” Discipline ” Or ” discipline » : Mike Malone used these terms nearly a dozen times during his press conference, ahead of Game 3 in Miami the next night. His players themselves did the same after the second set lost at home.
” I asked them after the match: ‘Why did we lose tonight?’ They told me that we hadn’t played hard enough. They told me we weren’t disciplined enough “, Reports the technician, who therefore asks his players to correct the situation in this area and to play with “ much more urgency “.
Asked about the small outing of Michael Porter Jr. (5 points at 2/8 on shots), the coach assures that the key for the winger and the others is to ” communicate, to be disciplined. It starts with defense. If we defend and rebound, we can run. In the second game, we scored 18 points on the counterattack: 16 in the first half and 13 in the second quarter. »
The fourth quarters, on the other hand, were much less well approached by his players: the Heat scored 30, then 36 points. ” What I know of our group is that for years we have handled adversity very well. I have no doubt that tomorrow night (This evening), we will be a much more disciplined and rushed team for 48 minutes. »
To achieve this, Mike Malone showed no less 17 “sequences to his players, during the video session, where it was a question of monitoring the game plan. “ 17 Streaks That Cost Over 40 Points In Game 2. To Me That’s Stunning “, qualifies the coach who places the notion of communication at the heart of the problem.
“We have too many examples of players who were not on the same wavelength”
“ I learned a saying a long time ago: communication is focus. To communicate, I have to know what to say. If I’m not focused, I don’t know what to say. We have too many examples, for an NBA Finals game, of players who were not on the same wavelength because of a lack of communication “, he laments, welcoming however the quality of the circulation of the ball on the Heat side.
These errors were particularly glaring at the start of the fourth quarter of the last game when the hosts conceded a 15-2. On two consecutive actions, for example, we saw Christian Braun and Bruce Brown not agree on simple “curls” from Duncan Robinson after a screen from Gabe Vincent. The latter thus took advantage of an open 3-point shot when the other was able to spin to the circle.
” Again, lack of communication and discipline. We cash a 15-2 and we have to bring Nikola back. It’s not the same game anymore. We want to play fast, they want to play slow. When you don’t make stops on defense, Miami Heat advantage because they have their press zone 2-2-1 behind. And as I said before, we play much too slowly to try to attack him, which forces us to find ourselves in end of possession situations. “Judges Mike Malone.
He concludes: A lot of our players have been in big games, so I don’t think it’s because our players are too tense. It has to do with not adhering to the required discipline. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Nikola Jokic | 69 | 33.7 | 63.2 | 38.3 | 82.2 | 2.4 | 9.4 | 11.8 | 9.8 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 24.5 |
| Jamal Murray | 65 | 32.8 | 45.4 | 39.8 | 83.3 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 20.0 |
| Michael Porter, Jr. | 62 | 29.0 | 48.7 | 41.4 | 80.0 | 1.0 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 17.4 |
| Aaron Gordon | 68 | 30.2 | 56.4 | 34.7 | 60.8 | 2.4 | 4.1 | 6.6 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 16.3 |
| Bones Hyland | 42 | 19.5 | 39.9 | 37.8 | 86.6 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 12.1 |
| Bruce Brown, Jr. | 80 | 28.5 | 48.3 | 35.8 | 75.8 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 11.5 |
| Kentavious Caldwell-Pope | 76 | 31.3 | 46.2 | 42.3 | 82.4 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 10.8 |
| Reggie Jackson | 16 | 19.9 | 38.3 | 27.9 | 83.3 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 7.9 |
| Jeff Green | 56 | 19.5 | 48.8 | 28.8 | 74.4 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 7.8 |
| Zeke Nnaji | 53 | 13.7 | 56.1 | 26.2 | 64.5 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 5.2 |
| Deandre Jordan | 39 | 15.0 | 76.5 | 100.0 | 45.8 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 5.2 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 5.1 |
| Vlatko Cancar | 60 | 14.8 | 47.6 | 37.4 | 92.7 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 5.0 |
| Christian Brown | 76 | 15.5 | 49.5 | 35.4 | 62.5 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 4.7 |
| Thomas Bryant | 18 | 11.3 | 48.5 | 44.4 | 72.2 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 4.6 |
| peyton watson | 23 | 8.1 | 49.2 | 42.9 | 55.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 3.3 |
| Ish Smith | 43 | 9.3 | 39.7 | 16.7 | 50.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
| davon reed | 35 | 9.0 | 31.3 | 36.4 | 75.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 2.3 |
| Jack White | 17 | 3.9 | 42.1 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.2 |
