Guarding Nuggets center Nikola Jokić is no easy task. In Game 1, various Heat players took turns learning this the hard way, and the results were predictably disastrous as Denver outclassed Miami 104–93.
Game 2 was a different story. Jokić dropped a sizzling 41 points, but was held to four assists as the Heat evened the series at one game apiece.
ESPN reporter Ramona Shelburne took to building a question around this discrepancy: was there a blueprint to stopping Jokić hinging on Miami turning him into a scorer rather than a distributor?
