Should Nuggets still be FAVORED to win NBA Finals? 🤔 'Game 2 loss clouds it' - Wilbon

Hell back to the NBA finals where the Heat had a big fourth quarter and they shocked the Nuggets at home to even the series at one apiece as it shifts to Miami. Duncan Robinson's 10 fourth quarter points played a big role in erasing an eight-point deficit in Denver. Nick Friedale has more with the Heat. The confidence in that Heat locker room is high. I asked Jimmy Butler why is this team so resilient. He said it's the I don't give a damn factor. We don't care about what's happening on the outside. We focus on what we can control and we feel like we're always gonna find a way. Gabe Vincent said we are strangely comfortable late in games. When things are close we know that we will be able to figure it out. Now is the Heat look ahead to game three on Wednesday. They do so hoping the Tyler Hero will be back after missing almost the entirety of the postseason because of a broken hand. If they get that boost on top of what they did in game two they feel like they're gonna walk in and find a way to take the lead in this series. Nick thank you. They're just so calm in the fourth. The Heat have been outscored by 24 points over the first three quarters of this postseason but how about this there are plus 90 in the fourth quarter that's currently the third best fourth quarter point differential in a single playoff in NBA history. Tony and Mike have much more in tonight's PTI bonus topic. All right Wilbon should the Denver Nuggets still be favored to win the NBA Finals? Ah Tony favored that sounds like your account that's Vegas odds and all that junk where people change their minds on who's favored from day to day. Um in my mind should the Nuggets still win the NBA Finals? I think so but Tony yesterday clouds it not just because Miami won but because of the way Miami won. And it's interesting because Michael Malone had a fit on his team after the game and you and I have already talked about how we wonder about the response to that which will tell us a lot about the Nuggets because they haven't been in this position before this late in the playoffs their first finals. But I'm gonna tell you this Tony I said on camera on air that I thought Miami was gonna win yesterday they won. I think Miami's gonna win game three. I wonder I'm not saying they are I wonder if Miami's in Denver's head a little bit because Miami's toughness like a fighter that gets hit right on the chin and they stay there and they look at you and they shake their head and they go I'm still here I'm not even taking a standing eight. That's what I think of Miami at this point and I wonder how that's gonna play when this thing moves to Florida for Wednesday's game three. Yeah so I think I'll answer the direct question I think Denver should still be favored. They won game one comfortably. They were up 15 in game two and they let that slip away because Miami shot if I'm not mistaken 69% in the fourth quarter and that's gonna win you basketball game. Yes it is. I'm gonna concentrate on what you just brought up Michael Malone. He ripped his team. He ripped his team publicly. Now I assume you know that's lack of effort in game two. I assume he knows his team. We're gonna find out in game three if they come out crazed and play a great game then we're gonna know what Michael Malone did from a strategic standpoint made a lot of sense and if they don't and Miami beats them in game three then I would worry about game four for Denver because I would think that maybe maybe their coach had done them no favors by being public and criticizing. These series often go back and forth back and forth and Tony looking at that a lot of people including the oddsmakers might think okay Denver's gonna respond favorably to what their coach did. Yes that's right. I ain't so sure Tony. I just I want to I want to see if Miami is ready to continue that scrappiness that is now known as heat culture. Let's see what they got. Game three should be fun. That's it. We're done. Back to you.