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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

2020 NBA Finals Game 3; BOS Offseason Outlook; Obi Toppin Scouting Report

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Butler has one of the best games in Finals history. How did the Heat and Lakers’ strategies make that possible, and how did the Heat finally stop the Lakers on the other end? Then we look at Boston’s offseason, including their tax situation, what to do with their 3 firsts, potential upgrade options at center, and more. 27’ Then a scouting report on national player of the year Obi Toppin of Dayton, a projected top-10 pick. 49’ Dunc’d On is exclusively ad-free four days a week, join here!  Get new bonus content as well like private Discord access, regular chats, our cap projections, subscriber mailbags, and more. Please read this letter about what you’ll get and why we are doing this, plus this FAQ for your more specific questions. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) and Danny Leroux (@DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0

Well, we have a series at least for one night with Jimmy Butler, one of the great games in NBA finals history pushing the heat to a

0:08.6

115-104 win over the LA Lakers and

0:13.1

Butler

0:14.0

Handily outplayed LeBron James and Anthony Davis as well and I guess we just need to talk in greater detail

0:21.2

About this incredible Butler performance before we hit on anything else

0:24.7

Absolutely and the basic numbers 40 points on 14 of 20 from the field all twos no threes

0:31.8

12 of 14 from the free-throw line

0:34.0

13 assists 11 rebound some of those huge rebounds did at five turnovers

0:38.0

But when you have that kind of usage totally fine and it really was a tactical decision

0:43.3

There have been a lot of intriguing and important tactical decisions that have happened in this series from these two coaches

0:49.0

And really what it came down to was the combination of the Lakers not wanting to leave Miami shooters and giving up some

0:57.0

Low-resistant switches and so the basic the way to distill the Lakers game plan was

1:01.7

Defensively let's see if Jimmy Butler could beat us and in game three the answer was yes

1:05.8

Yeah, and we talked about it in the first half of the NBA cast that as it turned out

1:10.7

There really are only two people on the Miami Heat who apparently can guard Jimmy Butler and ISO and that's LeBron James and

1:18.0

Anthony Davis now

1:19.4

Let's keep in mind here that guarding Jimmy Butler and in ISO is

1:23.9

Under the conditions that the Miami Heat are providing and for large swaths of this game

1:29.4

Particularly down the end when the heat pulled away and Butler was the big hero the Miami Heat had

1:35.3

Kalealynic Tyler hero and Duncan Robinson all on the floor together

1:39.5

So three guys that you just absolutely cannot leave

1:43.3

Including Anthony Davis having to guard one of those players and then Jay Crowder is also a solid shooter in his own right or they go to

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