2024 NBA Playoffs - West 1st Round: #4 Los Angeles Clippers vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (DAL WINS 4-2)

durden_tyler · Post #3441 » by **durden_tyler** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:28 pm

Wasted effort, couldn’t get the job done and could cost them the series. Oh Mavs, i really believed you could beat the Thunder, Nuggets… but after this? Not sure anymore.

Post #3442 » by **zimpy27** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:29 pm

Clips won both games without Kawhi and lost both games with him

ChipotleWest · Post #3443 » by **ChipotleWest** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:29 pm

SFour wrote:Mavs can't take advantage of Kawhi being out...2 games now....probably going to end up being 3 games.

We win that game by 8 or 10 points if Kidd didn't decide to play Maxi over BOTH TRUE CENTERS IN THE 4th. Something Harden and the Clippers figured out in two seconds and easily exploited. I've never seen a coach deserve to get fired more than right now.

jkvonny · Post #3444 » by **jkvonny** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:29 pm

DonaldSanders wrote:
CobraCommander wrote:When the Mavs win I want yall to come back to this post and remember I told you so….

PG13 and harden can’t do this in the second half… they not built like that - and kyrie and harden live for these moments

I should get to 100 and1s after this or I’ll live in sack cloth for a week in shame

Ahem. We expect pictures.

srhcan · Post #3445 » by **srhcan** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:29 pm

Petergrifindor wrote:Why no Lively or Gafford at the end?

Kidd sucks.

once Mavs got lead, they should have bring one of the them back

EmpireFalls · Post #3446 » by **EmpireFalls** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:29 pm

What a performance from Kyrie George and Harden

nbafan38 · Post #3447 » by **nbafan38** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:29 pm

durden_tyler wrote:Wasted effort, couldn’t get the job done and could cost them the series. Oh Mavs, i really believed you could beat the Thunder, Nuggets… but after this? Not sure anymore.

Luka not 100% the injuries league wide are getting wild.

ChipotleWest · Post #3448 » by **ChipotleWest** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:30 pm

We didn't come back from 31 with both centers on the bench, what made him decide that was suddenly a good decision? Are they both hurt? That's the only logical reason.

Forbes · Post #3449 » by **Forbes** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:30 pm

Mavs just need to not get punched in the mouth in the 1st quarter for the rest of the series.

Sofia · Post #3450 » by **Sofia** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:30 pm

CobraCommander wrote:
NYPiston wrote:
makubesu wrote:Props to Lue to settle the ship after that Irving bucket. Harden seemed calm and locked in to run the offense.

The quality of coaching difference in this game was very obvious. Lue is consistently underrated as a coach while Kidd is correctly rated as a bad coach.

Kidd isn’t a bad coach - he is the worse coach

Kidd is not a bad coach?

lambchop · Post #3451 » by **lambchop** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:30 pm

SFour wrote:Mavs can't take advantage of Kawhi being out...2 games now....probably going to end up being 3 games.

Love me some Kawhi, but him playing with a severely hobbled body really is quite the advantage for the Mavs, not the Clippers. Kawhi basically gets minutes and shots out of respect, while being useless overall.

Clippers fans better hope he stays injured this series and just works himself back into shape on his own.

jokeboy86 · Post #3452 » by **jokeboy86** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:30 pm

Oscirus wrote:A heathy clippers team and Lue would be legit trouble for the rest of the league. Hopefully they run it back next year

No they shouldnt. I love Kawhi but I’ve been saying if he were healthy for 5 years now. You can’t rely on his health. The only solution would literally be having him start his seasons in March

srhcan · Post #3453 » by **srhcan** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:30 pm

zimpy27 wrote:Clips won both games without Kawhi and lost both games with him

Clips cannot beat OKC without healthy Kawhi

jkvonny · Post #3454 » by **jkvonny** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:30 pm

durden_tyler wrote:Wasted effort, couldn’t get the job done and could cost them the series. Oh Mavs, i really believed you could beat the Thunder, Nuggets… but after this? Not sure anymore.

Not too sure if they get past the Clips, Thunder, Wolves/Nuggs. TBH

Scoundreldays · Post #3455 » by **Scoundreldays** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:31 pm

jkvonny wrote:
Scoundreldays wrote:I cannot believe we held the lead!!

Briefly choked it all away (Mavs led briefly), but Clips regained it and held on for dear life!

I got away from the game for a bit because I was going to lose my mind watching the lead get blown and didn't want to have the day ruined!

Yuri36 · Post #3456 » by **Yuri36** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:31 pm

As long as Luka Doncic doesn't fully understand that working CONSISTANTLY on your fitness is a must to become the world best player and win rings, sadly I don't think he will ever reach the peak his talent should enable him to reach.

HardenGoat · Post #3457 » by **HardenGoat** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:31 pm

jokeboy86 wrote:Its so obvious that the Clippers should move on from Kawhi but he’s got the rest of the league scared to trade for him and Ballmer seems in denial or something.

Kawhi is the best player he’s just injured. Similar to Embiid but he’s obviously dealing with something worse right now.

Forbes · Post #3458 » by **Forbes** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:31 pm

ChipotleWest wrote:We didn't come back from 31 with both centers on the bench, what made him decide that was suddenly a good decision? Are they both hurt? That's the only logical reason.

Such an obvious decision, it’s a damn mystery why they weren’t in game.

jkvonny · Post #3459 » by **jkvonny** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:31 pm

zimpy27 wrote:Clips won both games without Kawhi and lost both games with him

Yep.

Keep Kawhi on the bench, he's rusty!

durden_tyler · Post #3460 » by **durden_tyler** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:31 pm

nbafan38 wrote:
durden_tyler wrote:Wasted effort, couldn’t get the job done and could cost them the series. Oh Mavs, i really believed you could beat the Thunder, Nuggets… but after this? Not sure anymore.

Luka not 100% the injuries league wide are getting wild.

Yeah, this loss is on Luka allowing Harden to go back to prime Harden.

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