Heating Up Some Nuggets To Go With My 'Big-Face Coffee'! | Official Miami HEAT (#8) vs. Denver Nuggets (#1) | 2023 NBA Finals Thread

[T.he I.nformant]

Pretty good profile on all of the starters

Path to the starting five: How the Nuggets and Heat built NBA Finals contenders

Each franchise had a unique road to building its team. Here’s a look at the history of how these teams' starting fives were formed.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Ziggiy]

Nuggets in 6

Heat proved themselves either way win or loss

Proved what point that they can take first half beatings?

If they lose every time they face the Nuggets they’ll know they got the best of them.

Jimmy, Spoelstra & Co. will never have balance that way. Not with the Nuggets, not with the city of Miami, not with themselves.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Each series is different
Every game is important
This postseason, both teams have won the opener of every series—Miami on the road and Denver at home
Tomorrow one of those streaks will end
How will that change things for the losing team because that will be unchartered territory for them?

 

[Hawala Man]

Each series is different
Every game is important
This postseason, both teams have won the opener of every series—Miami on the road and Denver at home
Tomorrow one of those streaks will end
How will that change things for the losing team because that will be unchartered territory for them?

In my opinion games 2, 4 and 5 hold more weight than game 1. Miami knows if they want to win this series they need a split in Denver. Its interesting Vegas has Nuggets as 9 pt favorites and people are hammering it.

After game 1 we usually hear casuals rush to changing their predictions and make outlandish conclusions.

 

[MarcP]

Just realized they brought back the cursive NBA Finals logo. Should have never went away from it.

 

[JP_614]

Nuggets with the sweep

 

[BushidoBrown]

 

[BushidoBrown]

I aint gone hold you the Nuggets aint faced a team of this caliber. All them nikkas they faced was trash. A team with KAT and Gobert is automatically trash. Suns was 2 players and shyt tier role players. Trash. Lakers role players was trash and AD was Bam-esque on offense. The Nuggets have had plenty of moments where they've gone cold and let teams back into games but their opponents couldn't capitalize. The heat's whole MO this playoffs is capitalizing on those moments. Heat packing these nikkas up.

nuggets pack going straight into the air

 

[old pig]

this gonna be a long off-season…I hope this series goes the distance

 

[skyrunner1]

this gonna be a long off-season…I hope this series goes the distance

NBA offseason short af and plus you have draft and summer league.. football fans be down baddddd

 

[old pig]

NBA offseason short af and plus you have draft and summer league.. football fans be down baddddd

when football is over is when I start paying a bit more attention to basketball…so I at least have that to fallback on…if I was more into baseball then the next few months wouldn’t be so bad

 

[skyrunner1]

when football is over is when I start paying a bit more attention to basketball…if I was more into baseball then this wouldn’t be so bad

Facts, we used to say the season dont really start til Christmas day.. before then it was highlight packages, now its yt highlights..

 

[FAH1223]

this gonna be a long off-season…I hope this series goes the distance

The preseason starts three months after free agency starts

Training camps start in late September.

NBA offseason is short if you get to the Finals

 

[T.he I.nformant]

I like Jimmy. Miss all-time Broncos great DT. Wish DT could sit courtside for this series.

Man I can’t sleep. Excited for the series to start.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

From Jokic himself, describing his basketball journey starting in his native Serbia. He’s so understated—in summing up his basketball career: “It’s better than racing horses.”

How We Play Basketball in Serbia | By Nikola Jokić

I always loved basketball, but when I was little — even when I was 13 and 14 — I was going to horse race. I didn’t even practice basketball that much.

www.theplayerstribune.com