2024 NBA Playoffs - West 1st Round: #4 Los Angeles Clippers vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (DAL WINS 4-2)
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Re: 2024 NBA Playoffs - West 1st Round: #4 Los Angeles Clippers vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (DAL leads 2-1)
Gotta sit Kawhi at this point and go back to how the offense was running in game one. Don't win on Sunday, the 213 Era will be on life support.
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ChipotleWest wrote:NBA4Lyfe wrote:please nba suspend westbrick please adam silver
Stop trying to give the Clippers an advantage.
We dying for some Bones Hyland minutes right about now.
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ChipotleWest wrote:LaLover11 wrote:Did Paul George only score 7 points?
Clippers trade SGA and a thousand picks for Paul George.
Kawhi totally nuked that team by demanding Paul George. I’d be so fed up with those two if I were a Clippers fan. Gave away an MVP finalist AND picks.
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ChipotleWest wrote:Branduil wrote:Doranku wrote:The people involved with drafting Lively & facilitating the trade for Gafford need a FAT bonus this year.
PJ Washington too. They obviously saw something in his defensive potential that no one else did.
Thanks to a combination of Nico Harrison a guy who left Nike and had no GM experience, and now looks like a damn good GM and Cuban selling the majority ownership and being stripped of control of trades. Those trades happened almost immediately after the power shift.
Mavs hired Dennis Lindsey. Since he has been around the team the Mavs nail the draft (Lively). Signed high value role players on vet min deals (DJJ, Exum). Add two starters in deadline trades (Washington, Gafford).
Five of their top 8-9 rotation players added within the last 10-12 month.
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People have been talking a lot about Kawhi's fitness or Westbrook's craziness but actually, the real deep story of this série so far is that the Mavs are winning despite Luka having possibly the worst PO série of his career so far (or let's perhaps rather say his least shining one) and Kyrie having a relatively average one especially comparing to the level he showed in the last few months.
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Best not mess with huh...
Tough.
Tough.
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Don't recognize this kind of Mavs team but I sure love watching a team defend like this for 48 minutes and the hustle to loose balls and PJ Washington just clowning multiple Clippers was just the cherry on top. Mann and Westbrook trying to be all like we bad we bad, and he just turned away from Mann like you got nothing and just laughing at Russ.
Fake tough versus real tough. Westbrook and Mann wanted to chirp chirp chirp and Washington knew they wanted nothing more lol.
And the centers showing up was so nice. Lively the lob threat thats been missing and Gafford protecting the paint. That block on the PG dunk attempt.....
Fake tough versus real tough. Westbrook and Mann wanted to chirp chirp chirp and Washington knew they wanted nothing more lol.
And the centers showing up was so nice. Lively the lob threat thats been missing and Gafford protecting the paint. That block on the PG dunk attempt.....
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It’s weird to think that Kawhi and PG have been with the Clippers almost as long as CP3 and Blake were. They had Lob City for 6 seasons, this is the 5th season with Kawhi and PG. This whole run with them has felt weird since Kawhi has missed so much time.
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What kind of contract does PG get this offseason?
He is 33 and already showing signs of declining.
He is 33 and already showing signs of declining.
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I said after last game that if Gafford could get back on track the Mavs would become dangerous again. He had 3 points and 1 rebound in the first two games combined. Him and Lively bringing the dunks back to the Mavs offense opened things up for them enough they were even able to survive a bad game by Luka.
PJ Washington was really sassy in this game. His first tech:
Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon)
P.J. Washington told me that Terrance Mann “was mad that I was looking at their bench, so I decided to look at it again.”
On holding the pose: “I wanted to get my flicks right for after the game.”
PJ Washington was really sassy in this game. His first tech:
Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon)
P.J. Washington told me that Terrance Mann “was mad that I was looking at their bench, so I decided to look at it again.”
On holding the pose: “I wanted to get my flicks right for after the game.”
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Wolfgang630 wrote:Luka 25 shots for 22 points. As long as Denver can get past Phoenix or Minnesota they’ll have no problem with this team.
What in the world does Luka's shooting in one game have to do with a series against Denver?
If anything, the Mavs proved they can win now without Luka going nuclear.
Clippers can defend Luka better than Nuggets.
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what are the chances Kawhi is getting shut down, he doesn't even look 40% of himself.
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KGDirkTD_Fan wrote:what are the chances Kawhi is getting shut down, he doesn't even look 40% of himself.
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He looked much much better in game 2, he was great defensively, and was OK offensively except for an off jumper which could've been written off as rust.
Today he was just bad, on both ends.
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Clemenza wrote:ChipotleWest wrote:NBA4Lyfe wrote:please nba suspend westbrick please adam silver
Stop trying to give the Clippers an advantage.
We dying for some Bones Hyland minutes right about now.
cmon bro. its not THAT bad
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Mavrelous wrote:KGDirkTD_Fan wrote:what are the chances Kawhi is getting shut down, he doesn't even look 40% of himself.
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He looked much much better in game 2, he was great defensively, and was OK offensively except for an off jumper which could've been written off as rust.
Today he was just bad, on both ends.
really? i dont remember thinking he was moving that well in game 2. i thought he was just getting his basketball legs under him, but i dont recall ever thinking he got over the hump. am i misremembering?
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SK21209 wrote:It’s weird to think that Kawhi and PG have been with the Clippers almost as long as CP3 and Blake were. They had Lob City for 6 seasons, this is the 5th season with Kawhi and PG. This whole run with them has felt weird since Kawhi has missed so much time.
degenerative knee issues dont get better with age. not trying to be mean, its just a fact. he needs to be on a team where he can take 35 games off, while the team still wins most of those games, and then wish on a star that he can be healthy in the post season. if all those conditions arent met, we're gonna keep getting the same results
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ryguy613 wrote:SK21209 wrote:It’s weird to think that Kawhi and PG have been with the Clippers almost as long as CP3 and Blake were. They had Lob City for 6 seasons, this is the 5th season with Kawhi and PG. This whole run with them has felt weird since Kawhi has missed so much time.
degenerative knee issues dont get better with age. not trying to be mean, its just a fact. he needs to be on a team where he can take 35 games off, while the team still wins most of those games, and then wish on a star that he can be healthy in the post season. if all those conditions arent met, we're gonna keep getting the same results
So true, which makes it so dumb that they added Kawhi to the Olympic team.
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ryguy613 wrote:Mavrelous wrote:KGDirkTD_Fan wrote:what are the chances Kawhi is getting shut down, he doesn't even look 40% of himself.
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He looked much much better in game 2, he was great defensively, and was OK offensively except for an off jumper which could've been written off as rust.
Today he was just bad, on both ends.
really? i dont remember thinking he was moving that well in game 2. i thought he was just getting his basketball legs under him, but i dont recall ever thinking he got over the hump. am i misremembering?
He had 2 plays where he couldn't shake Luka off, and went 0-5 from 3, and it stuck out, but he was much better than this game, especially defensively.
blicka wrote:Can't wait to see doncic on an island vs jimmy butler,paul george or kahwi leonard and those weak ass moves that work in europe getting shut down
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How strong is Luka??
Because the guy was bullying Kawhi tonight on the block.
Because the guy was bullying Kawhi tonight on the block.