Analysis | 'Michael Porter Jr. believes Miami is adjusting its offense on the fly, based on what type of screen coverage the Nuggets call out.'
MIAMI — The screener was actually the screenee. Max Strus slithered from the baseline toward the top of the key, positioning himself to set a pick to Jimmy Butler’s right. But Strus sprung into his next motion immediately.
Strus was the central figure of Miami’s shaky start, and his redemption spurred the reversal of fate. He attempted Miami’s first seven 3s of Game 2, making four as problems resurfaced for the Nuggets. “They are playing off of our coverages,” he said. “They are hearing what we are communicating to each other, and they’re doing the opposite. If we say ‘switch,’ they are slipping out for open 3s. And if we don’t say ‘switch,’ they are actually going to set the screen.”
Both were probably supposed to be switches, based on other evidence. In the second quarter, Vincent brought the ball up to the left wing. Strus ran the same action — starting to set a screen then popping to the corner. But Bruce Brown and Christian Braun both immediately switched, and Braun contested a bad pull-up attempt by Vincent.
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