MIAMI — Bam Adebayo needed to hear the question again, so I repeated it.
. At a point in the season where every margin counts, that shift — those sluggish starts to the first and third quarters where the Nuggets weren't getting stopsbuckets — helped tilt the run of play in Miami's favor just enough to swipe home-court advantage.“I've got to continually do that, because I know if I lead the way on that end, along with Bam, everybody has to follow suit,” Butler said.
The task for Murray and the Nuggets, in turn, is to remain aggressive in spite of Butler’s coverage and to trust in their teammates to find ways to make Miami pay for it. “Aggressiveness is not just shooting the ball,” Murray said. “If I'm getting downhill and making the pass to another guy that is open, that is me being aggressive … It's a team sport. It's not really about me.”about him — to stare down one of the best perimeter defenders in the world and be brash enough not to blink; to find ways to shed him, create more separation to cook and to get that other head biting again.
“Obviously, he is a little taller than me. I'm not going to tell you how to beat it,” said Murray with a smile. “But I've got my ways.”
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