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From an ESPN+ article today on Luka (won't link since it's paywall): 

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 Just to contextualize how young Doncic is, consider this: Doncic won't be the same as Paul George is right now until March 26, 2030. Get comfortable, folks, the Doncic era is just getting started.

 

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Scoreboard you fucking sacks of shit.  Fuck the Clippers.

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37 minutes ago, AggieFactFinder said:

I don't know if you went to a game at the AAC this season, but if tonight is anything like I expect it to be, worrying about our home record in front of 2000 fans seems pointless to me.   

Tell that to Josh Richardson too:

I obviously think the crowd will help, but we'll see. 

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1 hour ago, LurkingHorn said:

Tell that to Josh Richardson too:

What does playoff-speak have to do with reality?  It would be a crazy coincidence that home teams had the worst winning % in NBA history this season but it had nothing to do with the lack of fans.  Shit attendance was the biggest factor.  And that's out the window.  Of course we may lose, but it's not going to have anything to do with poor regular season play in front of a high school crowd.

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14 minutes ago, Skipper said:

So far I've completely misjudged this ticket market.  Prices have been going up, not down, since this time yesterday.  I almost pulled the trigger on several but got greedy.  We'll see how it goes from here.  

Yep looked today and holy shit. 300s were under 85 on Wednesday but today my buddy paid 140 and saw a few that were close to 200. Got a single in 124 for 220

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5 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

I'm not really up on refs. Is this good? Bad?

 

It's fucking Bad.  If Luka doesn't get T'd up someone will.  Look for some fuckery tonight.

3 hours ago, Skipper said:

Fitzgerald is the cocksucker that fucked us all night game last year including 2 incredibly weak T's tossing KP.  So yeah, it seems like Silver sent in the hit squad. Fuck em.

Fucking This.  I'd only have expected worse if they had won 2 against the real LA team.

2 hours ago, CBT said:

He's talking shit to opponents more. It's a welcome development. 

Asshole Luka is my favorite Luka.

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Hope y'all post the pics for those who are in person! Should be a great atmosphere. We have 2 shots to really put a strangehold on this series. I miss the 2011 run where we would pre-game drink and arrive at the AAC already rowdy and putting on our blue shirts they had on our seats. I still got one left that is now a cut off I use when running/jogging. This is probably the most hyped I have been in a Mavs playoff series since the Finals run. Well, maybe the Spurs series in 2014. But that series and the others, you knew we were the inferior team and it was only a matter of time that the opponent flexes their muscle and destroys us. This series, we actually look to be the better team almost from start to finish of both games.

I am about to start pre gaming here at home.

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50 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

Anybody got the article ESPN+ just posted about Luka?

Though coach Tyronn Lue denied there was any tanking involved, the LA Clippers became one of the big stories of the final week of the regular season when losses to the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder dropped them into fourth place in the Western Conference.

As a result, the Clippers set themselves up to avoid the Los Angeles Lakers until the conference finals, but in the process they also set up a first-round meeting with the Dallas Mavericks and Luka Doncic.

The Clippers defeated the Mavericks in the first round in the bubble a season ago, but life comes at you fast, especially in the NBA playoffs, and the Clippers find themselves down 2-0 heading into Game 3 on Friday in Dallas (9:30 p.m. ET on ESPN and the ESPN App).

Through two games, Doncic is averaging 35 points, 8.5 rebounds and 9.0 assists while shooting 50.9% from the floor and 41.7% from deep. Simply put, in a series in which the other team has a two-time Finals MVP and a five-time All-NBA selection, Doncic has been the best player on the floor.

While he's only 22 years old, he's taken another big step forward this year, his third in the NBA. If he and the Mavericks can hold serve this weekend, they will end the Clippers' season -- and serve notice to the rest of the league that Doncic's rapid improvements have made him a player you try to avoid in a postseason tournament.

Not only is he the most talented young offensive player in the world right now, but he's also proving he's a fierce competitor. That combination, along with his natural maturation process, is resulting in another Luka leap, and the numbers suggest Doncic is on a rapid road to greatness.

 

As a scorer, Doncic can do it all, but his signature shot is the unassisted 3-pointer. This season, he led the league in step-back 3s both attempted and made. As he gets better at knocking down these self-created 3s, he will become unstoppable, which will make his teams more difficult to beat.

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Dallas was 42-30 overall in the regular season but 12-2 when Doncic made at least five 3-pointers -- something he's done in each of the first two games against the Clippers. We all know Doncic is one of the best driving playmakers in the game, but if he adds a reliable 3-pointer, opponents will be helpless. That's where this is headed.

In just his third season, Doncic is already among the best in the NBA at both creating his own looks from downtown and converting them. Consider these nuggets:

  • Doncic ranked second in the league in unassisted 3-pointers this season, behind only Damian Lillard.

  • Doncic ranked second in shooting percentage out of the 12 players who attempted at least 200 unassisted 3s this season, behind only Stephen Curry.

Yikes. Unassisted 3s have emerged as the calling card of many of today's most dangerous scorers. Seeing Doncic, at 22, at the top of these kinds of lists should strike fear in the rest of the league.

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Just to contextualize how young Doncic is, consider this: Doncic won't be the same as Paul George is right now until March 26, 2030. Get comfortable, folks, the Doncic era is just getting started.

As effective as Doncic has become as a 3-point shooter, his most impressive improvements as a jump shooter are actually occurring inside the arc.

Defying the trends of the day, Doncic is taking more midrange shots than he used to. Last season, barely 7% of his shots occurred between 10 feet and the 3-point line; this season, that figure has nearly tripled to over 21%. Just look at all the changes:

 

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While midrange shots are generally frowned upon these days, players who can sink them at high rates can make them acceptable options, and it looks like Doncic is becoming one of those players.

Just one year ago, the scouting report on Doncic, was to let him shoot. No jump-shooter in the NBA combined volume and inefficiency like Doncic did last year. Out of 28 players who attempted at least 600 jumpers last season, he ranked dead last in efficiency, with an eFG% of just 44.0. He attempted 77 2-point jumpers and made just 28.6% of them.

This season, he took 272 jumpers inside the arc, an increase of nearly 200, and made 44.5% of them. Those huge increases in both volume and accuracy show that Doncic is emerging as one of the most versatile scorers in the league.

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Out of 29 players who attempted at least 200 non-paint 2s this season, Doncic ranked seventh in efficiency. The players above him on this list include a who's who of superstar shooters -- Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Nikola Jokic and Chris Paul. All of these guys are special partly because their ability to punish opposing defenses in the midrange opens up other options.

Doncic's overall efficiency on jumpers in 2020-21 was better than that of players such as Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, Julius Randle and Bradley Beal. Add in the fact that he's got one of the most accurate floaters in the league and Doncic's development is in great shape.

And jumpers are only part of his game.

According to Second Spectrum, Doncic is the most prolific driver in the league, averaging 20.9 drives per game. And out of the 25 most active drivers in the league, Doncic ranks second in efficiency. Only Lillard's drives yielded more points on average.

The Mavs' offense is designed to do one thing: create mismatches for Doncic, then let him work. As the Clippers are finding out, once he gets going downhill, he can do it all. Doncic can drive in either direction, read the defense and make the right play. He's big enough to overpower smaller defenders, like Patrick Beverley, and while Doncic is not the fastest guy in the world, he's still quick enough to beat bigger defenders. Still perhaps his best attribute as an attacker is his ability to change directions and decelerate.

The results speak for themselves. He can score in the paint (he ranked 18th in points in the paint this season), he can draw fouls (he ranked 11th in FTA per game) and he can pass (sixth in the NBA in assists per game).

But so far in this series, it's the driving layups and floaters near the rim that the Clippers can't stop. More than half of Doncic's 35 drives in the first two games have resulted in his own shots near the basket, and the Mavs are scoring a ridiculous 1.61 points per possession on those.

And here's the thing: If a team with George and Kawhi Leonard, who are among the world's best perimeter defenders, can't stop Doncic drives, then who can? In Game 2, Doncic scored 17 of his 39 points with either George or Leonard as his primary defender. Beverley, a three-time All-Defensive Team selection, hasn't been able to stop him.

NBA reputations are sketched out during the regular season, but ultimately they get carved into stone in the playoffs. If Doncic leads Dallas past this Clippers team in Round 1, he will have his first big postseason triumph. If he continues to develop the way he has, turning weaknesses in his game into strengths, this will be just the first of many.

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1 hour ago, bluto said:


Not sure how I feel about this, not a fan if it means more Batum minutes, that guy makes shit happen.

I thought there was an off chance they'd completely park Zubac (probably not; Lue doesn't seem super flexible), but this should assure he remains heavily involved. And thus far in the series we've repeatedly buttfucked him in the PnR. So, to me, it's a positive

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