2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys

[LurkingHorn 1,067]

3 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

It’s game 1. Mavs will be fine. Typical overreaction after one game in the playoffs. You lose once and you never see yourself winning again. Like okc fans thinking they’re gonna win in 4 or 5. Lmao. I still got the Mavs in 6. 

I want to feel this way, but Luka's 3 pt shooting has been just atrocious. I don't see the Mavs winning the series if that continues, much less in 6. 

[Rockethorn1978 6,102]

1 minute ago, LurkingHorn said:

I want to feel this way, but Luka's 3 pt shooting has been just atrocious. I don't see the Mavs winning the series if that continues, much less in 6. 

It won’t continue. Everyone looks like shit when you lose by 30. Buts it’s one game. Wiggins won’t score 16 again for okc, he’s been averaging 6 a game off the bench so some of their guys played way over their heads.

[Vic Mackey 47,124]

5 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

It’s game 1. Mavs will be fine. Typical overreaction after one game in the playoffs. You lose once and you never see yourself winning again. Like okc fans thinking they’re gonna win in 4 or 5. Lmao. I still got the Mavs in 6. 

I agree about the overreaction to wins and losses in any given series in any sport. I definitely thought Dallas was in big trouble after LAC game 1. And they turned it around in a hurry, winning 4 of the next 5. I do think OKC is a much different animal than LAC, though. If Luka has little left in the tank, that is a huge problem against a team of this calber. 

[Rockethorn1978 6,102]

10 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

I agree about the overreaction to wins and losses in any given series in any sport. I definitely thought Dallas was in big trouble after LAC game 1. And they turned it around in a hurry, winning 4 of the next 5. I do think OKC is a much different animal than LAC, though. If Luka has little left in the tank, that is a huge problem against a team of this calber. 

NBA stars are so hard to read too, I doubt Luka is gassed and has nothing left in the tank or is it just game 1 and they played lazy and lost by 25 like most games have been. I think they win game 2 and if not then I’d be worried, but even then okc winning the first two games at home is what they’re supposed to do anyways. Mavs only need to steal one on the road. 

[Skipper 6,192]

I only got to watch snippets of the game last night from the AAC between periods and during timeouts.  But this game thread seems like a microcosm of the little I saw.  Luka missing shots, SGA flopping/soft calls or hitting shots, Gafford playing ok but everyone else looking off.  Looks like I didn't miss much.

[gsoda3 3,281]

Luka's hurt. If the way he's pushing his three point shot with his arms isn't telling enough then watch how he's getting in to the paint and making straight line drives at the basket without his pump fakes and pivot foot spins.

But Luka's got such a high basketball IQ I would bet on him figuring something out tomorrow or Saturday.

[Catdaddyhorn 3,447]

17 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Mavs are a player short. Josh Green and Tim Hardaway Jr ain’t it. 

Taking Josh Green over just about anyone drafted behind him in that draft is almost as stupid as doubling down on that mistake and signing him to a 3yr $41million deal. 

[Catdaddyhorn 3,447]

Note how early into the game Luka was already limping. 

 

Hollinger is right.  If Luka was looking like that already after 4 games off then his injury is much more serious than the team is letting on. Contrast this with how Nelson and company treated Dirk after he tweaked his knee going into the 2003(or 2004) playoff series against the Spurs. Had this happened under the Nelsons Luka isn't playing.

Edited May 8 by Catdaddyhorn

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

1 minute ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Note how early into the game Luka was already limping. 

 

Hollinger is right.  If Luka was looking like that already after 4 games off then his injury is much more serious than the team is letting on. Contrast this with how Nelson and company treated Dirk after he tweaked his knee going into the 2003(or 2004) playoff series against the Spurs. Had this happened under the Nelsons Luka isn't playing.

Luka said his knee was messed up after we beat the clippers. Said it would only get better in the offseason. Mavs are cooked unless his knee miraculously gets better. 

[Vic Mackey 47,124]

6 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Luka said his knee was messed up after we beat the clippers. Said it would only get better in the offseason. Mavs are cooked unless his knee miraculously gets better. 

Knees don't get better without time and rest. Which won't happen in the next week. Even with Luka at full strength, beating OKC would be a tall task. With him the way he is, chances are very slim.

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

Tonight? Tonight, the games tonight!!

Sweet.

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

 

I don't know what this means. My game days ended, thank god, at the gap between Sega Genesis and PS. I wish I could say that I moved on quickly to finger banging, but at least I wasn't wasting my time away.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40113526/luka-doncic-dallas-mavericks-overwatch-2-tank

 

 

 

 

Edited May 10 by JohnnyRage

[RexWilson 1,348]

That looked like it hurt

[ITHorn 801]

Good sign for Luka’s shooting…

[dcar00 14,342]

yeah ref ball for OKC

[dcar00 14,342]

everyone complains about luka bitching but the dude is getting the dirk treatment.  everyone gets to foul the shit out of him because if they don't he'll score every time down the court at the rim.  its like Shaq but a guard.

[RexWilson 1,348]

The announcers cannot stop sucking off OKC. 

[dcar00 14,342]

looking good so far.  maybe we can stay lights out and steal one.

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

That long three by Luca after the foul would have been a huge fuck you to Dort. Oh well, he's feeling it enough tonight.

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

8 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

everyone complains about luka bitching but the dude is getting the dirk treatment.  everyone gets to foul the shit out of him because if they don't he'll score every time down the court at the rim.  its like Shaq but a guard.

This is old hack, but my problem with it is how long and how much of his attention he devotes to it. He will take off an entire play to make sure the ref gets it. I think it takes points off the board and isn't good teamwork.

However, we might have just seen where it paid off on the pressure foul against Dort. I mind the flopping and flailing way less than actually stopping during play.

[RexWilson 1,348]

His name is Gafford. 

[gsoda3 3,281]

Gaffney and Liveford need to step up tonight.

[dcar00 14,342]

we can't shoot much better and only up 1...

[RexWilson 1,348]

PJ came to play

[ITHorn 801]

Playing PJ with a third guard who isn’t afraid to fire from three has been huge. Gotta imagine we’ll see more of that when Timmy is on floor vs just using him as a Kyrie sub. 

[gsoda3 3,281]

Playing PJ with a third guard who isn’t afraid to fire from three has been huge. Gotta imagine we’ll see more of that when Timmy is on floor vs just using him as a Kyrie sub. 

It's working out tonight but when it's bad it is baaaadddd.

[dcar00 14,342]

what is kidd doing. call a TO

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

How was that a f'ing foul?  (Lively on Holmgren)

Edited May 10 by JohnnyRage

[dcar00 14,342]

dude sticks his shoulder into him.  Jones would have avoided contact if OKC dude doesn't turn into him.  

[Navin R. Johnson 711]

Luka is this generation’s Vlade Divac, except Vlade played in the finals early in his career. But not everyone can be as good as Vlade.

[dcar00 14,342]

3 minutes ago, JohnnyRage said:

How was that a f'ing foul?

because NBA...it is a flop too. JOnes basically goes around him.

dumbass annoucers just look at feet and don't look at the way the guys upper body moves.

Edited May 10 by dcar00

[RexWilson 1,348]

The way the OKC coach looks annoys me

 

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

6 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

because NBA...it is a flop too. JOnes basically goes around him.

dumbass annoucers just look at feet and don't look at the way the guys upper body moves.

I was mad about Holmgren being a toothpick and falling flat on a rebound against Lively.

But that blocking foul could have gone either way. If it was called the other way, would have stayed as well.

[dcar00 14,342]

7 minutes ago, JohnnyRage said:

I was mad about Holmgren being a toothpick and falling flat on a rebound against Lively.

But that blocking foul could have gone either way. If it was called the other way, would have stayed as well.

holmgrens foot slipped.  IMO Jones was going to go around him if the OKC player doesn't lean and turn into him. 

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

mavs d has to step up. 

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

Mavs d is brutal tonight

[ITHorn 801]

Would be nice to see an effort made to get Kyrie into a rhythm out of timeout. (Does Kidd know that plays out of timeouts work for other teams?) Not sure how sustainable role players going nuts is at this pace of play.

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

Fuck off ref. 

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

They call all this weak shit for SGA and nothing for Luka. 

[RexWilson 1,348]

Hologram body bumps Luka on the shot no call. DJJ gets foul call moving with SGA

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

So nothing under the basket is a foul but if we breath on a guy at mid court it’s a foul. 

[dcar00 14,342]

and everyone wonders why Luka gets so frustrated.  SGA getting the Bron Bron treatment.

if we can't win this game with the way we are shooting tonight it's gonna be tough.

[RexWilson 1,348]

Yeah if I was DJJ I would get a tech because I would be losing my shit on the refs on some of these calls. 

I like that Tim is attacking the basket and finding mid range. Not just chunking up 3 bricks. 

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

Pow!

[dcar00 14,342]

maybe OKC should quit holding him every time down the court to get him out of his rhythm.

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

Touch foul city. 

[ITHorn 801]

Maybe one day Chet will get called for a foul

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

They can just grab Gaffords seem with no call. 

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

Nice charge call dildo

[Firemans4Horn 18,119]

These turnovers are terrible