Why The 2023 NBA Finals Made NO SENSE
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Based on the last 5 post seasons, the fact the Heat lost this series defied some very strong statistical correlations. Coach Nick breaks down exactly what happened and why it could signal a change in the way NBA teams distribute their shots.
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I can’t understand the people who think that Jokic is boring to watch. The dude can literally do everything. Except jump.
hes boring to the casual viewer who doesn't appreciate the nuances to his game, hes just a big slow white dude to a casual
Unfortunately there are a lot of fans who prefer 1on1 iso/heroball with a lot and1 mixtape handles. One of the best players on our own squad a decade ago thought the Spurs were boring and Kyrie was his favourite player...
@@liekegerritsen1620 it's a *team* sport and when that *team* is hitting on all cylinders and being unselfish, it makes everyone better. I would much rather watch a team like the "boring" Spurs or Nuggets over seeing James Harden dribble ten thousand times and then brick a thirty foot shot any frickin day and twice on Sunday.
He doesn't need to jump as his standing reach was higher than most of the center...He rebound the ball all the time and Anthony Davis got bullied by him in the post
@@liekegerritsen1620 Especially US born player...They were build and coach to play hero ball since young ... It's kinda culture thing in US universities. and school...Adding with mixtapes and social media lot of kids were interested to make highlights reels move rather playing team basketball
Raptors, Bucks and Nuggets winning chips has restored my faith in NBA basketball 💪🏀
Only in odd years: 2019, 2021, 2023
So we back to front runners next year 😅
what about GSW last year?
@@1will2kill well Nuggets are the front runners next year lol
@Teguh Nugraha Pratama What of it?
@@1will2kill Bruce Brown has something to say about that. Nugs running it back.
In addition to Denver’s defense. Finals games are wayyyy different psychologically. It’s known that players tend to get tunnel vision under pressure, trying to be more aggressive than usual instead of following the game plan.
The Heat did have a lot good looks at threes. They weren't making them. Thats why they decided to drive to the hoop rather than shoot the 3
He also just contradicted his own video at 10:08 stating good old fashioned layups can sometimes beat 3s.
@@warriorsbreakdown I think BBallbreakdown is not as good as thinking basketball
I think his analytics leaves something to be desired which is why I tend to watch other before this.
The heat beat Buck & Celtics because they shot the three well amongst other things
They were well above their mean for the season.
the problem they had against Denver was the combination of size and relentless shot and playmaking of murray and jokic could not be stopped.
The other part of this was that they seemed to force the heat into midrange shots. they started to aggressively hunt running the 3pt shoots off the line deflecting passes & just making life a misery for the heat shooter and Jimmy Buckets. Jimmy was tentative because he had bigger defenders on him and so mismatch hunting was harder. The put Gordon on him at times and look at what he did with possessions.....
Most teams just keep hacking the up
@@warriorsbreakdownthis is not a"bad" video. Coach is pointing out with video evidence some missed opportunities. No way is he saying they absolutely make those shots or win, but STRATEGICALLY it should have been part of their game plan to even compete in the first place. Denver was too big, strong, deep and talented for Miami.
@@warriorsbreakdown Exactly. I agree you man. Live or die by the 3 was the Heat's approach. Spoelstra knew that he had to change it up based on the first 3 games down 2-1 to get better looks by going to the hoop.
i think the heat were scared of jokic’s rebound and outlet pass ability, the heat miss a couple threes and u give the nuggets easy points going the other way. pretty hefty gamble to just chuck up threes and hope they fall, nuggets were terrible on open look 3s in game 5 i can’t imagine the roles being reversed
You miss layup jokic is going to get that rebound and make that pass too...
@@nomooon but at least the believe in their Transition defense for lay up more than gambling for open 3s
Coach Nick, I also believe that another big reason why the Heat couldn't keep up with the Nuggets is that the Heat players weren't as good at making contested layups and short shots in the paint compared to the Nuggets. I want to say that if you or anyone else goes back and track all the short shots, the Nuggets probably made maybe 10% or so more of these paint buckets, which is huge. I also want to mention that some of the Heat players would pass up on a short shot, some contested and some with a little space, more often than the Nuggets players. So in short, the Heat need at least a good center and a big athletic wing on the roster to improve on their weaknesses to win a championship.
Bam improved a lot on offence this season but I noticed too that he can't make contested shots even when under basket, whereas Jokic can't miss those. He'll need to work on those this summer in order to take the next step
Miami was an 8th seed for a reason and that was on full display in these finals
Yeah one of the main things going for them was their 3pt shooting this playoffs but they went right back to their regular season form 3pt shooting wise
They were way, way, way less talented
@@alikassa5437 guys really wet the bed it was crazy
@@btee23 their best player isn’t fit to be the best player on a championship team
@@SSJRome sadly
Coach, you’ve seen what happened whenever Miami passed a ball to an “open man”. After game 2, Denver were quick enough to close out and easily contest those shots. They weren’t really open lol.
Miami only shot 2 FT in game 1. This probably changed the team's mentality form shooting 3's to driving to the basket and drawing fouls
The Heat's inability to stop Denver's offense put pressure on their own offense to keep up and made them play tight.
Game 1 really took our a lot of the Heat's confidence from 3. They executed near perfection and got so many open shots but missed so much of them. Nuggets defense also got better with each passing game.
Many of the shots Heat tried shown on this video are makeable shots and quite good.
No team makes perfect reads and perfect games.
Coach, I know you say this all the time but can you explain what it is helping from one pass away? Does that imply players should help from two passes away? What does that look like?
Other teams overreacted to Jimmy Butler. As soon as he got a few buckets it was panic mode on defense, but the Nuggets just kept daring him to make those tough shots and he got flustered and started missing or just not taking them. How many times he drove into the middle of the lane and picked up his dribble with nowhere to go tells me the Nuggets won the mental game.
Jimmy was playing through an ankle injury since game 2 of Boston series.
Butler isn’t as athletic as Gordon. Gordon was owning him and the paint , Gordon has a 40 inch vertical
@@jaylucas8352 it’s true AG has the size advantage but Jimmy was playing injured and there’s reason to believe he was going through something mentally. I still believe had he played better and heat stuck to shooting 3s they could’ve won at least another 1-2 games.
@@forza8719 The Heat way overperformed from 3 in some of the earlier rounds, they aren't *that* good of a shooting team, and (something the video entirely glosses over) Denver was full of fast, physical wing defenders who committed to recovering to shooters. Those shots look open when you freeze the video, but by the time the pass gets there a defender with 4-8" height advantage is flying out there. If the Heat were going to win they needed to get Denver scrambling, then swing the ball to an open shooter from outside.
@@forza8719 Jokic twisted his ankle. They're not the only ones who were injured in the playoffs.
This analysis overstates, by a lot, how open the Heat role players were. It's easy to freeze the video and point to a guy who has some space at that moment. That doesn't mean the shot would be open by the time it got there. The Nuggets were flying out to the arc very aggressively all series, generally with bigger, physical defenders: Gordon, MPJ, KCP, Braun. Seems to me the Heat were trying to establish Jimmy and Bam's inside/mid-range game to generate more truly open looks. And really, this made some sense as a gameplan, because Jimmy's one-on-one prowess is what got them to the Finals in the first place, and Jokic's rim protection is, at least on paper, the weak point in an otherwise strong defense. But the Nuggets just out-executed, and were too good at keeping them from getting easy stuff and from getting to the line. They basically dared Bam to shoot infinite 12-foot shots and he just kept missing them. The Jimmy-centric offense that got them to the Finals broke down against a team with better, more physical defenders to put on him (esp. Aaron Gordon) and a more disciplined team defense approach. So yeah, you can say they should have kicked it out more and taken more 3-pointers, but I think Spoelstra knew that unless his team got the Nuggets scrambling first, those weren't going to be good looks - case in point, late in Game 5 when Jimmy was gassed and you had role players trying to do too much from the outside. Ends up with Kyle Lowry going one-on-one with A. Gordon on the perimeter and getting his shot inhaled.
Shocker, not everyone passes like Jokic and the Nuggets.
Sheeesh, I missed your old badass audio background. If any, can you bring it back, sir?
Insightful video, exactly right...hope Spo. corrects this when playing bigger teams.
It's ok for the Celtics, Bucks and Warriors to lose, Nick.
Let's be real this man was really disappointed he never got his Nuggets-Warriors WCF, and that he never got his Nuggets-Celtics finals 💀
As a Warriors fan, I'd like that... but for real tho. The playoffs and finals are on a best of 7 games mode. There's no real way to get that far by sheer luck, that's 336 minutes, more than 5 and a half hours at least for each series. Just as I know the Warriors rn couldn't handle the Nuggets for that long, I know the Lakers couldn't, the Heat couldn't and the Celtics most likelly couldn't. Each of these teams have at least a few significant flaws, and on the East, the Heat was the most consistent on managing their own flaws
The problem with Celtics they are disorganized and shoot three all the time..They should stick with Ime udoka 😅 instead of inexperienced or low caliber coach Joe mazulla
I wish we got a nuggets vs bucks finals, nuggets vs warriors in wcf would be interesting, but I think nuggets beat both teams in 5 or 6 games, and they demolish our celtics team easily
@@theonlygoodonehere2259 I think Bucks will not challenge the NBA championship again if they lose Khris this season...Khris is playing tug of war with Milwaukee right now
@@mrboast2826 very true, bucks need a desperate replacement guy for khris, or keep him at all cost
This goes to show that stats can't predict the outcome of every game nor series. But you said it, coach, good old fashion points in the paint, ball movement and team work! The best team clearly won. As a long time Nuggets fan, this still feels surreal!
Do you think part of it could be the heat might’ve been targeting the rim because the nuggets don’t have a true shot blocker??
Yeah,agree ,the only problem is jokic hands are so fast for a. Big guy,and he is big enough to bother the shooter, doesn't really need to jump and block,
I really enjoy this series, this Nugget team is fun to watch and have many stuff to learn from.
IMO Heat give it all they got, but still a distance to match with this nuggets team
With how aggressive the Nuggets were at contesting the 3pt line, I doubt most of these "wide open 3s" were actually wide open.
Weirdly I felt the heat did not need herro for the playoffs in fact they were probably better than they would have been. But during the finals they really needed herros offense
Look, strus and vincent are miami's best shooters. And in their losses, strus shot 2/26 (7%), and vincent shot 8/30 (26%). That is abysmal. So it's actually a good adjustment to try to put pressure inside, instead of continuing to chuck bricks and die by the three like boston did against them. Especially since denver didn't have any real rim protectors. But THEIR adjustment was to collapse into the paint early, and give up the kickout three, which they knew miami became more and more hesitant to do the more they missed. Just great high level basketball
I believe there are a lot of possession that seems opened, but the nuggets players are perfectly capable of rotating and recovering those possessions
NBA champs and not by paying to get a Lebron or a KD. By drafting, by hard work, by perseverance and loyalty. NOTHING BUT RESPECT
3s sank on game 2, yet their win is not decisive enough. Then, good coverage by Nuggs afterwards happened. All of the comment section in every video says that they should attack Jokic, but still it ain't good enough till they really have a center.
That sponsorship transition was too good. I didn't even skip it
Maybe his numbers showed different, but I think Bam got caught up with being 'agressive' (aka taking shots) and taking to many midrange jumpers. That's the least efficient shot in basketball, and even though the Nuggets gave it to him, he's never been a midrange assasin like a Durant - who still only shoots +/- 50% from mid-range.
Also Butler should've been more agressive.
I really didn't understand why Miami didn't jack up more 3's. I think Lowry did a really good job of that, as did Duncan early on.
Miami just kept trying to go inside and they didn't make a REAL adjustment in that. Defensively they were good, offensively they just couldn't get it done.
Might've missed Herro's playmaking and going downhill more than people would think. And still don't understand why Jimmy wasn't attacking everytime. A mad Jimmy is one of the best guys in the NBA, but he sometimes plays as if he's still a rotation player. Same happens with Anthony Davis btw, they seem to coast at times.
Do you think the matchup will be better if it's Boston, coach? Just because of the 3pts
You assume everyone can pass the ball like Jokic. But only Jokic can.
He thinks its 2k
hi coach, that play at 8:30 is it a travel from jokic or not?
I prefer this finals versus the same old warriors, lakers, or boston any day. I'm really happy to see a city win their first one.
Without those drives, they would have a lot less open looks from 3. They also got lucky with Denver shooting unusually bad from downtown.
honestly it was just jimmy not being aggressive and the heat in general being too stubborn to change their ways
I am better than Jimmy.
@@rentfree01 i wish you stayed healthy
@@rentfree01 LOAD MANAGEMENT. 💩
I don’t think every ‘open threes’ you pointed to there are really open. Some are, but some have engaged defenders, maybe some are cheating a bit, but otherwise they can contest right away if the pass went to their man.
Always enjoy your videos. Haha was that the cure ha??? People might not want to admit it or whatever but sizr was just a huge factor from the jump in my opinion. Of course the game is more than just whos taller. Jamel was a beast too.
Might be a consequence of Game 1. They were accused of not playing aggressive enough. They only got 2 free throws and kept bricking their jump shots. Maybe the plan was to play more aggressive and attack the rim, especially after game 3, when Denver started to turn up the effort on the defensive end.
I don't know where I saw this stat, but Denver's defense, during the regular season, was very good at protecting 3 pointers and not so good at protecting the rim, which may have lured the Heat into something they do not want to do. The shooting in this series was for some reason abysmal though. So maybe they didn't want to be to dependent on three pointers and shooting variance and lose like they did in Game 1.
Come on now, minute 4:20...nobody ever would have passed the ball out being that free under the basket. Jokic didn't bother the shot. He just missed and it was a terrible miss, but come on now, passing out to Martin that shot, hell no
Terrible background music, go back to the og background music
The modern nba shooting chart not just value 3pts .
Attack the rim too.
Mid range is what the game lost
It’s normal to not think of fouling Gordon more
It’s usage was not that high he was a counterpunch to the mismatch
Maximum of 1 Three pointer, per player in 1 match?
Its the East anybody can make it out with a good run. If anything the east is like the Ncaa Cinderella teams but it all stops when they meet the big bad west.
This series reminded me of the 2000's NBA
Such a amateur breakdown from the guy that said that you can't win with Jokic's defense
I missed the old music. 😕
love your work!
Thank you!!
I think the Heat were trying to grind out and avoid long rebounds that would create more pace for Denver.
It's no sense because some ppl and the media believed that the heat can do some miracles but they don't :)
honestly, after the mike malone and lebron drama, i think the nuggets just let the heat take game 2. this is to make sure the lakers team is the only team getting swept making it more humiliating for the lakers.
It doesn't make sense to me why they put all their hopes on Adebayo's offense when he's clearly not skilled in that area.
It's not working. And it is not their style.
They helped the nuggets control their game
I think hard work can beat talent, but damn the denver was definition when talent still working hard 😂😂 good game miami, you can add beal or dame next season.
Miami was good after game 2. I think historic performances by Jokic and Murray who both had triple doubles stole Miami's soul.
Still wild Nuggets shot 5-28 in game 5 and still won
7:37 “bam can’t do much with an opponent that much bigger than him” more like bam can’t do much against a seven footer who uses a ball to cast magic
nuggets werent even playin their best game. their numbers were down too even to the point of being ridiculously low, yet the heat were even worse at the same time^^. it was jokic who made the difference on these bad games
3:34 isn’t this a travel by Vincent? If it’s not could someone explain why?
Great question. On Twitter, I share a ton of clips of players who jump off 1 foot on the step thru. This is perfectly legal, as you’re allowed to lift the pivot foot off the floor so long as u shoot or pass before it comes back down.
@@bballbreakdown Alright that helped me understand it. Thanks coach!
Miami Heats problem will be the same problem Team USA will face in FIBA. They better gear up and prepare or they will lose badly.
Adebayo need to improve his offensive game
I dont know what happened to jimmy
AG was the difference in this series. That and how Bam and Jimmy are really bad at layups (evidence in the video lol). If we stopped Gordon, we might've actually pushed the series to 6 or 7. Game 4 was evident of that. Jokic was in foul trouble and Murray didn't have his best game. But of course, we just HAD to leave Aaron Gordon open for threes he'd been hitting ALL SERIES LONG and let him make 12-14 shots or so
It's the nerves
We need the full video with with Coach Nick's sloppy workouts
I didn’t notice how bad max struess’ defense is. He looks lost asf out there is we why the lakers didn’t go after him
Coach's jumper is butter.
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Bam was freaking great I have to say. Did a better job than AD.
Bucks vs the nuggets would of been lit
The heat just sucked defensively and offensively. Mismatch city. Butler looked drained and not mad at the heat they had a great playoffs
Lots of missed opportunities by the Heat caused this series to be over sooner rather than later.
Heat would chuck 3s when the game called for driving in and drawing fouls. They relied on their anomaly shooting streak from previous round and it predictably caught up. Typical Heat play was drive in, stop, turn back to basket and find anyone at the 3 point line to send it.
Coach the openings are only there when the heat commits to offensive movement.. nuggets knows how to occupy space this both in offense & defense,. occupying space is not normal in america but other country that plays basketball it's normal.. player that has too much athletic ability doesn't develop this.. even analyst doesn't how to explain this,. Oh INSIDE the NBA crew knows this they call it analytical st......y
Don’t you think giving AG a non shooter free throws (even though he’d be missing those) would get him in rhythm? I’ve heard Draymond talk about it. Like how a player should not be given free throws coz that’d get him into his rhythm. It’s not like AG is as bad as Ben Simmons. So giving him more free throws wouldn’t be the best yeah? Also it’d wear the Heat out too
Only one way to find out, lolz
@@bballbreakdown yeah that’s true. They didn’t even try it.
Is there a football version of this channel
they desperate and get intimidated thats why their vision narrowed and became impatience
Whatever Miami did Denver would have adjusted for.. they're just thr better team it really simple
and back to the heat...feels like the page was just forced to create a content about the nuggets..sad..
Ahhhhhhh so that’s what happened??? Makes sense 😬
Sometimes the other team is just better….🤷🏻♂️
We thought he was Himmy Butler but it turns out he’s Bummy Hitler unfortunately
bankshot from 6 ft
After game 2, Nuggets were pretty good on rotations and forced Heat into lot of tough, contested 3's from looks similar to those in this video. Their wings and guards are pretty athletic and close distance really well. You think you have open shot and then a 6'10 Gordon is leaping at you. I think Heat wanted to be more direct and force Denver to hard commit to stopping the drives. Jimmy being so off really hurt that strategy.
gordon is not 6'10 ;-)
@@rb9888close enough Gordon is 6'8 but mpj is 6'10
To make threes, players should have stamina and legs !! Correct ? 🎶
Honestly if you look at it The Heat hit a LOT of contested 3s to stick in the game.
Kyle Lowry would hoist up some prayers
@@ballislife1805 yes.
but mpj is not athletic.
He forgot to take into account that Denver is really good at defending the three point line. Their close outs are fast and strong and they can contest almost any shot.
I disagree. The Heat just can’t make wide open 3s.
Maybe you’re right but what lost Miami this series was their points in the paint and mid range, they literally couldn’t make anything and were shooting what felt like under 50% in the paint, very uncharacteristic, especially considering jokic is not a great defensive player
Yeah they were open at the time the video was paused, but they will probably be contested by the time they took the shot.
@@One.Zero.One101 ha ha
@@dm1964his defense is underrated. You dont need to jump if you're big and can position well. See Tim Duncan
Coach do you think part of the issue with getting more threes like you suggest might just be a lack of high-level passing ability on the Heat? Bam is easily their best passer, but most of the plays you highlight involve his teammates trying to pass the ball to him, not the other way around. Jimmy is very smart and has developped solid enough reads over his time in the NBA, but he’s still somewhat lacking as a passer. Not to mention the size differential just made it harder for the Heat to see open teammates, much less find good passing angles or deliveries. That first pass you suggest Gabe Vincent make to the corner shooter through 3 Nuggets players for example just looked to my eyes to be too advanced for him entirely, even if he had been looking for it.
some of the passes he highlight were fairly simple passes anyone can make from your average rec gym
@@theonlygoodonehere2259 but they're against bigger and longer players. It would be easy to make passes against people shorter than 6 ft. NBA players face against people taller than that with long arms. Denver's lineup is sneakily big with Jamal being their shortest player at 6'4" and everyone else being 6'5" and up
@@Wabbajaxe well yeah, but the nuggets defender guys were caught ball watching so they wouldn't get there on time that much
@@theonlygoodonehere2259 that might have been true in game 1 and especially game 2. But from game 3 onward, aside from maybe exactly MPJ, nuggets players were actually very on-point with their rotations and close-outs to shooters. They absolutely did get there on time, and pressured the shooters quite a bit.
Honestly the only reason the stats Coach Nick cites here about the Nuggets being outshot in the 3 pointer department this series are true is that they shot absolutely horrendously from 3 themselves. The Heat actually shot below average from deep, and the Nuggets defense was a big reason for that.
@@Billymanaco ooh
The nuggets has the ability to recover on those 3s and force you to take 2 pointers instead. That's what I saw.
Yup. This is a weak breakdown, Thinking Basketball has a video about Denver's defense in the Finals, esp. Game 5, detailing this very point.
I disagree some of these were wide open and the 3 ball is the only way they were ever going to win the inside game wasn’t working you might as well try and shoot more 3s It’s what got them there.
@@dimelo58 jokic gonna grab the rebound and throw a hail mary everytime they miss
@@angahbg9089 yeah but if you’re losing the 2 point game at least win the 3 point game or try something different they thought joker was a bad defender but he’s huge and smart enough to be average down low plus gordon and kcp are great on ball it was rough
Some of the passes he suggested even looked pretty likely to result in TO tbh. An 80% chance to get a
Murray deserves more credit. Look at how far the nuggets got last year without him
I mean every year they have murray they get kinda far, it was shown flashes of his dangerous tempo rise when he hits the playoffs in 2019 vs blazers, makes me wonder what the playoffs in 2021 and 2022 look like if murray was healthy, they prob win those 2 as well
The team last year was completely different though. The only common point was Gordon and Green.
I thought he equally deserved to win the wcf MVP, he absolutely destroyed the Lakers.
@@20dieux they werent going to win with paul millsap, will barton, and garry harris, thats for sure. monte morris is okay if hes coming off the bench, i guess
They were without MPJ, KCP, BB, CB etc. Not only Jamal...
Remember when coach Nick said the Nuggets wouldn't keep their No. 1 seed with their Jokic led defense?
He dont like the nuggets. Whole playoffs he made like 1 video about them excluding the last games of finals. That is despite the nuggets playing domimant basketball, someone who loves the game would enjoy analyzing.
@@juohan Warriors-stan
He's clearly biased hence why he's almost defending Miami in this
You know what I noticed late in the Celtics/heat series. Butler couldn’t draw fouls anymore which is big part of his game. Once players stopped jumping on his pump fake in the key. Almost like butler didn’t know what to do after teams stopped getting fool with that pump fake. Notice butler gets in a good rhythm when he draws these fouls. Just an observation.
The Denver defenders were so good at collapsing the middle and then recovering to cover the 3point line with their agility and length (mpj, ag, etc) I think they really made Miami shy away from those attempts
I'd guess the two vets K-Love and Lowry must have been mighty frustrated by the many times they were open at the 3-point line and didn't receive the pass. Yes, there were openings as you point out, but the Nuggets' mobility, size and effort enabled them to close gaps quickly - and as the series went on, the Heat offense really looked intimidated, especially in the last game that was so intense. The Nuggets defense got better and better as the playoffs went on - watch the video of that final game, and you'll see they really were "on a string", moving in unison. Under that pressure, the Heat, lacking many real playmakers, simply lost their offensive creativity and unity.
Denver was able to adjust to Booker/KD, then to LBJ/Davis/Reeves, finally to Miami running & shooting Stampedo... Their scouting and preparation was a top-notch, and they were pretty fast for such a big Crew, with even faster Hands, plus they have Jokic who is just like a Coach in the Play, and big Anchor that keep'em focused no matter what. It is possible that fatigue finally catch the Heat, after all the Wrestling with Boston and the previous..? And still they should try more threes, obviously, even with sucha low Efficiency. But my Impression is that Denver simply was the impenetrable Fortress during this playoff, ready to conquer every Team.
Denver was off in the Minnesota and Phoenix series, it was after game 4 against Phoenix they started clicking, and only losing 1 game the rest of the way
Maybe I'm old style, and people may say 3 point shooting is the most essential part of the game now, but I hate it, everyone's trying to shoot from half court,and it's not pretty nor fun to watch, that's why the nuggets winning this year's championship was a much needed breath of fresh air, hopefully more to come 🏀⛏️⛏️
Hi coach, I have noticed that but what I believe it happened was how inconsistent and mental the threes were/are in the series. The higher three success imo was predicated on the mental victory they had over their opponents. On Denver's case I think it had to do with the lack of control on the game pace, as you know, Miami was always trying to dictate the pace of the game, both sides but they could hardly dictate the pace, which made things worse considering how fast paced Denver was. That is without even considering how inconsistent Miami shooting was.
On the three point being secondary to ball movement and team effort, I could not agree more. I believe the over reliance on efficiency skews how efficient things can be within specific contexts, as shown here, 3's are not in practice efficient as well as living by the free throws. Could not agree more on the assessment and was worried I was making things up.
Yeah! Without question the mental aspect is HUGE
I learn so much from watching your videos. Thank you.
Video doesn't make sense, "tHey diDnt tAke mOre 3s"
Very few of those opportunities were clear-cut open 3's - the Nuggets were closing out damn fast on the shooters in the last 3 games and they were often just half helping. Their size also reduced the passing angles.
Listen bro. This seems like a great analysis but there’s a reason why Christopher Columbus died too! Denver defense stepped up and Miami was overwhelmed. They were missing from 3, so they need to go inside. They tried to do what Boston didn’t do. Denver too missed a lot of 3s, so they went inside where they killed Miami. If you noticed, coaches Spo and Malone had their team go inside, something coach Mazulla didn’t do or couldn’t do.
lol, aren't the Bucks near league-bottom in 3pt defense?