2023 NBA Finals, Game 3: Nuggets @ Heat, 6/7 @ 8:30pm

[wade44]

Tough one. Need better shooting from everybody. Would be nice to see Martin stay aggressive when his shot is falling

Going to need better than 7-21 from Adebayo. Would like plays drawn up for other guys when he’s struggling don’t force him into being a scorer on the nights he’s not capable

Also way more Highsmith next game not sure why he got a DNP

[Pokuokic]

I think the scary thing is MPJ and KCP have shot the ball like crap, while I'm hoping Jokic wins the refs ruined the game for me with a couple fouls on Vincent (bad calls) which took away basically Miami's best option so far this series. I'd start Lowry to try get some flops on Jokic at the start of the game.

[fishfuego.]

Spoiler:

But not good enough to get the respect of the referees. Refs give dude the rookie treatment.

There was one sequence towards the end of the game where Bam got hacked again, and his reaction to the referee was like WTF are you waiting for to call this chit ( screaming). IMO, he was already mentally fked, and may have thought it was going to go unnoticed again by these frauds that do the Mafia’s errr NBA’s dirty work so called referees ( fake ), but it finally got the whistle, and at this point it was like, really now?

See, Bam was the best player on the Heat tonight doing the team’s dirty work, and to not have Spo throw a tantrum, and getting a technical while seeing his ( lone) workhorse getting picked apart by these NBA system soldiers called referees, is nothing more than an acceptance to this sham.

Thank God we have the Dolphins as an exciting team once again in S-FL (it has been too long). I can’t stand this league any longer. It is so scripted it makes Netflix the better sports league.

Sorry, but what we address as ‘respect from referees’ is nothing more than a system. These officials don’t follow any player’s league status fanatically. They follow a league formula that they enforce on a game to game basis. The league is the one that protects, the referees simply enforce.

I'm not sure if it's acceptance more than it is having a certain professional approach to the bullsh*t. We've seen this time & time again, there is no amount of complaining that will make the officiating suddenly dismiss instructions form the top. I don't necessarily agree w/ it as i'd much rather they express public objection & expose this crap but i'd rather Heat's approach than having the league hate us, our coach or certain Heat players & have it cost us in vital games.

Your point is correct on many fronts, but when I said acceptance or not expressing frustration in the open, it’s basically accepting things as they are, and that’s exactly what they want, a league full of minions that just play their given role.
The league has made it financially impossible to be criticized in the press without paying a hefty price, so the only way I see it is by reacting in the moment to at least try and bring some attention. Is it going to do any good?
I doubt it.
It is what it is, and that is why I can’t stand supporting the league any longer.
I know the players are real and they truly compete, but the league man

[MHeat0279]

Jimmys cooked and he shows no emotion. He can’t get good position against any of their guys and we’re 3 games in. Dude is playing with 0 heart right now it’s actually wild to see in person. Him and Bam with terrible shooting nights but at least Bams out there hustling and busting his ass fighting for rebounds. Murray was killing Jimmy, jimmys defense is basically nonexistent. He’s gotta be hurt, I can’t think of any other reason why he’s been so mediocre in these finals.

We went back home and now are getting no support from the role players? They prefer the road now?

That’s 3 straight home losses now in these playoffs, we’re 2-5 in our last 7 and have looked mediocre as hell for a few weeks now.

Why the fuxk did we go away from what worked in game 2? Spo tried to make an example of Ramona’s question and it backfired. Jokic carving us up from everywhere.

Hopefully I’m wrong but that game might’ve been the series, if we lose game 4 it’s a wrap

No winning with buttler playing like that, not happening

[Dc__20]

I’m desperate to see bam attack blubber boy with speed. He’s slow and reaches a lot. Force the issue and get him in foul trouble

[fishfuego.]

I think the scary thing is MPJ and KCP have shot the ball like crap, while I'm hoping Jokic wins the refs ruined the game for me with a couple fouls on Vincent (bad calls) which took away basically Miami's best option so far this series. I'd start Lowry to try get some flops on Jokic at the start of the game.

BTW, Jokic pushed Vincent and Vincent got his 3rd foul instead of Jokic.

Not taking anything from Denver, but it’s the little things.

[Pokuokic]

I think the scary thing is MPJ and KCP have shot the ball like crap, while I'm hoping Jokic wins the refs ruined the game for me with a couple fouls on Vincent (bad calls) which took away basically Miami's best option so far this series. I'd start Lowry to try get some flops on Jokic at the start of the game.

BTW, Jokic pushed Vincent and Vincent got his 3rd foul instead of Jokic.

Not taking anything from Denver, but it’s the little things.

I 100% agree it took away a vital piece in a vital part of the game, the refs can't be doing it, it ruined what otherwise was a fine performance from Denver by weakening the Heat terrible stuff.I want a fair finals regardless who I support nothing is worse in sports than bad decisions from refs or judges (MMA/boxing is atrocious). They should have had like two make up calls on a key Denver player in return imo, if your bad be bad both ways.

[greg4012]

lots of tentative shots, players were afraid to shoot. Their strategy as it should be was to dominate our paint. We played Jokic well but cant let the Browns on the world outplay you. Nuggets eared it with effort beating us to loose balls and overall effort and energy. We looked lost all game. Gotta get the next one.

I'm glad someone else noticed. Guys with open looks pulling the ball down with no idea where to pass to. Guys were refusing to fire if there was a defender in the same area code. Guys need to know when they catch it if it's going up or where they are swinging to. Otherwise it gives the defense time to catch up to the ball movement.

Dudes were playing hot potato all night passing up open looks. Jimmy and Bam were tossed a ton of late shot clock grenades and had to force up looks without rhythm. We absolutely need them to be better on converting on some of those. But man, we can’t be passing up clean open 3 point looks that the offense worked to generate.

No one wanted to shoot the ball last night. It was infuriating.

I’m a biased fan, but that was the worst reffing against us since game 3 vs NY. Jokic conservatively should have had 3 fouls just in the first quarter. Instead somehow they all went to Gabe on the other end.

[HeatFanDan]

He talks all this **** and makes all these guarantees and he needs to back it up, Simple as that.

You do realize that we're an 8 seed playing against a 1 seed in the Finals, right? Did you really expect us to roll over these guys? And what you call him "talking s*it" just sounds like the leader of our team being confident to my ears. Would you prefer him to get up there and say "We have no chance, we're gonna get our azz kicked"?

lol @talking sh*t. How many times has Butler backed his sh*t up! He promised after gm7 last season we'd have enough & we'd get it done next time and he did. And that was a tall order. In order to do that we had to kill the top seed & Jimmy delivered w/ a career series for the f*cking ages. Just legendary stuff. & doing it w/out Herro to help space the floor or take attention offa him. He continued his stellar play vs Knicks & had his revenge against the very team, the 2nd seed, he made his promised against to advance us to the NBA Finals.

Jimmy simply says all the right things as a leader to keep his teammates even keeled & to exemplify composure, calm & toughness that spreads to his team. Ultimately we would not be here w/out him. We wouldn't have the success we've had since he joined the Heat, period.

Smart Heat fans know this.

[HeatFanDan]

Spoiler:

There was one sequence towards the end of the game where Bam got hacked again, and his reaction to the referee was like WTF are you waiting for to call this chit ( screaming). IMO, he was already mentally fked, and may have thought it was going to go unnoticed again by these frauds that do the Mafia’s errr NBA’s dirty work so called referees ( fake ), but it finally got the whistle, and at this point it was like, really now?

See, Bam was the best player on the Heat tonight doing the team’s dirty work, and to not have Spo throw a tantrum, and getting a technical while seeing his ( lone) workhorse getting picked apart by these NBA system soldiers called referees, is nothing more than an acceptance to this sham.

Thank God we have the Dolphins as an exciting team once again in S-FL (it has been too long). I can’t stand this league any longer. It is so scripted it makes Netflix the better sports league.

Sorry, but what we address as ‘respect from referees’ is nothing more than a system. These officials don’t follow any player’s league status fanatically. They follow a league formula that they enforce on a game to game basis. The league is the one that protects, the referees simply enforce.

I'm not sure if it's acceptance more than it is having a certain professional approach to the bullsh*t. We've seen this time & time again, there is no amount of complaining that will make the officiating suddenly dismiss instructions form the top. I don't necessarily agree w/ it as i'd much rather they express public objection & expose this crap but i'd rather Heat's approach than having the league hate us, our coach or certain Heat players & have it cost us in vital games.

Your point is correct on many fronts, but when I said acceptance or not expressing frustration in the open, it’s basically accepting things as they are, and that’s exactly what they want, a league full of minions that just play their given role.
The league has made it financially impossible to be criticized in the press without paying a hefty price, so the only way I see it is by reacting in the moment to at least try and bring some attention. Is it going to do any good?
I doubt it.
It is what it is, and that is why I can’t stand supporting the league any longer.
I know the players are real and they truly compete, but the league man

Somewhere Adam Silver be like "Take that, Heat. Didn't want you here anyway".

[fishfuego.]

I think the scary thing is MPJ and KCP have shot the ball like crap, while I'm hoping Jokic wins the refs ruined the game for me with a couple fouls on Vincent (bad calls) which took away basically Miami's best option so far this series. I'd start Lowry to try get some flops on Jokic at the start of the game.

BTW, Jokic pushed Vincent and Vincent got his 3rd foul instead of Jokic.

Not taking anything from Denver, but it’s the little things.

I 100% agree it took away a vital piece in a vital part of the game, the refs can't be doing it, it ruined what otherwise was a fine performance from Denver by weakening the Heat terrible stuff.I want a fair finals regardless who I support nothing is worse in sports than bad decisions from refs or judges (MMA/boxing is atrocious). They should have had like two make up calls on a key Denver player in return imo, if your bad be bad both ways.

Of course, during this time in the game, Denver was getting soft fouls after soft fouls CONTINUOUSLY, so it was not an accident lol, while they were playing physical at the other end, mind you on the Heat’s home court. Not that I care about the so called home court advantage thing, as I rather experience a truly unbiased officiating home or away, period.
The impacting fouls were non stop one way, and finally in the 4th quarter with the game out of hands the Heat started getting those type of fouls.
Denver is the better team imho, and they would have won this game anyways, but it takes away from the mystic moments and all it does is leaves a sour taste.
But do they care?
Nah, as the other poster said, you can complain til you’re blue and is changing nothing. The objective for whatever reasons ( and there are lots of reasons) beats anything else.

Fans are not that important, until we are.

[fishfuego.]

I'm not sure if it's acceptance more than it is having a certain professional approach to the bullsh*t. We've seen this time & time again, there is no amount of complaining that will make the officiating suddenly dismiss instructions form the top. I don't necessarily agree w/ it as i'd much rather they express public objection & expose this crap but i'd rather Heat's approach than having the league hate us, our coach or certain Heat players & have it cost us in vital games.

Your point is correct on many fronts, but when I said acceptance or not expressing frustration in the open, it’s basically accepting things as they are, and that’s exactly what they want, a league full of minions that just play their given role.
The league has made it financially impossible to be criticized in the press without paying a hefty price, so the only way I see it is by reacting in the moment to at least try and bring some attention. Is it going to do any good?
I doubt it.
It is what it is, and that is why I can’t stand supporting the league any longer.
I know the players are real and they truly compete, but the league man

Somewhere Adam Silver be like "Take that, Heat. Didn't want you here anyway".

Adam Silver has this international thing in the stove that he would like to cook. I wouldn’t be the least surprised.

[SA37]

This reminded me of Game 6 versus the Celtics when Bam and Butler both put up brutal shooting numbers. The difference is, in the Celtics game, Miami got good contributions from its role players. If Bam goes 10-21 instead of 7-21; if Vincent goes 4-10 instead of 2-10 ; if Strus goes 3-7 instead of 1-7 -- a 14 point swing assuming none of those are made 3s -- Miami would have been within a single possession all while shooting 44.5 FG% 31% from 3 and getting outrebounded by an incredible margin.

That's the silver lining here. Without any obscenely stellar shooting and despite piss poor rebounding, Miami would have been right in the game despite record-breaking performances by Jokic and Murray.

[al bondiga]

I think the only answers we have to deal with The Joker are...suddenly become a great offensive team or hope The rest have a bad game

[3ammy3uck3ts]

You do realize that we're an 8 seed playing against a 1 seed in the Finals, right? Did you really expect us to roll over these guys? And what you call him "talking s*it" just sounds like the leader of our team being confident to my ears. Would you prefer him to get up there and say "We have no chance, we're gonna get our azz kicked"?

lol @talking sh*t. How many times has Butler backed his sh*t up! He promised after gm7 last season we'd have enough & we'd get it done next time and he did. And that was a tall order. In order to do that we had to kill the top seed & Jimmy delivered w/ a career series for the f*cking ages. Just legendary stuff. & doing it w/out Herro to help space the floor or take attention offa him. He continued his stellar play vs Knicks & had his revenge against the very team, the 2nd seed, he made his promised against to advance us to the NBA Finals.

Jimmy simply says all the right things as a leader to keep his teammates even keeled & to exemplify composure, calm & toughness that spreads to his team. Ultimately we would not be here w/out him. We wouldn't have the success we've had since he joined the Heat, period.

Smart Heat fans know this.

I’m about as smart as it is and my knowledge is telling me we need more from Jimmy. He needs to impose his will take 4 and be the best player on the court for the first time this series

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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Dudes legs have given up on him because surely he wouldn’t be playing with that level of effort in the finals

[HeatFanDan]

lol @talking sh*t. How many times has Butler backed his sh*t up! He promised after gm7 last season we'd have enough & we'd get it done next time and he did. And that was a tall order. In order to do that we had to kill the top seed & Jimmy delivered w/ a career series for the f*cking ages. Just legendary stuff. & doing it w/out Herro to help space the floor or take attention offa him. He continued his stellar play vs Knicks & had his revenge against the very team, the 2nd seed, he made his promised against to advance us to the NBA Finals.

Jimmy simply says all the right things as a leader to keep his teammates even keeled & to exemplify composure, calm & toughness that spreads to his team. Ultimately we would not be here w/out him. We wouldn't have the success we've had since he joined the Heat, period.

Smart Heat fans know this.

I’m about as smart as it is and my knowledge is telling me we need more from Jimmy. He needs to impose his will take 4 and be the best player on the court for the first time this series

Blah, blah, blah. In a perfect world, Jimmy wouldn't be injured and would be averaging 40 like he did in the Milwaukee series, but you stay crying about his effort level like the rest of the spoiled fans on this board.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Smart Heat fans know this.

I’m about as smart as it is and my knowledge is telling me we need more from Jimmy. He needs to impose his will take 4 and be the best player on the court for the first time this series

Blah, blah, blah. In a perfect world, Jimmy wouldn't be injured and would be averaging 40 like he did in the Milwaukee series, but you stay crying about his effort level like the rest of the spoiled fans on this board.

Y’all don’t have this energy for any other player on the team

[MHeat0279]

I’m about as smart as it is and my knowledge is telling me we need more from Jimmy. He needs to impose his will take 4 and be the best player on the court for the first time this series

Blah, blah, blah. In a perfect world, Jimmy wouldn't be injured and would be averaging 40 like he did in the Milwaukee series, but you stay crying about his effort level like the rest of the spoiled fans on this board.

Y’all don’t have this energy for any other player on the team

Dont see him limping or grimacing, so this crap he is injured i dont buy it, definitely not injured enough. Now if you tell me his energy is gone from carrying the team, or he has personal issues which affects his mental state, that makes more sense. This is a lack of effort and or mental issues. Whichever the case this series is done if he keeps on playing like he has been

[contract]

I think the only answers we have to deal with The Joker are...suddenly become a great offensive team or hope The rest have a bad game

Make him work harder on defense ... and for god's sake no more Cody Zeller.