Luka playing so dumb
Ty Lue is a superior coach to Kidd. Lue called a TO when we cut the lead to 22 in the middle of the 2nd quarter and they immediately stopped the "bleeding."Grapesoda2525 said:
Clippers calling time outs like crazy.
Might be worst half of mavs basketball since the 1990's Cherokee parks / Loren Meyer scrub ass teams.gigem1223 said:
Outscored them in the 3rd. Hopefully we never see anything like that abomination in the 1st half the rest of the playoffs.
shack009 said:
They've messed around and given me hope.
The ESPN broadcasts are just generally inferior to TNT. Reggie Miller isn't great, but he's much preferable to RJ or Dorris Burke or listening to Mark Jones. Hopefully Tuesday is a TNT game.PatAg said:
Richard Jefferson is such a clown
They definitely got more then enough wide open shots that they collectively clanked or air balled.Guitarsoup said:
It is kind of amazing how Luka was +3 in 42 minutes and Dallas was -16 in the other 6 minutes. That is the entire story of the game. At least one more guy besides Luka and Kyrie need to step up and do something.
South Platte said:
8 points in the 2Q has to be some kind of playoff record.
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1st Qtr 3-23, 7 points
2nd Qtr (1st 4 minutes) 5-6, 11 points
i mean they sold everything to get PG and Kawhi. If you hooked Steve Balmer up to a lie detector and asked "would you do that trade again knowing what you know about SGA, would you still do it?" There's no shot he says 'Yes.'South Platte said:
How do the Clippers have 4 stars and we get stuck with Reggie Bullock, THJ, et al?
Paul George for:M.C. Swag said:i mean they sold everything to get PG and Kawhi. If you hooked Steve Balmer up to a lie detector and asked "would you do that trade again knowing what you know about SGA, would you still do it?" There's no shot he says 'Yes.'South Platte said:
How do the Clippers have 4 stars and we get stuck with Reggie Bullock, THJ, et al?
And literally any team in the league could have had Russ or Harden. They were such toxic contracts that Philly/Lakers would have taken anything to get off them. And Russ basically signed the vet min to play for the Clippers. We had $12m this off season, we (or anyone) could have easily acquired him.
agreed.M.C. Swag said:
I think it flustered the Mavs that the Clippers ran their offense through Zubac the first like 5 or 6 possessions and it was working. Luka getting hunted in the PnR is nothing new and was what every team tries to do, but Gafford being big boy'd in the paint was not something I thought would happen. Our entire defensive philosophy hinges on protecting the paint and limiting teams at the rim, if we can't do THAT and we allow open corner 3s…that's a recipe for disaster.
We either need Luka to commit to giving max effort on D or we need Gafford/Lively to match Zubac's physicality.