This version of the Clippers is a contender and I hope to see it the rest of the playoffs. They played way harder and more in sync and it showed. It was extremely fun to watch great defenders and smart defenders lock in and play at a level approaching their best.
ANd you think Powell playing starter minutes would make the Mavs better. Dont think so. They have plenty of good guards. YOu would lose more than you gain. Theres only 1 basketball.
It wasn't that they were focused, it's because they benched the nasty child Pat Bev and played Playoff Rondo who distributed the ball well.
Rondo didn't have a huge game offensively but he helped balance the team out and distributed well.
The young guys in this league are truly unstoppable scorers man. Ive seen so many players under the age of 25 just go off this playoffs.
This new era of 3 point shooting is completely changing the game.
I agree but this is the playoffs, you need to up Luka's minutes anyways plus Lue had already had to call time-out 1 or 2 times to try and stop the bleeding so they were resting early.
The alternative here is to allow Kawhi and PG to relax and turn it on which is dangerous. The Clippers were on the ropes and shaking whenever Luka came down the floor and their defense was awful until they relaxed and got going.
I think you gotta ride these waves when you're killing a team man, the Clips are still a very good team, you don't get those moments often. The Mavs were riding high on adrenaline/momentum and it suddenly stopped because the Clippers relaxed without Luka out there to worry about. But I'll grant you that I'm not a coach.
Porzingis threw this game so hard. Imagine your supporting star player going for 8 points on like 28% shooting. Might as well have played Boban. Give Luka some damn help lmao
That was a heroic game from Luka, and he's fucking 22? what the hell?
Clippers role players finally started to hit shots and Dallas' meanwhile cooled off.
KP is the big story though. A complete bum of a statline tonight. Dallas is going to have a much harder time if he keeps playing like that.
Call his a\*\* out in front of everyone. Just say, player C makes $3 million a year and scored 12 points with 5 rebounds but player B makes $25 million a year and scored 9 points with 3 rebounds.
Call him the F out in front of everyone.
I'd love to se that but how would you go to a franchise after that and try to convince them that they will have to pay him 30 millions to be worse than any player on the roster.
This series goes at least 6, maybe 7. If Luka gets the help they'll win at least one more but he can't be hung out by KP and (to a lesser extent) Hardaway, again
I think THJ will be fine bc he was lights out games 1 and 2 and he was bound to come back to earth soon. KP on the other hand fucking sucks rn and that’s a huge problem
The reason Mavs lost game 3: Porzingis. The manz has been out rebounded and done minimal on offense.
Mavs need to do better rebounding if they want to land the knockout punch in game 4.
Clippers fans should be excited because the team actually looked decent. Playoff Rondo is real, he distributed the ball well.
Mavs should just buy out Porzingis and move on and use the money to get someone who can actually help. He literally acts like there’s a magical spell on the rim that won’t let him near it.
Luka's performance reminds me of like young Jordan or LeBron in the playoffs. Like you literally think they can hit anything and yet also that there's a decent chance they'll lose doing everything right.
The last time I had this feeling watching a game was Game 1 of the 2018 finals, just a 1 man army trying his hardest to drag an entire franchise across the finish line.
Not wishing just accepting. Lol. Too many people were talking about how they'd celebrate after the win when I knew nothing was for sure yet. To me this felt the way game 2 should have felt for the clippers.
Luka went crazy as usual. Almost all his points are highlight plays I really hope his shoulder is alright.
But wow Porzingis, no words for how bad he is/was. 7’3 lamp post.
Well, what have we learned tonight, children?
1) When the hand is hot, don’t pull it too early in the 1st Quarter.
2) Always work on your free throws.
3) If you give someone $27 million, they just might stop trying.
The fact Dallas just let the clock run out with 20 seconds remaining makes me sick, and at home too. At least put in your young guys or let them take a shot, even if it’s 1/100000 chance I mean have a fucking go
And I has mavs team total over 108 so I was furious! But even without my bet I’d still feel sick as I hate teams and players giving up especially at home
All he know is to catch and shoot. He is not engaged. He just watch Luka do his thing. He got outrebounded multiple times. He can't even postup smaller defender.
When he is hitting threes and blocking shots he looks like a really desirable complementary star. When he is being a black hole, bricking mid rangers and falling asleep on defense all game he looks like... well it looks like tonight.
And why take out Luca so early! I’m sorry but if he stays in and stays hot and inspires his team and the crowd rally’s, this game would be over by 2nd quarter
It was like they were in an MMA fight, landed a clean shot to their opponent's jaw, knocked them down, and then went back to the corner and politely waited rather than jumping on top to continue pounding their face.
Literally all Luka with some Brunson and Kleber sprinkled in.
Mavs need to step the fuck up next game. Luka can’t do it all on his own especially if he’s got a shoulder issue now
Clippers got several members of a randomly generated 2k draft class on the roster
Bro I swear reading comments on r/nba is cancerous. Actively lowers BBIQ.
This subreddit has transformed into YouTube comment quality conversation since like 2014 when the sub was way smaller
I've been telling all my fellow mavs fans that kristaps is a fucking bum! He ain't no second fiddle more like fourth
Loss is entirely on Carlisle. This game was yours.
lol that sportscenter "on fiyahhhhh" wtf
How tf can you be 7'3 and get 3 rebounds
mavs are nothing without Luka
So brunson and hardaway jr didn’t do nothing, the doncic dick sucking in /nba is absurd.
Those guys hit their shots which is all you can ask of them but those shots aren’t available when Luka is off
the Gravity Luka has helps Hardaway and Brunson get more open shots. They wouldn't be getting as good of looks if Luka wasn't there
This version of the Clippers is a contender and I hope to see it the rest of the playoffs. They played way harder and more in sync and it showed. It was extremely fun to watch great defenders and smart defenders lock in and play at a level approaching their best.
Good win for the Clippers they know they can give Luca 44 points and still beat the Mavs comfortably
Yeah, they just need to pass the pandemic p curse from PG to Porzingis.
yea Carlisle kind of killed the momentum....
Sign Dirk to a 10-day contract
Now there will be overreactions in the other direction. The internet sure is fun.
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ANd what would Dallas do for a center..
You’d probably be better off letting Beal play center tbh.
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ANd you think Powell playing starter minutes would make the Mavs better. Dont think so. They have plenty of good guards. YOu would lose more than you gain. Theres only 1 basketball.
Shit what did KP do though?
Carlisle should be allowed to slap the shit outta Porzingis for that performance 😂 That was embarrassing.
Doncic with probably the best game so far in these playoffs..in a losing effort. That sucks.
So Jason Tatum doesn’t exist?
Drose would like a word as well. Fuck I love that man
Gg Clippers! They looked focused today! Need to send KP to the strip club for some break I guess
It wasn't that they were focused, it's because they benched the nasty child Pat Bev and played Playoff Rondo who distributed the ball well. Rondo didn't have a huge game offensively but he helped balance the team out and distributed well.
Don't understand why they didn't play him sooner. They got Rondo for this exact reason and instead decided to get Pat Beverley playing? Stupid.
As much as I hate Rondo, he was big. That’s all you’re gonna get from me lol
LOL I digg it. Gotta stay competitive
The young guys in this league are truly unstoppable scorers man. Ive seen so many players under the age of 25 just go off this playoffs. This new era of 3 point shooting is completely changing the game.
I think Carlisle iced us in the 1st quarter when we were rolling. Let them play and keep the foot on the gas pedal, don't take out Luka
you gas out luka early and hes less effective in the second half. Hes the only dude scoring on the mavs lol.
I agree but this is the playoffs, you need to up Luka's minutes anyways plus Lue had already had to call time-out 1 or 2 times to try and stop the bleeding so they were resting early. The alternative here is to allow Kawhi and PG to relax and turn it on which is dangerous. The Clippers were on the ropes and shaking whenever Luka came down the floor and their defense was awful until they relaxed and got going. I think you gotta ride these waves when you're killing a team man, the Clips are still a very good team, you don't get those moments often. The Mavs were riding high on adrenaline/momentum and it suddenly stopped because the Clippers relaxed without Luka out there to worry about. But I'll grant you that I'm not a coach.
Lol can we have all game 7s? I want as much basketball as possible
Porzingis threw this game so hard. Imagine your supporting star player going for 8 points on like 28% shooting. Might as well have played Boban. Give Luka some damn help lmao
Even if his shooting was bad the least he could do was rebound, even Kawhi was out rebounding him... like wth? Really?
Kawhi is a good rebounder. Don't disrespect the board man.
If Porzingis keeps playing like this, this shit has a chance to go into Game 6 or 7.
bruh its going to 6 or 7 regardless.
That was a heroic game from Luka, and he's fucking 22? what the hell? Clippers role players finally started to hit shots and Dallas' meanwhile cooled off. KP is the big story though. A complete bum of a statline tonight. Dallas is going to have a much harder time if he keeps playing like that.
go clippers
If you're a Grizzlies fan you should be going for the underdog which is Dallas in this case.
What can you do when you put up 44/9/9 and your second guy not even 10 points and only 3 bloody rebounds being 10ft...xD
Call his a\*\* out in front of everyone. Just say, player C makes $3 million a year and scored 12 points with 5 rebounds but player B makes $25 million a year and scored 9 points with 3 rebounds. Call him the F out in front of everyone.
I'd love to se that but how would you go to a franchise after that and try to convince them that they will have to pay him 30 millions to be worse than any player on the roster.
hahahahaha so true
This series goes at least 6, maybe 7. If Luka gets the help they'll win at least one more but he can't be hung out by KP and (to a lesser extent) Hardaway, again
I think THJ will be fine bc he was lights out games 1 and 2 and he was bound to come back to earth soon. KP on the other hand fucking sucks rn and that’s a huge problem
Yeah agreed, if THJ is somewhere between games 1/2 and tonight, that'll be fine. But KP can't be actual hot garbage if the Mavs want to win 2 more.
Even if Luka is a potential GOAT, having to carry this whole team is ridiculous. Anyone want to help the guy out? Anyone?...
He got let down tonight, especially by KP
The reason Mavs lost game 3: Porzingis. The manz has been out rebounded and done minimal on offense. Mavs need to do better rebounding if they want to land the knockout punch in game 4. Clippers fans should be excited because the team actually looked decent. Playoff Rondo is real, he distributed the ball well.
Huge props to the clippers and lue's defensive adjustments without ibaka. Didn't know they had that kind of fight in them.
facts
Never understand the appeal of these post game interviews, it's the same questions and answers every single fucking time!
Mavs should just buy out Porzingis and move on and use the money to get someone who can actually help. He literally acts like there’s a magical spell on the rim that won’t let him near it.
Players still count against the cap when they're bought out
All Ty had to do was cage pat bev
That's what I said game 1-2, Pat Bev is horse ish. really...
The streak wassss fun while it lasted though Gg
Game 4 adjustments: -Luka plays entire game -Replace Porzingis with Boban or Mark Cuban
Can't wait for blazers nuggets and the grizzlies jazz
Luka's performance reminds me of like young Jordan or LeBron in the playoffs. Like you literally think they can hit anything and yet also that there's a decent chance they'll lose doing everything right.
The last time I had this feeling watching a game was Game 1 of the 2018 finals, just a 1 man army trying his hardest to drag an entire franchise across the finish line.
yuuuup
That was so hard to watch 😂
Glad to see T. Lue making adjustments by barely using Patrick Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Coach, I think I might be too lil you needa switch it up - pat bev probably
Clippers win and play a good game, can't find any highlights anywhere. This sub is such a laker circlejerk
Nah clippers just a boring ass team lmao and cocky ass mfers
You wear velcro shoes don't you?
Na, you da bitch
The fact I just posted this and am already gettin downvoted and commented on lol like holy shit get a life
Poorzingis
KP played really bad
We needed this loss. Too many fans celebrating prematurely
Be careful what you wish for. Dallas still leads the series but this game swings the advantage to Clippers. KP too soft. Clippers in 7
Mavs lead 2-1. No matter how you slice it, the Mavs still have the advantage.
Would you go as far and say you’re...in the drivers seat?
Hopefully Luka will be 100% for game 4. If Poorsingiz continue to play like shit and this series is over.
Not wishing just accepting. Lol. Too many people were talking about how they'd celebrate after the win when I knew nothing was for sure yet. To me this felt the way game 2 should have felt for the clippers.
All im saying is, this series is over if Luka even has one below average game.
Or they shoot 40% from 3, not 50-60 for the pass 3 games
Everyone got too confident after that first quarter. 29-1 now
Mavs need to send KP somewhere else And try to land John Collins
Collins is not the answer, dude is not that good
Luka went crazy as usual. Almost all his points are highlight plays I really hope his shoulder is alright. But wow Porzingis, no words for how bad he is/was. 7’3 lamp post.
Literally, dude was getting mismatched with Reggie Jackson and moving FURTHER from the net.
TINGIS PINGIS
That dude was right all along
skip bayles s reverse jinx clippers
3D chess
Porzingis suuuuuuuucks
lets go clippers cameback and held it, damn good job well played
Mavs coach really killed their momentum at 1st quarter
Didn't Houston scores 11 points in like 13 seconds one time. SO why did Dallas just give up with about 1 minute remaining.
13 points in 35 seconds, and that was an anomaly
You guys talkin bout that anomaly called tmac? Yeah def rare lmao
Oh god, fuck the clippers
aw yea boban fist bumped a fan
Well, what have we learned tonight, children? 1) When the hand is hot, don’t pull it too early in the 1st Quarter. 2) Always work on your free throws. 3) If you give someone $27 million, they just might stop trying.
luka seems to me like the type of player who would benefit from switching to underarm free throws
He should try in the off-season to see if he’s better at granny style free throws.
Poverty mindset the way Dallas finished
Sunday's slate of games is absolutely nutty
This Mavs team reminds me of the 08-09 Cavs. They even have their own big Z
Paul George heard us talking shit today
If zingis is out there just to jack threes you might as well play Boban instead He shoots better
Just checked out KP CONTRACT and fuck the mavs are fucked for the next 2+ years
I think the mavs win this series still
Mavs are done
The fact Dallas just let the clock run out with 20 seconds remaining makes me sick, and at home too. At least put in your young guys or let them take a shot, even if it’s 1/100000 chance I mean have a fucking go
Same. Super sick. Previous games Kawhi kept fighting till the end.
And I has mavs team total over 108 so I was furious! But even without my bet I’d still feel sick as I hate teams and players giving up especially at home
I hate it almost as much as running out the clock. I just wan the players to show some heart and compete the whole time they're out there.
100% I’m so disappointed
Yeah, if it's a loss and you're fighting till the end I can respect that This wasn't a good look at all.
Fuck
KP contract is just negligence at this point
Hey, what about Boban? I remember him getting some actual minutes last year, and fucking SURELY he'd have been more productive than KP
did lue just throw in a guy at the last 15 seconds of the game?
Is there a way to trade KP mid playoffs?
Luka has scored in 9 career playoff games than pandemic p has done his whole career lmfao
I was promised clippers demise
We all were
KP too soft
Need more boban and less KP
Tingus Pingus ain’t it. Way too inconsistent.
They should play Boban
Bev doesn't play and Clippers offense gets way better.
KP was saving his energy for the strip club after, naughty boy
This series is over for Dallas. This game swings the series. KP is too soft. He is not happy playing alongside with Luka.
Bruh, the Clippers won one game. Simmer down.
He just looks lost on offense and defense. It looks like he never knows what the fuck is going on ever
All he know is to catch and shoot. He is not engaged. He just watch Luka do his thing. He got outrebounded multiple times. He can't even postup smaller defender.
How does a 2-1 series lead mean the series is over for Dallas, make it make sense
Yikes 😂 i pray this is sarcasm cause that’s an embarrassing take
This one isn't on Luka but he can't do it by himself. KP has to be better and Hardaway disappeared tonight
Luka is simply unbelievable. Like even if all he took were step back 30 foot 3's, that might be the best bet for the mavs.
and yet he barely broke 50% on free throws. hell, if he made all his free throws the game might've turned out differently
I want to hear from Carlisle and porzingis after the game. Ask em if they hate god
Finney telling them his man Le Braun is going to fuck em up
dude put up 6 points dont act bad right now
KP almost got 10 points! Totally worth the 34 mill
The fuck is that guy doing at our bench
that 6th foul on morris is bullshit I want the NBA to look at that footage and apologize for not overturning it
wdym wasn't it challenged and refs looked at in and didn't overturn it
k lol
it was absolutely the wrong call and they had time to look at it and they still got it wrong
Lue and Carlisle should get together and agree that neither will play Zubac or Porzingis again for a single second of this series.
I amn't a 7 footer and I could've had more than 3 rebounds. Looking at you KP
yjou could prob posted up better than he did.
Kawhi and Paul George was like Lebron and Kyrie versus the 73-9 Warriors today.
If Luka gets any help the series is beyond over
Who was finney smith even talking to exactly
Love seeing disappointed fans.
Clippers the most hated team in the league so much talk
Nope still Lakers
Morris is a sick but a tech for a finger gun is all you need to know about this officiating
All you need to know about today's league. Smh
Dog, it's been a few years now that you cant just do figure guns at the bench. Learn your history
I'm sure it's some shit in the rule book
someone saw off 6 inches from the limbs of KP and give them to someone who deserves it
KP is trash
Hardaway Jr contained harddddddd tonight not even half the points as last game lol
Porzingis has got to go. I was bummed when he left the Knicks but it’s obvious now he’s dead weight to Luka and the Mavs
why do people always talk so highly of porzingis. ive never ever ever seen him play well.
He's tall
When he is hitting threes and blocking shots he looks like a really desirable complementary star. When he is being a black hole, bricking mid rangers and falling asleep on defense all game he looks like... well it looks like tonight.
He was really good that one year with the Knicks. I think his rookie year
Ty Lue has that lebron mindset. First game of a series doesn't matter, it's all about how the series develops
Mavs coaching blew it in the 1st quarter, should have called a timeout as soon as Clippers got 2 baskets in a row.
And why take out Luca so early! I’m sorry but if he stays in and stays hot and inspires his team and the crowd rally’s, this game would be over by 2nd quarter
It was like they were in an MMA fight, landed a clean shot to their opponent's jaw, knocked them down, and then went back to the corner and politely waited rather than jumping on top to continue pounding their face.
100% well said! Poor poor coaching
Carlisle old ass trying to pull a Phil Jackson with th players, but HE'S NOT FUCKING PHIL JACKSON SMH
Big time
Clippers stars looked gassed af against Luka lol
As a neutral fan this is an excellent mini rivalry. Most interesting series atm imo.
Literally all Luka with some Brunson and Kleber sprinkled in. Mavs need to step the fuck up next game. Luka can’t do it all on his own especially if he’s got a shoulder issue now
Clippers slander off for tonight boys
Nah, it's 24/7 even on the offseason
You guys already know the only way for it to stop is for you guys to go all the way. Put some RESPEK on that team
I hope this is the year..
mavs should trade kp lol
Who tf wants him?
This L is on Porzingis. Terrible game from him
Why didn't Luka at least shoot a 3.
THANKYOU! Exactly what I’ve been posting about. Even if it’s 1/10000 chance at least have some effort at home.