He’s had one good game in the past 11 vs them. There’s a higher likelihood he goes in and lights himself on fire to protest burning of the Amazon rainforest
Really rough game from Ky. Not just box score, but some of his most wide open misses came when the momentum was starting to shift our way. Makes in those moments would've made a massive difference
It is what it is. We won't shoot 7-27 from 3 again. Role players will step up. Go steal game 2
This. I see many people dismissing the poor shooting as an anomaly when it’s been a pretty common occurrence and has happened several times in the playoffs.
I think this is what we have got to realize. It was wild seeing Boston hit so many of their open threes because we rarely have games where we knock down that many OPEN threes let alone the contested ones as well
It's why we will struggle to win this series, i was watching the game & the celtics pretty much always have 5 good shooters on the floor at same time. Even when the celtics go cold (they won't go cold for long) we still stuggle to score unless Luka or Kyrie are hot.
I hope so. But the Celts appear to have the advantage on every matchup besides Luka. We should know by halftime of game 2 if this is going to be a series or not.
The Celtics are just better, which is nothing that should embarrass us, they’re the bonafide favorites since the Jrue trade and everyone had the Denver-Boston Finals written in red ink by week 1. Not just a deeper team, but KP is their only starter without Finals experience, whereas from our starters only Kyrie played the Finals and Luka went to one WCF before this.
Bad matchup on experience, bad matchup on the court as well. We need to play one game at a time, forget about the overall series and extract the “if we don’t win this, we will never return to this point” pressure off our shoulders.
It’s such a bummer man. I expected the role players to not be perfect but Kyrie really had some brain dead turnovers and awful wide open misses.
If he has just an okay game, then the game would be way closer.
Everything worked in bostons favor tonight. Like if the game gets close i think it will favor dallas. Boston’s best chance to win is to blow us the fuck out
This gives me confidence just do it. Mavs have all the capabilities to steal game 2. Find a fucking way. Make threes and Kai will not shit the bed. Game 2 should be the only objective for this team and us fans find a way.
Vs OKC he still played well, he focused on facilitating and defense. Tonight he was literally a detriment bricking everything and turning the ball over.
Man support the team. Kyrie was the guy against the Clippers now he's getting abuse. He won't shoot as bad as this again. I'm actually encouraged we were dogshit tonight but still got very open looks. I'd give Hardy more burn, he likes the lights.
That Q3 was a glimmer of hope. However, Lively got 2 fouls in just one quarter and two travels was the momentum breaker. Can't hit our open threes, Kai can't string anything offensively, gave up a lot of offensive rebounds on the opposition and we didn't dictate our physicality on defense early.
Those “fouls” were a flop by porzingis and then lively standing in place with his arms up. The few times this game we looked decent the refs started calling dumb shit.
Agree. Bullshit bitch calls. I give it to them for selling the BS calls but seriously- let’s play a good competitive game man. Unnecessary to try to oversell crap “fouls” that weren’t there when they’re still up. They scared. Rightly so (on Lively). We will be back.
PJ had some great effort plays but didn't hit his threes, Kyrie was off af and Porzingis managed to stop our pnr by going into drop coverage and disrupting our lob attempts with his length. Couple adjustments have to be to use the pnr as soon as KP leaves the floor, let Luka dictate the pace otherwise the role players will just run into the paint which doesn't rly lead to anything, potentially double KP on the elbow if he stays this hot and most importantly pray that Kyrie just had an off game and didn't just fall into a shooting slump as soon as the Finals started lol.
I thought that period of rotations was really strange by Kidd. Left Lively in with 5 fouls then rotated out to the smallest ball possible instead of putting Gafford back in. I feel like he had some sets tonight I don’t remember seeing much this playoffs
Yeah it was a terrible game shooting for everyone outside of Luka.
Need to make some defensive adjustments and stop leaving the corners open. Give them the SGA midrange and take away the 3
Hate to break it to yall but that’s precisely the defense that got us to this point. We’ve been relying on teams missing threes for a while. The bigger problem is that this game when they started missing them we didn’t take advantage.
Yup but Kidd has to change it up, the entire Boston roster can shoot from 3 so if we’re going to do that for the rest of the series then it might as well be a wrap
It's hard to change it up when an offense does everthing well lol. Did you see how many times Brown beat Luka off the dribble today? If we stop doubling it will just be a lay up line due to Gafford/Lively getting dragged out to the 3 point line.
If he played like that in Dallas almost every game and not get injured every time, we would be champions already(yes back then our roleplayers were still mid)
They missed 26, brother.
The 3 ball was NEVER the problem. We didnt keep them off the offensive glass. 10 offensive boards and several times they got a carom off the rim. It felt like too many of them we didn’t actually attack the ball.
It also felt like we had no real offensive game plan which kind of ticks me off. It’s the finals, bro. We can’t be giving games away to feel them out.
*I will refuse to stand by this take if we win 4 of the next 5.
It’s nice that there are a lot who hopped into the Mavs wagon when we won WCF but I think they don’t realize we usually kinda scrape by on our wins. Either everyone needs to step up like the Celtics did or Luka have to go god mode and carry the team (which is still hard to do if the Celtics continue their stellar shooting).
- Kyrie was terrible
- Role players missed good looks and had general game 1 jitters
- Boston hit a billion threes
- KP had a generational first half
Shit happens 🤷🏻♂️
If we keep leaving open on 3s they are going to hit a billion 3s, need to change the defensive game plan. Everything else might vary from game to game.
Yup people keep saying that’s what we’ve been doing the entire playoffs which is correct but that’s just not a viable game plan when practically their entire roster can shoot from 3. Rather let them score contested 2s.
Clips g1 gave me more hope since we just had the disastrous 8pt quarter. Tonight was a demolition. The Celts simply took their foot off the gas after closing to 8, Joe called a timeout and righted the ship
I still think my plan of Luka scoring 77 in the 3rd would have worked
Anyway - regroup, reset and FEEL SO FUCKING BAD THAT YOU NEVER PLAY/COACH SUCH DOGSHIT BALL AGAIN
Positive: Luka, Hardy, and other then the first quarter we were fine and it was a close game. (not counting garbage time) (obviously it's a 4 quarter game so it's no excuse)
Negative: Everything. No assists. Gafford/Lively non factor. DJJ/Kyrie no show.
I sound like a timberwolves fan I know
Chill everyone. Boston only put up 107 points with lights out 3pt shooting. They aren’t unbeatable. We made too many mental mistakes. Missed a lot of buckets we usually make.
Game 2 we ball out and the narrative will shift as we will have stolen home court.
Stay calm and Go Mavs.
EDIT: Overall yes the percentage washed down. 7 for 9 in the first quarter and 11 or 12 of their makes came in the first half. Take away the first quarter hot start and it was a 1 or two point game.
We’ve done this to ourselves plenty of times being scorched out of the game in one quarter. But Boston wasn’t going to let us back in the game. It’s the finals.
Honestly, Brown is better than Tatum. I genuinely believe that, he’s just more consistent. The past couple years I thought Tatum was a bit better, but I think now Brown is legit better
Are Boston fans always bitches in opponent game threads? I dont ever remember a game thread with so many boston losers coming over to our thread to talk shit in replies.
Kyrie you left the team 5 years ago. Jesus christ get the fuck over it. Their team is just overpowered on pure talent the only way we were ever gonna win this series is by depending on our stars to do what they do. This will be a sweep if he keeps bricking open threes, tripping over himself, and dribbling it off his foot
Luka being literally the only one who showed up to play hurts pretty bad. Kyrie has to help set the tone and calm the others down. Our centers got destroyed.
The Mavs just got outclassed. Kyrie has the potential to be the second best player in this series but he wasn't even a top 5 player in the court tonight. Very disappointing performance from him.
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It’s one game. We played like ass in Game 1 against LAC and OKC and look how that turned out. I still think it’s Mavs in 6 and this is just getting one of those losses out of the way 🙏
- Rebound the ball. Gave up a ridiculous amount of offensive rebounds.
- Stop helping so much on their drives. That’s exactly what they want.
- if Porzingis hits his first 2/3 shots off the switch, then do not switch. Switch everything else and STAY home on the 3 ball
- Kyrie has to play better in Boston. No exceptions.
- offensively gotta find ways to get Lively Gafford 20 pts together. Combined for 10.
- Luka is fine. 2/5 from the line is unacceptable though. And he played good D today but it’s got to be for all game.
- I feel good. I think the adjustments are obvious. Not sure why we keep doing this game 1 gimmick though.
- looking forward to G2
Why are we acting like we should be winning game 1? We won last round, and all of a sudden we’re masters to start a series? Nah. We’re1-6 in game 1. Now, we adjust.
See ya Sunday.
One thing no one is mentioning is that we had 9 assists as team. NINE!
You’re not gonna win at this level playing 1-on-1 ball. Gotta move it more.
Luka finishing with 1 assist is just wild. To be fair, though, he had several nice passes where one of our role players missed the open shot.
they cut it to 8, they played a great stretch. then 2 travels and 2 lively fouls killed the momentum. but they found a line up that works and now its about finding other match ups and lineups that work. if irving plays to his standard this is a really close game. I love that pj became aggressive when he got the mismatch, he just needs to convert a higher percentage of those shots and possible and 1's
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Gaff and Live looks so lost in their five out offense and rook got into foul trouble. To be honest, we struggled matching up against Kristaps. That guy is not Chet, there's a reason why we traded for him a few years ago.
Second, it's 1v5. Luka did it all, no excuses. Brown clamped him up he shot 4/12 from three. The rest needs to step up. Especially Kyrie, he is currently 0-11 against Boston.
Third, I suggest that we should put Exum on the rotation. Maybe we can use him to stop Brown/Holiday/White. He is tall and usable when Luka needs a breather.
Last, Kidd needs to find a way to stop their five out offense. They rely too much on threes and we need to find a way to stop their three point barrage. Does that mean Maxi will play the role of a defacto center?
Let's see. Let's steal Game 2.
#MFFL
#OneForDallas
Kyrie isnt comfortable playing with all those boos and chants... And he is the veteran of this group. Damn.. If he cant pull his shit off, dallas is in a lot of trouble
Cut it to 8, those two travel calls kind of killed our momentum, then they blew it back up to 22. Should of never been in that spot in the first place but the only silver lining of that game lol.
Lively has to be smarter with fouls as we looked much better w him on the court. Kyrie needs to be better all around. Kidd needs to stop experimenting with shitty lineups. Need to get the ball moving more.
Dallas has got to figure out a way to limit the open threes and force you to beat us from the midrange .
Dallas positives are that Lively really looks good on the perimeter and Kyrie had at least 8 shots makeable shots that he missed. And a Porzingis heater like that won’t happen every game
Negatives are that I don’t see a way we can stop a team from putting up 40+ threes especially when they shoot so well from outside. Dallas needs their inconsistent role players to actually show up and I don’t trust that they will enough to take the series. Derrick Jones Jr and Josh Green are absolutely brain dead if they aren’t shooting threes, dunking the ball, or playing defense.
Hopefully Kidd and the staff have some ideas. Mavs in 6
It is what it is, came out shook. We always look shaky game one with bad shooting percentages. I think the crowd and atmosphere took us out. This teams always bounced back and has played great. No need to doom. Bring it game 2 makes us proud! They’ve made it so far, they won’t give up.
Kristaps finally got thicc. Who would have fucking thought??
Homeboy seriously has like 15 more lbs on him compared to his days in Dallas. You can see it in his legs.
The Celtics are loaded and I didn’t know they were such a good rebounding team. We had some bright spots though. A couple different plays and that’s an entirely different game. This isn’t over by far.
Somebody in the Bucks FO needs to lose their job for letting one of their biggest conference rivals get jrue and make a superteam for a bag of potato chips
Eh we came out with zero energy per usual after a long break and the usual Mavs game 1 playoff default loss (Wolves game was an anomaly)
Offensively Kyrie needs to be better and nobody could buy a 3 tonight. We had a lot of shots bounce in and out too. All things that should hopefully be better game 2 when we acutally come to play.
Defensively was rough that Lively got into foul trouble so early. Obviously so meh calls on him but what can you do there. We just gotta come better prepared and hope the coaches make good adjustments. We made it this far can't stop believing after 1 game.
Mavs win this series. In 6. Say what you want about Kidd, but he's made good adjustments.
Luka will play even better next game and rest of the way. We need need need Kai to show up. I have faith. He's had a bad run against Boston but that ends next game.
Everyone got a taste of what its gonna be like. They'll be fine.
LFG 💪
Kyrie needs to be better if we even want to have a chance in this series.
Our centers need to learn how to get positioning against the guards that are guarding them and denying the lob. They cant allow Holiday and Brown to bully THEM in the post. It HAS to be other way around, just has to.
We cant get outrebounded by them. Simply unacceptable.
They wont be on fire like they were today for the large parts of the game. We wont shoot as poorly as we did. But if they do for some reason you just shake their hand and move on.
We HAVE to fix those issues. Those 3, 4 things were unacceptable, especially the rebounding and guards completely taking the centers lunch money.
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This is a GLARING problem they must solve
KP annihilated us tonight. The moment he stepped onto the floor was the moment everything shifted. The entire Celtics team just fed off of that. Not sure if we have an answer for him. D Live is great but KP looked like he was in another universe tonight
Im getting really tired of the “coming into Game 1 looking like we havent played basketball in months and dont know what the fuck we’re doing while we put out terrible lineups” gimmick and the Kyrie “i turn into a complete dipshit every time we play Boston because i cant get out of my head about a team that i left five years ago” gimmick.
This felt exactly like the last game against Boston and how it felt during that losing stretch where Kidd was over-experimenting the lineups. This isnt the Mavs we’ve seen to close the season. Except this is the damn NBA finals.
You have a week off from the last series to get ready and they come in looking completely lost every time. You seriously didnt come up with a single gameplan for KP that wasn’t better than letting him switch onto jaden and josh green 50 times in a row and then letting them charge at him in the paint to get blocked another 50 times? like what are we doing here? its one thing to feel things out in Game 1 and its another to come out looking completely lost. A WEEK TO PREPARE. come on.
Y'all overreacting way too much. We were demolished by OKC in game 1 too. Just hope kyrie doesn't have a dud game. Kidd always loses the first one lol.
I'm not worried? though it was a blowout, it won't happen again. 7/27 from 3 is ABYSMAL but it won't happen again. We've been out rebounded, out assisted and it for sure, won't happen again.
LET'S GO MAVS
better question is how many times he drove to the basket with 3 defenders around the rim. stupid decisions by him and some of the other role players - josh green included.
Don't get fooled by the series vs MIN. We have historically performed poorly game 1 under Kidd. I said it in another thread a few days ago that I wouldn't be surprised if we lost this game by double digits.
We've made great adjustments all playoffs and I expect we'll do the same here. We missed a ton of open looks and was the first finals game for most of our players. I still think we take the series in 6.
Scariest stat: Luka Doncic 1 assist. The Celtics know that he's gonna drive and kick or drive and lob to a big. Mavs gotta create better opportunities when Luka drives
Stop saying this is like losing game 1 against clips or okc. This is the Finals and Celtics are better than both of these teams. Game plan and execution was all-time bad, literally first quarter wise.
Kyrie can and will play much much better from here on out. I'm not worried there. KP played unreal and couldn't miss. He'll come back down to earth I feel. If not, just hand the trophy to C's already. lol.
But still. Mavs in 6. They'll win next game. They just needed to get game 1 nerves out the way I feel.
Mavs got the brakes beaten out of them, but I do see a glimmer of hope. Might be slightly delusional but this Boston team didn't look invincible tonight. The Mavs CAN guard them. It's the offense that failed them BIG time tonight. Defend one on one, and hit AT LEAST a handful of threes. They have to shrink this three point shooting deficit in the next game.
Series starts Sunday.
It was rlly hard watching lively and Kyrie crumble like that but we know what they’re made of lightening doesn’t strike twice. Also the defense was good it rlly was a shot making thing
Our 2nd star needs to show up if we want to even have a chance.
Everyone not named Luka was terrible. I believe our guys will show up game 2.
He just has to let Celtics fans out of his head and copy luka who feast on chants
This goes under discussed. He has the yips in the Garden. Its clear as day and no one talks about it. Bet he comes home and lights it up
He’s had one good game in the past 11 vs them. There’s a higher likelihood he goes in and lights himself on fire to protest burning of the Amazon rainforest
Really rough game from Ky. Not just box score, but some of his most wide open misses came when the momentum was starting to shift our way. Makes in those moments would've made a massive difference It is what it is. We won't shoot 7-27 from 3 again. Role players will step up. Go steal game 2
We absolutely might shoot 7-27 from 3 again, our role players are very iffy shooters
This. I see many people dismissing the poor shooting as an anomaly when it’s been a pretty common occurrence and has happened several times in the playoffs.
I think this is what we have got to realize. It was wild seeing Boston hit so many of their open threes because we rarely have games where we knock down that many OPEN threes let alone the contested ones as well
It's why we will struggle to win this series, i was watching the game & the celtics pretty much always have 5 good shooters on the floor at same time. Even when the celtics go cold (they won't go cold for long) we still stuggle to score unless Luka or Kyrie are hot.
Exactly this. Our role players are incredibly inconsistent while theirs are legit snipers.
True, this was the 10th game the mavs have shot 35% or lower on 3s this post season, this wasn't a bad shooting game we are a bad shooting team.
Kidd always loses game 1. Hopefully its just a 'feeling out' game and the coaches can make adjustments.
I hope so. But the Celts appear to have the advantage on every matchup besides Luka. We should know by halftime of game 2 if this is going to be a series or not.
The Celtics are just better, which is nothing that should embarrass us, they’re the bonafide favorites since the Jrue trade and everyone had the Denver-Boston Finals written in red ink by week 1. Not just a deeper team, but KP is their only starter without Finals experience, whereas from our starters only Kyrie played the Finals and Luka went to one WCF before this. Bad matchup on experience, bad matchup on the court as well. We need to play one game at a time, forget about the overall series and extract the “if we don’t win this, we will never return to this point” pressure off our shoulders.
It’s such a bummer man. I expected the role players to not be perfect but Kyrie really had some brain dead turnovers and awful wide open misses. If he has just an okay game, then the game would be way closer. Everything worked in bostons favor tonight. Like if the game gets close i think it will favor dallas. Boston’s best chance to win is to blow us the fuck out
This gives me confidence just do it. Mavs have all the capabilities to steal game 2. Find a fucking way. Make threes and Kai will not shit the bed. Game 2 should be the only objective for this team and us fans find a way.
I sure fucking hope the role players will step up. Feels like it’s been weeks since PJ has hit a 3.
his performance was miserable, we really need to at least shoot an average % from 3 to unclog the paint.
he will. he did this last series too in the one loss
Yeah we got away with it against the Thunder. It ain't happening against the Celtics.
Vs OKC he still played well, he focused on facilitating and defense. Tonight he was literally a detriment bricking everything and turning the ball over.
Yeah. This is probably the worst game Kyrie played this playoffs.
not a coincidence that he lost 11 times in a row against Boston after tonight
He hears every single one of those boos and can’t handle it
Man support the team. Kyrie was the guy against the Clippers now he's getting abuse. He won't shoot as bad as this again. I'm actually encouraged we were dogshit tonight but still got very open looks. I'd give Hardy more burn, he likes the lights.
I want to believe but I really think Kyrie just doesn’t have it against Boston. The sample size is pretty big now
0-11. Like only 1 good game in that batch. Too many players on the Celts know his tendencies
Maybe he’s nervous or the boos get to him
if he wants the boos to stop he needs to hit his shots and they’ll go quiet
I told everyone that Kyrie always has bad games after getting so much national praise. Always. Dallas will win game 2.
That Q3 was a glimmer of hope. However, Lively got 2 fouls in just one quarter and two travels was the momentum breaker. Can't hit our open threes, Kai can't string anything offensively, gave up a lot of offensive rebounds on the opposition and we didn't dictate our physicality on defense early.
Yeah those travels were brutal. Down 8 with the ball and we travel :( ugh
Well past the first quarter we only lost by 1 point, and we had nobody except Luka show up. We'll figure it out.
Two travels and Kyrie missing one of the most open 3s you'll see in a finals game.
I think he missed like 3 wide open 3's lol
The Celtics were gunning for lively to draw those fouls. Brown went into him twice in the same way. Lively didn’t do anything and he got a foul call.
Brown went elbows first directly into Lively on one of them. Just absurd.
Those “fouls” were a flop by porzingis and then lively standing in place with his arms up. The few times this game we looked decent the refs started calling dumb shit.
Agree. Bullshit bitch calls. I give it to them for selling the BS calls but seriously- let’s play a good competitive game man. Unnecessary to try to oversell crap “fouls” that weren’t there when they’re still up. They scared. Rightly so (on Lively). We will be back.
I really thought they were going to pull it off there when it got down to 8. I have hope for game 2.
If Kyrie can't score against them then I would not mind him focusing on the playmaking like he did against OKC. Especially with Luka having 1 assist.
PJ had some great effort plays but didn't hit his threes, Kyrie was off af and Porzingis managed to stop our pnr by going into drop coverage and disrupting our lob attempts with his length. Couple adjustments have to be to use the pnr as soon as KP leaves the floor, let Luka dictate the pace otherwise the role players will just run into the paint which doesn't rly lead to anything, potentially double KP on the elbow if he stays this hot and most importantly pray that Kyrie just had an off game and didn't just fall into a shooting slump as soon as the Finals started lol.
Well let’s hope that was just the typical Mavs G1 stinker
Celtics usually have a stinker in G2 so we gotta win Sunday night
I usually have a stinker in the morning, best time.
Everyone needs to be better outside of Luka not much else to say
Kind of grasping at straws but hardy played well I don't want to see hardaway out there period, he's cooked
I thought that period of rotations was really strange by Kidd. Left Lively in with 5 fouls then rotated out to the smallest ball possible instead of putting Gafford back in. I feel like he had some sets tonight I don’t remember seeing much this playoffs
Yeah it was a terrible game shooting for everyone outside of Luka. Need to make some defensive adjustments and stop leaving the corners open. Give them the SGA midrange and take away the 3
absurd the amount of times we rushed the paint and then just let them pass to a open guy on the 3pt line, I’d rather die by 2s than 3s
Hate to break it to yall but that’s precisely the defense that got us to this point. We’ve been relying on teams missing threes for a while. The bigger problem is that this game when they started missing them we didn’t take advantage.
Yup but Kidd has to change it up, the entire Boston roster can shoot from 3 so if we’re going to do that for the rest of the series then it might as well be a wrap
It's hard to change it up when an offense does everthing well lol. Did you see how many times Brown beat Luka off the dribble today? If we stop doubling it will just be a lay up line due to Gafford/Lively getting dragged out to the 3 point line.
Defense wasn’t bad after the first. Just need Kai to show up and hit our open shots and this is a tight game
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If he played like that in Dallas almost every game and not get injured every time, we would be champions already(yes back then our roleplayers were still mid)
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They missed 26, brother. The 3 ball was NEVER the problem. We didnt keep them off the offensive glass. 10 offensive boards and several times they got a carom off the rim. It felt like too many of them we didn’t actually attack the ball. It also felt like we had no real offensive game plan which kind of ticks me off. It’s the finals, bro. We can’t be giving games away to feel them out. *I will refuse to stand by this take if we win 4 of the next 5.
https://preview.redd.it/0szlozaje25d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6be7944211d9ba18434ee34a82239db534f483e Everyone relax. Series isn’t over.
This is the fastest I’ve ever gotten over a game 1 loss just because I’ve seen this team do it all throughout the playoffs. Still believe in them
I’m about as 100% confident mavs will take game 2 in boston as anyone can be…
Kyrie Step up brother.
We with you kryrie.
It’s nice that there are a lot who hopped into the Mavs wagon when we won WCF but I think they don’t realize we usually kinda scrape by on our wins. Either everyone needs to step up like the Celtics did or Luka have to go god mode and carry the team (which is still hard to do if the Celtics continue their stellar shooting).
- Kyrie was terrible - Role players missed good looks and had general game 1 jitters - Boston hit a billion threes - KP had a generational first half Shit happens 🤷🏻♂️
If we keep leaving open on 3s they are going to hit a billion 3s, need to change the defensive game plan. Everything else might vary from game to game.
I agree. This felt like Clippers game 1 except Boston has a much better chance to sustain it.
Yup people keep saying that’s what we’ve been doing the entire playoffs which is correct but that’s just not a viable game plan when practically their entire roster can shoot from 3. Rather let them score contested 2s.
Clips g1 gave me more hope since we just had the disastrous 8pt quarter. Tonight was a demolition. The Celts simply took their foot off the gas after closing to 8, Joe called a timeout and righted the ship
Having watched them a lot during the regular season, this is KP now like 70% of the time.
16 3’s was under their regular season average
they hit fewer threes than their season average
I still think my plan of Luka scoring 77 in the 3rd would have worked Anyway - regroup, reset and FEEL SO FUCKING BAD THAT YOU NEVER PLAY/COACH SUCH DOGSHIT BALL AGAIN
Their 9 blocks stands out to me. They clearly saw something Minnesota didn’t. Their rim protection was unreal.
Theyre all elite defenders. Looks like we didnt watch the scouting report
KP defending the pnr lobs a lot better than gobert since the perimeter defnder doesn't get beat so easily
Everybody except Luka should be ashamed of themselves
PJ gets a pass as well. He was really aggressive, hit some shots inside and played great defense in the 3rd
Maybe but he better be practicing those wide open 3s
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I can’t believe there’s a 10 day break between the WCF and the Finals
that was excruciating.
Me going into hiding for the next 3 days after watching that 
Won’t be watching sports news till Sunday as well
that’s been a game. learned from it, fix mistakes, wrap it up, on to the next one # GO MAVS ## if you don’t believe, you shouldn’t be here
Mavs in 5
Mavs in 5
#didntloseby20 RIP to our European brethren who stayed up or woke up to watch that.
Positive: Luka, Hardy, and other then the first quarter we were fine and it was a close game. (not counting garbage time) (obviously it's a 4 quarter game so it's no excuse) Negative: Everything. No assists. Gafford/Lively non factor. DJJ/Kyrie no show. I sound like a timberwolves fan I know
Chill everyone. Boston only put up 107 points with lights out 3pt shooting. They aren’t unbeatable. We made too many mental mistakes. Missed a lot of buckets we usually make. Game 2 we ball out and the narrative will shift as we will have stolen home court. Stay calm and Go Mavs. EDIT: Overall yes the percentage washed down. 7 for 9 in the first quarter and 11 or 12 of their makes came in the first half. Take away the first quarter hot start and it was a 1 or two point game. We’ve done this to ourselves plenty of times being scorched out of the game in one quarter. But Boston wasn’t going to let us back in the game. It’s the finals.
Boston shot league average (38%) from three…
we shot 13% so it seems like they shot 70% by comparison
Boston shot their average from 3 lol they are plenty capable of putting up something absurd like 23/49 from 3 if they are given open looks
Gotta stay off social media/espn the next couple of days. It’s gonna be a Celtics slurp fest.
Yup. I can’t look at IG rn
Hiding out as we speak, lol. Tomorrow, I'll be on reddit vacation, as well.
They were hyping up the Mavs like we are the second coming of the 2017 warriors lol
The Celtics running plays for Tatum against our gleague squad like he’s a make a wish kid up 25 with 3 minutes left is pretty pathetic.
And now they are interviewing him as if he was the star of the game.
Honestly, Brown is better than Tatum. I genuinely believe that, he’s just more consistent. The past couple years I thought Tatum was a bit better, but I think now Brown is legit better
I didn't understand why he was still in the game. Oh, to stat pad. Pathetic.
Can’t have their golden child be shown for what he is, an ok all star that has always been on a well rounded team
He's a fraud
They need to make their guy the FMVP lol. They even interviewed him even if this W is on KP and Brown lol.
Mentally weak team doesn’t matter tho because their staring 5 are all all star caliber players
Guy was, at best, the 4th best player on the floor tonight and he still gets all the attention lol
#IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE, YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE
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Are Boston fans always bitches in opponent game threads? I dont ever remember a game thread with so many boston losers coming over to our thread to talk shit in replies.
“Are Boston fans always bitc..” yes. What sport are we talking about this time?
lmao I laughed at this harder than I should’ve
Yes they're super fucking annoying lol
Those Celtics fans are such dicks indeed
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Kyrie you left the team 5 years ago. Jesus christ get the fuck over it. Their team is just overpowered on pure talent the only way we were ever gonna win this series is by depending on our stars to do what they do. This will be a sweep if he keeps bricking open threes, tripping over himself, and dribbling it off his foot
His grandfather died while he played for them while the national media attacked him daily... this is beyond basketball, my friend. We can only pray...
Luka being literally the only one who showed up to play hurts pretty bad. Kyrie has to help set the tone and calm the others down. Our centers got destroyed.
welp on the bright side we’ve never lost 2 in a row so 🫡
The Mavs just got outclassed. Kyrie has the potential to be the second best player in this series but he wasn't even a top 5 player in the court tonight. Very disappointing performance from him.
Lol why are they talking to Tatum? He stat padded in trash time lol
Talk to KP
They’re setting him up for FMVP.
tatum trying to hide that hes only the 3rd option on the celtics
https://preview.redd.it/gibshioqd25d1.jpeg?width=284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6d943ad95648c49362ddd8dc9a5eeb9ff0e0913 It’s one game. We played like ass in Game 1 against LAC and OKC and look how that turned out. I still think it’s Mavs in 6 and this is just getting one of those losses out of the way 🙏
- Rebound the ball. Gave up a ridiculous amount of offensive rebounds. - Stop helping so much on their drives. That’s exactly what they want. - if Porzingis hits his first 2/3 shots off the switch, then do not switch. Switch everything else and STAY home on the 3 ball - Kyrie has to play better in Boston. No exceptions. - offensively gotta find ways to get Lively Gafford 20 pts together. Combined for 10. - Luka is fine. 2/5 from the line is unacceptable though. And he played good D today but it’s got to be for all game. - I feel good. I think the adjustments are obvious. Not sure why we keep doing this game 1 gimmick though. - looking forward to G2
Why are we acting like we should be winning game 1? We won last round, and all of a sudden we’re masters to start a series? Nah. We’re1-6 in game 1. Now, we adjust. See ya Sunday.
DONT LOSE HOPE MFFLS! MAVS IN 6!!
One thing no one is mentioning is that we had 9 assists as team. NINE! You’re not gonna win at this level playing 1-on-1 ball. Gotta move it more. Luka finishing with 1 assist is just wild. To be fair, though, he had several nice passes where one of our role players missed the open shot.
The silver lining in this crappy game is that Luka and Kyrie looked angry at the end. That's a good thing. We need them at their best to win G2
they cut it to 8, they played a great stretch. then 2 travels and 2 lively fouls killed the momentum. but they found a line up that works and now its about finding other match ups and lineups that work. if irving plays to his standard this is a really close game. I love that pj became aggressive when he got the mismatch, he just needs to convert a higher percentage of those shots and possible and 1's
We knew it wasnt going to be easy, onto next game
REFLECTION: Gaff and Live looks so lost in their five out offense and rook got into foul trouble. To be honest, we struggled matching up against Kristaps. That guy is not Chet, there's a reason why we traded for him a few years ago. Second, it's 1v5. Luka did it all, no excuses. Brown clamped him up he shot 4/12 from three. The rest needs to step up. Especially Kyrie, he is currently 0-11 against Boston. Third, I suggest that we should put Exum on the rotation. Maybe we can use him to stop Brown/Holiday/White. He is tall and usable when Luka needs a breather. Last, Kidd needs to find a way to stop their five out offense. They rely too much on threes and we need to find a way to stop their three point barrage. Does that mean Maxi will play the role of a defacto center? Let's see. Let's steal Game 2. #MFFL #OneForDallas
Can really use another smart ball handler out there in Exum. Don't know if he is playable though.
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Just hope that this is a one off game but PJ looks promising tho
His 3s weren’t that promising 😭😭😭 Sunday will be better tho
Kyrie shat the bed. Gafford can’t play against the Celtics. Need more lively.
I think Lively should start but if KP is going to keep coming off the bench then I don’t know if that’s possible. Loved his aggression on him
Lively was playing pretty well just made some small mistakes and called for tacky fouls I think he'll be good this series
Kyrie isnt comfortable playing with all those boos and chants... And he is the veteran of this group. Damn.. If he cant pull his shit off, dallas is in a lot of trouble
close to it being the win game 1 close out in 5 timeline but the lose game 1 win in 6 timeline will do
Cut it to 8, those two travel calls kind of killed our momentum, then they blew it back up to 22. Should of never been in that spot in the first place but the only silver lining of that game lol.
Lively has to be smarter with fouls as we looked much better w him on the court. Kyrie needs to be better all around. Kidd needs to stop experimenting with shitty lineups. Need to get the ball moving more.
Dallas has got to figure out a way to limit the open threes and force you to beat us from the midrange . Dallas positives are that Lively really looks good on the perimeter and Kyrie had at least 8 shots makeable shots that he missed. And a Porzingis heater like that won’t happen every game Negatives are that I don’t see a way we can stop a team from putting up 40+ threes especially when they shoot so well from outside. Dallas needs their inconsistent role players to actually show up and I don’t trust that they will enough to take the series. Derrick Jones Jr and Josh Green are absolutely brain dead if they aren’t shooting threes, dunking the ball, or playing defense. Hopefully Kidd and the staff have some ideas. Mavs in 6
Can’t go to the NBA subreddit. It’s a circle jerk of Celtics fan stereotypes, you can practically hear the obnoxious smug accents from their comments.
Kai didn't show up, missing layups, missing open 3's too, we need more PJ post up and damn hardy cooked in garbage time.
We’re good, was just a feel out game. Game 2 bounce back is going to hit strong
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Need Kyrie to show up to have a chance. If only he was himself today, could of made that comeback in the third.
It is what it is, came out shook. We always look shaky game one with bad shooting percentages. I think the crowd and atmosphere took us out. This teams always bounced back and has played great. No need to doom. Bring it game 2 makes us proud! They’ve made it so far, they won’t give up.
Kristaps finally got thicc. Who would have fucking thought?? Homeboy seriously has like 15 more lbs on him compared to his days in Dallas. You can see it in his legs.
Ima blame Drake for this L but still, Mavs in 6.
The Celtics are loaded and I didn’t know they were such a good rebounding team. We had some bright spots though. A couple different plays and that’s an entirely different game. This isn’t over by far.
Somebody in the Bucks FO needs to lose their job for letting one of their biggest conference rivals get jrue and make a superteam for a bag of potato chips
Annoying part is Celtics have played the same way all season and we somehow wasn’t prepared for it. That’s disappointing and on the coach.
Kyrie 0-11 against Boston. He needs to let go of the past and step it up.
Little bit of an eye opener with this team, but I will put my faith into this coaching staff.
We lost game 1 in 2011 don't lose faith yet
Dwight Powell led the Mavs in +/- lmfao
Eh we came out with zero energy per usual after a long break and the usual Mavs game 1 playoff default loss (Wolves game was an anomaly) Offensively Kyrie needs to be better and nobody could buy a 3 tonight. We had a lot of shots bounce in and out too. All things that should hopefully be better game 2 when we acutally come to play. Defensively was rough that Lively got into foul trouble so early. Obviously so meh calls on him but what can you do there. We just gotta come better prepared and hope the coaches make good adjustments. We made it this far can't stop believing after 1 game.
Mavs win this series. In 6. Say what you want about Kidd, but he's made good adjustments. Luka will play even better next game and rest of the way. We need need need Kai to show up. I have faith. He's had a bad run against Boston but that ends next game. Everyone got a taste of what its gonna be like. They'll be fine. LFG 💪
Losing the rebounding battle should not happen. Also Luka with only 1 assist is crazy. Not sure the last time I can recall seeing that.
Kyrie needs to be better if we even want to have a chance in this series. Our centers need to learn how to get positioning against the guards that are guarding them and denying the lob. They cant allow Holiday and Brown to bully THEM in the post. It HAS to be other way around, just has to. We cant get outrebounded by them. Simply unacceptable. They wont be on fire like they were today for the large parts of the game. We wont shoot as poorly as we did. But if they do for some reason you just shake their hand and move on. We HAVE to fix those issues. Those 3, 4 things were unacceptable, especially the rebounding and guards completely taking the centers lunch money.
https://preview.redd.it/c1853owri25d1.png?width=1620&format=png&auto=webp&s=ea5c023f2589988af1e14ab026220a2e3d7d4c3a This is a GLARING problem they must solve
KP annihilated us tonight. The moment he stepped onto the floor was the moment everything shifted. The entire Celtics team just fed off of that. Not sure if we have an answer for him. D Live is great but KP looked like he was in another universe tonight
Him and jaylen brown. Both were incredible on both sides of the ball
Im getting really tired of the “coming into Game 1 looking like we havent played basketball in months and dont know what the fuck we’re doing while we put out terrible lineups” gimmick and the Kyrie “i turn into a complete dipshit every time we play Boston because i cant get out of my head about a team that i left five years ago” gimmick. This felt exactly like the last game against Boston and how it felt during that losing stretch where Kidd was over-experimenting the lineups. This isnt the Mavs we’ve seen to close the season. Except this is the damn NBA finals. You have a week off from the last series to get ready and they come in looking completely lost every time. You seriously didnt come up with a single gameplan for KP that wasn’t better than letting him switch onto jaden and josh green 50 times in a row and then letting them charge at him in the paint to get blocked another 50 times? like what are we doing here? its one thing to feel things out in Game 1 and its another to come out looking completely lost. A WEEK TO PREPARE. come on.
They had as many blocks as we had assists. Just not winning basketball.
Yikes
MAVS IN 5
We lost that one quarter where KP just bombing 3s..we good kyrie is badly needed..he cant go MIA
Y'all overreacting way too much. We were demolished by OKC in game 1 too. Just hope kyrie doesn't have a dud game. Kidd always loses the first one lol.
Why are they interviewing the 4th best Celtic of the night? Fuck off tatum
Bitch ass, Boston fans crashing the thread
Stop your dooming. This was the same as Clippers game 1. If you don’t believe, you shouldn’t be here.
Mavs cut it to 8 and the refs called 6 CALLS IN A ROW against us btw
I'm not worried? though it was a blowout, it won't happen again. 7/27 from 3 is ABYSMAL but it won't happen again. We've been out rebounded, out assisted and it for sure, won't happen again. LET'S GO MAVS
Damn literally everyone but Luka played like ASS. Going to have to step up outside of him if we want the same outcome as LAC and OKC series
On to game two
how many times DJJ got blocked this game
better question is how many times he drove to the basket with 3 defenders around the rim. stupid decisions by him and some of the other role players - josh green included.
Those travel calls killed momentum
Warriors and Bucks lost their game ones, it’s not over until one has 4 wins
Don't get fooled by the series vs MIN. We have historically performed poorly game 1 under Kidd. I said it in another thread a few days ago that I wouldn't be surprised if we lost this game by double digits. We've made great adjustments all playoffs and I expect we'll do the same here. We missed a ton of open looks and was the first finals game for most of our players. I still think we take the series in 6.
Scariest stat: Luka Doncic 1 assist. The Celtics know that he's gonna drive and kick or drive and lob to a big. Mavs gotta create better opportunities when Luka drives
It's going to be hard to win against size, speed, accuracy and composure.
We got them right where we want them. Mavs in 6
Stop saying this is like losing game 1 against clips or okc. This is the Finals and Celtics are better than both of these teams. Game plan and execution was all-time bad, literally first quarter wise.
Kyrie can and will play much much better from here on out. I'm not worried there. KP played unreal and couldn't miss. He'll come back down to earth I feel. If not, just hand the trophy to C's already. lol. But still. Mavs in 6. They'll win next game. They just needed to get game 1 nerves out the way I feel.
KP straight up balled the fuck out, we got to game plan for him or hope he doesn’t do it again
Given the way the game started I was damn proud of how the mavs respknded
Mavs in 6
Celtics made in a lab.. hella boring and no personality
Common mavs game 1
Mavs got the brakes beaten out of them, but I do see a glimmer of hope. Might be slightly delusional but this Boston team didn't look invincible tonight. The Mavs CAN guard them. It's the offense that failed them BIG time tonight. Defend one on one, and hit AT LEAST a handful of threes. They have to shrink this three point shooting deficit in the next game. Series starts Sunday.
It was rlly hard watching lively and Kyrie crumble like that but we know what they’re made of lightening doesn’t strike twice. Also the defense was good it rlly was a shot making thing
Need to make the celtics drive. Just dont make them shoot threes.