Sunday 4/3 Game Thread

[Dubious Handles]

This Philly team is sure fun to watch! Cant wait to see Harden beasting in the playoffs again!!!

[tripa]

Philly

[The High Cyde]

Garland is the quickest player in the league. Not close.

[DroseReturnChi]

LeBron looks like being content to miss the play-in and stay as the scoring champion

I think he still needs to play 2 more games to qualify

he quit on his team hes playing only 2 more games. man wish lebron never signed russ is playing like a star.

[Tracymcgoaty]

So, luka been the best player on the floor vs all the players in the mvp discussion every game this season. Definetly deserve mvp

Shuuut, everybody will tell you he had a J-League level start of season....
Though it might be great news for him if it can make him realize that he absolutely needs to treat the off season and his body much more seriously than what he has done so far.

In theory, yes. But who knows. Ronaldinho wasn't the same once he stopped enjoying soccer.
Maybe it's enough as a start if Doncic just stops being fat. And goes on a run with weights every now and then.

I thought Ronaldinho wasn't the same when he started doing cocaine.

[Yuri36]

Because you don't have any argument, that's why. Completely demolished by Luka today, but no, it's impossible for Luka to be better. Just "goodbye". What a good argument. Calling people idiots and then you don't want to respond.

Luka has been beating everyone all the time. Only Jokic managed to play on the same level against him 1 vs 1 team wise, but Jokic has 2 black spots in his career, Doncic has none.

I don't care what other fans say, I don't care about other Mavs fans. Giannis was very suspect before the bubble as well, but everyone thought he was what top3 or smth like that. Until he was exposed by Miami. Well I didn't think Giannis was so good back then. I don't need to see a proof screaming before my eyes, before I can see that something is true.

Besides, you also agree that the Mavs will go to the finals, you've said it yourself. If you put Giannis, do you think they beat the Suns? Absolutely not. Do you think Giannis fits nicels in the Mavs? Yes you do. So the only reason why you think Mavs will go to the finals is because Doncic >> Giannis. Only you can't formulate it, now I've helped you...

You'll see come playoff time... Doncic will destroy any opponest and any defense thrown at him. I just hope you'll have enough balls to admit you were wrong and it was obvious from the moon that Doncic is better.

Goodbye to you aswell, I know I can't except any good rationale from you anyway.

Naw it’s just not a real arguement at this point-

Luka great- Giannis great- I think Giannis better but honestly Luka could have a better game any day… it’s not a fight- if you on RealGM you know I bet the mavs go to finals this year because Luka always plays best in big games- today was a big game and Luka came through.

You want it to be Luka vs Giannis for real… and I don’t think that’s fair considering Giannis has accomplished so much more than Luka and is going to get more mvp votes than Luka this year.

If you think Luka is better than Giannis this year… I want to know by what measure… and why the mvp voters not gonna see it that way?

It's simple. Doncic can't be stopped. No one has prevented Doncic from scoring the ball himself or getting his teammates open looks. He can't be stopped. It's not possible. You can't prevent both. You can either stop Doncic from getting the open looks or you can stop his teammates. You can't stop both. No 1 vs 1 defense will stop him, maybe Kawhi can, but Doncic will just call a screen and Kawhi can't fight over a screen. Maybe if he was younger. And the moment he gets a screen, it's either lob to powell, open three somewhere or Doncic finishes himself. It's unguardable play. And Doncic does it by himself.

Jokic needs other players for that. He needs guy circling around him, cutting to the basket and so on. Doncic only needs people to stand at the 3 point line. But he does need a solid screener, though he doesn't have to be really anything special. He did magic with Mike Tobey and the Olympics as well, and Toby is an average spanish league starting center.

And Doncic has never been stopped. Jokic was against the best possible defense against him, AD + Lebron + Howard. Jokic had very bad series against them. On the other hand, Doncic demolished the best possible defense against him. And Jokic lost without a fight against the Suns. Everyone excepcted the Mavs to lose 4-1 or 4-0, they almost won the series. Everyone also excepted the Suns to win what 4-1, 4-2, 4-0, well they lost 4-0.

Today Giannis had difficulty scoring at the rim. Did he pass the ball good enough out of double teams? No he didn't. He didn't create good enough opportunites for his teammates, Doncic did. It's either Doncic or his teammates, that wasn't the case for Giannis today.

And Embiid needs someone to feed him in the post, you need to have a proper PG for him, no one else needs that. And Embiid isn't on the same level as a playmaker as Joker and Doncic.

And if you bring defense into it, fine, Doncic isn't as good. But the Mavs still have very good defense with him and also Brunson on the floor. You've seen it today against the Bucks. Doncic can't be so bad at defense, if you can still have good team defense with him. And if you still keep bringing defense into it, how did this 2x DPOY help the Bucks tonight? They couldn't stop Doncic and the Mavs. Neither did the Clipps. What good is defense if you can't prevent the Mavs team from getting open looks? I'm not sure why I should be bother with how good Giannis is on defense, if he can't stop Doncic anyway, and Giannis today was stopped, mainly by DFS, Bullock and Powell... Like these are some all-nba defenders... Okay DFS is.


As for MVP, Doncic didn't have good enough stats at the start. I think a lot of people say if he had the current stats early, he would be the MVP. The same effect Doncic had on people when he played against the Clippers, I see pretty much everytime Doncic plays. Other people just don't, I don't know why. I guess if DFS misses a corner three, they're just like "ehh".... I see an open look generated by Doncic, that just happened to be missed. Perhaps they look at the points at the end of the game, at the %, at the TS% and are not impressed. All I see is, how many good looks did Doncic create. And I can't find this with any other player and no one so far has managed to stop this.

Watch Jokic play. He will wait until someone gets open. I mean he that does quite a lot of the time. Doncic doesn't wait for anyone. Doncic creates the open look, pretty much always. Jokic, on the other hand, doesn't play 1 vs 1 often enough, so he also can't create often enough and he also doesn't have gravity enough like Curry somehow. Thus Jokic isn't as good. Jokic needs someone else, Doncic doesn't.

Doncic is like Steve Nash and LBJ combined on offense, without the athleticism of LBJ, but the same strength. Put Doncic's body into Nash, you'll get the same result.

Wow even though you might a bit too far with your love of Luka, I have to admit most of your points are correct and sensed.

[Infinite Llamas]

Will Barton has 25pts against us on 72% shooting.

Will Barton sucks. Thank the lord we ain't make the playoffs because we'd get mutilated.

I mean am i lying though? I swear every game Denver plays i see Denver fans hate on Barton

Watched a couple of Denver games and it's clear to me that he's being forced to play this much because they have nobody else.

The deal with Barton is he can be effective when he lets Jokic set him up and get easy shots. But sometimes he thinks he’s Jordan and tries to do everything himself and that’s when the turnovers mount and the shot selection becomes dreadful. Jokic was getting him great looks all night.

[The High Cyde]

Damn Ronaldinho was a coke head? He was my fav player when I was in HS, shoot

[Tracymcgoaty]

Levert dribbling like he has a 55 rating on ball handle. Wtf was that.

[Asian Celtic]

Now need the Spurs to win to end this Laker misery.

[Mind_Odyssey]

Garland is the quickest player in the league. Not close.

Agreed

He’s fantastic to watch in the half court when he’s locked in.

[Gimli]

Shuuut, everybody will tell you he had a J-League level start of season....
Though it might be great news for him if it can make him realize that he absolutely needs to treat the off season and his body much more seriously than what he has done so far.

In theory, yes. But who knows. Ronaldinho wasn't the same once he stopped enjoying soccer.
Maybe it's enough as a start if Doncic just stops being fat. And goes on a run with weights every now and then.

I thought Ronaldinho wasn't the same when he started doing cocaine.

Hmm, I don't know the details... Someone else has to answer this.
But for sure he didn't like soccer as much as he used to. The smile was kinda gone.

[Spud2nique]

LETS GO KINNNGS!!!! Hit the Warriors with something. You guys got nothing to lose, close out hard and give very little room on the landing space of Klay.

LETS GO!!!

[BigDan245]

Portland came to play

[PD28]

Philly stars in playoff form already baby!

[CobraCommander]

Because you don't have any argument, that's why. Completely demolished by Luka today, but no, it's impossible for Luka to be better. Just "goodbye". What a good argument. Calling people idiots and then you don't want to respond.

Luka has been beating everyone all the time. Only Jokic managed to play on the same level against him 1 vs 1 team wise, but Jokic has 2 black spots in his career, Doncic has none.

I don't care what other fans say, I don't care about other Mavs fans. Giannis was very suspect before the bubble as well, but everyone thought he was what top3 or smth like that. Until he was exposed by Miami. Well I didn't think Giannis was so good back then. I don't need to see a proof screaming before my eyes, before I can see that something is true.

Besides, you also agree that the Mavs will go to the finals, you've said it yourself. If you put Giannis, do you think they beat the Suns? Absolutely not. Do you think Giannis fits nicels in the Mavs? Yes you do. So the only reason why you think Mavs will go to the finals is because Doncic >> Giannis. Only you can't formulate it, now I've helped you...

You'll see come playoff time... Doncic will destroy any opponest and any defense thrown at him. I just hope you'll have enough balls to admit you were wrong and it was obvious from the moon that Doncic is better.

Goodbye to you aswell, I know I can't except any good rationale from you anyway.

Naw it’s just not a real arguement at this point-

Luka great- Giannis great- I think Giannis better but honestly Luka could have a better game any day… it’s not a fight- if you on RealGM you know I bet the mavs go to finals this year because Luka always plays best in big games- today was a big game and Luka came through.

You want it to be Luka vs Giannis for real… and I don’t think that’s fair considering Giannis has accomplished so much more than Luka and is going to get more mvp votes than Luka this year.

If you think Luka is better than Giannis this year… I want to know by what measure… and why the mvp voters not gonna see it that way?

It's simple. Doncic can't be stopped. No one has prevented Doncic from scoring the ball himself or getting his teammates open looks. He can't be stopped. It's not possible. You can't prevent both. You can either stop Doncic from getting the open looks or you can stop his teammates. You can't stop both. No 1 vs 1 defense will stop him, maybe Kawhi can, but Doncic will just call a screen and Kawhi can't fight over a screen. Maybe if he was younger. And the moment he gets a screen, it's either lob to powell, open three somewhere or Doncic finishes himself. It's unguardable play. And Doncic does it by himself.

Jokic needs other players for that. He needs guy circling around him, cutting to the basket and so on. Doncic only needs people to stand at the 3 point line. But he does need a solid screener, though he doesn't have to be really anything special. He did magic with Mike Tobey and the Olympics as well, and Toby is an average spanish league starting center.

And Doncic has never been stopped. Jokic was against the best possible defense against him, AD + Lebron + Howard. Jokic had very bad series against them. On the other hand, Doncic demolished the best possible defense against him. And Jokic lost without a fight against the Suns. Everyone excepcted the Mavs to lose 4-1 or 4-0, they almost won the series. Everyone also excepted the Suns to win what 4-1, 4-2, 4-0, well they lost 4-0.

Today Giannis had difficulty scoring at the rim. Did he pass the ball good enough out of double teams? No he didn't. He didn't create good enough opportunites for his teammates, Doncic did. It's either Doncic or his teammates, that wasn't the case for Giannis today.

And Embiid needs someone to feed him in the post, you need to have a proper PG for him, no one else needs that. And Embiid isn't on the same level as a playmaker as Joker and Doncic.

And if you bring defense into it, fine, Doncic isn't as good. But the Mavs still have very good defense with him and also Brunson on the floor. You've seen it today against the Bucks. Doncic can't be so bad at defense, if you can still have good team defense with him. And if you still keep bringing defense into it, how did this 2x DPOY help the Bucks tonight? They couldn't stop Doncic and the Mavs. Neither did the Clipps. What good is defense if you can't prevent the Mavs team from getting open looks? I'm not sure why I should be bother with how good Giannis is on defense, if he can't stop Doncic anyway, and Giannis today was stopped, mainly by DFS, Bullock and Powell... Like these are some all-nba defenders... Okay DFS is.


As for MVP, Doncic didn't have good enough stats at the start. I think a lot of people say if he had the current stats early, he would be the MVP. The same effect Doncic had on people when he played against the Clippers, I see pretty much everytime Doncic plays. Other people just don't, I don't know why. I guess if DFS misses a corner three, they're just like "ehh".... I see an open look generated by Doncic, that just happened to be missed. Perhaps they look at the points at the end of the game, at the %, at the TS% and are not impressed. All I see is, how many good looks did Doncic create. And I can't find this with any other player and no one so far has managed to stop this.

Watch Jokic play. He will wait until someone gets open. I mean he that does quite a lot of the time. Doncic doesn't wait for anyone. Doncic creates the open look, pretty much always. Jokic, on the other hand, doesn't play 1 vs 1 often enough, so he also can't create often enough and he also doesn't have gravity enough like Curry somehow. Thus Jokic isn't as good. Jokic needs someone else, Doncic doesn't.

Doncic is like Steve Nash and LBJ combined on offense, without the athleticism of LBJ, but the same strength. Put Doncic's body into Nash, you'll get the same result.

Maybe you right...but I would be willing to bet you any money amount of money that Luka won’t get more mvp votes than Giannis this year...Luka won’t get more mvp votes than Embiid, and Luka won’t come close to Jokic in mvp votes....so at best he is 4th....

Your opinions are cool but the 4th guy in the mvp race isn’t worth arguing about.

File your Luka love letters in the all nba first team section with Trae young, Booker, Curry, KD and all the other great players not named Jokic, Embiid, or Giannis- This year Luka hasn’t ascended to Mount Olympus with the MVPs...he is great but not on that level yet....

[LivingLegend]

Garland is the quickest player in the league. Not close.

Agreed

He’s fantastic to watch in the half court when he’s locked in.

I wonder if the Cavs will have him sign that Max as he's walking off the court in the final game over the season.

Have Koby hand it to him like a fan asking for a autograph

[blind prophet]

Haliburton with 17 assists & no turnovers?

[blind prophet]

LETS GO KINNNGS!!!! Hit the Warriors with something. You guys got nothing to lose, close out hard and give very little room on the landing space of Klay.

LETS GO!!!

We always win meaningless games at the end of the year to worsen our draft potential.

[cgf]

Shuuut, everybody will tell you he had a J-League level start of season....
Though it might be great news for him if it can make him realize that he absolutely needs to treat the off season and his body much more seriously than what he has done so far.

In theory, yes. But who knows. Ronaldinho wasn't the same once he stopped enjoying soccer.
Maybe it's enough as a start if Doncic just stops being fat. And goes on a run with weights every now and then.

I thought Ronaldinho wasn't the same when he started doing cocaine.

Ronaldinho started partying long before he fell from his peak.