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2023 NBA Finals: Denver Nuggets vs. Miami Heat

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by J.R., May 29, 2023.

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2023 NBA Finals: Nuggets vs. Heat

Poll closed Jun 2, 2023.
  1. Nuggets in 4

    11.1%
  2. Nuggets in 5

    32.5%
  3. Nuggets in 6

    41.9%
  4. Nuggets in 7

    2.6%
  5. Heat in 7

    7.7%
  6. Heat in 6

    3.4%
  7. Heat in 5

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  8. Heat in 4

    0.9%
  1. J.R.

    J.R. Member

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    Game 1: Thursday, June 1 Heat at Nuggets 7:30pm ABC
    Game 2: Sunday, June 4 Heat at Nuggets 7:00pm ABC
    Game 3: Wednesday, June 7 Nuggets at Heat 7:30pm ABC
    Game 4: Friday, June 9 Nuggets at Heat 7:30pm ABC
    Game 5* Monday, June 12 Heat at Nuggets 7:30pm ABC
    Game 6* Thursday, June 15 Nuggets at Heat 7:30pm ABC
    Game 7* Sunday, June 18 Heat at Nuggets 7:00pm ABC
     
  2. Os Trigonum

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    On paper this is a Nuggets 4-0 sweep but Miami has been playing with their shooting sliders turned up 15%.
     
  4. rfrocket

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    Rooting for Denver all the way!

    Want to see jumbo-Sengun get a "chip.

    No soup for Tomball Jimmy and Rockets keep their "lowest seed to win it all" record!
     
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    Heat have no answer for Jokic, especially if Bum Adebayo's bad play continues into game 1 and beyond.

    Martin, Strus and Vincent will be outshot by MPJ, KCP and Gordon.

    Butler will probably equal Murray or be worse.
     
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    I swear Magic’s Twitter account must be run by ChatGPT.
     
  8. SamFisher

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    This is the perfect set up for Denver - an exhausted & spent Miami team that had to go 7 instead of sweep rather than a much better Boston team that struggled but pulled off a historic milestone coming back from 3-0.

    If they don't win they should move the franchise.
     
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    I'm pretty sure you could hard code in rules and use a Tandy TRS 80 to generate magic tweets - you don't need NLP or LLMs
     
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    I'm just happy it wasn't one of the "big" teams.

    I'm very interested in the basketball games that are gonna be played here.
     
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    7 games
     
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    Actually they had 2 really close games this year.
    Nuggets had to come back from 9 down at home to win 124-119 (12/30) and won in Miami by just 112-108 (2/13).

    Think it will come down to the role players and who plays the best.
    Gordon, Porter jr. and KCP will need to play well for the Nuggs to win imo.
     
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    If Jokic wins, do we stop with the "can't win with a Jokic archetype" nonsense and stop pretending the Warriors cracked the code to winning by assembling arguably the greatest team in NBA history?
     
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    Well, well. never imagined Boston would get blown out on their home court. Martin should have been the MVP.
     
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    If Denver shoots 20% from 3 for a series, anything is possible.
     
  18. HP3

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    Denver is not going to beat themselves like Boston and Miluwaukee. Denver is gonna handle them easily imo.
     
  19. ElPigto

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    I think the Heat will take one of them and play 2 other close ones. 2 of them will be blow outs the Nuggets way.
     
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    So are both Jimmy Butler and Erik Spoelstra essentially assured spots in the Naismith HOF now?

    Do each, or least Jimmy, need to win this title to warrant it?
     

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