really miss butler — any word on if he’ll be back for game 2

i thought jimmy looked tired last night. he had good explosion in his legs but by the second quarter he was walking up the court and having other guys bring the ball up. the heat taking two FTs as a team is probably an indication that they were all kinda beat down

if there was anything interesting that happened for the heat in that game it was that the one thing everyone seemed to agree on before the series -- you can't play zone w/ jokic on the floor -- actually didn't play out that way. i think JVG called it out on TV but it had the effect of neutering the murray-jokic two man game. i don't think it's a panacea by any stretch, but perhaps a button the heat can continue to push when they need the nuggets to cool off for a 3-4 min stretch, or perhaps at the end of a close game. i thought before the series that making murray uncomfortable should be the heat's no 1 defensive priority & he looked way less comfortable when they threw zone at them. i think the issue is that you can momentarily trick jokic into being overly passive by switching up your looks but i think moving forward if he sees a few possessions of zone in a row he's just gonna say fuck it & start scoring a bunch. they left him really easy open floater type looks that he missed i think bcuz he was a bit discombobulated but i wouldn't bank on that, obviously. heat just kinda need to play better & also see what they can do to rattle murray a bit & shift some pressure to denver's other players. onwards and upwards