2024 NBA Playoffs: West Semifinals: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #5 Dallas Mavericks (DAL WINS 4-2)

FarBeyondDriven · Post #2221 » by **FarBeyondDriven** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:35 pm

ChipotleWest wrote:Lively should never shoot a shot, it's either dunk or pass it.

he has potential and you can't expect him to get more comfortable without getting more looks. If he could hit threes and pick and pop it'd unlock this offense and turn the Mavs into a Finals team. Just keeping defenses honest would be huge. I feel like they should have used more of the regular season to give him those chances than they did. He seems to have no confidence

jehosafats · Post #2222 » by **jehosafats** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:35 pm

Forbes wrote:
jehosafats wrote:Kidd could've let them play through that. Not the best timeout.

Better to stop any momentum while Dallas’ offense is nonexistent. Can’t let them go up too much and now you have to claw back without your own offense going.

All about personnel. You have Luka and Uncle Drew, momentum killers. A timely timeout for one team isn't necessarily the same for them. It's not the worst timeout though.

Iwasawitness · Post #2223 » by **Iwasawitness** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:36 pm

iggymcfrack wrote:How are the Thunder getting outrebounded so badly? Dallas isn’t even good at rebounding! If OKC had an even share of the boards, they’d be up 12 by now.

Dallas has bigger bodies while OKC plays pretty small for the most part.

Forbes · Post #2224 » by **Forbes** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:36 pm

Shai is masterful in the midrange, love this kid

tleikheen · Post #2225 » by **tleikheen** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:36 pm

Shai makes the little shots that Luka is choking on

FarBeyondDriven · Post #2226 » by **FarBeyondDriven** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:36 pm

Kyrie gets away with a push off constantly. It happens right in front of the refs too. League is a joke

jpengland · Post #2227 » by **jpengland** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:36 pm

Luka is absolutely broken out there.

If Dallas comes out of this with a W, that's huge

tleikheen · Post #2228 » by **tleikheen** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:37 pm

Finally going at Chet's body for and 1

Oscar9992 · Post #2229 » by **Oscar9992** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:38 pm

Luka is trying his best to lose this game, but PJ Washington is disagreeing with him

Mamba Mentality · Post #2230 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:38 pm

Watching the remaining teams call timeouts whenever there is a 5-0, 7-0 run just infuriates me.

Forbes · Post #2231 » by **Forbes** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:38 pm

jehosafats wrote:
Forbes wrote:
jehosafats wrote:Kidd could've let them play through that. Not the best timeout.

Better to stop any momentum while Dallas’ offense is nonexistent. Can’t let them go up too much and now you have to claw back without your own offense going.

All about personnel. You have Luka and Uncle Drew, momentum killers. A timely timeout for one team isn't necessarily the same for them. It's not the worst timeout though.

Yep Kidd usually lets them play it out. But I think that timeout was perfection. Normally OKC would have run it up even more.

tleikheen · Post #2232 » by **tleikheen** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:38 pm

That was an obvious charge on Lively

ChipotleWest · Post #2233 » by **ChipotleWest** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:38 pm

SGA throws them elbows all the time.

10DayContract · Post #2234 » by **10DayContract** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:39 pm

He be throwing elbows.

Chuck Everett · Post #2235 » by **Chuck Everett** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:39 pm

Just seems like a normal offensive foul.

tleikheen · Post #2236 » by **tleikheen** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:39 pm

Shai with the elbow ...again

VicG · Post #2237 » by **VicG** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:39 pm

LMAO he didn’t even hit him in the face

FarBeyondDriven · Post #2238 » by **FarBeyondDriven** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:40 pm

NOW the refs call a push off? After letting Kyrie and Luka push off with impunity? And rewarding another flop? Just awful

Meeksology · Post #2239 » by **Meeksology** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:40 pm

Sga elbow hits shoulder, Jones grabs face. Lol

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Dan33185 · Post #2240 » by **Dan33185** » Sat May 11, 2024 8:40 pm

A whole lot of nothing there

Who wins and goes to the WCFs?