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The Mismatch

NBA Finals: Nuggets Pummel Heat in Game 1, Jokic's Dominance, and Breaking Miami's Zone

The Mismatch

The Ringer

Sports

4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Nuggets take the early lead in the NBA Finals as Verno and KOC break down their Game 1 victory over the Heat behind stellar performances from Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and Aaron Gordon (02:12). They discuss the Heat’s lack of size and Jimmy Butler’s slump, as well as the Nuggets completely carving up the Heat’s zone defense (19:14). Also, what they thought of Monty Williams’s record-breaking deal to coach the Pistons, Adam Silver’s comments about Ja Morant’s punishment, and some possible changes coming for future All-Star Games (37:37). Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Producer: Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:11.8

I'm your host Rob Harbilla here to bring you more true musical analysis,

0:15.8

poignant nostalgic reveries, crude personal anecdotes, and rad special guests,

0:21.3

all with even less restraint than usual.

0:24.7

Join us once more on 60 saws that explain the 90s every Wednesday on Spotify.

0:44.7

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon, joining me is he does every Thursday night

0:50.1

from the ringer.com is Kevin O'Connor, 8K Kevin O'Bomer, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Camor, Kevin O'Climor,

0:54.6

Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Finals, Kevin O'Connor, Burnow! I'm joining you here from the NBA

1:03.9

finals. I'm sitting in my media seat up in the nosebleeds looking down at all these happy nuggets fans

1:10.8

celebrating. They're having a good time. They're feeling good. I'm feeling good, man. I'm here at the

1:16.1

finals. It's a good time. First time in 47 years that the team has gotten this opportunity and

1:23.1

the fans have gotten this opportunity. Looked like a rockest crowd there at the beginning of the game,

1:29.6

for sure. It looked like it looked like I expected it to, like a team and the fan base that was

1:35.9

yearning for this opportunity. Obviously, it's been a long time since they had played basketball

1:40.6

after sweeping the lakers and then just having to wait around until the finals were going to begin.

1:47.0

But at least on TV, environment looked great. What was it like in the arena?

1:53.7

Very loud. A lot of noise being pumped in for sure. Fans were loud. They had the cool wrist

1:58.8

fans lighten up. It was a great atmosphere, man. I was impressed. It felt like right from the jump.

2:04.6

Fans were into the game. Didn't feel like any nervous crowd or anything like that. It was a very

2:10.0

cool atmosphere here in Denver. And you probably did not expect that much like back in the day,

2:16.0

Mike Tyson walking to the ring shirtless with some black shorts and then knocking somebody out that

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