2023-06-10 10:08:00
Losing for the second time in a row at home, Bam Adebayo’s Heat are now down 3-1 once morest the Nuggets in the NBA Finals, and therefore find themselves on the verge of elimination. A critical situation, but that does not mean that Miami no longer believes in it, quite the contrary. Especially since the Heat recently participated in a series in which a team won three games in a row to recover their deficit.
When you find yourself with your back to the wall like the Heat currently, any source of inspiration is good to take. Even if it comes from an opponent you just eliminated.
In the Eastern Conference Finals, won by Miami 4-3 once morest Boston, the Heat led 3-0 in the series before the Celtics don’t make a huge comeback with three consecutive successes in turn. A scenario that Bam Adebayo wanted to recall at a press conference following last night’s match.
“You have to take it one game at a time. We personally saw a team come back from a 3-0 deficit. So we have to believe in it, match following match.”
We might say that the Heat also dropped three games in a row in the case, which it would be better to avoid on Monday night because otherwise it is heading to Cancun.
The substance of Bam’s message is in any case shared by the entire Florida group: “we forget that we’re down 3-1, we’ll just do our best to win the next game, and we’re trying to extend the series in Miami”. There is absolutely no doubt that Erik Spoelstra’s men will fight until the end and that they will not let go until the defeat is recorded. But do they at least have the means to compete with the collective machine of Denver when she manages to impose her basketball?
We can doubt it given the scenario of the last two meetings in Miami. +15 then +13 for Nikola Jokic’s band, too serious for a Heat team whose margin of error seems extremely low in this series. So of course, the Floridians have proven that they can gain altitude, and they are never as dangerous as when you think they are finished. But unlike the Game 2 loss, Denver likely won’t be through in two days, with the chance of claiming the first title in its history at home.
Bam Adebayo talks taking it 1 game at a time:
“We’ve seen a team come back from 3-0 first hand.”
— Brady Hawk (@BradyHawk305) June 10, 2023
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