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Quote from: MK-74 on May 25, 2024, 06:42:02 PM

Game 3 of the Indiana Pacers - Boston Celtics series will start in half an hour.
My favorite again tonight is Boston Celtics, I think we will watch a good game again.

Well, The Indiana Pacer have started the game in an impressive manner and if they can keep this momentum in the 2nd half, they sure should get an easy win here, they were up by as many as 19 in the 2nd Quarter, but went into the break with a dozen lead.

Andrew Nembhad, TJ McConnell and Myles Turner all have exceed my expectations of the them, they've been crushing the Celtics inside the paint with some terrific midrange scoring, they put 69 points in the 1st half and only scored only 2 3-points field goals, that shows how effective they've been from close range. The Celtics doesn't seem to have a defensive response to this yet because it's all the Pacers guys making the right plays and getting involved with the ball rotation. The second half should be even more interesting, we'll see what adjustments Joe Mazzulla would implement to stop this bleeding.

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It was a very exciting game again, Luka Doncic won with a game winner.
It was a very very good game, I'm glad Dallas won, hopefully we will see them in the finals.

Game 3 of the Indiana Pacers - Boston Celtics series will start in half an hour.
My favorite again tonight is Boston Celtics, I think we will watch a good game again.

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I wasn't expecting this series to become 2-0, led by the Mavs. ANT has not been consistent for how many games already. Although he is scoring in double digits, it's far from impressive considering he had a lot of field goal attempts. Tonight, he only made 5 out of 17. Also, KAT. One of the Wolves' problems is consistency in offense, unlike in Dallas, where they have Doncic.

The Wolves continue to frustrate their fans in this series. It looks like the Wolves players underestimated their opponent and were very irresponsible in the second half. Just look at the fact that the Wolves led by 18 points with 3 minutes left in the first half but still managed to lose by 1 point. That's an epic fail.

It's not about underestimating since we all know 18 points isn't that many in the NBA and a lot of teams came back from that. This is more like the coach not knowing what he's doing in the last three to four possessions or that ANT simply choked. He threw two bad passes which allowed the Mavs to score more points and take the lead.

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Woj is reporting that there will be no Tyrese Haliburton for game 3 with Indiana already down 0-2 in the series. That doesn’t inspire much confidence for them to make it out of this round. Looking like we are going to see Boston and Dallas in the Finals unless Minnesota or Indiana steps things up real fast.

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Quote from: boyptc on May 25, 2024, 03:41:20 AM

Poor Timberwolves, got beaten twice.

Maybe they like to get their win on Mavs court.

Quote from: STINKYBEE on May 25, 2024, 02:43:30 AM

Wolves are mentally still at the previous series. They thought they could win it all after beating nuggets Grin

They don't like that they do but this 2nd lost for the conference finals will definitely going to put some mental battle for each of them.

Almost got that good adjustments and snatch a win from Dallas homecourt, that last shot from Luka, it's an statement that he's really going to accept the challenge, this series really something that interest the fans, both young superstars are fighting for the new face of the league both ANT and Luka surely bring their respective name on top and whoever wins the conference finals will surely add more hypes to their names.

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The difference in experience showed in this match. Edwards may be a potential big star but with experience he wouldn't have made these mistakes at the end of the game. On the other side, Doncic scored a super match winner over DPOY Gobert. He won the game for his team with that stepback 3. Dallas took a huge advantage by winning 2 games in a row on the road. Even if they win only one of their home games, they will probably reach the finals.

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Luka is carrying the Mavs the whole game and if the Wolves can't lock him down, I don't see a chance of them winning.

Wolves are mentally still at the previous series. They thought they could win it all after beating nuggets Grin

This series might just be lime the last where the road teams win. Next game for the Wolves is pretty much like a game 7 because if they go down 3-0 it's a wrap. I wasn't expecting the Wolves to go down 2-0 here but Luka is a straight savage. Not gonna lie whoever doesn't think he is a top 3 player in the league is crazy. Dude might not even be in his prime yet. Enjoying the show that's for sure.

They can't double Luka because that will open up a lot of shooters, and in case their outside shooters struggles, Irving will always come into the rescue to attack the paint with some alley oops to their big men. Dallas not only relying outside, but their ball movement is very much impressive that everyone is getting an opportunity to score. With Luka and Irving great at attacking the paint, it makes their bigs better and better in this game.

In fact, if we compare the production of Lively and Gafford, they could easily beat the production of KAT and Gobert.

That shot on the rib of Luka by Gobert was crazy, I wonder why the refs didn't review it and gave Gobert a flagrant foul. Shocked

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That was definitely a close game, and with just a minute left when Wolves was up 5 points I assumed the game was over and did not expected Wolves to miss that much.

Plus, we have seen Kyrie miss very important two crucial free throws so I thought that was definitely the end of the game. Then they came back with one Irving and one Doncic three and got the win, it is really magical how teams could make a great comeback. To be fair, at this point I think that both games has been very close because talent levels of these two teams are very close as well, I do not think that it would change much, it is going to be quite close for a long time.

I do understand that we are not going to see all that much change, but rest of the games will probably be close too.

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Quote from: STINKYBEE on May 25, 2024, 02:43:30 AM

Quote from: malcovi2 on May 24, 2024, 10:28:03 PM

Luka is carrying the Mavs the whole game and if the Wolves can't lock him down, I don't see a chance of them winning.

Wolves are mentally still at the previous series. They thought they could win it all after beating nuggets Grin

This series might just be lime the last where the road teams win. Next game for the Wolves is pretty much like a game 7 because if they go down 3-0 it's a wrap. I wasn't expecting the Wolves to go down 2-0 here but Luka is a straight savage. Not gonna lie whoever doesn't think he is a top 3 player in the league is crazy. Dude might not even be in his prime yet. Enjoying the show that's for sure.

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Quote from: Shinpako09 on May 25, 2024, 05:25:01 AM

I wasn't expecting this series to become 2-0, led by the Mavs. ANT has not been consistent for how many games already. Although he is scoring in double digits, it's far from impressive considering he had a lot of field goal attempts. Tonight, he only made 5 out of 17. Also, KAT. One of the Wolves' problems is consistency in offense, unlike in Dallas, where they have Doncic.

The Wolves continue to frustrate their fans in this series. It looks like the Wolves players underestimated their opponent and were very irresponsible in the second half. Just look at the fact that the Wolves led by 18 points with 3 minutes left in the first half but still managed to lose by 1 point. That's an epic fail.

They are giving false hope to their fans since imagine that they are dominating on early quarter and they really show an impressive performance which leave some thoughts to their fans that they are winning. But they always come up short especially when it comes in late quarter. They allow Dallas to execute their plays and eat those big leads that's why they got choked and lose. Lucky they have Naz Reid always giving them some hope since he is so consistent on this series.

I wonder what Dallas feel on the last shot take by Reid since for sure they provably got nervous when he take that shot knowing that he is capable to knock that off especially that he is doing good on 3 pt area but he come up short with that. Game 3 I think it became more questionable to them since as we see right now that Dallas is already gaining a lot of confident for winning 2 consecutive games on the road. Luka is also hurt since he got a lot of injury but he still provide a solid performance to help his team to win on game two. His clutch 3 point is so solid and that secure Dallas to win this game.

Don't blame the Wolves here. As long as the game isn't over, no winner has been declared yet. It's not that they underestimated Dallas; the reality is Dallas is just the better team. But the series is far from over, so just chill out and wait for the next game.

If the Wolves want to come back, they need to win the next game, as no team has ever come back in the history of the NBA when down 0-3. It's been two games, and ANT is still not making his usual numbers. He could easily score 30 points in previous series, but here his shooting is very poor, and you can see he's struggling. The first half was great as the ball movement was good, however, when Dallas slowly trim their deficit, the Wolves panicked and tried to play isolation ball, especially ANT. That's why they lost, because Dallas played with good teamwork.

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Quote from: dwyane36 on May 25, 2024, 08:15:33 AM

Quote from: Shinpako09 on May 25, 2024, 05:25:01 AM

I wasn't expecting this series to become 2-0, led by the Mavs. ANT has not been consistent for how many games already. Although he is scoring in double digits, it's far from impressive considering he had a lot of field goal attempts. Tonight, he only made 5 out of 17. Also, KAT. One of the Wolves' problems is consistency in offense, unlike in Dallas, where they have Doncic.

The Wolves continue to frustrate their fans in this series. It looks like the Wolves players underestimated their opponent and were very irresponsible in the second half. Just look at the fact that the Wolves led by 18 points with 3 minutes left in the first half but still managed to lose by 1 point. That's an epic fail.

They are giving false hope to their fans since imagine that they are dominating on early quarter and they really show an impressive performance which leave some thoughts to their fans that they are winning. But they always come up short especially when it comes in late quarter. They allow Dallas to execute their plays and eat those big leads that's why they got choked and lose. Lucky they have Naz Reid always giving them some hope since he is so consistent on this series.

I wonder what Dallas feel on the last shot take by Reid since for sure they provably got nervous when he take that shot knowing that he is capable to knock that off especially that he is doing good on 3 pt area but he come up short with that. Game 3 I think it became more questionable to them since as we see right now that Dallas is already gaining a lot of confident for winning 2 consecutive games on the road. Luka is also hurt since he got a lot of injury but he still provide a solid performance to help his team to win on game two. His clutch 3 point is so solid and that secure Dallas to win this game.

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Quote from: Shinpako09 on May 25, 2024, 05:25:01 AM

I wasn't expecting this series to become 2-0, led by the Mavs. ANT has not been consistent for how many games already. Although he is scoring in double digits, it's far from impressive considering he had a lot of field goal attempts. Tonight, he only made 5 out of 17. Also, KAT. One of the Wolves' problems is consistency in offense, unlike in Dallas, where they have Doncic.

The Wolves continue to frustrate their fans in this series. It looks like the Wolves players underestimated their opponent and were very irresponsible in the second half. Just look at the fact that the Wolves led by 18 points with 3 minutes left in the first half but still managed to lose by 1 point. That's an epic fail.

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Quote from: Shinpako09 on May 25, 2024, 05:25:01 AM

I wasn't expecting this series to become 2-0, led by the Mavs. ANT has not been consistent for how many games already. Although he is scoring in double digits, it's far from impressive considering he had a lot of field goal attempts. Tonight, he only made 5 out of 17. Also, KAT. One of the Wolves' problems is consistency in offense, unlike in Dallas, where they have Doncic.

It was Conley and Reid who made them compete with the shooting of the Mavs. It's been 2 games already that ANT has been struggling, he cannot carry his team with that kind of shooting. Now down 0-2, I don't think we will see the same scenario of their last game where they won on the road, or if that will happen, it's still Mavericks that will advance as they'll win game 7.

Yeah these two really help the team to lead. At first, when they are up like 15 points, I thought it's going to be a blowout win by the Wolves and they'll even the series, but slowly the Mavericks came back and the Wolves offense slowly to deteriorate. Reid was really awesome, he was almost perfect in the 3 point are until he miss 1 and then miss the supposed game winning shot.

The role players played well but the starters really struggled in this games.

Edwards 5-17
Towns 4-16
McDaniels 1-6

And they are outrebounded again by the smaller Mavs. And look at these two bigs from the mavs, you can appreciate their consistency.

Gafford 8-10
Lively II 6-6

Quote from: Japinat on May 25, 2024, 05:56:20 AM

Kyrie came up clutch in the 4th quarter again, when Luka needed him, he is their to step up and carry the team, but the winning shot of Luka changes everything, that puts a dagger to the heart of the Wolves and even trash talked Gobert.

He didn't start strong but in the 4th quarter, a barrage of 3 point shots were on display that was able to keep them close with the Wolves.
That turnover by ANT in less than a minute was huge, and because of that Dallas were able to call a timeout, design a great play that resulted to a winning shot by Luka.

So who's the real MVP now?

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Quote from: Shinpako09 on May 25, 2024, 05:25:01 AM

I wasn't expecting this series to become 2-0, led by the Mavs. ANT has not been consistent for how many games already. Although he is scoring in double digits, it's far from impressive considering he had a lot of field goal attempts. Tonight, he only made 5 out of 17. Also, KAT. One of the Wolves' problems is consistency in offense, unlike in Dallas, where they have Doncic.

It was Conley and Reid who made them compete with the shooting of the Mavs. It's been 2 games already that ANT has been struggling, he cannot carry his team with that kind of shooting. Now down 0-2, I don't think we will see the same scenario of their last game where they won on the road, or if that will happen, it's still Mavericks that will advance as they'll win game 7.

Kyrie came up cluctch in the 4th quarter again, when Luka needed him, he is their to step up and carry the team, but the winning shot of Luka changes everything, that puts a dagger to the heart of the Wolves and even trash talked Gobert.

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I wasn't expecting this series to become 2-0, led by the Mavs. ANT has not been consistent for how many games already. Although he is scoring in double digits, it's far from impressive considering he had a lot of field goal attempts. Tonight, he only made 5 out of 17. Also, KAT. One of the Wolves' problems is consistency in offense, unlike in Dallas, where they have Doncic.

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Quote from: OgNasty on May 24, 2024, 11:44:56 AM

I’m not decided yet on who I think will win tonight’s game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Minnesota Timberwolves but I’m glad the game is on TNT while we still get to enjoy Ernie, Shaq, Chuck, & Kenny while we’re able to. I expect another close game, but I think eventually Minnesota will get it figured out how to win this series.

Close game it is, but the Mavs took 2 games in Minnesota and are now on a 2-0 lead while heading home for game 3 and 4. However, I can't tell yet whether the Mavs are gonna win this series or not. With the game that close, I think the Wolves may be able to bounce back in games 3 and 4, cause it seems like home court advantages is not really a huge of an advantage now unlike what we've thought it was before.
BUT, if the Wolves are gonna lose on Sunday, then I have to consider it the series is done. Since there are no team in the NBA who win a series being down 0-3.
I felt really bad for Gobert, he's been criticized over and over again in every series for his DPOY award. That Luka game winning three in his face may serves as a reminder that he need to play more defense. All I know is when the Wolves plays good defense, it's like an automatic W for them. Let's see what will happen in game 3.

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Poor Timberwolves, got beaten twice.

Maybe they like to get their win on Mavs court.

Quote from: STINKYBEE on May 25, 2024, 02:43:30 AM

Wolves are mentally still at the previous series. They thought they could win it all after beating nuggets Grin

They don't like that they do but this 2nd lost for the conference finals will definitely going to put some mental battle for each of them.

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Quote from: malcovi2 on May 24, 2024, 10:28:03 PM

Luka is carrying the Mavs the whole game and if the Wolves can't lock him down, I don't see a chance of them winning.

Wolves are mentally still at the previous series. They thought they could win it all after beating nuggets Grin

I don't think so, Wolves are prepared in this series, but they think that they can continue with their torrid shooting. As for Luka, no one in the league can lock him up. He can still if he wanted to, he had a lot of tools so no matter what you the Wolves are going to put into him, he will score. The scary part is that he has this whole arsenal, he is not just pure scoring, but he can pass the ball as well and good at finding open men when they double team him. So the Wolves are not in a good position already in this series, they are down 0-2 and so I doubt that they can comeback in this series to even it out at Mavs homecourt.

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I don't understand the Timberwolves and what Finch has told them to do when they're on a big lead. They keep on shooting outside and threes and they keep on missing.

They have a lot of turnovers and then until the Mavs able to cope with their lead, they have to real shoot the threes. Thanks to Naz Reid, to be honest he's able to carry the team not until that very last three that has been passed to him, I thought that he'd be on a three's streak.

But that very needed shot didn't got in.

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Quote from: malcovi2 on May 24, 2024, 10:28:03 PM

Luka is carrying the Mavs the whole game and if the Wolves can't lock him down, I don't see a chance of them winning.

That game winner was impressive. Luka is that guy… The Minnesota Timberwolves have got to be careful here. If they give up game 3 then all the sudden they’ll find themselves in an impossible situation. I expect they’ll respond with a win, but that’s what I thought we’d see today and the Mavericks got it done.

It's hard to defend against Luka, a slow-mo crossover and you'd never know his eyes where at. Probably at the ring or someone who's free on the three point line.

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Quote from: malcovi2 on May 24, 2024, 10:28:03 PM

Luka is carrying the Mavs the whole game and if the Wolves can't lock him down, I don't see a chance of them winning.

Wolves are mentally still at the previous series. They thought they could win it all after beating nuggets Grin

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