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larride:
Nuggets were missing easy layups and simple shots. If MPJ just play as half as the lakers series, Wolves will be watching the wcf at home.

I told anyone who cared to listen. They were just missing wide open shots. Nothing to do with their defense.

Now they've run into better shot makers and are facing sweep

Towns 0/7 from 3

BlueMann:
Credit to Gafford, he's been huge on defense. Another huge play there

And Gafford throws down a monster dunk! And 1!!!

Turned the corner for sure.

That block on KAT electrified him

Nuggets with their bullshit made this Timberwolves team look better than they really were.

Thunder will fire that their stupid GM. All Jokic needed was a decent big to reduce the workload

When you have Kyrie and Luka in the 4th. Ohh the luxury

Kyrie has turned to Ben Wallace at the free throw line. Crazy stuff

These free throw misses gonna bite the Mavs

Lively injury might be the turning point of this game

Powell is a terrible finisher at the rim and even more useless on defense.

Now Minny has crawled their way back

BlueMann:
Gafford not smart at all. Very unnecessary foul right at the end which gives the Wolves the chance to reduce the lead, and increases his own foul count, which is even more detrimental with Lively out.

There's a clear difference between Lively and him.

I don dey hype the guy previously. Omo e no sabi anything.

The difference too clear between him and Lively

This Timberwolves team dey play rugby. Mavericks better make this series as short as possible. You don't want a long slugfest with these raggamuffins

Why was McDermott running to the opposite side? He wouldn't even have enough time to catch and shoot

What was the plan if any? Nesmith is the worst 3pt shooter on the court. This was just Pacers playing to lose

Game over

Pacers rubbish defense will ultimately be their downfall. They're going to blow this aren't they?

Pacers offense when it's clicking is a thing of beauty tbh

Nembhardt. Wowzers

Celtics walking them down

Khanben:
That guys play is somehow weird. He is unbelievably athletic one minute, and the next minute, he looks like the stereotype of uncoordinated tall people

All he has is his athleticism. No ball IQ or feel for the game

This thing Pacers is playing is definitely not basketball

Why's Obi Toppin so damn clumsy? Did he smoke cannabis before entering the court

larride:
I have no hope on this Pacers, they always introduce me to a lifestyle they cant maintain.

Them go still lose this game.

Pacers game to lose. All they have to do is keep attacking the paint. Celtics have no one that can deter them. Leave 3pt spamming for Celtics

This Pacers no dey serious. Just allowed 8-0 run inside 45 seconds

McConnell is destroying these boys. They're not missing Halibooty at all

This must make the Game 1 debacle even more infuriating.

Celtics are so ordinary when the 3pt spamming is not working it's not even funny

Khanben:
Remember the Charles Barkley triple single jokes about Draymond that season Steph got hot .

Hahaha. He's literally the inventor.

The most accurate analogy is the boy band one. It would be like the least talented member the group being the most vocal

Khanben:
Draymond consistently gets cooked if he his put on an island with guards and he his barely 6ft9.

Gobert is the first center I've seen get criticized for not locking up a guard in an iso possession. Miracle no dey tire Jesus

Draymond is a non factor outside of Golden State. There's a reason he feigns injury when Steph can't play. That one is just carrying their on court beef to analysis.

If he thinks people will care about his nonsense after Golden state he's sadly mistaken. He will only make shock value comments to draw attention cos nobody really wants to hear him talk about anything on a neutral level

etidy:
I am shocked, I didn't know that multiple MVP or DPOY award winners face more scrutiny than usual.
I am shocked that they get more criticism and scrutiny.
I am shocked that those awards however stupid the voters maybe brings more added attention.

There's sensible and senseless scrutiny.

Coming from fans is even understandable but coming from a player like Draymond is just dumb for two reasons. He knows better and 2) he can do something about it.

Criticizing Rudy cos he got crossed on by a guard is senseless scrutiny. Where was Antman? Baby Jordan? Where's McDaniels.

To show how senseless the scrutiny is people are not even looking at Gafford and Lively scoring 80% combined from the field. It's that one play that literally nobody probably in league history stops

etidy:
You seem to be missing the point, this is not about Draymond Vs Gobert,
The main crux of the matter is that looking the overall body of work for Gobert , he's no where the level of a 4 times DPOY. For example do you think Gobert is a top 10 defender all time?

Dwight Howard won three times in a row as a rim protector but have you noticed no one questions Howard's greatness? Gobert is not just 4 times DPOY good and it irks NBA players generally not just Draymond.
He didn't vote for himself, so it's not his fault.

Be like you just wan argue to argue sha cos I don't recall anywhere I said Rudy deserves to be 4x DPOY.

Some statistical element is involved and it makes no sense to keep attacking Rudy when you can simply face the guys that keep voting him. AD was my DPOY for this year but I would look as stupid as Draymond constantly attacking the guy who like you is not a voter either.

Is it his fault that for some reason every team he's on is a top seed in the West and a #1 defensive team

The NBA players should stop their bloodclart crying, stop being catty and stop Gobert with their performances on the court.

How many times do we reiterate these awards are for the regular season

etidy:
And Draymond has never been a non factor in any of the title runs.
He was poor offensively against the Celtics but in that same playoff run he defended well against brunson, did damage control against Jokic, contained Jackson , and locked up Jaleyn brown , just imaginee the variety of matchups he took and yet he did well.

Now you're just making stuff up and name dropping. You can't bring any tangible stats to back any of this up if I requested you to

Someone that was getting ejected up and down

He was their 5th most important player. At best. Tied with Kevon Looney

etidy:
There has never been any important game where it can be argued that Draymond should be benched for a defensive possession..
It never ever happens.
But there was a legit argument that gobert should have been benched for Naz reid for the defensive possession because of what eventually happened.

This has been gobert's best post season thus far and he's improved greatly but I have seen playoffs after playoffs where gobert was defensive liability, where his teams basically lost because of him yet he has won 4 DPOYs, it's a travesty abeg.

You and Draymond are simply playing what we call Monday Morning Quarterback

Why did Draymond not stop the Kyrie dagger in 2016?

What difference would Naz Reid had made on that play. Wasn't he on the court? Should he have brought a KAT that was stinking up the joint all night?

How a post defender supposed to guard that? You think Draymond guards that?

I never said Rudy deserves 4x DPOY. I said Draymond does not deserve more than 1. Two things can be true

There's never been a year Rudy won DPOY that Draymond even finished 2nd so why is he crying more than the bereaved

Why is nobody talking about Karl Anthony Towns??

He was rightfully benched the last 9 minutes of the game. Is shooting less than 30% from the field. As a big!!

This is his 9th year in the league. A #1 pick. 28 almost 29. This should be his team not Ant's. And most certainly not Gobert

etidy:
I am with draymond sha, you can't be 4 times DPOY and you're a only good at the rim in this era of positionless basketball.

Draymond winning one Dpoy is just as bad as Shaq and Kobe winning one MVP.

I don't care about the context of individual seasons, Draymond is just so far ahead of gobert over the course of their career.

You would think Draymond is some elite perimeter defender the way he talks

What do you expect a 7'2 center to do at the 3pt line exactly

You're telling me with all that space Draymond won't be on skates too?

Draymond is only fortunate to play on the Warriors. That's fed into his hubris like they didn't just win a title where he was a complete non factor.

Draymond has won the exact DPOYs he's deserved to win and putting him on Shaq, Kobe MVP injustice tier is criminal and should be against the law

larride:
In games where Nuggets actually get their defense spot on, we saw how it rendered Ant Man in effective by having Braun on him.

Mavs pose a different challenge to Nugget and the Wolves has not been able to fully work around it.

Mavs also cant keep relying on doing comeback every game, it's not sustainable.

It's a lot easier for the Mavs to comeback because they have not one but two perimeter creators.

It's not like Nuggets with Jokic always having to carry all the load.

Stan Van Gundy called the Mavs backcourt arguably the best offensive backcourt in league history. There's a reason why.

Gafford and Lively on any other team. Completely useless and unplayable. With the Mavs however they're each guaranteed 3-4 easy buckets minimum

Khanben:
It's not really over rating his defense it's about bad match-up. Against Denver he was playing Jamal who is his size and less athletic so it was perfect. Against the Mavericks he has on one side Luka who is bigger and way stronger than him on one hand and Kyrie whose speed and quickness is usually overlooked because of his legendary handles.

Naa it is. I watched Game 6 and 7 again. Game 6 especially when the game was within reach. These guys were missing bunnies, layups, it's like the devil Magic from the Lakers series expired.

Make no mistake about it. The Nuggets offense collapsed in a historical way. Some of the misses were unbelievable. Equivalent of Yakubu in 2010 WC

There's this myth that he has been some defensive stopper but honestly they were just missing shots. You can see that all that two way exertion is also crippling his offense.

He is lacking that burst to beat his first man and credit to Kidd and his defensive schemes. Reminds me of what the Mavs did to LeNomad in 2011. I don't think people understand how good this Mavs defense is. They're basically daring the Wolves to spam 3s betting that they will eventually go cold as the game wears on. Made 8 in the first half only 4 in the second

Roland17:
From their first possession when Finch called a timeout with less than 5 seconds into the game, I knew they were not ready.

With all of this said, the Wolves just need to win one in Dallas to push this series. I think they can get one in Dallas to push this thing.

Finch has to coach better, they are losing big leads and have been unable to close games.

Mavericks is not Nuggets. If Minny doesn't win both games in Dallas this series no go go pass 5.

Timberwolves had the free throw edge. But Mavs don't even need it. Their bigs have such an advantage over Minny cos of the easy buckets Kyrie and Luka set them up with. They're not facing a Jokic that 3 bigs can tag team and take turns to spar with.

Just Luka torching their drop coverage and getting them awoof points

I said last series that people were criminally overrating Antman's defense and these guys were just missing wide open shots. Let him try and guard anybody again make I see. He will learn that AC no be fan