Manifest Destiny: Claiming the West Starts with Taming the Wolves! Official Mavs (#5) vs. Timberwolves (#3) WCF Thread
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OKC was built to beat Dallas with Dort and their guard rotation on defense
People on Twitter are largely dumb. A bunch of "of the moment dikkriders".
Liberalspeed34
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OKC has a better offense. Kyrie was forced to play defense. They also have more guards they can throw at him defensively. Timberwolves offense is going to get them in trouble. These dudes literally launched 3's all night.
ALonelyDad
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And they are also a pretty great team, top 10 in defense and offense and were #1 seed for a reason. I am interested in seeing if Kyrie has it this easy rest of the series, outside of Luka, Kyrie also had a lot of bad games in that series. Wolves best bet is to make him uncomfortable over Luka this series.
Wolves have to go under the screen and let him shoot treys....which he has struggled with all postseason
Liberalspeed34
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Yep, Presti messed up not getting a big to help Chet. Didn't help that Shai's supporting cast didn't play well for the most part.
These are great points breh.
Liberalspeed34
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The NBA's new favorite move is less traveling, more time travel -- and it's nearly impossible to stop
This article does a pretty good job explaining it. Below are two inserts from the article.
Doncic's "ability to generate force during that eccentric phase of the movement as he's decelerating" rated better than more than 90% of the hundreds of NBA players who have tested at the facility, P3 director of biomechanics Eric Leidersdorf told ESPN.
Doncic's closest biomechanical comparison at the time, according to Leidersdorf: James Harden, who was then at the peak of his offensive game for the Houston Rockets.
areohbee824
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Dallas won the rebound match. Great defense played by 1A/1B too
Wolves +36 in Treys
DetroitEWarren
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Yep. Luka has a great handle so he uses it to keep players off balance and attack angles using his big body. He doesn't get much of a step on dudes but once you are in his hip, he is a big dude and has great touch around the basket, you don't really affect him.Shyt.....I'm bout to argue Luka is in that class too, and with an unorthodox-style.
I heard Skip argue earlier today, Luka gets into the middle of the lane (wit his herky-jerky offense) whenever he wants, and I didn't believe it, til I really sat there and watched him tonight (specifically in the 1st-half). He was having his way, gettin to the middle of the lane, and getting his shot, or a pass off, whenever he wanted to. If he's able to do that at his slow ass pace, I don't see why an Ant struggles to do so.
Luka needs to probe because his first step is slow ASF, but his handle is versatile and he gets where he wants, he just needs to dribble a lot. Kyrie also, but Ky is underrated in his change of direction speed and Ky doesn't really need to play with the ball as much as Luka because Ky is kinda explosive off the first step and can string together dribble moves like no other.
I still think Wade was the GOAT at stringing together moves though, nikka would rock the first defender around a pick, split the 2nd defender, then spin step and finish over the 3rd. nikka did that shyt 5-10 times per night.