2024 NBA FINALS: #1 Boston Celtics vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (BOS leads 2-0)

[chrisab123]

This is the media's fault. They relentlessly hyped Kyrie Iving coming in to the Finals and thus doomed him to mediocrity. The media is generally wrong about everything.

You had talking heads like Nick Wright empathetically pick Dallas in 5. Media disrespect probably pissed off some of the guys on the Celtics and it shows. .

Shout out to the Bucks for trading the Blazers Holiday and to Billy King for The Trade.

[brackdan70]

Hey, look at that. The Celtics may actually be the best team in the leage by a significant margin. Who knew?

I mean, those of us in the East absolutely knew how good the Celtics were. It's not a surprise for us. But all we heard this year was "the East is weak" and "Celtics are paper tigers". Oh well.

About the only "weakness" Boston has is its bench, and that can be masked to some degree in the playoffs where starters tend to play ~36-40mpg.

If you look at the actual results this bench is pretty solid. Horford/Hauser/Pritchard is not a weak bench

[Ben-N1ce]

Dont get why anbody is surprised if both Luka and Kyrie don't crazy they can't compete? People picking the Mavs just where using blind faith in those two and now they have 5 games to play specular in at least 4. When KP was good to go it tilted the series. Celtics have too many waves of productive players and they havent even been good on offense yet.

[The Corey's]

Dont get why anbody is surprised if both Luka and Kyrie don't crazy they can't compete? People picking the Mavs just where using blind faith in those two and now they have 5 games to play specular in at least 4. When KP was good to go it tilted the series. Celtics have too many waves of productive players and they havent even been good on offense yet.

They can both go off and still lose if they're not gonna play any defense.

How many games do they expect for Tatum to be that bad offensively? Dallas really should be taken advantage of games where Tatum isn't even attempting a shot for the first 15 minutes of the game.

The Mavs are playing ZERO defense across the board. It's awesome inspiring to witness.

[Bob8]

Dont get why anbody is surprised if both Luka and Kyrie don't crazy they can't compete? People picking the Mavs just where using blind faith in those two and now they have 5 games to play specular in at least 4. When KP was good to go it tilted the series. Celtics have too many waves of productive players and they havent even been good on offense yet.

They can both go off and still lose if they're not gonna play any defense.

How many games do they expect for Tatum to be that bad offensively? Dallas really should be taken advantage of games where Tatum isn't even attempting a shot for the first 15 minutes of the game.

The Mavs are playing ZERO defense across the board. It's awesome inspiring to witness.

The best offensive team of the league has incredible 112 offensive rtg playing against the worst 2 backcourt defenders.

The only reason they're 2:0 up is Mavs having disastrous 100 offensive rtg.

[Deivork]

Also, as they say, a series doesn't start until a team loses at home. But as a Celtics fan, obviously couldn't be happier with the two wins so far.

Yep, so if the Cs win in Dallas, as soon as the series start, it'll be over (0-3)

[itrsteve]

The Mavs are playing ZERO defense across the board. It's awesome inspiring to witness.

I wouldn't say that, they're definitely loading up on Tatum

[Bob8]

The Mavs are playing ZERO defense across the board. It's awesome inspiring to witness.

I wouldn't say that, they're definitely loading up on Tatum

Mavs are not loading up on Tatum, they're just clogging the paint. Tatum without midrange game can't do much. They have played the same D against OKC, but Shai just being that much better player.

[The Corey's]

Dont get why anbody is surprised if both Luka and Kyrie don't crazy they can't compete? People picking the Mavs just where using blind faith in those two and now they have 5 games to play specular in at least 4. When KP was good to go it tilted the series. Celtics have too many waves of productive players and they havent even been good on offense yet.

They can both go off and still lose if they're not gonna play any defense.

How many games do they expect for Tatum to be that bad offensively? Dallas really should be taken advantage of games where Tatum isn't even attempting a shot for the first 15 minutes of the game.

The Mavs are playing ZERO defense across the board. It's awesome inspiring to witness.

The best offensive team of the league has incredible 112 offensive rtg playing against the worst 2 backcourt defenders.

The only reason they're 2:0 up is Mavs having disastrous 100 offensive rtg.

Celtics are the best offensive team in the league. They're up 2 to 0 because as Luka said, they're the best team in the planet and their defense is unreal.

I know it hurts you but when you troll from a losing position you only keep people from taking you seriously.

Mavs never had a chance. Anyone who watches basketball knew this.

[The Corey's]

The Mavs are playing ZERO defense across the board. It's awesome inspiring to witness.

I wouldn't say that, they're definitely loading up on Tatum

The Mavs defense sucks. Hard. Brown is running circles around every single one of them.

[Bob8]

They can both go off and still lose if they're not gonna play any defense.

How many games do they expect for Tatum to be that bad offensively? Dallas really should be taken advantage of games where Tatum isn't even attempting a shot for the first 15 minutes of the game.

The Mavs are playing ZERO defense across the board. It's awesome inspiring to witness.

The best offensive team of the league has incredible 112 offensive rtg playing against the worst 2 backcourt defenders.

The only reason they're 2:0 up is Mavs having disastrous 100 offensive rtg.

Celtics are the best offensive team in the league. They're up 2 to 0 because as Luka said, they're the best team in the planet and their defense is unreal.

I know it hurts you but when you troll from a losing position you only keep people from taking you seriously.

Mavs never had a chance. Anyone who watches basketball knew this.

Everyone who watches basketball knows that series is not over with 2:0.

[celtxman]

His idol

LOL. Kobe was terrible in Game 7 of 2010. That loss haunts me.

But, this is an IQ test for people. Tatum shot poorly, didn’t play poorly. There is a huge difference with that.

18, 12 and 9 with good defense is not nothing to sneeze at.


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Kobe had a bad Game 7. But he was WAY better than Tatum was this series. And it was a different era of basketball where scoring was harder.

Tatum has shot terribly. Right now he is the last of the top 6 Celtics I want to see shooting an outside shot. But there is a real comparison with Kobe here. I understand it is a little easier to score now than it was then. But Kobe went 6 for 24 in a tight Game 7, shot poorly throughout and refused to pass the ball. Tatum had 12 assists yesterday. WAY better? If Perkins doesn't get injured late in that series and the Lakers destroyed the Celtics in rebounding in the 2nd half of Game 7, Kobe's legacy takes a hit.

[The Corey's]

The best offensive team of the league has incredible 112 offensive rtg playing against the worst 2 backcourt defenders.

The only reason they're 2:0 up is Mavs having disastrous 100 offensive rtg.

Celtics are the best offensive team in the league. They're up 2 to 0 because as Luka said, they're the best team in the planet and their defense is unreal.

I know it hurts you but when you troll from a losing position you only keep people from taking you seriously.

Mavs never had a chance. Anyone who watches basketball knew this.

Everyone who watches basketball knows that series is not over with 2:0.

It's interesting the tone you're taking on the general board compared to the one you got on the Mavs board.

You know it's over. Just listen to Kidds post game pep talks. **** I thought Joe was bad.

Boston hasnt lost to the Mavs all year. 4 and 0. They haven't lost 4 out of 5 all year. They have only lost 4 times at home all damn year and they're undefeated on the road in the playoffs.

Only 5 teams have ever recovered from a 2-0 deficit. Winner of game 1 wins the series 72% of the time.

But sure, they're about to do all that to close out the year.

[Bob8]

Celtics are the best offensive team in the league. They're up 2 to 0 because as Luka said, they're the best team in the planet and their defense is unreal.

I know it hurts you but when you troll from a losing position you only keep people from taking you seriously.

Mavs never had a chance. Anyone who watches basketball knew this.

Everyone who watches basketball knows that series is not over with 2:0.

It's interesting the tone you're taking on the general board compared to the one you got on the Mavs board.

You know it's over. Just listen to Kidds post game pep talks. **** I thought Joe was bad.

Boston hasnt lost to the Mavs all year. 4 and 0. They haven't lost 4 out of 5 all year. They have only lost 4 times at home all damn year and they're undefeated on the road in the playoffs.

But sure, they're about to do all that to close out the year.

The tone is the same. We need good Kyrie and role players hitting few wide open shots. Not exactly mission impossible.

[sunsbg]

The best offensive team of the league has incredible 112 offensive rtg playing against the worst 2 backcourt defenders.

The only reason they're 2:0 up is Mavs having disastrous 100 offensive rtg.

Celtics are the best offensive team in the league. They're up 2 to 0 because as Luka said, they're the best team in the planet and their defense is unreal.

I know it hurts you but when you troll from a losing position you only keep people from taking you seriously.

Mavs never had a chance. Anyone who watches basketball knew this.

Everyone who watches basketball knows that series is not over with 2:0.

Mavs '24 = Bucks '21. Book it.

[celtxman]

Celtics are the best offensive team in the league. They're up 2 to 0 because as Luka said, they're the best team in the planet and their defense is unreal.

I know it hurts you but when you troll from a losing position you only keep people from taking you seriously.

Mavs never had a chance. Anyone who watches basketball knew this.

Everyone who watches basketball knows that series is not over with 2:0.

Mavs '24 = Bucks '21. Book it.

Yes. Thank you. I just bookmarked this

[The Corey's]

Everyone who watches basketball knows that series is not over with 2:0.

It's interesting the tone you're taking on the general board compared to the one you got on the Mavs board.

You know it's over. Just listen to Kidds post game pep talks. **** I thought Joe was bad.

Boston hasnt lost to the Mavs all year. 4 and 0. They haven't lost 4 out of 5 all year. They have only lost 4 times at home all damn year and they're undefeated on the road in the playoffs.

But sure, they're about to do all that to close out the year.

The tone is the same. We need good Kyrie and role players hitting few wide open shots. Not exactly mission impossible.

It's not enough.

[makubesu]

Imagine telling someone during the first half of the season that the finals would feature both teams scoring ~100 points. Real fans have to be happy.

Conversely, I’m not a fan of the “Luka is injured” takes, no other super star got that excuse.

The signs of life I’ve seen from the Mavs: Gafford. Mavs should keep getting that guy touches.

The Celtics are really locked in on defense, rebounding, and moving the ball. They may continue to shoot poorly because it’s a grind of a series. But they can definitely win that way.

[Big Lob]

I like Luka, but there is value in being in better shape

[Nate505]

Come on Celtics, finish this off. Seeing Luka get swept would be great.