And, you know, he set the tone, and it made things a little bit easier for Jokic." But I think Jamal set the tone for their group, and he was aggressive, assertive. "Sometimes, he's going to do what he's going to do - 32-10-21, that's pretty good numbers. "I think the game started off with Jamal Murray, and it kind of made Jokic's game a little - a little bit easier," Lowry said. Veteran Miami guard Kyle Lowry said he felt Murray's early success helped Jokic get rolling later in the contest. were able to control the glass, especially as Denver pulled away in the second half. The postgame news conference room inside Kaseya Center was quiet as Heat players and Spoelstra tried to explain how Jokic, Murray & Co. It felt like, at times, some of those missed shots at the rim or in the paint, the makeable shots that we've made the last several months or weeks, that affected a little bit of our, whatever, going down the other end. "We have a determination to impact the game and find a different solution or different way to win a game regardless of whether the ball is going in. I think the thing that we've proven over and over and over is we can win and find different ways to win regardless of whether we have confidence, regardless of whether the ball is going in. "And sometimes, that can affect the flow of the rest of your game. "I just think sometimes, for us, when we lose a lot of those physical battles, the effort plays, the loose balls, the rebounding battles, that's our identity," Spoelstra said. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. I think if I start playing and doing that, then everybody else has to follow suit."Īside from Nuggets stars Nikola Jokic (32 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists) and Jamal Murray (34 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists) becoming the first pair of teammates in NBA history to record 30-point triple-doubles in the same regular-season or postseason game, according to ESPN Stats & Information research, what irritated Heat coach Erik Spoelstra was that his team didn't play with the same kind of edge that has defined its unlikely run as a No. Maybe we're at home we think we did something. "I don't know," Butler said when asked why the energy was lacking.
MIAMI - Heat star Jimmy Butler vowed to set a better tone for his team in the wake of Wednesday's 109-94 loss to the Denver Nuggets in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, acknowledging that Miami - playing in its first Finals game in front of a home crowd in nine years - needed to come out with more energy and effort, especially after getting outrebounded 58-33. Jimmy Butler critical of Heat's low energy in Game 3 loss: 'Just can't happen'
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