GameTime reacts to Nuggets vs Heat - Game 4 Highlights | 2023 NBA Finals

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4 against Nicole jokic and the Denver Nuggets at first this happened, two time MVP Nicole jokic sprained her ankle on this play on Max structe and Jamal's foot you felt like oh this is what what if. It really slowed them down, yeah, it did well, yeah, you know, I'm going to take out another two for my tool belt, no problem, well, yeah, and I told this guy, Jamal Murray, about that action. I still hate the trade Gabe Vincent made. It was actually a joke that time, I just don't understand that you I don't think you can do that against him, they're too good, this team is too big and too good, I think changing everything Jimmy Butler had 10 in the first including this.

Buzzer hitter off of 10-2 run Miami takes lead Crowd goes crazy Nicoli jokes with D3 oh you better shut down that guy that looks like Larry Legend lining up right there looks like seven of those and you said the fit made three three point shots a lot of jumpers after an ankle turn a lot of jumpers, you know, like we say, he's got all the answers, he's got all the moves, look, you know, he sets the screen , you know, you saw him point out, you know, Aaron is after me. he threw the lob and then bam said I'm still here Aaron Gordon scored 15 in big second quarter play Denver up by four at halftime Nicoli Okich wide open again wow wow same old suit over

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ing yeah, It's simply impossible to understand.

What did you say? Do you think he has the answers to all the tests? He also has the syllabus. Let me go ahead and throw that backwards. Aaron Gordon, new playoff career high, 27 points when he was nailing threes. Jay Crossover, we like it, oh. This is over, hey, look at this biggest fan over there, like he knows what this means and they don't care who gets the credit, they just want to win, you know, did you hear about that, oh, we don't care who gets The credit. I don't listen, you know how I could say it, none of them up to this point have said my team, my guys, they say we, yeah, yeah, the guys I played with were great, they never said my team, oh my god, they always said we , we.

So when I hear that from some of our big superstars, I say I like him, but I don't know if I would like to play with him because you know you want to play with a team running the floor like that again with Nicolio. sitting with those five fouls, they maintain that lead without points Bruce Brown and one on the floater going back to the hoop, he came up big down the stretch, yeah, and I was making fun of him, his workout routine before the

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. I'm like me, it's like stepping up on the wrong foot, but he got into a rhythm and got into that rhythm.

At the end of the shower, he got back into the rhythm, the one-two pull-up, he went into rhythm four. five field goals in the fourth quarter putting this one on Ice 108 95 Denver Nuggets get the win they have a lot of talent Reggie Jackson hasn't played yet yeah, like he played a minute think about those five players Endeavor calculates that the house is on Fire and What do you do when the house is on fire? First you take out the women and children. Oh wow, the house is on fire. Teams that take a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals have won 35 times and lost just once.

Now the Denver Nuggets just one win away from the first championship and their franchise history Chris Miles here with Jamal Crawford Kenny to Jet Smith and Isaiah Thomas and State Farm presents us this is the moment of the live game in the

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here is the deal wins consecutive on the road in the NBA Finals by double digits there are so many things to analyze, but Isaiah what stood out the most for you in this particular game, fourth place, Denver is just better. I mean, you know their size, their offensive execution, their poise, the way they play. together and really have an answer to everything Miami is trying to do.

We said the other night that the Joker has all the answers to the test and Denver really has all the answers offensively to what Miami is trying to do to them defensively. Miami Heat have proven everyone wrong up to this point, when they played the Boston Celtics, you said man for man, they have all the advantages of the Boston Celtics, they have the size at certain positions with Brown and Tatum and then all of a sudden they go up 3. -0 so just all the disclaimers you guys rebutted all the disclaimers but now you said well Denver has the same thing you know 610 Porter 610 6-8 Gordon and on the perimeter Joker and this is the first team that is actually Proving them right, they can punish you for outperforming you in certain positions and that is what is happening.

No one else in these playoffs has been able to do that to the Miami Heat on a consistent basis except them, who are playing very well. basketball, they both are, but Denver is just one level higher than Miami. Anything you can do, we can do better and right now, like Zeke and Khedive said, Miami is out of talent. It all boils down and both can have schemes. Both can work hard. They can both do the right things They can both play the right way now let's just go out there Talent right now that's what Denver is being the only other time I've seen this happen where Denver Nuggets fans stay here and have gone down .

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broadcasting the whole arena is screaming Mexico you thought they were saying Celtics, yes, but they are screaming. The only other time I saw this was when Toronto Raptors fans traveled like this, yeah, yeah, and were screaming in the arena afterward. walk into the arena and stay there for 15 minutes afterwards, this is what you're witnessing Chris, welcome to the NBA Finals, welcome baby, hey, it's my first time here and it's an amazing thing to see. I asked myself: what are all those people singing over there and is it? The fans who traveled to Miami and had fun with double-digit wins now that their defense showed the Miami Heat one and six in the postseason just when they score less than 100 points, three of those games have occurred in this series and three of those losses now they have reached them is that the Joker's brother no, yes, you know he is there, we should take them home to the hotel today.

I thought who the hell is this big ass. I jumped into the elevator. I thought: I'm not going in alone, he's famous, no, no, those aren't his brothers, those are the guys from Taken Five. Wow, so yeah, okay, now I understand the toughness, yeah, like when you see it in every business, well, actually, the Joker is. the skinniest one, yes, you see it in person, it's real and that's not fat, that's muscle, no, those guys do all the neck, uh, weights and all that, no, there's no doubt, but you know, what? can? I'm going to go to the other one. side here is a team that is down three more we will go there what is the Miami Heat doing?

I just think he might be the only one in the position that has been in three down three one and has been on a team that has been able to recover, the difference I think with the Miami Heat is that we had the it factor with Hakeem Olajuwon Hakeem Olajuwon and the dream and the dream, the it factor and the other thing you had was having an illusion split, you had to like really believe that something was going to happen that couldn't happen and you had to be delusional and then come on, oh, this is exactly , we were in the exact same position, we said, oh, if we go there and go 3-2, we're not going to lose games, we're not going to come back and lose now the seventh game, all the pressure on them, Phoenix, and we just We will keep them close, and then it will depend on them, but you must have enthusiasm, you must have it.

Jimmy now has to change his game, he has been a complete player, he has to be a scorer in this series it seems like they are going to win but the difference is that Denver came to your house and beat you by double digits in the two games we lost against Phoenix by double digits, yeah, the three of us had Akeem and Elijah one in the dream and Denver has the best player in the series, they have the Joker and you know, all of us looking at him in the game behind us are not preparing to say he is greatest big man to ever play in all of that, but one of the smartest big men to ever play because he defines that, defines that because he has an answer to every problem you throw at him, he's the most unique big man if you play as man.

To man, he can send you if you double team him, he's an excellent passer, if you play a zone against him he sets it up and plays on the weak side, he's selfless, you know? And when you talk about just reading the defense, you know he reads. defense better than most big men, most point guards, yeah, and most points, I mean, Kareem Shaq, you know? Walt, those guys, they were good offensively, but I'm just talking in terms of they were good scorers, but in terms of just like knowing exactly what to do, how to do it, when to do it, not from a scoring standpoint, but it's okay, but they have to do it.

Shaq didn't have to do that, he didn't like it, you never knew he was uncomfortable enough to realize that he stayed. Also, he never went into multiplication or division. You don't listen to what I'm saying. I'm talking about intellect, right? I'm not talking about scoring, so when you put this type of defense on him, he knows exactly where to go and he doesn't get a bucket right, but to totally distort your defense, he's the guy that if you coach kids like I do and the kids are doing something and my assistant coach and I say no, no, do it like this.

He's the guy who's going to do it like that, like he's playing with kids. The difference between him and those other guys is the fact that they score first. He scores last, as if he were playing a completely different game. So that's how it's done. figure out that arithmetic if you haven't seen it before in that position I think I have seen it, it's just who's been like that. I just haven't seen her in a six eleven seven foot body, you know it's Magic, he wasn't for school first okay, okay, he does exactly what magic just fought your entire defense, you play zone, you play whatever he shoots three, he starts learning two-three and he did it, and LeBron likes it the same way, like he just came in the younger LeBron in a certain Sometimes he would just dismantle your defense and he would he would post and then when he learned how to post the position, but from the center position, he's really the only one that, because of his unique body type and everything else, he's the only one that I think gets them questioned. you ask with Shaq, he says you'll never get to that because, oh no, no, I'm going to score that much, you know what I mean with the audience watching, we're not saying how Shaq and the Joker are in the same league, are we?

OK? That's not what we're saying, okay, we're talking, we're talking about basketball intellect, you know, with the talents that God has given you, we're talking, we're talking from the neck up, okay, from the neck up in terms. of how he sees and understands the game, he is just how he does it, yes, and if Magic Johnson was playing in today's NBA this is what he would look like, he would be a center in today's NBA, he would not be a point guard and today he listens . to the names that we're saying with him, yeah, but magical LeBron but Shaq like we're always saying great, we're talking like the intellect again from the neck up and that's the right thing, would you get Larry to say yeah, yeah ?

That's what's killing Miami, right, it's his basketball IQ, it's his interception, like I said the other night, he has all the answers to the test, so what do you have, whatever equation you give him das?, he has the answer to this, he is so good that he is not even playing. against the Miami Heat players he's playing against reinforce yes his mind is playing against Foster oh you want to do that well I've taken into account that he's playing a completely different game the last thing I'll say on this Chris the coach Smith used to have the The late great Dean Smith, how they used to have a say when we walked the course, said we don't play the opponent, we play like golf, we play the course, so we play the course, that's right. on a par four we have to go in four we have to go in three so we never had certain rules that we would do against anything and he has rules in his head no matter what happens this is what I'm going to do you double me here I'm looking A or B he is playing golf, well everyone else is playing basketball