NBA – By refusing to take a time-out for the last shot, the coach did not want to give the Miami defense a chance to get in place. Jamal Murray therefore improvised.
A strong choice since a few moments later, Jamal Murray will try to snatch the equalizer with a winning shot, finally missed. So why didn’t you stop the game to draw a system?
“If we take a time-out, we let the opponent get in place, so we give ourselves less chance of getting a quality shot like the one Jamal took”replies Mike Malone. “Some matches, we can take a time-out, and others, not, we must give the freedom to the players to do the action. »
The Nuggets coach, like Joe Mazzulla, tried a bet with Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic, thinking that the duo would succeed in dominating the Miami defense. “Given the way they defended in this quarter, we struggled to get good shots, so I felt that in transition we would have the best opportunity to get the shot we wanted to “
continues the coach.
After Nikola Jokic screened, the playmaker found himself up against an aggressive Jimmy Butler. The shoot he tries was not easy, but not impossible either according to the main interested party.
“From my point of view, he had a good chance of falling into it. We’ve seen Jamal score such shots before.” recalls Mike Malone. “I have already been seen to register this style of shoot”, confirms the Canadian. “It was a good shot that just didn’t go in. »
2023-06-05 09:51:00
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