When the clock hit zeroes, Brown had scored 11 of his 21 points in the final five minutes of the fourth, each of them nudging the Heat closer and closer to summer vacation. He banked home an up-and-under layup with stud Miami center Bam Adebayo on his back. The well-traveled second-round pick pulled up in traffic and finished through contract from mid-range for an and-1. He beat Robinson off the dribble to draw a foul from Heat star Jimmy Butler at the rim. He finished a 3-on-1 fast break for a layup. This time, one of them was not Jokić, so Brown took center stage instead.īruce Brown (11), Jamal Murray (27), Nikola Jokić (15), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (5) and Aaron Gordon (50) of the Denver Nuggets work together to dissect the Miami Heat in the fourth quarter of the Nuggets' 108-95 win during Game 4 of the NBA Finals at the Kaseya Center in Miami on Friday. Make an easy pass, and that's why I've got four other guys out there." We've got a lot of guys that can come and impact the game, a lot of guys playing with confidence, so I'm not going to fight it. "They were blitzing every pick-and-roll, just basically trying to limit my shot attempts, and I wasn't fighting it," said Murray, the first player ever to log 10 assists in each of the first four games of a Finals. Jeff Green, the Nuggets' 36-year-old veteran, made his only attempt of the night - a corner 3-pointer for the 11th of Murray's 12 assists - that made it a three-possession game midway through the fourth quarter. Neither Murray nor Jokić scored over the game's final 8:25, and yet the Heat would climb no closer than six points again. Malone called for his bread and butter, only this time with Gordon serving as a small-ball screener in Jokić's role, handing off to a curling Murray for a 26-footer that pushed Denver's lead back to eight. The Heat had already shaved three points off of Denver's 13-point lead at the start of the frame, and they added five more to close within 86-81 with 8:42 still to play, forcing a timeout from Nuggets head coach Michael Malone. Jokić picked up his fourth and fifth fouls in a 17-second span early in the fourth quarter.
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