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

[Papi_swav]

lets go Mavs pull off this epic come back

[ky_23]

boston about to find their rhythm again. we've seen it million times. but good effort from dallas.

[Dubnation]

I definitely prefer the slowed down game to the boring spamming of 3s lol

Good coaching. It's obvious coming out at the half the mission was to slow the game down.

[UNCBlue012]

Bad offense translates to bad defense. Boston has to get over the misses and get back in transition, that’s really the issue.

[GSWFan1994]

Amazing how Doris Burke only speaks in platitudes.

What do you mean by that?

I mean, she speaks obvious things, without saying anything of substance.

Like, "look there, the sky is blue, behold the wonders of the universe".

[JustBuzzin]

Luka with the fake injuries again lol

He's gonna cook in game 2 and we will discuss nothing about his injuries.

Damn man both fan bases are coming for you

Im a good guy tho.

[SerialChiller]

Man this should be too easy for Tatum and Brown. If they fail to go get what's right in front of them with everything going their way all at the right time this year they never will. I don't think they can manage to lose this but if they do it will be a legendary failure.

[mademan]

Mavs playing with House Money right now. If the Celtics lose this, it's going to be very difficult to bounce back.

Boston isnt supposed to lose this series, ESPN commentators notwithstanding. Dallas was always playing with house money as a team nobody thought would make the finals. Losing game 1 like this might break the C's tho

[Mk0]

Celtics chucking 3’s left and right and bricking all of them. Terrible basketball. And playing right into the Mavs’ hands. They’re serving up this game to Dallas on a silver platter right now.

It is what they have done all year. It is like if you watched the Warriors Dynasty and the only lesson you took from it was "shoot 3s"

Hit some god damn mid range jumpers, be a threat from all areas of the court. KP was doing it early.

[DavidSterned]

70% of Boston's shots this quarter are 3s, and 63% overall in the game.

Live by the 3 and die by the 3. Maybe learn how to generate some other type of offense....

[BeiBeau]

Dallas was always going to make a run. Boston has to survive it.

Most of all, KP couldn't have seriously continued to play at that level.
That's mostly what made the first half a blowout for Celtics

Some of those 3s in the first half were crazy though. And I think Dallas not conceding the switches to KP is important. Force him to post up Lively, Luka, PJ, or Maxi.

[durden_tyler]

We have a game.

Win or lose, this is going to be huge for the Mavs.

First time of the season they are hurting Boston.

This is oh so true. They might lose this game but they are gaining the confidence for the rest of the series. Blame Boston for playing without sense of urgency this third quarter.

[VFX]

People still haven’t learned that you can’t count out any team with Kyrie Irving in a 4th quarter and Luka going on a shooting streak.

[azcatz11]

Amazing how Doris Burke only speaks in platitudes.

What do you mean by that?

I mean, she speaks obvious things, without saying anything of substance.

Like, "look there, the sky is blue, behold the wonders of the universe".

Completely agree with you. Have you ever heard her on a podcast by chance?

[F N 11]

They put Houser out there wow

[CelticSooner]

Did you see how easy Brown went by Luka lol

[SerialChiller]

Luka Magic!

[___Rand___]

Make Luka work on defense. I like that.

[azcatz11]

Doris continues to make excuses for Tatum

[HoopsterJones]

Lively’s kind of hurting the Mavs right now.