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donlittle25:
we never ready. we need better players.

Even kyrie is non existent.

I strongly doubt this present roster as is will be back at this stage next year

Nothing like come back from 3-zip nau. Una do am last season still lose for una house game 7

Nobody thought the Mavs were coming back

Pritchard with another buzzer dagger

Congratulations Boston Celtics on banner #18

Derrick Jones Jr keeping the Mavs in this.

Kyrie and Luka nowhere to be found. But good thing is they're at least dishing dimes

Boston using the 3 to stretch the gap. Like I've been saying

donlittle25:
how can you end the quarter like that? by the way, soon as kleiber came in… everything changed. his two bricks led to 5 or 6 points on the other end

Kleber must have Kidd's nudes or something. Absolutely useless on both ends

It was a 1pt game thanks to the Mavs shooting competitively from 3 before that. Relax.

Nobody expected the Mavs to shyte the bed in 90seconds

Absolutely disastrous way to end that quarter by the Mavs

Going from down 1 to down 10 inside a minute and a half

Kyrie needs to be exorcized of his Beantown demons. This is rather ridiculous

iamoyindamola:
You want to buy watch 4 for 39k

Wetin happen? That godforsaken spam bot don ban me again

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Kate Henshaw's post on mother's day vs Father's day.

Her followers didn't spare her sha.

I just don't know why people can't wish another group well and move on.[/color]

These people are beyond redemption. When they talk you can easily understand why they marry and divorce 50 times.

Khanben:
If they can move that guy for a starting caliber piece even if it means adding picks to facilitate the trade it will be huge coup for the Mavericks.

That would take some finesse.

They need to offload Kleber and THJ cos they are the two bad contracts on the team

etidy:
Pressure and lack of experience. The mavs are not as bad as they have played.
Pj Washington and gafford have never experienced playing for a winning team or in the playoffs and suddenly they are starting in a NBA finals. Derrick lively is a rookie.
Yes doncic has been poor defensively but we know that's his weakness and he also been playing with a myriad of injuries.

I am most disappointed in Kyrie because he's the only one who has played at this level before yet he let the team down in game 1 and 2 which was crucial for this series.

As for those saying wolves would have done better
I laugh in Spanish.
The wolves couldn't shut down mavs offense, na Celtics 3 points spamming , well spaced offense them want stop? Gobert will practically be useless against the Celtics.

In addition, the wolves struggled greatly offensively against the mavs , imagine what the Celtics defense will do to them? The Celtics will hold them to 80 points per game and then you also have to consider that the wolves are even more mentally weaker than the mavs. KAT and Gobert will shit their pants in the garden.

It's really about fine margins this game. The Mavs should easily be 2-2 if they were not so bad from 3s and the free throw line.

I don't want to even hear about the Wolves. If not Nuggets that choked away Game 7

Roland17:
The Oilers laid it on the Panthers tonight. The Stanley and NBA Finals have followed similar patterns.

I was going to say the same thing

Kilishihunter:
Easier said than done chief

That's the math they're openly playing though. Half of their shots are 3s. Every player on their lineup can spam 3s. Unless you dominate them in the paint or draw substantial amount of fouls your chances of beating them are very slim unless you can go band for band with them at the 3pt line

Look at this joker THJ

We needed just 1 or 2 buckets in game 3 you goofball

Absence of Porzingis really showed here. They will definitely cobble him up for game 5

Absolutely got destroyed on the boards as well

12 offensive boards

44 paint points

Any game you can match Celtics from 3pts half your job is done

Don't do anything stupid in the 3rd quarter and at some point the Celtics will tap and prep for game 5.

Then you can plan what you do there. Kidd might be on to something with Exum.

Lmao. Even Kleber is hitting 3s

Where was this defense all this time

The Mavs are really terrible at free throws. Even their guards. This cannot bode well in close games

Mavs actually competing on defense. Very few blow bys and good rebounding

And they're making more 3s than the Celtics. Imagine my surprise they're up 18

birdman:
Its posible, if you throw away analytics and play traditional high IQ bball. Jaylen and Tatum are rhythm jump shooters. If you play honest defense and tighten rotations and minimize the gimmicks, they wont be shooting like they are in an open gym..

I've been immensely disappointed by Jason Kidd's defensive rotations considering he was an elite defensive player in his day. The Celtics should not be getting the consistent quality looks they get on each drive

This game so far I'm seeing far far better defending and I keep wondering what were they waiting for and what took them so long

birdman:
And therein lies the wahala, all these "analysts" hyping Kyrie because of handles, hyping Luka because of box score. Like Mase put it, if you sit down and look at the totality of basketball, both guys really good, all stars even, but all this top 10 guards, best pg ever, all those titles are premature and frankly nonsense. Who here thinks Kyries handles are better than alston rafer? You know how many new york pgs could play that way if it was allowed in the nba in their time? What is the point of Luka dropping bombs on offense and acting like chicken on defense?

A more balanced team like the Wolves, or Nuggets or Thunder, or even Warriors/Lakers would have made this series more interesting.

Basketball discourse generally is in the pits. Everything happening now nobody never see before. People forget that no idea is original and there's no player today who's facsimile has never existed before. I don't like arguing with anyone online these days especially about ish I was watching when they were shifting their pampers

The Nuggets shat the bed the most. They're the team best equipped to compete with Boston. I really believed punched above their weight and for the most part do not match up well with Boston. Problem is their refusal to shoot the 3 means they are not giving themselves a fighting chance or room for error

A40:
Finally the moment has arrived.

Okay here's the parole. I've been very unimpressed with the Celtics. I really have. Looking at the Pacers series. If the Pacers were not a fugazi team themselves no way that series doesn't get to 6 maybe 7 games

On the flipside I wonder have the Mavs been worn down by facing tougher competition. That one week rest definitely will help

In the end I think it will boil down to the 3pt spamming ability of the Celtics. If the Celtics spam the 3pter like they did in the regular season then there's not much you can really do. That's the one area I really think they have the Mavs beat

I've not changed my song. In this no handcheckin era you're not beating a competent 3pt spamming team shooting and making so few of them.

Unless you get to the line significantly more than them like 16 Cavs vs Warriors especially Game 7.

If you're not going to the FT line twice as often. Forget it

birdman:
When you get tired, you resort to 3s

Mazulla is basically playing Daryl Moreyball. The difference is he's going to be the one to reap the benefits this year

He tried it last year with the spamming but unluckily for him he ran into the Heat team that went band for band with him

Think about it. Game 7. Celtics shot 9-42 Heat shot 14-28

People can talk about Luka and what Kyrie didn't do till they're blue in the face. All I need to do is look at the Box scores and see that the Celtics are shooting and making double the 3s at a higher efficiency than the Mavericks. It is mathematically impossible to win a playoff series with those odds

People will over analyze this game again instead of applying Occam's razor.

Another game the Mavs lost by 7 but the Celtics outshot them 17-9 from 3. As anti 3pt spamming as I am even I recognize that is too much a handicap to overcome. The Mavs are essentially starting games down 24pts.

Unless you bring back the hand check rule it's mathematically impossible to win when the other team is making 8 to 10 more 3s per game than you every game.

What's worse if you hit those 3s it opens up whatever inside game you're trying to play and you expend less energy playing catch up.

Taking 25 threes when your opponent is taking 46 (2nd in finals history) is coaching malpractice.

Pundits and talking heads will come and play Monday morning Quarterback again when the problem is glaring and obvious. Wetin Luka wan play again wey pass wetin e play today.

The Heat beat the Celtics last season by beating them at their game. The only game they won this year same thing. Cavs did same thing in Game 2. Thinking you will beat a team taking combined 50 more 3s than you is insanity.

Singapore1:
Macaroni's character is a parody, a satirical take on a "sugar daddy" figure often seen in Nigerian society. The intent behind his skits is not to sexualize women, but to highlight the absurdity and humor in these interactions.

By focusing on Macaroni's repeated failures and the way he is constantly scammed, the skits are actually flipping the script and it has nothing to do with sexualizing women at all

he is the one being ridiculed, not the women. With his continuous misfortune and the cleverness of the women who outsmart him.


Macaroni is also a very fantastic Actor. He also said in one of his Interview that he is an actor not a skit maker. Comedy is very subjective what i like is different from what you like

I wish most of his critics understood this. Especially the male feminists that try to do gboromideleru

chic2pimp:
LOOOOL ... I don't hate the Celtics o



This one had me laughing and crying at the same time

I dey hear of home cooking I never hear of ref dey favor away team for 50/50 calls

A day late, dollar short