Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 798. (Read 920810 times)

Yes, that's right! That was just one of the bad nights that the Nuggets are experiencing and certainly that doesn't mean that they are much weaker than the Grizzlies just because they failed that night. Both teams are good at home, but the Nuggets are more of a threat on the road, you can see it on their record.

The Nuggets got 15 wins and 15 lose on the road while the Grizz just got 11 wins and 18 losses. I even bet that the Nuggets will still dominate the whole East conference until the whole season is over and the Grizzlies will always follow suit as they are really games away from the 1st seed.

That's what I expected as well that the Suns might go home with a win on their side because we know that their current roster is somehow a threat already to any team on the league right now even if Durant aren't yet around with them. But that wasn't the case on the game their earlier because they even haven't got any round in their favor, the Bucks was always one step ahead with them. It's evident enough that the Bucks are really confident because they just let Middleton in between quarter.

Lakers beating Mavs with such a comeback is looking great for Lakers, but it also looks horrible for Mavs at the same time. Whenever something amazing happens, we forget to look at the bad thing that happened with it, like for example right now everyone congratulates Lakers for such a great win, but nobody is questioning why Mavs lost this way at all, they should.

I believe that this whole Kyrie with Doncic thing looks to be a bit of a question mark in the sense that when it is regular time, in second quarter, they were up by so much because everyone shared the ball, but when it matters, they had a trouble with it and this doubt they had ended their chance to win.

It's not surprising; it seems like that's the current rule that the NBA has adopted. I still remember when Mitchell dropped a career-high 71 points, and he was also tested after the game. Congratulations to Dame, who had fun with the lack of defense of the Rockets. He couldn't miss his 3-point shots and is now second to Klay Thompson for most 3-pointers made in a single game. Lillard made 13, while Thompson made 14.

Curse? On what part? 2 consecutive losses only and you are saying Westbrook is a curse to the team already.

Maybe you just use the wrong words to it, but saying that Westbrook is the curse of the team is a irrelevant. I mean he's performing good on his last 2 games. Don't blame solely to him that's why they lost. On the game against the Kings, fatigue got them that's why they lost. In this game against the Nuggets, the Nuggets are simply a better team than them and knowing that they played on their home court where the Nuggets are the best on the home, they already have a high chance of losing.

I think now is the time to not blame Westbrook solely for the losing of the Clippers. After all, it's a team sport, and it's everyone's fault if they losses.

It's DAME time!!!!!!

Lillard is the oldest player in NBA history to score 70+ points, and the 8th player in NBA history to score 70+ points. It's just unfortunate that he's on a team where there is little to no chance of playing into the playoffs. His loyalty towards the Blazers is at it's highest.

Congrats go to Dame on his career night with one of the highest single game scoring performances in NBA history. The craziest thing about the story though is how the NBA pulled a vial of his blood immediately following the game for blood testing. Dame said it absolutely killed one of the greatest moments of his career and was the first time he ever had to give blood for a PED test.

People have to realize that the Nuggets lost to Memphis because they had a bad shooting night. Now, they beat the Clippers, and this is how they play. They trust each other, and that's why they are very dangerous as a team. The good thing about the Nuggets is that they have reliable players inside and outside, unlike the Clippers, who do not have a dominant center like Jokic.

Jokic is a back-to-back MVP, and no one can stop him except Giannis. 

Yeah, the new roster knows how to play defense and they are not afraid now to take the shot unlike before they are waiting for LeBron
to take charge and he mostly declaring the game.

We have seen a game play today. They are rotating and finding the open man, but for sure, the big difference is when you have a good
defense, they manage to give a hard time with Luka, not to allow him to make an easy basket.

They are now close to reach the top 10 spots, almost reaching the last spot for the Play in, there are games to win which are really important
for them now.

Hey! C'mon!
Westbrook is not playing during the overtime against the Nuggets. It was just a competitive game and Jokic, Murray, and Michael Porter Jr. instantly switched on their monster type of game while for the Clippers, it was just Kawhi Leonard who is answering.
Jokic especially, who can stop that guy? 99th career triple-double, 23rd season triple-double. That last assists for a Bruce Brown alley-oop dunk put the dagger to end the game.
Michael Porter Jr. is growing stronger, now he is attacking the paint too which will make him a scary player with lots of options to score

Now the curse is on the Clippers because they have Westbrook. Two consecutive losses in overtime - that hurts. I guess the most important thing is the plays in the dying minutes; it looks like they are struggling in those moments. They should improve in that area, otherwise their ranking will slide down.

in the last minutes of the game if the nets hadn't made many mistakes they would have won the game, but as I said before for some reason whenever they got closer to the hawks and the difference in points was reduced to 2 points the nets would do something stupid that it gave the possibility to the hawks to increase the difference of points to 5, in the last minutes until the hawks reached 7 points of advantage, I really thought that the game would end with a big difference of points with the guaranteed victory of the hawks, but the nets again they found a way to reduce that point difference to 2 points, my mistake was not having bet on hawks when they had the same point and the odd for hawks to win was @2.00, I would have made a good profit, it didn't take many minutes for the odd to drop a lot, it made me irritated, I watched the whole game waiting to have the same opportunity again

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Mavericks 108 - 111 Lakers

in the first period we were massacred, the lackers insisted on the 3-point launches that only failed, Kyrie Irving from the Mavericks was our biggest nightmare, in the second period we lost again, but it was only a defeat with a difference of 2 points, in the third period recovered and we left with a comfortable victory and in the fourth period it was very disputed, but we managed to win

They really change a lot when their rooster changed, it seems their trades are pretty much effective because they overhaul their rooster and get a good supporting cast to help them on their important run to reach their target. Its good to see them to reach on playoffs since this current rooster is now what we can say a title contender compare before.

That's a good sign that the Lakers have improved after that trade. They beat a good team, the Dallas Mavericks, so there's no reason they can't win against other tough teams. They are sharing the ball well, and LeBron does not have to carry his team; he just has to play his normal game. There's not much pressure on him, but they still win games because they follow the system.

Well, it seems that the Lakers carved its name again into the history books and proved that their team can still be worth the trust even if it's already down by 27 points. That gap was really hard to comeback especially in this case that the gap ballooned that much in the 2nd half, it was sure hard for the Lakers but they still managed to do so. It was a team effort after all and not just LeBron James alone, now they're on their 3rd winning streak but the next five games will be much tougher for them.

This season, Lakers 2-5 now, when trailing 25 points or more. They were also down 25 against the Portland Trailblazers.

And biggest in James comeback in James career.

I agree with what has been said on AD, he seems to be responding on what James said previously that as a team they need to perform very well. And with the likes of Vanderbilt, very resilient in defense and offense too could have a positive impact to Davis.

Having a healthy AD and a competitive, hard work from LeBron, the chance of winning games against a strong team is possible. We see good adjustment with all the players and they are focusing on both the offense and defense.

Good to see that the coaching staff are really working on how to balance players that will play alongside
with AD and LeBron, they all helping these two superstars, nice win against the home team very close
and it's really a team effort that provides them the good outcome.

They've been doing good and it's really nice to see them winning against a strong team like the Mavs despite their struggles in the first half, they managed to fix it and ended up winning the game. I really hope to see more of these kinds of play by the Lakers and since Westbrook is out, they have been winning much more than they have him on the team. Now they really need to work harder and better to take care of their physical health because they are a few games away to steal that number 10 spot which might be their ticket to convert it for a playoff spot.

it was a great game!
The difference that AD makes in the Lakers is totally clear, together with LeBron, I believe that one complements the other, I almost forget, but lately, Schroder has been helping the Lakers in some games.

I quickly looked at the stats/statistics - Mavs vs Lakers game...
The Mavericks were very lucky, as the Lakers only had a 17.6% success on 3 point shoot, while the Mavs had 40.8%

Oh, by the way, I liked Kyrie Irving's performance in this game, he scored 21 points, 11 rebounds and he played 38 minutes in that game!

Watching it again, Smart and White are switching on who will inbound the ball, I think that was a pretty good strategy to also confuse the 76ers' defense. It ended with Smart making the play for Tatum. Melton was wrong at not looking at where the ball will come, he is too focused on Tatum and in the end giving him enough space for a three.

They actually won. One of the biggest come back indeed.
Mavericks had a hard time looking for a shot. Vanderbilt giving Doncic a hard time shooting the ball, he is using his long arm span and his big body to make Luka miss most of his shots or just close the window for a pass.
Vanderbilt contributing big for their defense while AD is doing the rest for their offense. Mavs should start learning more screen and rolls.

This is what happens when your team focuses more on offense that you are lacking of defense.

They got the lead to as high as 27 points in the 2nd quarter, but on the 2nd half, turnovers, bad defense, bad rotation, too many and-ones, etc. The Mavericks can't stop that Lebron-AD duo out there. Well, they really are unstoppable especially Davis "when healthy". What's good about the new Lakers is that, both Lebron and AD already have enough support for their role players in terms of both defense and offense. Vanderbilt got a double-double 15 pts and 17 reb while Schroeder got 16 points. Some of their role players didn't score that much, but who cares. They just made a history against one of the worst defensive teams right now in the league.

I agree with what you said though that the Lakers are still a few games away from clinching at least the play-in spot so this win is nothing to them or at least it's not what they're focusing on. They're more focused on the remaining games and their adjustments that they will be making.