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Quote from: yahoo62278 on June 14, 2024, 10:11:45 PM

Def not going to see a sweep in the series.

Definitely not, especially when the other team doesn't mind losing it while the other is giving their all.

This game looks funny to me. The Boston aren't themselves. I can see White not hitting the basket when he's been an amazing shooter. I can see Holiday not shooting the ball and prefers doing a hard pass when he's widely open.

Well, it's probably understandable. To be proclaimed the champions at home and in front of your own crowd certainly feels better.

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The Celtics were the only team that deserved to be champions with their performance from the beginning to the end of the season. Their opponents' injury problems and the claim that they are on an easy path can't overshadow their championship. They also had the best record in the regular season, beating every team.
Today the Mavs can make one last stand and win a game. Dončić and Kyrie won't want to be remembered as the team that got swept in the finals, but their mood after Game 3 didn't look good. The Celtics may not be too hung up on tonight's game to celebrate at home. In the end, the Celtics are guaranteed to be champions. The big question is whether the FMVP will be JB or JT.

I do agree, we should give credit to the Boston Celtics, and I wouldn't say it's a easy path although when they faces team in the playoff, it's very unfortunately that the franchise player got injured. But I still I think that the Celtics will win against Miami even if Butler is healthy, in my opinion.

Mavs though is leading the game right now, it's a huge lead so maybe they are not going to be swept here.

For me the Finals MVP should be given to JB, in my opinion.

Def not going to see a sweep in the series. Dallas is up by 33 currently and not looking like they will slow down. Boston has 3 guys in foul trouble as well Tatum with 4, Brown with 3, and Horford with 3.

I don't see the Mavericks winning the series since noone has come back from down 3-0, but if they can do this for 3 more games it would be historic.

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Quote from: EFS on June 14, 2024, 07:22:47 PM

The Celtics were the only team that deserved to be champions with their performance from the beginning to the end of the season. Their opponents' injury problems and the claim that they are on an easy path can't overshadow their championship. They also had the best record in the regular season, beating every team.
Today the Mavs can make one last stand and win a game. Dončić and Kyrie won't want to be remembered as the team that got swept in the finals, but their mood after Game 3 didn't look good. The Celtics may not be too hung up on tonight's game to celebrate at home. In the end, the Celtics are guaranteed to be champions. The big question is whether the FMVP will be JB or JT.

I do agree, we should give credit to the Boston Celtics, and I wouldn't say it's a easy path although when they faces team in the playoff, it's very unfortunately that the franchise player got injured. But I still I think that the Celtics will win against Miami even if Butler is healthy, in my opinion.

Mavs though is leading the game right now, it's a huge lead so maybe they are not going to be swept here.

For me the Finals MVP should be given to JB, in my opinion.

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Quote from: OgNasty on June 14, 2024, 08:52:04 PM

Klay Thompson has removed Warriors references from his social media and unfollowed the Warriors on Instagram. Seems like we may have a trade on our hands here. Klay had a pretty bad year so this isn’t surprising news. Now we wait to see where he ends up and how he feels about it. I’d guess he wants to end his career as a Laker like his Dad, but we’ll see.

I think it's pretty obvious that Klay might not be sign by the Warriors again based on last season's performance alone and there have been a lot of trade talks already. To be fair, not just him, but Looney, Kuminga and Andrew Wiggins names are floating.

Nothing personal though, it's just business and if he can get a bigger contract on other teams so why not take that opportunity?

Of course for Warriors fan, they wanted him to stay, but everything is up on the air right now.

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Quote from: OgNasty on June 14, 2024, 08:52:04 PM

Klay Thompson has removed Warriors references from his social media and unfollowed the Warriors on Instagram. Seems like we may have a trade on our hands here. Klay had a pretty bad year so this isn’t surprising news. Now we wait to see where he ends up and how he feels about it. I’d guess he wants to end his career as a Laker like his Dad, but we’ll see.

I know that this means business to them when they get to transfer to another one, but is it necessary to just unfollow and undo everything that has signed you for almost all or half of your career?

Anyway, that's for sure that he'd be out for the Dub nation.

And going with game 4 today with Mavs and Celtics, looking like we're going to see an extension of it. Anyway, it's just on 2nd quarter and will wait until it ends.

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Klay Thompson has removed Warriors references from his social media and unfollowed the Warriors on Instagram. Seems like we may have a trade on our hands here. Klay had a pretty bad year so this isn’t surprising news. Now we wait to see where he ends up and how he feels about it. I’d guess he wants to end his career as a Laker like his Dad, but we’ll see.

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Quote from: EFS on June 14, 2024, 07:22:47 PM

The Celtics were the only team that deserved to be champions with their performance from the beginning to the end of the season.

Despite that, they still get a lot of hate but I guess haters are everywhere and even in the most beloved teams and players.

Quote from: EFS on June 14, 2024, 07:22:47 PM

Their opponents' injury problems and the claim that they are on an easy path can't overshadow their championship. They also had the best record in the regular season, beating every team.

That might be a factor but not really a big thing at all. Fans are throwing to them this matter as an advantage for them but what they can do? it's not their fault that they're healthy and their opponents through the ladder of the finals are on that situation.

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The Celtics were the only team that deserved to be champions with their performance from the beginning to the end of the season. Their opponents' injury problems and the claim that they are on an easy path can't overshadow their championship. They also had the best record in the regular season, beating every team.
Today the Mavs can make one last stand and win a game. Dončić and Kyrie won't want to be remembered as the team that got swept in the finals, but their mood after Game 3 didn't look good. The Celtics may not be too hung up on tonight's game to celebrate at home. In the end, the Celtics are guaranteed to be champions. The big question is whether the FMVP will be JB or JT.

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Quote from: MK-74 on June 13, 2024, 08:22:20 AM

I have to accept that Dallas is not going to win this Cup. Last night was their last chance but they lost again and the series is 3-0. Boston will win the last game or win one more game and become champions.
I'm really disappointed with this result.

It's okay bro, that's how it goes in the NBA finals. We're getting to see how it will happen for this season's finals and I guess every Mavs have already accepted it that Boston Celtics is this season's champions.

Yes, everyone knows that it will take a miracle for Dallas to win the championship, it's just a matter of score. Maybe they can forced a game 5 and avoid that sweep but that's it. But this could be a learning experience for the Mavs and look for areas that they need to improved and I'm seeing some trades need to be done with their role players here as they are missing. I do agree that it's about time for the Celtics duo of Brown and Tatum to win their first NBA championship together. And they also have to thank the Milwaukee Bucks because they were able to acquire Holiday that really makes the difference playing defense on Luka.

Let's wait if they can force to game 5 later. The world is tuning in for this match because many are expecting that this has to be their ending. But even if everyone wants to see them go at all in the game 7, the odds are very low that they're going to be there. I'm not sure if that article that I've seen or just an headline that I pass through that Luka is blaming Kidd for his actions? That's no good if that's really happening there, many didn't believed a Luka-Kyrie tandem but they made it far but not so far in the finals.

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Quote from: MiliMil on June 14, 2024, 11:24:48 AM

Boston are ridiculously loaded. The only weakness is their bench which doesn't matter during the regular season because the starters play more minutes. As long as they stay healthy they will repeat as champs next season.

The bench can be somehow helpful if there are reserved that are future superstars. But most of them are just literally for reserve and we've only seen a few of them that came from being benched to becoming a first five. And for these games that are in the finals, the team has to secure their title especially for the Boston and they'll only be given playing time if the time is lesser and the lead that they have is no longer reachable. We get to see this kind of plays from teams and allowing the benchies to play and have some play time but it doesn't really matter that much at all.

Or, when their opposing team is on the lead and they can't reach it anymore. And so, coaches allows these benchies to play and just let the time tick until it goes to zero. Let's see if the Celtics are going to do that but IMO, Joe won't allow that and they have to secure this and everyone from the bench is going to understand that. Or who knows if they'll be given playing time this time since it's very likely that this is the last match of the series.

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I just watched a video of Luka Doncic defense lowlights, to be fair while he is amazing on offense, it looked like it was obvious he didn't had any defensive help at all, they need to fix that if they ever want to win a ring.

The amount of times Brown and Tatum just blown by Doncic was just insane, not just once or twice, it was like a dozen times or more. I can't emphasize how important defense is on a finals series, because that is what makes you the winner. Like people always say, offense wins you games, defense wins you rings, and Doncic needs to fix his defense. If not, at least find a way to cover his defense, Curry was never much of a defender, and yet Warriors figured something out to fix that issue, so Dallas could do the same.

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Quote from: OgNasty on June 14, 2024, 02:24:59 PM

I’m a little bit bummed out that this could be the final day of the NBA season and a little surprised that it isn’t the Minnesota Timberwolves left standing at the end, but this was a great year. As most of the stars like LeBron, KD, Stephen Curry, etc. get old and start to retire, the NBA is going to start looking like a new league. I’m nervous.

It's always like that. New guard comes in and no one knows how it will be. But with ANT, Luka, wembanyama, etc etc it's gonna keep on progressing. I thought that at the end of the jordan era that it will never be the same but a whole group of new stars emerge. The league is in good hands.

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I’m a little bit bummed out that this could be the final day of the NBA season and a little surprised that it isn’t the Minnesota Timberwolves left standing at the end, but this was a great year. As most of the stars like LeBron, KD, Stephen Curry, etc. get old and start to retire, the NBA is going to start looking like a new league. I’m nervous.

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Quote from: MK-74 on June 14, 2024, 10:17:04 AM

The 4th game of the final series will be played tonight. The champion may be determined tonight and it looks like it will happen.
I have no hope for Dallas anymore, I think they won't win tonight and the Boston Celtics will win and become champions.

I thought they would win at least 1 match, I'm still optimistic about that. Maybe they will win this match, we can say that they no longer have a chance in the final series, but no one wants to see 4-0.
I will stop sleeping to watch this match live, final matches are always nice. I want to see Doncic do something, otherwise I'll be very disappointed Cheesy

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However, it is not that far fetched, they didn't give Curry his first FMVP, not even to Klay or Draymond, that year they gave it to Iggy, that's basically like giving it to Horford this season, there is literally no difference. That's why FMVP doesn't really mean much to me, it is just a rigged thing that nobody should care.

Well you can argue about Michael Jordan not deserving of his 6 finals MVP? And with that, I don't think it is rigged or somewhat some entities are trying to manipulate the outcome of the FMVP in my honest.

We sometimes call it rigged when the result does not align with our expectations. Honestly, determining this Finals MVP from the Celtics is quite challenging. I think we are down to one last game. If the Celtics sweep Dallas, the player with the bigger contributions in game 4 between Tatum and Brown will likely get the FMVP. Based on the current statistics, in my personal opinion, I think Brown should win it because he has had a bigger impact on the team than Tatum. But that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong.

Yeah, you may be right here when it comes to offensive attacks.
But Tatum's numbers are solid too. He had been the facilitator since he cannot attack the rim anymore and his passes are on point that's why his assists numbers also grew.
In Game 3 it was different, he was shooting lights out at the three-point line and if I were to decide who will be the FMVP in case the Celtics win this series, I would give it to Brown too. He had been a phenomenal player for the Celtics and I think Tatum will respect that as it's not only the stat sheet, he is also vocal to his team and we witnessed that when he was mic'ed up against the Mavericks.
There may be some bad nights but I don't consider them as off nights because he can still score and sometimes he is focused on defense if he is having a hard time to find his rhythm.

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Boston are ridiculously loaded. The only weakness is their bench which doesn't matter during the regular season because the starters play more minutes. As long as they stay healthy they will repeat as champs next season.

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The 4th game of the final series will be played tonight. The champion may be determined tonight and it looks like it will happen.
I have no hope for Dallas anymore, I think they won't win tonight and the Boston Celtics will win and become champions.

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In principle, the Celtics will probably even be happy if their opponent can win the next game because they will obviously be more pleased to celebrate their championship win in their home arena than in the Mavs' arena.

Considering the celebration part you’re right but since Celtics is thirsty on championship, I really doubt that they will wish for a 1 loss while they are 1 game away to their ultimate goal. They can always celebrate at Boston whenever they want

Celtics could not give Dallas a chance to beat them as anything can happen although there's no team yet that we able to come back from 0-3 deficit. IMO, it's okay to end the series at the home court of Dallas than risking their chance of winning the championship. We will know tomorrow if the Celtics could finish the series, but in case they'll fail, there's like 90% they'll win in game 5.

I was hoping that the series will be longer, but here it is, just like the last NBA finals, it remained boring.

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Now it's 3-0, the chances are slipping away from the Mavs, Luka might be mad at himself because of this lost at their homecourt. They still have one game at their home, so I guess it's moot point, they might just be thinking of winning one to not just that sweep in the finals because that is humiliating.

The Celtics are just stronger as a team, and it no longer makes any difference for the Mavs to lose this series in 4 or 5 games.

Exactly, Celtics is full packed with high versatility players including their bench that’s why they can have a rotation of players frequently since they can cover any players role. The addition of Porzingis and Holiday gives a huge impact on their current line-up. Now they have a balance overall stats compared before that only Brown and Tatum tanking the contribution for the team.

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In principle, the Celtics will probably even be happy if their opponent can win the next game because they will obviously be more pleased to celebrate their championship win in their home arena than in the Mavs' arena.

Considering the celebration part you’re right but since Celtics is thirsty on championship, I really doubt that they will wish for a 1 loss while they are 1 game away to their ultimate goal. They can always celebrate at Boston whenever they want

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Quote from: Dave1 on June 13, 2024, 10:05:17 PM

Now it's 3-0, the chances are slipping away from the Mavs, Luka might be mad at himself because of this lost at their homecourt. They still have one game at their home, so I guess it's moot point, they might just be thinking of winning one to not just that sweep in the finals because that is humiliating.

The Celtics are just stronger as a team, and it no longer makes any difference for the Mavs to lose this series in 4 or 5 games. In principle, the Celtics will probably even be happy if their opponent can win the next game because they will obviously be more pleased to celebrate their championship win in their home arena than in the Mavs' arena.

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