2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (BOS leads 1-0)

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Who wins Game 1?

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81%
Mavericks
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19%
 
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#321 » by zimpy27 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

23-5 run in 6 minutes...

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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#322 » by robdog_5 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

I'm a celtics fan. We have some really bad stretches this isn't over in the slightest.
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#323 » by vado » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

Porzingus finals MVP?
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#324 » by ShotCreator » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

Impact stats have rated Porzingis out as the C's best player this year, so this shouldn't be too surprising.

He's a very low minutes, high stat rate guy.
Swinging for the fences.
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Post#325 » by Tyrone Messby » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

Porzingis looking like a future Wemby out there.
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#326 » by sikma42 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

meatball sub wrote:don't get too excited, celtics fans. the celtics still haven't played anyone yet in the playoffs.

Wouldn’t count your chickens quite yet


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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#327 » by 10DayContract » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

Hmmmmm....
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#328 » by Petergrifindor » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

Dallas defense experienced the exact problems I predicted .

They reached the Finals with great helps and clogging the paint. With Boston you can´t do that.
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#329 » by brackdan70 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:07 am

PhilBlackson wrote:Build around KP!! lol

He's been fantastic so far. Definitely wasn't expecting that from the last time we seen him in DAL.

I still think the series is a coin flip but damn maybe I'm wrong.

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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#330 » by AussieCeltic » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:08 am

I expect a Luka run this quarter
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Post#331 » by Lalouie » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:08 am

how can i not love kp when he wears a walton t-shirt to the game!!!
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#332 » by SerialChiller » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:08 am

The Celtics have 6 guys who are all legit above average starters and fit nicely together in their roles and positions and then 2 of them are actual stars with a third one in White or 4th one in KP that can legit outplay the 2 stars on any given night depending on matchups or rhythm.
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#333 » by EmpireFalls » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:08 am

It’s already over. This will be a short series
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#334 » by Jadoogar » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:08 am

Doranku wrote:Nothing but clowns and jokers on the Mavs bench outside of Lively. So hard to watch these guys try to do anything on the offensive end.
Way too much Jaden Hardy

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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#335 » by MindState » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:08 am

Mak wrote:Crazy qtr by KP. All over the placer. Celtics have so many very good players + 2 all nba players. Early overreaction this is over in 5.


I would not be shocked if Celtics got in a rut and Mavs came back or at least made it close.


Celtics have 5 max players on their roster lol. They figured it out. As long as they keep paying the crazy high tax bill, they can dominate the league for awhile. No other team has close to the amount of talent. Apparently the new CBA was build to try and stop super teams, but the Celtics have legit 5 max, or near max players. Its gonna be interesting how it plays out for them in the future.
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#336 » by 10DayContract » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:08 am

Lol Kyrie unfazed.
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#337 » by AussieCeltic » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:08 am

Non Tatum/KP mins key
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#338 » by SportsGuru08 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:09 am

Terrible ending to the first for Dallas. Let's see how they respond
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#339 » by azcatz11 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:09 am

Boston is getting every rebound.
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Re: 2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (Game 1 tonight!) 

Post#340 » by r0drig0lac » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:09 am

Lively looking like a kid against a real two-way center.

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