Game 75: Dallas Mavericks (45-29) vs. Golden State Warriors (40-34)

[RGP1981]

He started the game by hitting Luka in the face, hard, and getting away with it. When the Mavs choose not to respond to that, it sets the tone for the game.

The Mavs need to have someone from the bench hit Steph Curry in the face, harder, in response. The Warriors take too many liberties against the best player on the opposing team through Draymond Green... trying to injure them, get them ejected, etc... while they count on Curry's "likability" and the sportsmanship of the other team to not do the same to Curry. Tim Duncan's Spurs used to do the same thing too through Bruce Bowen. When the Warriors do this, then other teams need to ignore Draymond and should immediately do everything possible to take Curry out of the game. Tit for tat is the only way to deal with teams who consistently do sneaky unsporting stuff like this. You wanna mess with our best player, then we'll take out your best player too. Or, you can play the game sportingly, and we'll do the same too.