2024 NBA Playoffs: Western Conference Finals: #3 Minnesota Timberwolves vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (DAL leads 3-0)

[___Rand___]

Losing Lively worries me a lot. This could get rough for them if he's out extended time.

Nah they were fine without him.

[Doranku]

Kyrie game 2 4th quarter: 13 pts on 4-5 shooting
Kyrie game 3 4th quarter: 14 pts on 5-7 shooting

Absolutely shredding the Wolves in the 4th.

[SerialChiller]

This feels like Luka's year. I've been expecting the Mavs to win one soon ever since they drafted him. As a Heat fan I used to hate the Mavs after 06 and 11 but I can't help but root for Luka. Boston doesn't have the leadership or toughness to win.

[Forbes]

lol Luka and Kyrie went from they cant play together to almost sneaking their way to the finals.

[GswStorm3]

Finch should have kept Gobert on the bench. He was bad on both ends and clogging up paint when ant tried to get to the rim.

[Tracymcgoaty]

Face of the NBA bout to be swept by a fifth seed.

Who proclaimed Edwards the face of the league?

Only reason Edwards if proclaimed that by some is because of his personality. His game does not reflect it at all.

SGA
Luka
Jokic

are all ahead of him.

Wemby will most likely be the face of the league barring injuries.

[-Sammy-]

I like seeing Kidd get some respect and redemption.

[tsherkin]

ant "fall flat on his face" of the league.

48.8% TS and 5 turnovers was pretty rough, yeah, 3Q notwithstanding.

[Hephaestus]

Face of the NBA bout to be swept by a fifth seed.

Who proclaimed Edwards the face of the league?

The unbiased media.

[Jasen777]

Kidd had to pick up and shove Luka down the court so he wouldn't stop and complain.

Is that even legal? That is physical assistance from a coach to a player? Maybe because the ball hadn't been unbounded?

[GswStorm3]

Finch should have kept Gobert on the bench. He was bad on both ends and clogging up paint when ant tried to get to the rim.

[SFour]

I don't think anybody in the world had Mavs being up 3-0

I like both teams and have no rooting interest. Love Ant, love Luca, love Kyrie. Really wanted this to go 7 and never would've thought either team would be up 3-0.

I think most people still believe the teams are somewhat evenly matched....but when it comes to clutch time in a close game the Mavs have Doncic and Kyrie, it's not even close.

[rickxdel]

Boston vs Dal will be interesting

Boston's problem is that they play with their food and don't take over games when they are the better team

Doing that to a Dallas team with the 2 most clutch players in the league will spell trouble

Battle of greater team vs greater closers

[AussieCeltic]

Who will be ready for the FInals? Lively who had a grade 3 concussion and neck injury or Softzingis who had a strained calf a month ago. My money is on the former

Finals doesnt start for 11 days. Both should be fine by then, but if one was gonna be out, it's probably Porzingis. Calf strains can be trouble

Will be close to 6 weeks by out by the time the finals start. I think he’ll be back by then.

[Yuri36]

What does this say about Denver if Dallas sweeps the Wolves?

That matchups matter!

If Lakers played the Thunder in the 1st round
They would've beat them & went 7 games with Mavs

If Mavs played Denver 1st round they might've lost to the Nuggets in 6-7 Games

I really don't see how.
Dallas with lively and Gafford are at least as intimidating inside as Minny and Denver have even less quality than Minny in term of perimeters defenders who can annoy Luka and Kyrie.

If you watched the last game between Dallas and Denver, you saw Dallas beating Denver despite a terrible shooting night but taking nothing less than 20 more rebounds than Denver (Joker even said after the game that Denver were a small ball team comparing to Dallas)

[ArksNetsSince99]

lol Luka and Kyrie went from they cant play together to almost sneaking their way to the finals.

You’re wrong , they not sneaking anywhere , they gonna win the whole thing

[WuTang_CMB]

Read on Twitter

[Rainwater]

Minny need some roster changes. Edwards is the only one out there capable of making plays.

Boston vs Dallas will be fun!

These playoffs have lowkey been trash outside of like 1-2 series. Bunch of sweeps and blowouts.

There’s been nothing trash about this year’s playoffs.

If you are a Boston fan maybe lol

These playoffs have been great, lol.

[Nate505]

I've been defending Gobert a ton because I thought he's taken way too much unjust criticism, but he was pretty lousy tonight. Granted, KAT was way worse, but still, this was the sort of game to show some pride and he didn't.

[Riverwalk2021]

Donic has a chance to become the #1 player in the world if he beats the Celtics in the Finals. He will need to be all-time great which I think he is more than capable of pulling off.