Western Conference | Round 2 | (1) Phoenix Suns vs. (4) Dallas Mavericks (MAVS WIN 4-3)

[_qubik]

Suns turning into Utah 2.0, great regular season, good team play, go deep in the playoff, and poop the pants when they need to win. You still need a star to put you over the top when defenses gameplan against you in a tight series, but CP3 and Booker aint it

[ACMFFL]

Warriors might sweep the Mavs. Mavs got no bigs, that's like the best case scenario for them. Only teams that could beat the GSW are Bucks (if healthy) and Celtics (due to Horford and Williams)

Yep, I heard and read the same exact thing everywhere even before the Mavs-Suns series began, and then.. Keep on underestimating the Mavs

[ShazamDaShiznt]

Warriors might sweep the Mavs. Mavs got no bigs, that's like the best case scenario for them. Only teams that could beat the GSW are Bucks (if healthy) and Celtics (due to Horford and Williams)

Because bigs proved to be essential in playoffs?

They will be essential if you want to beat Golden State. That's their clear weakness. You're not gonna outshoot the Warriors.

[Bob8]

Warriors might sweep the Mavs. Mavs got no bigs, that's like the best case scenario for them. Only teams that could beat the GSW are Bucks (if healthy) and Celtics (due to Horford and Williams)

Because bigs proved to be essential in playoffs?

They will be essential if you want to beat Golden State. That's their clear weakness. You're not gonna outshoot the Warriors.

Nobody wants to outshoot Warriors. Mavs are playing the slowest pace for a reason. They will make the game as slow as possible and try to play D like in first 2 series. Utah was the best offensive team in RS and Suns were 5th.

[ShazamDaShiznt]

Warriors will sweep the Mavs the same way the Suns were supposed to sweep them? The Suns were far and away the worst matchup for the Mavs in the whole playoffs. Warriors will still be favs, but this is absolutely a better matchup for the Mavs than the Suns.

I said they might sweep the Mavs. Warriors are not a Chris Paul lead team. They have more experience, their core stayed together for a longer time. They know how to close out the series unlike Chris. I'd rather see the Mavs in the finals than GSW, but this is a re-run of 2015 playoffs when Chris team chokes and Warriors have an easy opponent in conference finals.

[Jkam31]

Warriors might sweep the Mavs. Mavs got no bigs, that's like the best case scenario for them. Only teams that could beat the GSW are Bucks (if healthy) and Celtics (due to Horford and Williams)

Because bigs proved to be essential in playoffs?

GSW doesn’t have a big either

[ShazamDaShiznt]

Warriors might sweep the Mavs. Mavs got no bigs, that's like the best case scenario for them. Only teams that could beat the GSW are Bucks (if healthy) and Celtics (due to Horford and Williams)

Because bigs proved to be essential in playoffs?

GSW doesn’t have a big either

Which is why your team needs a big when facing the Warriors, to exploit their weakness. Celtics may have a chance if they make the finals. Plus they got guard defenders great enough to defend Klay and Steph.

[Bob8]

Because bigs proved to be essential in playoffs?

GSW doesn’t have a big either

Which is why your team needs a big when facing the Warriors, to exploit their weakness. Celtics may have a chance if they make the finals. Plus they got guard defenders great enough to defend Klay and Steph.

What are you're talking about? Steph and Klay will be guarded by Bullock, DFS, Ntilikina. It's easier to guard them with small lineup.

[tripa]

If you really think the Mavs are going to beat the Warriors then recency bias is your daddy

[svart]

GSW doesn’t have a big either

Which is why your team needs a big when facing the Warriors, to exploit their weakness. Celtics may have a chance if they make the finals. Plus they got guard defenders great enough to defend Klay and Steph.

What are you're talking about? Steph and Klay will be guarded by Bullock, DFS, Ntilikina. It's easier to guard them with small lineup.

No it is not, the Grizz proved that. We also have OPJ, Poole, and the only thing that put us into trouble was the big line up with Stevie Adams aand JJJ. All this presuming our shots will fall, ofc. We are the kind of team that can beat anybody, but also can be beat by anybody any given night. So i am not as convinced we can beat you by default as others here. Both team have a chance, Mavs proved they are a good team, it would be a a mistake to underestimate luka and co.
Hope for a fun series, congrats to the mavs for kicking that ass CP3 from the play-offs, thank you for that.

[Bob8]

If you really think the Mavs are going to beat the Warriors then recency bias is your daddy

No, I heard Mavs will forfeit series. Warriors just too good.

[Freighttrain]

Can't find him anymore in my mentions, but I wonder where that guy was that was claiming Booker was as good as Tatum lmaoo

[Exp0sed]

Warriors might sweep the Mavs. Mavs got no bigs, that's like the best case scenario for them. Only teams that could beat the GSW are Bucks (if healthy) and Celtics (due to Horford and Williams)

Because bigs proved to be essential in playoffs?

GSW doesn’t have a big either

GSW doesn’t have a big either

Which is why your team needs a big when facing the Warriors, to exploit their weakness. Celtics may have a chance if they make the finals. Plus they got guard defenders great enough to defend Klay and Steph.

What are you're talking about? Steph and Klay will be guarded by Bullock, DFS, Ntilikina. It's easier to guard them with small lineup.

The real question to me is, can the Warriors generate enough reliable offense while playing 4 on 5 meaning - with Looney and to a much lesser extent Dray (cuz of his playmaking and occasional drive\open 3)

The Mavs have displayed amazing defense, Looney really takes away Powell's rebounding and can make it hard on lobs as well if he is able to stay home (which is very hard to do against Luka and kind of unlikely imo)

Without Looney the Warriors have a rebounding issue on both ends, giving many 2nd chance to the Mavs shooters isn't a sound plan.
Vs. Memphis they were able to get away with it, but they were also blown out it's not like they got away with it every game

Playing 4 on 5 works to some extent because of the splash bros\trio. On a diff team playing Looney would hurt more offensively

If the Mavs can contain them well enough on the perimeter, the spacing will be awful with Looney and Warriors elite shooters would need to consitently make some tough shots, which they are capable of hitting but ya know...maybe they won't

Warrios have been able to generate enough offense vs Memphis for the most part (wasn't easy and Curry and Klay aren't getting any younger) about the Mavs..we'll see

I wrote them off b4 the Suns series, not gonna make the same mistake again

[jsierra1985]

Complete a$$ whooping by the mavs....

best of luck the rest of the way to the mavs and there fanbase

[minami]

Suns turning into Utah 2.0

'Revenge' is a dish best served cold.

[fishfuego.]

Warriors might sweep the Mavs. Mavs got no bigs, that's like the best case scenario for them. Only teams that could beat the GSW are Bucks (if healthy) and Celtics (due to Horford and Williams)

Yep, I heard and read the same exact thing everywhere even before the Mavs-Suns series began, and then.. Keep on underestimating the Mavs

Or the Heat for that matter
Mavs vs Heat round 3?

[DrPampiloni]

Warriors might sweep the Mavs. Mavs got no bigs, that's like the best case scenario for them. Only teams that could beat the GSW are Bucks (if healthy) and Celtics (due to Horford and Williams)

Yep, I heard and read the same exact thing everywhere even before the Mavs-Suns series began, and then.. Keep on underestimating the Mavs

Or the Heat for that matter
Mavs vs Heat round 3?

Yes, please.

[nikster]

Yup, you don't have to tell me twice. Tell that to the Jokic stans.

Lmao at thinking that getting to the second round of the playoffs is an accomplishment. Jokic, like Luka now, has been to the conference finals. That's why Jokic is an MVP and Luka will be one before Embiid too. @ me once Embiid gets past the second round.

@me once anyone on the Raptors get's to Embiid's level.

Sure Embiid is better than anyone on the Raptors...hasn't really lead to any real success for you so who cares

[zshawn10]

Shoutout to you man, most Mavs fans (me included) didn't see them advancing, you called it from the get go, and doubled down when it was 2-0.

Wiggins has the quickness and the size to stay in front of him.
He guarded Morant if we talking about quickness, and he guarded in many occassions Jokic if we talk about strength.
Doncic has all the talent and the moves but I think Wiggins will stay close to him

You might check Luka’s performance against Warriors this year. It didn’t look that anyone was stopping him.

And the warriors just won two series with both of these teams winning their RS series 3-1

[BeatDaCavs420]

Pat Bev cooking CP3 on Get up and its entertaining lmao