Ebony & Ivory with Burning Sage vs. Lucky Charms & Unicorns Colliding on Flat Earth | Official Mavericks (#5) vs. Celtics (#1) 2024 NBA Finals Thread

[Stick Up Kid]

He missed shots it ain’t that deep.

Ain’t that the entire point of basketball ?

 

[chargers31]

 

[Don Homer]

The world starting to see

 

[MicIsGod]

Ain’t that the entire point of basketball ?

you right I had no idea.

 

[Don Homer]

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

On a general scale yes, but this team never needed Marcus Smart to have an identity is the point. People grossly overestimated his value

That's only because Brown has finally embraced a leadership role and because Jrue is a better version of Marcus Smart.... way better

Smart was needed on those other iterations because the team was young and even to this day Tatum still isn't much of a leader

 

[Turk]

@Turk
You will go to a finals game in Dallas to root for your Celtics ? You still live there?

Those tickets too high




I might pull up to the stadium though, and just hang out

 

[Rasille]

Boston just has Kyrie’s number. If this was any other team. He’d be cooking.

 

[Deafheaven]

Yeah, let's not give him the 'LeBron Excuse' because Luka is legit getting hunted out there. It'd be fine if he was a good defender. At least then you'd have an argument, but as it stands, he's responsible as well.

For the offense he provides his defense is serviceable imo. Ive grown to appreciate Luka game.

If Kyrie doesnt show up they wont win a game end of the day. Its a team game so yeah he responsible for sure

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

they could have clown-stomped the NBA this year.

They won 64 games and had a near record point differential... what more should they have done in the regular season?

 

[Jplaya2023]

Celtics have the depth and with Kristap it puts them on another level. This is Celtics championship for them to lose. Kyrie is too old and has too many injuries and milage in him to take over. Wtf is josh hart saying having PJ Washington and Jones be the primary ball handlers and having Luka and Kyrie play off ball is a recipe for disaster.

Boston has 6 1/2 , guys. Pritchard and Hauser counts as 1/4 of a guy

 

[Guess Who]

Their offense has been a much bigger problem than their defense through two game.

I’d say everything was an issue game 1 and game 2 it was their offence. But the thing is against Boston is you have more than two or three defensive breakdowns a quarter you’re going to get blown out. So the perimeter D has to be strong.

 

[Crude]

How he got a better bag with no left hand?

He’s more athletic, better defensively, and a better finisher. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have holes in his game.

Tatum is streaky AF reminds me of an extremely poor mans Kobe with worse everything.

 

[Jplaya2023]

They won 64 games and had a near record point differential... what more should they have done in the regular season?

Win 70 games and win every game by 18.5 a night

 

[Raquinotj]

They didn't play anybody in the east as good as Dallas.

Without Kristaps the mavs won't be scared to attack the rim and on defense they won't be so worried about one of their guards getting caught on him. The whole dynamic of the games would change if White Wilt doesn't play going forward. Not to say that the Celtcis would lose but it wouldn't be a sweep. You saw what happened when he came out the game. Derrick White had to come save the day or this shyt might be going back to Dallas 1 - 1.

Celtics better just tell him to gut this shyt out for two more games.

Breh the Celtics played probably their worse game of the season. 10-39 from 3 points, JT had a horrible game and they still were comfortably ahead by doble digits in the 4th.


Pacers were scoring in the triple digits vs the Celtics including a 128 point game. Dallas haven’t scored 100 points yet in any game.