DENVER — Jamal Murray dunked six times in three series as the Denver Nuggets stampeded their way through the Western Conference. In a period of just over a minute and a half Thursday in the first quarter of Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals, he added twomore.
Miami wasn’t on Thursday — at least, not in a first half that saw Denver shoot a scorching 20-for-31 inside the arc, including 13-for-16 inside the restricted area, largely as a result of all those backdoor cuts, thread-the-needle feeds and persistent paint attacks.
“Our disposition, the multiple efforts, the resolve in the second half was much better,” Spoelstra said. “But [when] you get to this level, it has to be complete games of that kind of disposition. Even if you have that, you are not always going to win all the possessions that you want.” Adebayo pitches to Vincent in the corner, and they flow into a side pick-and-roll. Jokić is playing up at the level of the screen, and Porter goes over the top of it, leaving Adebayo acres of space behind them. This, as Malone noted after the game when discussing Miami’s run in the fourth quarter, is one of the potential drawbacks of playing higher up in the pick-and-roll as opposed to sagging back in drop coverage.
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