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

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

Yeah, I don't think he's gonna stay discombobulated.

at least two days off between all these games is so lame

good for the Heat to get some rest but yeah no ball tonight it sucks

yeah just got in tried to turn on the game had no idea it was tomorrow

How does this sched MAKE money for league/teams, I don’t get it but I tend to believe they must think it’s a +

its weird because during the conf finals they're pretty adament on having games on every night

i think they have probably determined that they get more eyeballs on thursday and sunday than they would on a friday or a saturday

but game 4 is on Friday

i'm sure it's all about what times the broadasters are most advantaged

Not sure how much it matters but the nhl finals first game was tonight

nhl puts final in ice from arena on surface of sun during solar flare. surface: inconsistent

Miami in both finals as well

oh yeah if they share an arena that becomes a factor

they do not share one tho

i think from the league’s perspective you also want your most visible games of each year to be played at as high a level as possible, so i think the two day breaks are purposeful from a rest perspective

& as cad says thurs/sun are also marquee TV nights, those being games 1 and 2 are not accidental. when each conference finals was 3-0 the league was like “yeah we don’t move the dates” & i heard hollinger say it was partly bcuz of international media, you can’t just shift travel on all those ppl suddenly. but i think the league also just wouldn’t part w/ the thurs/sun opening schedule