Tim Legler joins SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt and uses the touchscreen to break down what the Denver Nuggets did using screens throughout Game 4 to take a 3-1 series lead against the Miami Heat in the 2023 NBA Finals.
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Denver in 5 🎉🎉🎉
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No layers intended, but man I love LEGS!!!
Doubling either murry or jok is the worst thing the heat can do deffensivly left guys open from 3 finally got it going from 3 it burned the heat all night
Take us home nuggets 😊
NUGGETS ALL THE WAY!!!🗣️👏🏻🔥
Denver is a surgeon, they just slice you up and show no wounds.
that pass to gordon. sheeessssh……
Jamal evolve his game from being a scorer to true point guard, this guy miss 2 years and still develop more than other players in the league TRULY unbelievable
1 more to go💍🏆👏👏👏👏
All Gordon had to do was flip the ball over his head haha back to the basket mid air
Trade MPJ for Finney Smith and Joe Harris or something like that and Nuggets will be even better
All i can Say is its a Beautifull Game by the Nuggets.
The way Jokic and Murray can just manipulate high level defensive schemes is a thing of beauty. Jokic's passes are just nasty man. He always manipulates the defense where he almost always has 2 open options just by using his eyes. That Gordon play was a no win situation for Duncan Robinson. The 3 would have been wide open too if Robinson bought on that all while Jokic is getting Double teamed. The Nuggets might be playing the highest IQ Basketball of all time man.
Legler is the GOAT.
Spo is great at rallying his troops but the size disadvantage is too big to surmount. If Heat doesn't shoot 45% and up 3s, no way they're going to win a game. Like Lakers vs Warriors, this final is won by size. And yeah Denver is bigger than LAL.
Screw ESPN and their coverage of the Nuggets and the NBA in general. Their producers should be completely ashamed of themselves but I know they won't be because they're slaves that diminish great players and teams to cover LeBron's bowels habits.Wake up and create new narratives. I mean come on, figure it out. Not that hard. Stop being fat and lazy.
Double Jokic. Double Murray. Your 5th player guards the other 3 Nuggs!
Gentlmen's sweep
Big shot = Curry shot 🎉
The Nuggets always make the right play. It's very hard to win against a skilled team when they don't make any mistakes. Kind of like why everyone had trouble with the Spurs when Duncan was there.
James Harden, Joel Embiid, and Jimmy Butler are the most consistent chokers in the playoffs every year
Amazing breakdown by Legler!
🎉
Nuggets brining the trophy 🏆 in front of home crowd
Murray orchestrating the offense in 4th quarter was just beautiful.
The Nuggets still dominated the Heat even while on small ball…
there's no dramatic play from Butler anymore…
4-1 DEN…
Denver winning the finals would be a gift to true basketball fans. Finally the superteam era is over and we’ll begin to see more of this brand of basketball and franchise building. As opposed to jumping from team to team to ring chase. Giannis kicked it off with the Bucks in 2021, returning champions GSW in 2022, and now Denver 2023. This is how you’re supposed to win championships and much more satisfying than manipulating the system to get a “win now” roster
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." – Mark Zuckerberg
Always a pleasure to watch Tim break down film. Aside from the crew on TNT, these two deserves their flowers as well.
At this point, it's a coin flip between Murray/Jokic and Legler/Touchscreen as to what duo is the most devastating in the league.
True next player up mentality. Big shoutouts to AG, Brown, and yes to MPJ as well. His shot hasn't been falling at all recently, but he's been putting in the effort in other areas. He just needs to use his size more for defence instead of going for reach-in fouls, but otherwise I'm happy with his performance even if he can't shoot at the moment.
0:53 they did that in game 3, but probably not as much in this game
1) You can't double every player with the ball because it going to leave always one player free to shot(with good percentage shooters as Denver outsiders).
2) you can't limit a skill big man as Jokic with a smaller player, at least put a Big Man to physically match him.
3) Switch and defend one or one, and if they win, mean they are good.
the should take jokic body when he does screen, yea it hurts. but u can get a possible offensive, hurt jokic, or feel the presence i dont know why teams not doing what the clamp is doing against screen it hurts but u got to do what u got to do
Never get enough of Tim Legler's analysis. Best in business at explaining details for fans!
Easily
Miami was probably thinking: "Man, if we can just hold Jokic/Murray under 50, we're a lock to win."
Game 3 to Game 4 illustrates what bench depth means. They went from two starters posting triple doubles, to being ok stat wise but the bench stepped up and helped them win anyway. Denver is a complete team.
Jamal got that killer mentality, but also is a floor general.. scary hours
I thought from even before who we knew the Nuggets would play that they may likely beat the Heat in 5 or lose in 7 if it is the Celtics. Looks like the Heat are indeed losing in 5. What a boring finals.
That three pointer is ridiculous! And he has been doing it all playoffs.
Better than shaq and kobe 💯💯
Legs and SVP so good. So much better then the rest of those clowns on ESPN who just shout at each other in grammatically incorrect English.