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The main takeaway from all of this is something that we've been talking about for the last couple of months about the greatness of Yoke. It's not just the last couple of months. The last couple of years, because this has spanned back for three to four years at this point, how great he is. And a few weeks ago, a month or so ago, I was saying like, hey, if Yanis is not the best player in the world anymore, shout out to Yanis. Then it's got to be Yoke. And he showcased why that is again today. There's a lot of conversation about the idea of making Yoke just score, is that the game plan, and then Sposter shut all of that down, said to an untrained, I might seem like that. And I was like, hey, Spoke, you ain't got to point a brother out like that. You know what I'm saying? I wasn't in the field room with you 20 years ago. So yes, technically I am an untrained eye. But that felt like that was the game plan. In game two, they took Jamal Murray out of the game and said, let Yokas do Yokas. At least that's what it felt like. No, that's Sposter. But that's what it felt like. And in this one, you couldn't do that. Both of those boys went crazy. I think, I just saw a stat at the end when they were interviewing Nikoli Yokas, that Jamal Murray and Nikoli Yokas became the only two teammates in NBA history to have 30 point triple doubles in the NBA finals. Insanity. And they pulled this game away and they were in control for most of it without Michael Porter Jr. doing anything. The second straight dud game for MPJ. And then also KCP to do anything. But the boy that stepped up was that Christian Brown fella. Christian Brown, don't call him Bron, really came in and gave ridiculous minutes to the second quarter, to the third quarter, and the fourth quarter. He was elite today. Elite in his role. Obviously there were two people on the court that were elite today that was Yokas Jamal Murray. But elite in his role, when you see some of the higher end role players of your team, not shooting well with Michael Porter Jr. being 1 for 7, 0 for 2 from 3. And KCP being 1 for 4, 0 for 3 from 3. They needed some type of production and you got that from Christian Brown. And in the end of game two, when KCP was asked about it, actually I got the quote in front of me. He said, I don't think they did anything to take anything away. I don't think it really mattered. It was all about our energy and effort we put out. And that was the sentiment from Michael Malone after game one. He came to the podium and said, hey, we might have won this game, but I know you're gonna laugh at me, but I think we played a bad game. At the end of game two, he talked about how much the effort mattered. We're like, hey, it's the NBA Finals. This is what we've been playing for. For you to have the effort in game two is ridiculous. And in this game, it felt like the effort and the communication was better. And when I watched it, there was only one moment where there was a big miscommunication. Again, there's probably way more, but one that stands on top of mine where it ended up in a game, or it might have been Caleb Martin. One of them got an open three and Jamal Murray looked at Coach Michael Malone, he put his hands up and said, my fault, like that was the only time I can vividly remember them having these miscommunications. And the last game, it felt like they were so abundant. And this is a game like this is why they were, or they are the favorite to win this series. You have the best player on the court who at this point in time, it doesn't, this is gonna sound crazy, but it feels like there's not a such thing as a Nikoli Yolkage bad game. Show me the Nikoli Yolkage bad game this playoff run. You know what? I'm about to go do some digging myself. Cause off top of mine, I can't think of a Nikoli Yolkage bad game. Like we temper our expectations to certain players. Last game, Fort Turner was five assists, unlike him, my brother, he had 40 points. You know what I'm saying? So let me look at the game log real quick. The worst game in the playoffs for him so far is this game versus the Wolves where they won by 29 points, so it didn't matter, but he himself had, he shot 50% from the field. He had 13 points and 14 rebounds, six assists, and he fouled out. That was the worst game in the playoffs so far for him. And the worst thing is him fouling out. Everything else looks pretty fine to me. He has become one of those players that bad games don't exist. So if you have that, and you just have some type of production from anybody else, and today Jamar Murray was elite, I just don't know how you beat that in a seven game series. Now, if there's anybody that can do it, it is Demi and Mehe. They got to recuperate, because as of right now, a lot of their success boils on the back of that three point shooting. One of four for Max Struz from three, one of seven overall, two of 10 overall for Gabe Vinton, one for six from three, and then Jimmy attempted four threes. He made one, they shot as a team, 31%. And this is saying something, they won the three point battle today, because I mentioned how Michael Porter Jr., KCP, these guys did not hit their shots. The nuggets haven't had an offensive juggernaut game just yet. And they're just due. Now, a lot of credit of that goes to Demi and Mehe, because their defense is so stout, but they're just due to have a game where Michael Porter Jr. hit four threes, and KCP hit four threes. And what do you do at that point? Because the moments that Demi and Mehe have to win is when we have these grinded out games, where it's a couple of possessions. They're statistic about how good Demi and Mehe have been this season when it comes to five point swings in the fourth quarter. You know what I'm saying? But if it's anything outside of that, like the different nuggets have that advantage, and they haven't shot the ball well at all throughout this series. They haven't shot, I mean, literally shooting, because they got everything they wanted in the paint today. Everything that they wanted was in the paint today, and that's partially Nicole Yocas going out for 32, but I think at halftime, or I'm sorry, at the end of the first quarter, they had like 30 points and 22 of those were in the paint. Like that's how much they were really pounded in inside. And it's like, if the shots are not falling, you got to score. And I appreciate that that was the idea that they had because there are a lot of teams out in the NBA that was like, if the shots are not falling, we just gonna keep shooting instead of taking what's potentially available, which is getting to the basket. I don't know, hopefully, this isn't the case, but at the last couple of minutes of this game, Kyle Lowry got a blimping and they had the camera on him and he didn't look great. I'm hoping that he didn't hurt himself or anything like that because that would just suck the life out of the series even more because he has been pretty good for them so far and they can't afford to lose another play. I mean, we're still trying to figure out if Tyler Harris don't play at all this series, you cannot lose another guy. I was surprised not to see more Duncan Robes. I know when he got into the game, he picked up two early fouls and then Spolesh was like, you know what, we was just running with the other dudes, but he was such a big part in the game to win. So to see him basically play 10 minutes leading up to garbage time, I'm surprised to me, especially when you get to garbage time, he had two threes, you're like, ah, maybe he should have played a little bit more. They cut down the Cody's element quite a bit, him only playing six minutes, which is good. Bam has been such a weird person throughout this series where game one, 25 points on 26 shots or so. Game two, I thought he was amazing. I don't know exactly what his stats were. I'm not even thinking about how many points he put up. I thought in game two, he was the best player for the Miami Heat in the game outside of Gabe Vinson. Then in game three, he did a lot of the stuff, a lot of similar attempts that he was in game one and game two, but because he's such a pull-up, mid-range heavy dude, if those shots are not going, it's like, man, now you didn't get to the free throw line of shot, 10 free throws, which I appreciate, but there are a couple times in this game where he shot an early mid-range jump shot and I'm like, man, I feel like you could've got something better because at this point in this series, the different nuggets are allowing him to do that. So if we know that that shot is going to be there with five seconds on the clock, let's work our action a little bit more to try to get a different shot because we know we can rely on that shot if we need to. And today was not one of those days where he hit his shots. Overall, man, not a ton of swings in this one, not a ton of swings in this one, which as a neutral fan, I love. I love when it's like, oh, here come the Miami Heat on the run and oh, how would the Denver Nuggets retaliate or vice versa? It was a ton of that today. And I guess that's fine. Friday night, we get another game in Miami. Let's see if the Miami Heat, you know, do their thing. I don't think you want to be down 3-1 to the Denver Nuggets. So I will look at game four as a must win. Curious to see whatever Spolster decides to do a little bit differently this time around. Or were KCP words true? We're not worried. They're not even doing nothing. We just not hitting our shots. We're not putting together the energy and the effort. That's true. Sears might be over soon.