Miami equalized at 1-1 in the NBA finals which opposes it to Denver by winning (111-108), Sunday evening in game 2 on the floor of the Nuggets, yet undefeated at home during these play-offs before This meeting. And this despite the new festival (41 points) of Nikola Jokic, author of 18 points in the only third quarter. A copy of madness but insufficient this time.
Miami has no intention of letting it go, like proving those who had already buried him wrong. After Denver’s big victory (103-94) in Game 1 of the NBA Finals two days earlier, many already saw the Nuggets making short work of the Heat to clinch their very first league title in their history. If so, it will take much longer than many specialists thought. Sunday evening, for the reunion between the two teams on the floor of the Ball Arena, where Game 1 had already been played, Miami indeed gave back to the Nuggets, by winning in turn (111 -108). A success that allows Floridians, carried by Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo, both authors of 21 points, but above all by a boiling Gabe Vincent once again (23 points) to immediately return to equality while Denver had the possibility of make the break but also to regain the advantage of the field, since match 3 will take place in Miami, Tuesday evening. Denver, the first, must not understand how he can find himself in this situation today.
This time Jokic was not enough
Sunday, the players of Colorado have indeed given the feeling in the first half of having the game in hand. Nikola Jokic and his family also counted up to 15 points in advance, before being knocked down by the Heat. The double MVP has also done everything possible to help his team lead 2-0. Author of a new recital, with 41 points scored (16 of 28 on shots, including 2 of 5 from three points), 11 rebounds and 4 assists, the “Joker” notably pressed the accelerator in the third quarter. , with 18 points on his counter over this period alone, but that was not enough. The fault of an exceptional fourth quarter of Miami, which started with a terrible 32-12 and an address still as striking at long distance (17 out of 35 over the entire match), including the Nuggets, who did not had not yet lost this season at home in the play-offs, have not recovered. And if this final promised in Denver on paper turned to the advantage of Miami?