08-15-2020, 09:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-15-2020, 09:58 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
(08-15-2020, 09:08 PM)mtrot Wrote:(08-13-2020, 10:00 PM)omahen Wrote:Exactly. Mavs are just too soft and have been that way for years. The question is, why is this not changing?(08-13-2020, 09:32 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: This is all going according to plan, and getting manhandled by the league's best team will only accelerate our Mavs' growth.
I don't care about Clippers series. Clippers are best team this season in my opinion and they are clearly better than Mavs. What I don't like is that Mavs didn't win a single important game in the bubble. Houston, first Phoenix game, Clippers, Portland were games that could put them in play to avoid Clippers and they lost them all. The message Mavs left for me was - we are fun to watch as long as the opponents let us, but when things get serious, we dissapear. Opponent gets a bit physical and we submit. Luka and KP are great, but other guys were greatly overpowered. DFS basically left third best impression, but he is just asked to do too much on defense. He is too weak to guard serious wings and he is not a PF. THJ and Curry were a total no show on defense.
Bench is depleted, but can't be really an excuse. Nets came without half a team and they are doing their best to kick out Portland in a game that has no importance for them. That is heart! Mavs lost to Phoenix by 20 and the game was finished by halftime.
Count three posts up from yours. That's why.
The Clippers should be the prohibitive favorites to win the championship this year in spite of not having the best record, and they are. They were already a badass team last year (once again, soooo frustrating, since they deserved years of misery after the douchiness of the CP-Blake-VAJ-Doc era, but, in a Spurs-like way, you have to take your hats off to them while gagging), and then they added two superstars with the most coveted skillsets in the league (defensive, athletic wings who are also top-flyte scorers). They should be embarrassed to whatever extent they fail to go 16-0.
My head tells me Clippers in 4. My heart tells me Clippers in 5. Both tell me that if Luka, KP, and the misfit toys somehow beat the Clippers in this series in a way that doesn't involve LAC injuries, we're winning rings this year.