Just rewatched the first half of game 7.
Mavs got popped for a whole bunch of wide open threes and a lot of them looked like garden variety mistakes to me. Simple stuff.
KP got hit with about half a dozen corner threes that looked nearly identical. Mavs were in a zone and KP was stuck in no man's land. He would leave the corner to step out to an open shooter on the wing and the ball would find the open shooter in the corner. When KP stepped up to contest the result was a blow by. Luka lost his assignment a lot.
KP just didn't play with good awareness. It was as if the game was moving too fast. One one play early in the game KP was standing 2 feet from Kawhi on the elbow when Kawahi received the ball. KP was caught totally off guard and Kawhi knocked down an uncontested jumper before KP processed what was happening.
Mavs had no chance on defense and they just had to hope the Clippers missed .... but they didn't.
Mavs got popped for a whole bunch of wide open threes and a lot of them looked like garden variety mistakes to me. Simple stuff.
KP got hit with about half a dozen corner threes that looked nearly identical. Mavs were in a zone and KP was stuck in no man's land. He would leave the corner to step out to an open shooter on the wing and the ball would find the open shooter in the corner. When KP stepped up to contest the result was a blow by. Luka lost his assignment a lot.
KP just didn't play with good awareness. It was as if the game was moving too fast. One one play early in the game KP was standing 2 feet from Kawhi on the elbow when Kawahi received the ball. KP was caught totally off guard and Kawhi knocked down an uncontested jumper before KP processed what was happening.
Mavs had no chance on defense and they just had to hope the Clippers missed .... but they didn't.