RS 22/23 - Mavs vs Warriors (Wednesday, 7:30PM EST)

[Mavrelous]

Shut Luka and Kyrie down and fold the season.
Luck is winning some and losing some, Mavs can't defend, or execute down the stretch.
They tried with the Kyrie trade, it didn't work, if the Mavs continue losing they will be able to keep their pick this draft, which will be more helpful for the quick rebuild they need to do.

[XTraderXL]

But Luka didn't have 50 and yet again had a no show in crunch moment. Sure no one can hit game winner every single game. But Luka's decision making has been terrible in crunch moment. Look at the last play by Warriors, Curry had a lay up for the game winner. He didn't just settle on his 3s. Luke on the other hand is all about launching prayer 3s and he did it again today. He can easily tell Wood I will create for you and you go with the finish coz they can't guard you, and he didn't. Wood was like **** why did you pass it to me and returned the ball and the rest is another prayer 3. All teams in the league has figured out Luka's crunch moment decision, that's why there's no more Luka magic to save us.

What game did you watch? He was doubled above the 3pt line, passed to Wood who was completely open at the FT but instead of going for a shot started spinning around for some weird reason. After he passed it back, Luka had 2 guys on him and almost no seconds left to shoot.

You and that other dude are just making **** up at this point.

Mavs more or less lost this game on bad rebounds and letting yet another team score at will under the rim. They lost to a team that shot 31% from 3 on a high volume. It's really not that difficult to put 2 and 2 together.

Your hero is leading his team to play in. And thats if the Mavs get lucky. It is quite possible they wont even be in the play in. Its honestly pathetic, just like Lukas play in the clutch. I know it must be tough for you

[Archx]

What game did you watch? He was doubled above the 3pt line, passed to Wood who was completely open at the FT but instead of going for a shot started spinning around for some weird reason. After he passed it back, Luka had 2 guys on him and almost no seconds left to shoot.

You and that other dude are just making **** up at this point.

Mavs more or less lost this game on bad rebounds and letting yet another team score at will under the rim. They lost to a team that shot 31% from 3 on a high volume. It's really not that difficult to put 2 and 2 together.

Your hero is leading his team to play in. And thats if the Mavs get lucky. It is quite possible they wont even be in the play in. Its honestly pathetic, just like Lukas play in the clutch. I know it must be tough for you

Heh, i know you're enjoying when Mavs lose. It's just interesting you're celebrating in Mavs forums.

[Bob8]

But Luka didn't have 50 and yet again had a no show in crunch moment. Sure no one can hit game winner every single game. But Luka's decision making has been terrible in crunch moment. Look at the last play by Warriors, Curry had a lay up for the game winner. He didn't just settle on his 3s. Luke on the other hand is all about launching prayer 3s and he did it again today. He can easily tell Wood I will create for you and you go with the finish coz they can't guard you, and he didn't. Wood was like **** why did you pass it to me and returned the ball and the rest is another prayer 3. All teams in the league has figured out Luka's crunch moment decision, that's why there's no more Luka magic to save us.

What game did you watch? He was doubled above the 3pt line, passed to Wood who was completely open at the FT but instead of going for a shot started spinning around for some weird reason. After he passed it back, Luka had 2 guys on him and almost no seconds left to shoot.

You and that other dude are just making **** up at this point.

Mavs more or less lost this game on bad rebounds and letting yet another team score at will under the rim. They lost to a team that shot 31% from 3 on a high volume. It's really not that difficult to put 2 and 2 together.

Your hero is leading his team to play in. And thats if the Mavs get lucky. It is quite possible they wont even be in the play in. Its honestly pathetic, just like Lukas play in the clutch. I know it must be tough for you

If I understand you right, you're watching those games few hours past midnight just to enjoy Luka and Mavs losing?

[Ni Da Ye]

There you go. You said it. The sequence was Luka was doubled and Wood was open and Luka got the ball to Wood. And Wood was scared or hesitated at the moment and didn't even try to score. So we did watch the same game.

Luka should have yelled to Wood. Finish it after Wood received the ball or even communicated to Wood during the timeout that hey I want you to score if you are open sort of thing.

That's not what you first said. You said his decision was terrible and he shouldn't have forced the 3. You also said he basically left Wood in a bad position because he passed the ball to him.

In fact...

In that specific play, Luka did everything right. He went to the side, created space, drew 2 guys on him, passed the ball to an completely open player. If he then needs to further direct traffic and tell people what to do, then this team is even more screwed than we thought.

It's not worth. He doesn't understand much about basketball.

You do know i can easily say the same thing about you, time to sleep son.

[41Dirk41]

The Luka/Irving debate is useless as long Powell and Kleber are our starter bigs... At least a lot of guys are happy when we lose. Good for you.

Hardy is already better than THJ, but will be hard dump Timmy this summer. Nearly impossible.

[ACMFFL]

Guys don't feed that XL troll, just ignore him.

[Teffer10]

The Luka/Irving debate is useless as long Powell and Kleber are our starter bigs... At least a lot of guys are happy when we lose. Good for you.

Hardy is already better than THJ, but will be hard dump Timmy this summer. Nearly impossible.

Agree....it was almost criminal for Cuban and Nico to make a huge trade for Kyrie 5 days before the TDL and then do absolutely nothing to improve the frontcourt over the next few days.

Kidd clamors for Nico to sign a center like McGee and then declares him a starter. McGee couldn't deliver so they revert to Powell.
So why in the hell didnt they find a viable replacement for McGee if the plan was to improve the frontcourt from last season?

[dirkules_41]

The Luka/Irving debate is useless as long Powell and Kleber are our starter bigs... At least a lot of guys are happy when we lose. Good for you.

Hardy is already better than THJ, but will be hard dump Timmy this summer. Nearly impossible.

I +1d for the first part. Dumping THJ won't be overly hard though.

[dirkules_41]

Shut Luka and Kyrie down and fold the season.
Luck is winning some and losing some, Mavs can't defend, or execute down the stretch.
They tried with the Kyrie trade, it didn't work, if the Mavs continue losing they will be able to keep their pick this draft, which will be more helpful for the quick rebuild they need to do.

The trade can still pay off massively and I'm still a firm believer in it BUT I'm 100% with you about the concerns for the rest of this season. Just far too glaring needs at the 4/5 to be competitive.

[Mavrelous]

I wanted Luka suspended and fined for the money gesture in the end, Cuban and Kidd can't control him, the league should.
It was a blatant missed call, like the Looney jersey pull, but Hardy got a phantom call before it, and Green bumped that scrub to the ground and took the ball from him.
He's alienating the refs, and it's not working in his favour.

[XTraderXL]

Guys don't feed that XL troll, just ignore him.

How is it trolling if 90% of my predictions are correct?

You all are just pissed off I am right. Mavs will never win anything with Luka as their #1. He hasnt won anything in 5 years as the #1 guy. And when he did, they had by far the best team in Euroleague plus he was being coached. Now he is allowed to do whatever he wants, is fat and cant play defense and spoiled rotten. He was none of those things back then. He is not the golden boy anymore, time to admit that.

If the Mavs are ok with just getting to playoffs in the next 5-10 years and maybe repeat last season once or twice then Luka is your guy. If their goal is the Championship they should get rid of him and start building something new. I would offer him to whoever wins gets the #1 pick this year. Maybe Pop, who is losing it, will trade it for Luka if the Spurs get the pick.

[Bob8]

Guys don't feed that XL troll, just ignore him.

How is it trolling if 90% of my predictions are correct?

You all are just pissed off I am right. Mavs will never win anything with Luka as their #1. He hasnt won anything in 5 years as the #1 guy. And when he did, they had by far the best team in Euroleague plus he was being coached. Now he is allowed to do whatever he wants, is fat and cant play defense and spoiled rotten. He was none of those things back then. He is not the golden boy anymore, time to admit that.

If the Mavs are ok with just getting to playoffs in the next 5-10 years and maybe repeat last season once or twice then Luka is your guy. If their goal is the Championship they should get rid of him and start building something new. I would offer him to whoever wins gets the #1 pick this year. Maybe Pop, who is losing it, will trade it for Luka if the Spurs get the pick.

How many players have won something being number 1 option in their first 5 seasons?

Wembanyama is the biggest hype ever, nobody is trading away #1 pick this year. And I doubt very much that he will ever meet those crazy expectations.

Which predictions?

In some ways I agree with you, Mavs will need to decide what kind of team they want to have. You just can't have open freeway to the basket like they have this season. If you have Luka and Kyrie, you need 3 very good defensive players beside them. Playing what they're playing now is futile.

[Archx]

The Luka/Irving debate is useless as long Powell and Kleber are our starter bigs... At least a lot of guys are happy when we lose. Good for you.

Hardy is already better than THJ, but will be hard dump Timmy this summer. Nearly impossible.

This is spot on. I kinda didn't like the Kyrie trade and i'm still 50/50 on it. But Kyrie does play really good when he actually plays. So right now they have 2 problems. Can Kyrie be healthy enough to stay on the floor or is this going to be another frustrating KP-like run from him?

And another issue is, why did they chase another ballhandler when they had Hardy RIGHT THERE entire year but chose to go with Frank even though they saw it's not working out. So instead of developing talent and actually trade for a defensive wing or a proper center, they gambled and traded for Kyrie. Their depth was kinda already thin but it's even thinner without Dinwiddie and DFS, specially when Kyrie doesn't even play.

I do understand why they did it and like i said, he does look really good on the floor it's just that injuries are a huge problem with him and center issue hasn't been resolved for the past 5 years now.

[leolozon]

Did anyone on the team explain why they weren’t there after the time out? I can understand that they thought it was their ball, I can’t understand why they were under the wrong basket. Something is missing.

[Speadge]

Of course. Luka comes back, Dallas loses. ... I predicted this and was proven right again.

There seems to be something wrong with your memory. You "predicted" this regarding previous game against Grizzlies. Luka then wasn't back, but Irving was, and they lost the game anyway.
You struggle way too much with this your Luka thingy. First signs of dementia?

[Archx]

Did anyone on the team explain why they weren’t there after the time out? I can understand that they thought it was their ball, I can’t understand why they were under the wrong basket. Something is missing.

Because even arena announcer said it's Mavs ball. And even 1 ref was with the Mavs on the wrong side. If you look closely, there are only 2 refs on the right side of the floor. There had to be some kind of miscommunication even if the ref did signal it was GSW ball.

Someone could have also just told Mavs, it's not their ball they should go and defend or whatever... Unless they thought they are inbounding on the opposite side.

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[ACMFFL]

Guys don't feed that XL troll, just ignore him.

How is it trolling if 90% of my predictions are correct?

You all are just pissed off I am right. Mavs will never win anything with Luka as their #1. He hasnt won anything in 5 years as the #1 guy. And when he did, they had by far the best team in Euroleague plus he was being coached. Now he is allowed to do whatever he wants, is fat and cant play defense and spoiled rotten. He was none of those things back then. He is not the golden boy anymore, time to admit that.

If the Mavs are ok with just getting to playoffs in the next 5-10 years and maybe repeat last season once or twice then Luka is your guy. If their goal is the Championship they should get rid of him and start building something new. I would offer him to whoever wins gets the #1 pick this year. Maybe Pop, who is losing it, will trade it for Luka if the Spurs get the pick.

Dude a real fan would never eeever root against his own team or enjoy seeing them lose just because he hates a player. But a troll would, sir.

Following your "reasoning" Philly should trade Embiid ass as soon as possible cause hey he's 29 and he never passed the 2nd round.

And yeah, let's pretend a 24 years old player can't improve his game and body anymore.

[Archx]

There seems to be something wrong with your memory. You "predicted" this regarding previous game against Grizzlies.

It's weird he wasn't doing those predictions when Luka was bailing them out and they still had a winning record before it all went to **** with injuries and bad coaching decisions. And now thinks he's a genius because Mavs barely lost to a full GSW squad without Kyrie and THJ. We have a real Nostradamus here.

[Ni Da Ye]

Shut Luka and Kyrie down and fold the season.
Luck is winning some and losing some, Mavs can't defend, or execute down the stretch.
They tried with the Kyrie trade, it didn't work, if the Mavs continue losing they will be able to keep their pick this draft, which will be more helpful for the quick rebuild they need to do.

This. +100000