Heat, に引き続いて 類似の script as Game 1, lose to Nuggets in Game 3 with poor 狙撃
MIAMI (AP) - Those open looks Miami kept knocking 負かす／撃墜する three nights earlier in Denver just wouldn´t go 負かす／撃墜する 支援する home.
Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo were a 連合させるd 10 of 30 in the paint, and too many other shooters were 冷淡な in a 109-94 loss Wednesday night that gave the Nuggets a 2-1 lead in the NBA 決勝戦.
"I just 行方不明になるd some that I 普通は make," said Butler, who finished with 28 points on 11-of-24 狙撃. "Along with Bam, too, but we´re gonna continually take those, getting two feet in the paint. If you can get a 発射 up, get it up, and if you can´t, get it out to your shooters. I think we did a good 職業 with that. Maybe we do have to do a better 職業, but those are the same 発射s that we´re gonna get next game, and we´re 推定する／予想するd to take and make those."
After knocking 負かす／撃墜する 17 3-pointers in Game 2, Miami made 11 of 34 発射s from 深い in Game 3. Duncan Robinson had three. Caleb ツバメ 追加するd a pair of 支援する-to-支援する 3-pointers in the second ４半期/4分の1.
にもかかわらず getting the looks inside that they 手配中の，お尋ね者, the Heat 簡単に did not knock them 負かす／撃墜する, resulting in a loss in which their fans, once roaring as loud as they could as they 渦巻くd white 旗s above their 長，率いるs, were finding the 出口s before the final minutes.
Gabe Vincent 発射 2 for 10 and Max Strus was 1 for 7, the starting guards 連合させるing to 行方不明になる eight of their 10 試みる／企てるs behind the arc.
Miami Heat players 反応する as they 落ちる behind the Denver Nuggets 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)
Butler couldn´t seem to find the words to 述べる what went wrong, or why it was such a far cry from their success in a 堅い road 環境 a few nights earlier.
"I don´t know. It just can´t happen," Butler said. "It won´t happen again, and it starts with myself. I´ve got to lock in on the 防御の end ... I think if I start playing and doing that, then everybody else has to follow 控訴."
Miami made just 9 of 26 first-half 試みる／企てるs in the paint and finished the game 狙撃 37% from the field, compared to Denver´s 51.2.
"I thought offensively we 現実に did get a lot of 適切な時期s in the paint," said Miami coach Erik Spoelstra. "Yes, you have to credit their size and everything like that, but we´ve proven that we can finish in the paint when we´re at our best."
Adebayo finished with 22 points and 17 回復するs but 発射 just 7 of 21 from the field.
The Nuggets p ulled away in the third ４半期/4分の1 - 主要な by as many as 19 - by 遂行するing what the Heat couldn´t: They had 60 points in the paint to Miami´s 34. Denver only took 18 3-point 試みる／企てるs after taking 28 in Game 2 and 27 in Game 1.
"They pummeled us in the paint," Spoelstra said. "They didn't really have to shoot 3s. ... There wasn't a need to space the 床に打ち倒す. We didn't 申し込む／申し出 much 抵抗."
The Heat pulled within nine with 1:22 left thanks to a 3-pointer by Robinson but 行方不明になるd all of their 発射 試みる／企てるs the 残り／休憩（する） of the way.
"Good 勝利，勝つ for us," Denver coach Michael Malone said, "but we did not come 負かす／撃墜する here to get one 勝利，勝つ."
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Miami Heat 今後 Caleb ツバメ (16) 運動s to the basket during the first half of Game 3 of NBA 決勝戦 basketball game against the Denver Nuggets, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo 物陰／風下)
Miami Heat 今後 Jimmy Butler (22) looks up during the second 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)
Miami Heat 中心 Bam Adebayo (13) 反応するs after dunking the ball during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game against the Denver Nuggets, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Denver Nuggets 中心 Nikola Jokic (15) 運動s to the basket over 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)
Miami Heat 中心 Bam Adebayo (13) dunks the ball over 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)
