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

[UpAndComing]

Not true. Just youthful exuberance. A 6’5 star SG trying to guard Kyrie all game was just stupid. He’d even be better guarding Luka.

But just get Ant off them dudes and Minnesota should win this series. Might need to start NAW over Conley. NAW/Daniels on Luka/kyrie. Ant just chillin on D should avg 30.

Now if he doubles down and comes back still on Kyrie

Luka would love if Ant tried to guard him

 

[UpAndComing]

Like I said earlier. That Wolves blitz defense only emboldens the Mavs. You never do that on a pick and roll heavy team. It allows Luka and Kyrie to

1. Pass to Lively and Gafford for lob dunks
2. Pass to wide open 3 point shooters
3. Luka-ball with foul baiting
4. Kyrie straight up blowing by extra aggressive defenders

 

[GunRanger]

fukkING CUT JOSH GREEN RIGHT NOW

Besides the dumb foul on conley, he ruined Luka's highlight assist

 

[Fresh]

I like Anthony Edwards as much as the next breh, but I'm tired of him basically saying the Wolves lost because they were tired.

Imagine if Anthony Edwards played for the Knicks

 

[Bar Razor]

Edwards is nice but he’s not on that consistent superstar level yet. They crowning him too early. Doesn’t know how to manage a game yet. Needs to figure out how to be a consistent presence/threat in the game even when he’s not scoring.

The Michael Jordan stuff was a joke to anyone with even a rudmimentary understanding of Jordan's game, and not worth commenting on but I'm going to do it just for fun. Young Jordan was more explosive, higher basketball IQ, more relentless, better finisher, quicker first step, etc. etc. And he also was navigating in a much more compact paint and would go around you, over you, cat like reflexes allowed him to contort in all kinds of ways to get a bucket and on and on. You just have to look at young Jordan footage and not be blind or an idiot to see that.

I like Edwards, and I hope he has a long, HOF career but the media's attempt to force feed this type of stuff is embarrassing at this point.

 

[Bigblackted4]

The NBA gotta adopt the fiba rule

This

 

[hitmonlee]

The Michael Jordan stuff was a joke to anyone with even a rudmimentary understanding of Jordan's game, and not worth commenting on but I'm going to do it just for fun. Young Jordan was more explosive, higher basketball IQ, more relentless, better finisher, quicker first step, etc. etc. And he also was navigating in a much more compact paint and would go around you, over you, cat like reflexes allowed him to contort in all kinds of ways to get a bucket and on and on. You just have to look at young Jordan footage and not be blind or an idiot to see that.

I like Edwards, and I hope he has a long, HOF career but the media's attempt to force feed this type of stuff is embarrassing at this point.

i dont' even think anthony edwards is a superstar yet

they looking for the next player to crown so bad

 

[GunRanger]

so the old fossil got his next target huh lol

 

[Fresh]

Gobert likes to play drop coverage, which is an issue against Dallas. Against die hard analytics teams, it can work because their perimeter defenders can fight around screens. But Luka and Kyrie will take AND make middies. That's a bread and butter shot for them. They also started the screens so far up the floor that they got running starts going to the rim.

Looking at the box score and seeing Gobert having by far the best +/- on the team is shocking. He didn't grab many boards and Luka/Kyrie can get a good shot any time he's out there.

this is why I'm not a huge fan of analytics because half the time they don't tell you the whole story

Yup. This series is over.

 

[GunRanger]

McDaniels is just too light in the ass for Luka. His length and athleticism are negated because Luka is using strength and angles to have his way.


Hopefully everybody can appreciate Lu Dort if you don't already. Luka had games in the OKC series where put up numbers...but there were also times where Dort had Luka in a straight jacket and frustrated to the point of getting emotional.

Luka got him when it mattered

 

[daboywonder2002]

Dallas is gonna be tougher than I thought. The one thing they did was take away the Wolves drives. Everytime they drove the basketball it either resulted into a turnover or just a bad shot. Ant and Kat had horrible games imo. You aren't gonna win games shooting 49 three point attempts. Then points in the paint 62-38. The good thing is both Wolves stars had bad games and the game was close the entire time.

 

[No1]

Writing off the Wolves after one game?

 

[HTXBreh]

The NBA media value second half scoring like hoe can you talk so great about Luka when he was average 3 qtrs

 

[fifth column]

Writing off the Wolves after one game?

History should tell people not to

 

[Harry B]

Writing off the Wolves after one game?

This is the coli brehs react like bytches on their period after every playoff game