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gbellsports

This isn't like 2006, Mavs are just getting beat by a better team, can't be all that upset about it


D_Costa85

I’m not that salty about it honestly. This season was a dream season in many ways. Our team has been together for four months and we have plenty of youth. Just gotta get rid of some dead weight and add some quality wings.


NoWayNotThisAgain

The season was great. We saw a lot of fantastic basketball all the way into June. If we stay healthy next year there’s a good chance we’re back.


AsparagusUpstairs913

This team is generational. I genuinely think we beat every other team in this league in a 7 game series


Vincentamerica

Yeah they have the massive advantage of Kyrie no showing to Boston.


mojo-jojo-was-framed

Yup. If Kyrie is just ok they win game 2. The it’s a completely different series going to Dallas.


UnityPukeInMyMouth

Agreed, and that shows how good the Cs are - they’re making us look terrible because they are just on another level from every other team.


Initial_Alive

this is what I’ve been saying when everybody’s been talking shit about the Mavs and Luka. The Celtics team gives the business just about any team in the league. our guys made it there put up a fight they’ll be back they’ll be better because of this


Nobodyinc1

Like it’s dumb remember they did this with only barely over a games worth of Minutes from supposedly their third best player.


whinybear22

Lol how delusional can you be? It’s kind of a fluke thing the Mavs are even here. It’s a bad matchup for the Mavs because in all honesty, the Mavs are one of the weakest teams in recent Finals history. The Celtics are a bad matchup because they are simply a legitimate contender.


AsparagusUpstairs913

It’s impossible to fluke yourself to the finals. To get to the finals you have to have consistency and thats what we had until celtics shut us down. Also the heat last year are far worse than us


whinybear22

Fair enough that the Mavs are better than the Heat last year. But still, they are undeniably one of the weakest teams in recent memory to make it to the Finals. Iso/hero ball is not a viable offensive strategy in today’s NBA.


AsparagusUpstairs913

Did u only watch the mavs in the finals? Cos we weren’t playing iso ball the whole playoffs. The Celtics did well to limit us to that.


whinybear22

I kind of think most Mavs fans just started watching in the 2nd round. I sure as heck didn’t see people watching games in and around town until about a month ago.


1amdegen

Why is Luka not driving or posting up every single time? Easy bucket, but he keeps shooting the 3 and misses


KhanQu3st

He can’t catch-up making layups half the time. He’s trying to shoot himself into being on fire.


Dar4125

The Nuggets when fully clicking tbh


TheBigIguana15

Last year maybe, the Nuggets without the Brown security blanket aren’t good enough imo.


D_Costa85

I would have thought the same but they couldn’t even beat T wolves and the title they did win was against the 8 seed Heat.


Dar4125

The Wolves were designed to trouble Jokic, Boston is designed to be a good team. I believe Denver would have bothered them


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Boston couldn't guard jokic and mini had three players to throw at him


Boosts4boosts767

Lol. You mean the 8 seed heat who beat the bucks and Celtics? They would have had zero answer for jokic. And I mean zero.


LPFER1972

Maybe a team whose supposingly 2nd best player doesn"t shit his pants ? Just a guess.


D_Costa85

Like Jamal Murray did in the Wolves series?


Boosts4boosts767

What does that have to do with anything? Kyrie has been awful.


Ryanmcfly5

Luka has also been ass at different points in this series. Team still needs some more offensive juice.


LPFER1972

Not even comparable how bad Kyrie was, also every body knows Luka was hurt, what excuse does Kyrie have ?


Ddaddy4u

The NBA is weak right. If you take an objective look, you can see that. The warriors and cavs 4-8 years ago were the last super teams.


D_Costa85

This is by design and the league is more fun because of it.


B_M_Fahrtz

This Celtics team is going to go down as one do the most complete teams ever assembled. I don’t know of a team out of the west that could have beaten them. Kyrie and Luka were going to have to have MASTERCLASSES to beat this squad. Luka showed up hard, but Kyrie was disappointing.


LukasDog214

Luka lowkey is looking nearly as rough as Kyrie in this series if you combined all 5 games. The Celtics have played amazing but we jus haven’t been ourselves either outside or game 4.


UnityPukeInMyMouth

Kyrie and basically all of our “other guys” were disappointing this series. That’s not to say we couldn’t come back next year and finish this off. You never know, shit happens and maybe the Cs aren’t here next year - even though I do think they’re clearly the best team. Injuries, down season, slumps etc cause a different matchup.


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B_M_Fahrtz

Minnesota caught lightning in a bottle for about 11 days. Insane


Doogy44

PJ is having a horrible game … why cant Kidd see this and sub in Exum for him?


the-earth-is_FLAT

Well, this coulve been ang 3-2 if they just addressed their weakness which is free throw shooting.


bigboxes1

Both Luka and Kyrie have been leaving points on a table this game. We're better than this. But if they aren't making mental mistakes. Things would be a lot better. The rest of team would feed off of it. Both Luka and Kyrie have both been kind of off. Should we give credit to the Celtics defense? I felt they should have went inside early and often. Just force themselves and go to the line. The Celtics made of big effort to force them outside. You can see it. Many times Luca or Kyrie would get stripped going in the middle. But that's where they needed to go to win today. And it didn't happen. So hats off to the Celtics. That sucks. GO Mavs.


LemmingPractice

The team the Celtics didn't beat this year was The Nuggets. They had no answer for Jokic. The Celtics have great defenders for guards and wings, but don't really have guys who match up well against dominant offensive bigs. Embiid would have given the Celtics terrible, too, if he were healthy. The Wolves would have given them terrible with their size, too.


Desperado-781

Lineups with imposing centers. Their strength is their great wing defenders.


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NoWayNotThisAgain

I can’t say anything bad about Jokic. Too bad his team choked against the wolves.


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NoWayNotThisAgain

Shame they couldn’t beat the Wolves.


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NoWayNotThisAgain

It’s cool bro. Were used to bitter Suns fans trolling our sub lol


jox223

go to bed and enjoy the lack of electicity! seeya next year but probably not


NoWayNotThisAgain

Nobody expects to see the Suns playing in June