![]() ![]() Each statement sounding more and more searing and more damning. It was stated and repeated ad nauseam by Erik Spoelstra in the postgame. The Heat can lose games because opponents are more talented than them - for all the talk of the undrafted players making such a huge impact, there is a considerable talent disparity between the two teams.īut they aren’t supposed to be outmuscled on their home floor, or anyone’s floor. The Heat were outrebounded by 25, only picking up 33 rebounds total - with Bam Adebayo (17) collecting more than the rest of his teammates combined. The numbers, even more so than Jokić’s 32-21-10 night and Murray’s 34-10-10 showing, were ghastly. The 109-94 Nuggets win not only reset home-court for Denver but seemingly took away some of the toughness mystique the Heat have rightfully established. “No rebounds, no rings,” Heat culture, all those things are in the franchise’s ethos, but they didn’t get the memo Wednesday night. Maybe they thought they took the Nuggets’ spirit in Game 2 and saw them as more of a finesse team than a physical one.īut the Nuggets ain’t punks here, and they dished out a beating that, hopefully for Miami, knocked some sense into these upstarts. Perhaps they relaxed a little after stealing home-court advantage for the fourth straight series. Missed rebounds, missed shots and bodies hitting the floor were an unexpected sight for the Heat in their first home Finals game in nearly 10 years. The Heat didn’t play Game 3 on their terms, watching as Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray danced all over the floor to the tune of their own creation, and the Heat kept clapping on the 1's and 3's. MIAMI - The Miami Heat are at their best when they make sure you can’t access your best performance, and to win the NBA Finals, allowing the Denver Nuggets to have historic outputs and winning the physical game is unacceptable. ![]()
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