Denver Nuggets too big, too strong for Miami Heat in Game 3 of NBA 決勝戦
MIAMI (AP) - After building their largest lead of the night to that point 中途の through the third ４半期/4分の1 of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦, the Denver Nuggets put on a 回復するing clinic.
Aaron Gordon grabbed one on the 防御の end after Miami's Max Strus 行方不明になるd, then Michael Porter Jr. （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する with the ball off Jamal Murray's failed 3-point 試みる／企てる. Porter got his own own 回復する off a 封鎖する - and when he 行方不明になるd, Gordon put it 支援する up and in, and the 得点する／非難する／２０ wasn't の近くに the 残り／休憩（する） of the way.
It was their own personal game of shoot until you make it - and it spoke to the Nuggets 存在 too big, too strong and too 堅い inside for the Heat in their 109-94 victory Wednesday night that put them up 2-1 in the series and one step closer to the first 選手権 in franchise history.
"It's a 集団の／共同の 成果／努力," said Murray, who had 10 回復するs as part of his ３倍になる-二塁打. "いつかs it´s just an 成果／努力 play. いつかs the ball just comes to you. いつかs somebody else does the dirty work and boxes the big guy out. I think it´s everybody chipping in to get those 回復するs."
Denver outrebounded Miami 58-33, and points in the paint were a lopsided 60-34. Nikola Jokic had 18 回復するs on the 防御の end alone and 21 total as part of his ３倍になる-二塁打.
"When we 回復する like that, there's usually a direct correlation to a `W,'" said Gordon, who had 10 rebou nds. "We´ve got to keep eating the glass, continue to 回復する on both 味方するs of the 床に打ち倒す."
Denver Nuggets 今後 Aaron Gordon (50) 運動s to the basket as Miami Heat 今後 Kevin Love (42) during the second half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
While Jokic became the first player with 30 points, 20 回復するs and 10 補助装置s in a game in the 決勝戦, he had plenty of help on the glass. The Heat had few answers inside for Gordon, Murray and Porter, who with his seven.
"They just pummeled us in the paint," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said, lamenting his team losing too many 50-50 plays. "They didn´t really have to shoot 3s. They had, whatever, 60 in the paint. They probably 発射 over 65% in the paint at the 縁 there. Wasn´t a need to space the 床に打ち倒す."
With Denver looking for complementary help for Jokic and Murray - who had 14 points 中途の through the second ４半期/4分の1 and finished with a game-high 34 that were the most by a Canada-born player in a 決勝戦 game - Gordon stepped to the 最前部. The 27-year-old 今後 had 11 points in 34 minutes on the 法廷，裁判所.
新人 Christian Braun also （機の）カム up big with 15 points in 19 minutes off the （法廷の）裁判. His was just one of several 決定的な 第２位 業績／成果s.
"This is by far our best game of the series, the most compete game of the series, and it´s not because of the ３倍になる-（テニスなどの）ダブルス or all the individual stats," coach Michael Malone said, 特記する／引用するing the 60 points in the paint and outrebounding Miami by a 重要な 量 in a game in the 決勝戦. "That really helped us out tonight: the defending and 回復するing at a high level."
Malone saw it as the Nuggets 答える／応じるing teamwide to their Game 2 業績／成果, when they blew a 15-point lead and lost. Now he hopes it carries into Game 4.
"I loved our energy, our 成果／努力, our 緊急, our discipline," Malone said. "I felt we were where we needed to be tonight, and we´ll have to be even better come Friday evening."
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Denver Nuggets 今後 Michael Porter Jr. (1) 運動s to the basket during the second half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game against the Miami Heat, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo 物陰／風下)
Denver Nuggets 今後 Michael Porter Jr. (1) 運動s to the basket during the second half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game against the Miami Heat, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Miami Heat 中心 Bam Adebayo (13) 非難するs the ball away from Denver Nuggets 中心 Nikola Jokic (15) during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo 物陰／風下)
