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The Miami Heat won’t have a lot of time to regroup ahead of Game 5.
They have to travel to Denver with the sole purpose of stealing a win to live another day after dropping back-to-back games at home.
Erik Spolestra’s team was at its best in Game 2 when they came back to get a huge win at Ball Arena, but things will be much more complicated now that the Nuggets will look to close them out and win the NBA championship for the first time in franchise history.
Nonetheless, as complicated as it may seem, Heat veteran Udonis Haslem has plenty of faith in his team’s ability to get the job done.
“If there is any team that can go and get one anytime anywhere it’s us.”
– Udonis Haslem pic.twitter.com/SyUeY9PIjW
— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) June 10, 2023
Haslem recently stated that if any team can come back from a 3-1 deficit, it is definitely them.
Notably, teams in their position have gone 1-35 in the history of the league, with the sole exception being that epic 2015-16 Cleveland Cavaliers squad with LeBron James at the helm.
It’s been done before, so it can be done again.
Even so, this Heat squad doesn’t have the same talent those Cavaliers had.
They have one of the best coaches in the game, but Mike Malone has also done an impressive job in charge of the Nuggets, and it’s hard to figure out what the Heat could do to try and contain Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic.
On the bright side, Game 5 could feature a brief Haslem cameo, as it’s likely to be the final game of his long and successful career on the Heat’s bench.
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