Pressure is starting to return to the Mavs

[CubanMustGo]

Supposition that this situation takes place.

Besides this same team was down 9 in the middle of the third quarter in game 7 against the Pistons in the Finals. Game 5 in a hostile environment we won on the road in the Finals against the Pistons. We were down at the end of the game, in game 5. So, we have dealt with pressure before.

Yeah, but last year we had Horry hitting monster 3's. This year?

Plus, remember we are talking about a change from game 5 to game 6.
Game 5 was an elimination game. So that threat was present in game 5 as it was in game 6. Hence, the threat is not a change from game 5 to game 6.

Well, I agree with this, anyway. Plus SA got the "Timmay has never won a game down 3-1" albatross from around their necks last night, too.

[2centsworth]

Uh, you've been watching the games, right?

Stack, Dirk, and Terry score most of their points from the perimeter.

[SpursWoman]

Uh, against the Mavericks you aren't going to be seeing traditional Spurs defense, which is why Pop has went to small ball, genius. The last 3 games the Spurs have executed Pops plan perfectly, that was the point.

Right. But it was a plan they haven't played all year long...yet still won by 1 point.

Spurs didn't get to 63 wins playing small-ball. They can only get better....



















I hope.

[u2sarajevo]

o. I'm a noob so be nice please.

(off topic comment.... what's up with the body-part avatars?)

Pressure is squarely on the Mavs. I don't know how anyone could argue differently. And I'm interested to see how they respond. They don't win game 6 at home and they have to try and finish in a Hornets nest. It doesn't get much bigger than that.

This is some fun Basketball.

[strangeweather]

Stack, Dirk, and Terry score most of their points from the perimeter.

Yeah, but the Mavs have been driving the lane pretty effectively for a lot of this series. BS calls or not, Dirk didn't get all those free throws in Games 3 and 4 out on the perimeter.

[FromWayDowntown]

I don't think the Mavs have any particular pressure on them -- they have plenty of reason to believe that they can win Game 6 and that they should win Game 6. And mouse is right -- if the Mavs are up early in Game 6, any pressure that might exist will be substantially eased.

The Spurs are in a position to exert some pressure and I think the Spurs might be able to play a little more freely and loosely now, since they're playing with house money in a sense -- few could honestly believe (though those few are disproportionately in this forum, I think) that they could come back from 1-3; they've staved off elimination when they could have rolled over and died. If they play well and have a lead in the 2nd half on Friday night, things start to get interesting and the pressure on the Mavericks starts to build. Until those things happen, though, I'm not sure the Mavs necessarily feel any pressure.

Get game 6. Then the pressure mounts.

[Spurminator]

We needed to win Game 5 by a significant margin in order to really put the pressure on the Mavs for Friday. I think the Mavs came out of Game 5 pretty confident that they can still impose their will on the Spurs. I was hoping we would win by 20, to perhaps show that we had them figured out somehow.