Manifest Destiny: Claiming the West Starts with Taming the Wolves! Official Mavs (#5) vs. Timberwolves (#3) WCF Thread

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Of Mavs and Men?

The 7-game theory: Flat Earth vs. The Wolves of Ball-Street?

2 Mavericks ( an independent person because Kyrie is an ISO guy and Luka-Ball is very much a things) dance with Wolves...?

Something about pearl clutching because Edward's says what's on his mind and Kyrie is a free-sprit.

Something about Wolves marking territory that Luka has already been in.
"Manifest Destiny: Claiming the West Starts with Taming the Wolves"
 

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The Wolves have handled the Mavs easily in these games. And no PJ Washington and Gafford are not going to make that much of a difference. This ain't the Clippers or Okc. Lively is a rookie who is going across three grown men in the trenches I mean you are going to need 30 a night from Kyrie and Luka just to stay close.
 

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Mavs haven't been impressive this post-season imo.. whereas MIN dominated what was supposed to be a bad matchup for them in rd 1, and then out-executed the reigning champs in rd 2.

I think they'll clamp up the Mavs without giving up offensive rebounds, Kat will be optimized on offensive far better than Chet was with OKC on cross matches, and Rudy no longer has to be a point-of-attack defender.

Wolves in 5 or 6.
They lost 3 straight being up 2-0 and lost 2 of those 3 games by 15 pts and 27 pts....then won game 6 easily facing elimination. You could say domination first two games of the series and in game 6 but they were battled tested especially in game 7. They cannot do the same thing they did in Denver series losing 2 straight at home.

OKC had SGA who was scoring in the paint and earning every bucket. ANT is a completely different player than SGA.

KAT commits stupid fouls and Luka is good with foul bait moves if either KAT or Gobert gets into foul trouble then you must have big games from Naz Reid.

This series does not go less than 6 games for the winner.
 

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this is going to be epic. at least 6. maybe 7.

i'm conflicted. i'm a day 1 luka stan but i've really grown to love edwards and the wolves this year.
 

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They lost 3 straight being up 2-0 and lost 2 of those 3 games by 15 pts and 27 pts....then won game 6 easily facing elimination. You could say domination first two games of the series and in game 6 but they were battled tested especially in game 7. If they were so dominant they would've won game 3 at home and ended series in 5 games max.

KAT commits stupid fouls and Luka is good with foul bait moves if either KAT or Gobert gets into foul trouble then you must have big games from Naz Reid.

This series does not go less than 6 games for the winner.

Uh… Re-read what I said: dominated in round 1

That was against Phoenix, not Denver.

And then they out-executed/out-poised Denver in game 7. I find both of those series collectively more impressive than what DAL went through.

We all know about Luka’s foul baiting ways fa sho, tho MIN fighting through foul trouble is nothing new. We’ll see.
 

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Minnesota will beat Dallas and go to the Finals

I think Dallas will win one or two games though

and we all know Boston is coming out of the East

I'm looking forward to this years champion, I like how now a different team wins the Finals, it's more exciting, dynasties can get old after a while
 

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The Wolves have handled the Mavs easily in these games. And no PJ Washington and Gafford are not going to make that much of a difference. This ain't the Clippers or Okc. Lively is a rookie who is going across three grown men in the trenches I mean you are going to need 30 a night from Kyrie and Luka just to stay close.

Yea, a lot of OKC’s flaws that did them in are Minnesota’s strengths: MIN has the 3 best bigs in the series, always two on the floor, all of whom rebound, and two of the three can shoot and are post-up threats.

A lot of Dallas offense came from their corner men taking turns having career shooting nights, plus their bigs destroying OKC in the interior..

If MIN stifles that, then Luka and Kyrie can no longer afford to play like shyt for half the game.
 

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Uh… Re-read what I said: dominated in round 1

That was against Phoenix, not Denver.

And then they out-executed/out-poised Denver in game 7. I find both of those series collectively more impressive than what DAL went through.

We all know about Luka’s foul baiting ways fa sho, tho MIN fighting through foul trouble is nothing new. We’ll see.
So you sticking with Wolves in 5? Which one is it 5 or 6?
 

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So you sticking with Wolves in 5? Which one is it 5 or 6?
I’ll stick to exactly what I said nygga :skip:

Mavs haven't been impressive this post-season imo.. whereas MIN dominated what was supposed to be a bad matchup for them in rd 1, and then out-executed the reigning champs in rd 2.

I think they'll clamp up the Mavs without giving up offensive rebounds, Kat will be optimized on offensive far better than Chet was with OKC on cross matches, and Rudy no longer has to be a point-of-attack defender.

Wolves in 5 or 6.

Lol
 

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