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    Didn't like Luka's game today. Mavs played better when he wasn't playing or holding the ball so much. Not surprised he's at a -13
    Was esp disappointed with his 95-92 three point chuck.

    MN was in disarray on defense and a lot of better options were available.
    He went for the rushed hero ball 3. Indeed the crowd would have went nutts but it was a rushed shot.
    MN would have tightened up with a basket there.

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    Luca still begging for a call
    The guy is hot garbage. Did like how he got stuffed on that last play. Can’t believe he didn’t get another phantom foul call on the 3 PTer just before.

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    SMH all the chit he's pulled and yet Draymond Green gets a gig on TNT national crew.

    PT Barnham.

    Channel change.

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    Megamind with the high IQ play
    Brains of the operation tbh.

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    Next season I want to tag team Castle and Sochan on the donkey while Wemby steals his filthy little trash talking soul.

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    the hilarity of the Mavs blowing this lead will probably lead to a complete collapse of the current Luka era.

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    Camera shot of Lively on the bench and he was swerving his head looking woozy from the noise and pressure. KAT’s donkey punch on Lively play of the series so far tbh

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    What in the bull is that foul call on the 4pt play? Weak .
    Ran it back twice and i cannot see any contact at all.
    Perhaps another angle would show some but looked like a totally blown call Warriors Kombe Lakers style.

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    Jason Ki throwing Lucca under the bus saying if he had converted the 4 point play they could have won.

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    Ran it back twice and i cannot see any contact at all.
    Perhaps another angle would show some but looked like a totally blown call Warriors Kombe Lakers style.
    Can’t believe they give that dopey spaz calls like that, so lame.

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    Brains of the operation tbh.
    The smartest kid in special ed.

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    I fear the Wolves may have waited just a bit too long to wake up. Had they pulled out game 3 maybe, but it seems like an insurmountable obstacle now, that backdoor sweep requirement.

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    Lively is a key imo.

    If he ain't 100 then Dallas has problems.

    Keebler was meh.

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    Is there any other way?
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    SA is just not all that no matter who they draft. Luka will abuse Castle

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    KAT turned in a good game, I wonder what Lively not being on the court has to do with that as well? It's clear Lively is an important cog who puts them over the top with his hustle and dare I say, leadership.

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    Never realized what a middle-school baby Luka was. I liked his off-court persona...

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    I would LOVE it if the Mavs were the 1st team to be eliminated after 3-0

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    Lots to consider. Would love for BOS to win and see DAL and LAL fanbases in shambles. BOS winning really doesn't change the le race landscape at all for non Lakers fans league wide and Spurs fans specifically. Do not want DAL to have 2 Mavs are the Spurs rivals and 1 was bad enough.

    More I think about it gotta feel like the league actually wouldn't want to disrupt the LA BOS 17/17 tie whereas I also think the league would not want BOS to lose two recent trips to the Finals either. So it's difficult to reconcile.

    But with the Kyrie back in BOS narrative I could see the league wanting DAL to be the champ.

    -Luka is a better FMVP than anyone on BOS Tatum would be a weak FMVP imho

    -preserves the LA BOS le count tie storyline at 17/17

    -Kyrie returns to BOS and punks them storyline is rich

    -encourages Euro product expansion
    You got it all wrong...
    LAL have only the les from LOS ANGELES - not Minneapolis
    Boston CANNOT win another le - because the Wemby era is all about catching Boston ultimately

    Let Dallas win their le and remain full, fat and happy - just like the Nuggets.

    Tatum is the biggest kobe-loving pretender and a bonafide choker - cannot stomach seeing that got win a le,

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    where are you guys who said Karl-Anthony Clowns is the best shooting big of all time and he's a better shooter than Nowitzki?

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    where are you guys who said Karl-Anthony Clowns is the best shooting big of all time and he's a better shooter than Nowitzki?
    KAT himself was the one who said that lol

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    KAT himself was the one who said that lol
    yeah and idiots here agreed with him

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    Just wanted to interject that I don't view DAL as our rivals. As a franchise, we are a clear class above them. The Spurs, Celtics and Lakers are the elite franchises in the NBA everyone else falls in the tiers below. The Lakers are, and will continue to be, our main rival. Dallas is a cute team that from time to time gives us a little bit of headache. I put them in the same category as OKC and Memphis in that regard. I'd put Houston in a higher rivalry class than Dallas. We don't have too much of a direct history with GSW (though 1991 and 2017 playoffs specifically come to mind), but I'd even put them ahead of Dallas.

    How I view franchises:

    1. All time W/L record (Spurs, Celtics, Lakers - in that order - hold the highest win % and are pretty significantly ahead of the #4 team, Utah). This metrics keeps teams like GSW (below .500) and Chicago (.509) from being in a higher tier.
    2. Number of les. Lakers and Celtics have a leg up on us here, but largely based on the pre-history of a league that had 6 or 8 teams and was full of dentists and plumbers. Since 1980, only the Lakers and Bulls have more. This metric prevents teams like the Jazz, Suns or Thunder (the 4, 5 and 6 teams in all time Win %) from being more highly regarded.
    3. Sustained history of success. The Spurs, Lakers and Celtics have a history of success across multiple generations, not just one. A team like Chicago, for example, has never really done anything without #23.
    4. Historically significant players. The Spurs have a mul ude of HOF players across multiple generations. The Mavericks only really have 1 who built his career and reputation with the team (Dirk). Kidd and Nash spent most of his career (including their best years) on other teams. Every other Mavs HOF player just had some end of career years there.
    5. Head to head rivalry. Spurs-Mavs might be fun regular season matchups... but we've played more significant games (in the regular season and post season) against other teams. Manu did gift the Mavs their first finals appearance in 2006 though.

    We may be the Mavs rival, but they are not ours.

    Edit: corrected typo in #3 to say "without" instead of "with"
    Indeed a very important distinction and I agree. Maybe I should have used another word, nemesis perhaps.

    I don't really ever view DAL as contemporaries with SA or championship equals at all. I view DAL Mavericks as the Spurs little brother lol just like PHX and OKC. It's a simple count there, 5 > 1

    However DAL is an in-state rival and inter divisional rival to SA as both teams are in the Southwest division but I share your criteria (W/L %, le count etc) for overall league landscape as the objective measure of success as anyone would.

    A lopsided or alternating rivalry is still a rivalry imho regardless of le count etc:

    NFL: Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears. NBA: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Sacramento Kings. MLB: Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees. NHL: Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins. NCAA football: Ohio State vs. Michigan. NCAA basketball: Kentucky vs. Louisville

    the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry began when Boston sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919, one year after the Sox won the World Series. Thus began the Curse of the Bambino, where the Yankees won 26 les in 86 years while the Red Sox suffered heartbreaking loss after heartbreaking loss and failed to win a single le. The curse was reversed in 2004, when the Red Sox erased a 3-0 series deficit and beat the Yankees. Since that comeback, the Red Sox have won four World Series crowns to the Yankees’ one and the rivalry has essentially flipped.

    From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago held a decisive 49-26-6 edge. But from the 1960s through modern times, Green Bay leads the series 71-45 and is currently riding a six-game winning streak.

    Overall, Kentucky holds a 37-17 series edge and it has won 11 of the last 14 meetings dating back to 2010. They have also met six times in the NCAA Tournament, with Kentucky winning four times.

    Historically, the Wildcats own the Cardinals but try telling either team that it's not a rivalry though.

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    yeah and idiots here agreed with him

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    yeah and idiots here agreed with him



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