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At the hospital but back home now.
I know I am pre-ejaculating but would if my Mavs pulled off the miracle, would it be a bigger upset and chokejob than the Warriors and my Mavs in 2007?
Pretty sure everyone and their mothers have been saying that all night tbh. Where have you been?
At the hospital but back home now.
I know I am pre-ejaculating but would if my Mavs pulled off the miracle, would it be a bigger upset and chokejob than the Warriors and my Mavs in 2007?
^ Let's see how these two games in the D go before we start talking about winning this series.
Yeah I know. Not over until it's over. That means your team has 4 victories and the other team does not have 4 victories.
ur talking as if the mavs are up 2-0
It really comes down to who wins 4 games. I really feel if Mavs win it first they got this series.
That happens if you blow double-digit leads during the regular season for about 10 times.
Spurs played like absolute crap last night, and played timid, almost scared.
That said, in the playoffs, no matter if you lose by 40 points or 1 point, it still counts as one loss. The series is tied up at 1-1, and the Spurs still is the favourite to win the series.
I have said it before, but the Spurs are not really built for the playoffs because there is a lack of superstars that demand constant doubles on the team, and the Spurs are not particularly quick. What this means is that in the aggressive defense of the playoffs, teams can stick to every single one of the Spurs players at all time and deny open/easy shots for the Spurs. Without a superstar that require constant doubles, the Spurs cannot disrupt that pattern and leads to difficulty in generating points.
The key now is for Parker to drive into the lane and wreck havoc, or to feed Duncan and let him make the necessary decisions to break down the Mavs defense.
It was a worrisome display, but I am not ready to jump off the cliff just yet. I'd be worried if the Spurs go down 1-3.
Thanks to themselves.
Mavs have won 6.5 of the 8 quarters played and have to be kicking themselves they're not up 2-0.
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-...inst-the-spurs
Still: How can you not feel terrific tied at 1-1 if you're Rick Carlisle and the Mavs? Because even with the Game 1 loss, the Mavs made a solid statement that they're completely capable of playing with the mighty Spurs. It's not that the Mavs present difficult matchup issues or having overwhelming youth and athleticism. It's that they basically are able to beat the Spurs at their own game. Crisp execution, brilliant half court offensive design and star keystone that makes it all work.
They should be kicking themselves, after seeing what happened to Golden State last year.
Yep, this series has a similar feel so far.
Dirk hasn't had a big game yet. That'll change in Dallas but I think the Spurs can split on the road.
Carlisle has won the coaching battle so far but not much Pop can do about half his rotation choking and everybody doing their best 2013 Finals Manu impersonation tbh.
It's not a coincidence that Dirk has struggled since we got Tiago
What Carlisle is doing is quite simple actually.
Force the big 3 to beat you one-on-one defensively. Don't let average players and scrubs like Leonard, Green, Splitter, and Mills kill you with easy layups and wide open 3s from doubling the big 3. Make everyone work for every point they get.
Since when was Kawhi Leonard a scrub?
Since his first round showing in the 2014 playoffs.
Well DPG I was wrong. Wrong about the Spurs sweeping dem Mavs.
Right about their reliance on scrubs, though...god help them in the later rounds after RC's blueprint is replicated by far more talented opponents
But seriously losing to an 8th seed relying on Blair in the first round would be mortifying for Pop, would make him look like such a dumbass he might retire on the spot...
Switch everything and the great mastermind can do nothing but his pants, even Scott Brooks knows that... The system is a regular season gimmick and we haven't a true all NBA kind of player like last year, we ed tbh...
We have seen it time and time again, when you choke away a game on the road as the lower seed (Mavs Game 1), it always comes back to haunt you
never said he was a scrub.
I said "average players and scrubs"
KL is in the average players category. Not bad but not great.
We just played a terrible game last night. You can't expect to win playing like that. We only played with playoff-type intensity for like 3 mins at the end of the 1st half.
Carlisle deserves credit for the scheming, but there's a lot of blame to go around from the Spurs themselves, especially on defense. The Spurs played about 1.5 quarters of solid D in game 1 and that was enough to win the game.
It really boils down to doing that more often. It was the same story against GS last season.
I'd like to give credit to Carlisle, but most people know that the Spurs just played like dog .
I don't see the Spurs turning it over 24 times in Dallas.
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