2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1: Thursday June 6th)

[Doranku]

Kyrie is 1-10 vs. Celtics since leaving Boston, with no wins in Boston.

C's have beaten the Mavs in 4 straight games the past 2 seasons.

In this season's 2 wins over Dallas, Tatum was the leading scorer with 39 points.

KP missed one of the 2 wins over Dallas this year. Luka and Kyrie played in both.

That counts for almost nothing, Celtics have yet to face a Dallas team with the Luka-Kyrie-Gafford-PJ-Lively lineup.
You well know Dallas are an entirely different team since the Gafford-PJ trade....in fact the best in the NBA since that trade.

All of those players were on Dallas and played in Boston's March 1st 138-110 trouncing of the Mavs, despite a triple double from Luka.

Boston shot 21/43 from 3. Good luck replicating that.

[Oscar9992]

Luka/Brown/Tatum will show up.

Porzingis will be the x-factor.

Holiday/Kyrie matchup will be one to watch.

Knowing Porzi well, I think he may damage his own team than his opposition. I wouldn't trust him at all.

Horford is the man for me.

[Triple7]

Luka with a triple dub 37pts. Kyrie played well. lively, washington all played better than their average, and still got blown out. If we shoot well, and KP is healthy enough, this won’t even be close. Lol.

Luck at the 2 names at the bottom of this moronic screen shot you shared. If you haven’t been watching the Mavs just say that.

Lol. Salty salty haha

[ajones9219]

Hilarious that one RS game means Boston is going to smoke Dallas and Dallas winning 3 series in convincing fashion against very good teams is meaningless.

We aren't getting the best and the brightest of arguments tonight lol.

So you're arguing that head to head is less valuable as a point of comparison to the Mavs vs random other teams?

Got it

Boston has beaten the Mavs 4 times in the past 2 season btw, it isn't one game.

[Oscar9992]

Hilarious that one RS game means Boston is going to smoke Dallas and Dallas winning 3 series in convincing fashion against very good teams is meaningless.

We aren't getting the best and the brightest of arguments tonight lol.

Wolves were 3-1 against Mavericks in RS & look what happened to them

[ajones9219]

That counts for almost nothing, Celtics have yet to face a Dallas team with the Luka-Kyrie-Gafford-PJ-Lively lineup.
You well know Dallas are an entirely different team since the Gafford-PJ trade....in fact the best in the NBA since that trade.

All of those players were on Dallas and played in Boston's March 1st 138-110 trouncing of the Mavs, despite a triple double from Luka.

Boston shot 21/43 from 3. Good luck replicating that.

They are the best 3pt shooting team in the league...This isn't the Lakers we are talking about

[Oscar9992]

Hilarious that one RS game means Boston is going to smoke Dallas and Dallas winning 3 series in convincing fashion against very good teams is meaningless.

We aren't getting the best and the brightest of arguments tonight lol.

So you're arguing that head to head is less valuable as a point of comparison to the Mavs vs random other teams?

Got it

Boston has beaten the Mavs 4 times in the past 2 season btw, it isn't one game.

RS record doesn't matter much. Wolves were 3-1 against Mavs in RS.

[Yuri36]

Tatum and Brown is one of the most unstoppable offensive duos of all time with an elite supporting cast. Can they get it done? I hope not !!

lol seriously?
You must have confunded with the Mavs duo.
At least you could have tried to make it sound a tad bit more credible if you had said "the most unstoppable two ways duo of all time"

[Oscar9992]

Chuck betted on Celtics

It's game over I think. Curse is real.

[Green89]

Didn't know the Finals were played in MArch. Well congrats Boston.

It's only being brought up because someone said they never saw this current version of the Mavs since their trade.

[ajones9219]

Hilarious that one RS game means Boston is going to smoke Dallas and Dallas winning 3 series in convincing fashion against very good teams is meaningless.

We aren't getting the best and the brightest of arguments tonight lol.

Wolves were 3-1 against Mavericks in RS & look what happened to them

Okay so we can't compare H2H apparently....let's compare playoff stats, which Boston is clearly better....oh wait apparently we aren't allowed to compare those either since Mavs fans are saying they don't count.

So apparently just pick whichever team you like and let's roll.

[JJtheBricklayer]

Boston Celtics have better roster & starting 5 overall and obviously a favourites over Mavs in upcoming Finals.

But if Celtics play they played against Pacers they might lose. Mavs are red hot right now with motivated Kyrie, healing up & rested Luka and twin towers in Lively/Gafford.

Hey Mavs are a great team and played well, especially vs OKC. But those timberwolves played horrific (and this is definitely partly because of great Mavs D) but the Cs arent gonna be trotting out a bunch of non shooters like gobert and Anderson letting you guys pack the paint.

Lukas gonna eat no doubt, but Kyrie has played absolutely shook the last 10 or so games vs Boston.


Gonna be a great series I hope, but honestly who knows, Tatum could roll his ankle 2 mins in like vs miami last year and it could be Dallas in 4

[ArksNetsSince99]

Hilarious that one RS game means Boston is going to smoke Dallas and Dallas winning 3 series in convincing fashion against very good teams is meaningless.

We aren't getting the best and the brightest of arguments tonight lol.

Wolves were 3-1 against Mavericks in RS & look what happened to them

[Oscar9992]

Charles Barkley just predicted that Celtics will win the Finals.

That's a bad luck for Celtics! Cause it's usually otherwise.

[Texas Chuck]

Hilarious that one RS game means Boston is going to smoke Dallas and Dallas winning 3 series in convincing fashion against very good teams is meaningless.

We aren't getting the best and the brightest of arguments tonight lol.

So you're arguing that head to head is less valuable as a point of comparison to the Mavs vs random other teams?

Got it

Boston has beaten the Mavs 4 times in the past 2 season btw, it isn't one game.

I'm not the one saying stupid things my good man--I'm just laughing at the stupid things being said.

I think this is a brand new series and all information about how they matchup and in what form they are in is relevant. But no I don't believe one h2h matchup tells me more than how both teams have played since then. Sorry.

[Grinditout]

Even the most optimistic Boston fans have to admit that recent playoff games are more meaningful that regular season games weeks ago. Fwiw I still probably have Boston in 6-7. The series going long favors Boston.

[Triple7]

Hilarious that one RS game means Boston is going to smoke Dallas and Dallas winning 3 series in convincing fashion against very good teams is meaningless.

We aren't getting the best and the brightest of arguments tonight lol.

So you're arguing that head to head is less valuable as a point of comparison to the Mavs vs random other teams?

Got it

Boston has beaten the Mavs 4 times in the past 2 season btw, it isn't one game.

RS record doesn't matter much. Wolves were 3-1 against Mavs in RS.

Ah yup. But 2 of those games was before the trade deadline, and you were starting powell and hardaway lol.

[Dmavs12]

Here we ago again with that “you’ll find out soon” BS. Had 30 pages of that crap with Minnesota. Celtics are a great team, but that 4th quarter comeback **** against the Pacers isn’t going fly here.

[GrandTheftRondo]

Not sure what people have been watching all year if they think the Celtics reason for losing will be rebounding.

If they are to lose it will come down to Luka torching us in the pick and roll

[Texas Chuck]

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So apparently just pick whichever team you like and let's roll.

Yes we have long ago caught on to your approach. You didn';t have to spell it out for us I assure you.