the Heat break the Nuggets house – Corriere.it

The series of
NBA final goes 1-1 because in race 2 there is paw of the Miami Heat: 111-108 victory at the Ball Arena in Denver, which on the non-decisive occasion to impose the characteristic that normally puts every Nuggets opponent in difficulty (it is located at 1700 meters, a non-negligible problem for those not used to playing high). For the record, no team on the road managed to win there in the last two months. But the Heat have now carved out the role of pirates and with this feat, calculating the 3 victories in Boston in the East final against the Celtics, they are on their fourth away success in 9 games.

What has changed compared to a race 1 dominated by Denver, with the Jokic-Murray pairing putting all the others in rhythm? He paid for Miami’s choice not to obsess over limiting Jokic (which he almost always fails) and rather aiming to stem the rest of the gang. Mission accomplished because the Serbian recorded 41 points and 11 rebounds, but the outline seemed isolated from his totem (the only 4 assists from Nikola prove it, an anomalous figure for those accustomed to double figures on this front too). There is also a statistic that completes the speech: in these playoffs Denver 0-3 when Jokic scores at least 40 points, a sign that he can’t do everything and that the rest of the group, which the Balkan champion helps with his talent, is as fundamental as bread.

The Heat, on the other hand, demonstrated balance and a perfect distribution of honors and burdens: five players have scored more than 10 points – with the top two stars, Adebayo and Butler (21 each) and above all Vincent, arrived at 23 – and the team took off in the last half (+11 partial) canceling the break with which the Nuggets in the previous fraction believed they had imposed the breakthrough and secured the challenge. Now the series moves to Miami: match 3 will be staged on the Italian night between Thursday 7 and Wednesday 8 (deux ball at 2.30, live on Sky and streaming on Now).