Two more threes was the difference, but they went away from the middys and they were fallin
offense looking like post all star if we dont figure shit out its gona be fucked
Don’t know if the numbers back it up so I may be wrong, but getting defensive rebounds also seemed to be an issue when I was watching. Seemed like Mavs were getting a lot of second chances and we were just not hustling on the boards, which has been an issue the entire season. Like even some of their second attempts resulted in them getting good looks at 3 which may have contributed to this disparity
The team that makes less shots and therefor less points loses the game? I can see why having less points would be a big reason for a loss
Yup – 3pt ball was off. Norm needs to go back to cutting. His shot ain’t falling rn
Credit to the Dallas defense tho.
I think Plumlee should be benched and try Theis to space the floor.
Amir defense has been on point on both Luka and Irving and has probably been our best perimeter defender, it sucks he cant get more minutes
I’ve never seen Kawhi be so awful in a playoff game but he needed to play to shake the rust off. He cost the game. Had to sacrifice it
That’s because the shots were all garbage and heavily contested. Box Score is not everything.
That said, it’s quite worrisome to see that struggle on offense and to fail to adjust in-game. The second we introduced some pace the shots got significantly easier.
It sucks we lost, there’s no denying that. But the fact we lost on missing good shots is at least somewhat encouraging versus if the Mavs had been completely shutting down our offensive sets. No need to panic so long as we win at least 1 out of 2 in Dallas.
Outside Mann open 3 in first half and Norm open 3 in 4th qrt, i dont think we generated good open looks, our offense was slow and stagnant for most of the game
Painful misses
Yeah that wasn’t magic. Dallas played amazing defense. Some of you seem to have no idea how to watch the opponent’s defense
Correct. I haven’t looked at the numbers but I think almost every game we lost this year we would have shot under 40% or opponent shoot the lights out. We generate so many chances but just take the wrong shot or go cold.
Lots of good shots rimmed out.
The 3s in the 4th quarter were what really killed us. Luka & Kyrie are going to hit some every game, but PJ Washington hit a couple big 3s. Kleber hit one that really killed us too. Norm had a couple good looks, but just couldn’t knock them down.
Kawhi had a lot of good looks in the 4th too, but he couldn’t hit anything. Tough loss, but I’m confident the team will play better in Dallas.
We can’t make excuses lol mavs played some incredible defense and they also shot poorly from field and from the ft line. This gonna be a tough series
Just need to win one out of the next 2 and we are fine back on track. Can not go down 3-1
Mavs having to over achieve to win by 3… great loss in my book
It was just a cocktail mess of a game.
Kawhi rust killed us
Zubac early fouls killed us
Everyone forgetting how to shoot a 3 killed us
Having a chippy game killed us
That marginal contact call killed us.
Plumlee being a deer in the headlights as well
I feel confident we can stomp out mavericks in 6. We just need to have the mavericks supporting cast beat us. Ty lue got a great gameplan going
Defense by Dallas was good, our defense was not amazing, but we did pretty good numbers wise. Can’t let PJ washington get 18 in a defensive game like this, though. And Ty Lue did good getting easy plays out of timeouts for the players. I didn’t watch the whole game, but I think he did okay at the end. Kawhi will be shooting better next game, most likely, too.
This one lue Why harden played the whole second half? A breather and let russ running it for a couple of mins would’ve helped
Why plumlee over theis
Why kawhi playing too much when he wasn’t in his best form back from absence
Switch mann and amir minutes
Kyrie and PJ Washington went ham no Darvin
Was a lot of iso this game too. Last game had much more ball movement not sure what the heck happened this game. First game everyone was making that extra pass and seem to just say F it this game even Zu been trying to shoot over 3 defenders for some reason
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Yeah right. If only we had scored more baskets we would’ve won.
This one was so ugly. We could have had it so easy going up 2-0. Now we have a real gnarly series. I need to see more screens if we’re gonna do this iso ball reliant shit. An easier series awaits in the next round (imo) and we gave up home-court on bad shooting, foul trouble, and not getting Norm enough looks.
Is it crazy to think T Mann should be playing over Russ when trailing in a fourth quarter until we get a lead? I feel like Russ is good for keeping a lead with rebounding and mucking up defense, while they have to respect T Mann’s shot in the corner, giving the stars more space when we’re down.
Another game where I felt like we’re too deep for own good. I understand they ran us off the line and forced closer shots with a rusty Kawhi who’s knee looks like it hurts . Ughh I’m ranting but I still have faith Ty Lue is gonna be our best player down the stretch if this continues to be ugly rock-fights.
This game was an example for why we Dallas fans always said Luka is a good defender.
This series has been a defensive showdown and I don’t know if my heart is ready for like 5 more games…
Those numbers are generated by players. If you big three scored less than 40 then you can forget about it. This is not Europe this is where individual players make the real difference.
Westbrick
Dallas was a top 5 defense to end the year if I remember correctly. Pair that with their top 2 stars, I’d be surprised to see the Clippers win the series.
They were on fire with their three pointers. That’s what killed us.
Kept Mavs under 100 between the two games. Shots fall for Clips and it’s over.
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No way
Two more threes was the difference, but they went away from the middys and they were fallin
offense looking like post all star if we dont figure shit out its gona be fucked
Don’t know if the numbers back it up so I may be wrong, but getting defensive rebounds also seemed to be an issue when I was watching. Seemed like Mavs were getting a lot of second chances and we were just not hustling on the boards, which has been an issue the entire season. Like even some of their second attempts resulted in them getting good looks at 3 which may have contributed to this disparity
The team that makes less shots and therefor less points loses the game? I can see why having less points would be a big reason for a loss
Yup – 3pt ball was off. Norm needs to go back to cutting. His shot ain’t falling rn
Credit to the Dallas defense tho.
I think Plumlee should be benched and try Theis to space the floor.
Amir defense has been on point on both Luka and Irving and has probably been our best perimeter defender, it sucks he cant get more minutes
I’ve never seen Kawhi be so awful in a playoff game but he needed to play to shake the rust off. He cost the game. Had to sacrifice it
That’s because the shots were all garbage and heavily contested. Box Score is not everything.
That said, it’s quite worrisome to see that struggle on offense and to fail to adjust in-game. The second we introduced some pace the shots got significantly easier.
It sucks we lost, there’s no denying that. But the fact we lost on missing good shots is at least somewhat encouraging versus if the Mavs had been completely shutting down our offensive sets. No need to panic so long as we win at least 1 out of 2 in Dallas.
Outside Mann open 3 in first half and Norm open 3 in 4th qrt, i dont think we generated good open looks, our offense was slow and stagnant for most of the game
Painful misses
Yeah that wasn’t magic. Dallas played amazing defense. Some of you seem to have no idea how to watch the opponent’s defense
Correct. I haven’t looked at the numbers but I think almost every game we lost this year we would have shot under 40% or opponent shoot the lights out. We generate so many chances but just take the wrong shot or go cold.
Lots of good shots rimmed out.
The 3s in the 4th quarter were what really killed us. Luka & Kyrie are going to hit some every game, but PJ Washington hit a couple big 3s. Kleber hit one that really killed us too. Norm had a couple good looks, but just couldn’t knock them down.
Kawhi had a lot of good looks in the 4th too, but he couldn’t hit anything. Tough loss, but I’m confident the team will play better in Dallas.
We can’t make excuses lol mavs played some incredible defense and they also shot poorly from field and from the ft line. This gonna be a tough series
Just need to win one out of the next 2 and we are fine back on track. Can not go down 3-1
Mavs having to over achieve to win by 3… great loss in my book
It was just a cocktail mess of a game.
Kawhi rust killed us
Zubac early fouls killed us
Everyone forgetting how to shoot a 3 killed us
Having a chippy game killed us
That marginal contact call killed us.
Plumlee being a deer in the headlights as well
I feel confident we can stomp out mavericks in 6. We just need to have the mavericks supporting cast beat us. Ty lue got a great gameplan going
Defense by Dallas was good, our defense was not amazing, but we did pretty good numbers wise. Can’t let PJ washington get 18 in a defensive game like this, though. And Ty Lue did good getting easy plays out of timeouts for the players. I didn’t watch the whole game, but I think he did okay at the end. Kawhi will be shooting better next game, most likely, too.
This one lue
Why harden played the whole second half?
A breather and let russ running it for a couple of mins would’ve helped
Why plumlee over theis
Why kawhi playing too much when he wasn’t in his best form back from absence
Switch mann and amir minutes
Kyrie and PJ Washington went ham no Darvin
Was a lot of iso this game too. Last game had much more ball movement not sure what the heck happened this game. First game everyone was making that extra pass and seem to just say F it this game even Zu been trying to shoot over 3 defenders for some reason
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Yeah right. If only we had scored more baskets we would’ve won.
This one was so ugly. We could have had it so easy going up 2-0. Now we have a real gnarly series. I need to see more screens if we’re gonna do this iso ball reliant shit. An easier series awaits in the next round (imo) and we gave up home-court on bad shooting, foul trouble, and not getting Norm enough looks.
Is it crazy to think T Mann should be playing over Russ when trailing in a fourth quarter until we get a lead? I feel like Russ is good for keeping a lead with rebounding and mucking up defense, while they have to respect T Mann’s shot in the corner, giving the stars more space when we’re down.
Another game where I felt like we’re too deep for own good. I understand they ran us off the line and forced closer shots with a rusty Kawhi who’s knee looks like it hurts . Ughh I’m ranting but I still have faith Ty Lue is gonna be our best player down the stretch if this continues to be ugly rock-fights.
This game was an example for why we Dallas fans always said Luka is a good defender.
This series has been a defensive showdown and I don’t know if my heart is ready for like 5 more games…
Those numbers are generated by players. If you big three scored less than 40 then you can forget about it. This is not Europe this is where individual players make the real difference.
Westbrick
Dallas was a top 5 defense to end the year if I remember correctly. Pair that with their top 2 stars, I’d be surprised to see the Clippers win the series.
They were on fire with their three pointers. That’s what killed us.
Kept Mavs under 100 between the two games. Shots fall for Clips and it’s over.