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

[Road20]

The perfect KAT game

Absolute baffling fouls and flamethrower from 3

3 of those calls were fugazi

 

[Ozymandeas]

Nah.... I can't explain it but I kept saying Kyle Anderson is the key...

For some reason he makes Luka work a little harder.

And his slow ass makes small smart plays..
It's weird

makes sense. Luka is great at making players fall for his fakes, he plays slow, exploits angles, in no rush to shoot.

only another slow ass SF can guard that.

 

[mag357]

He slow like Luka so it works

McDaniels be too thirsty

McDaniels is playing D well.
Even when he gets caught on Lukas hip, he's still able to get Infront a contest.
He is long but alil light in the ass. So Luka can move him around

It seems like Kyle doesn't even give Luka space, and makes him uncomfortable.

It reminds me of boxing.
A dude might not be as skilled as another guy, but being awkward and just having an unorthodox style can give really good fighters problems

 

[UpAndComing]

He slow like Luka so it works

McDaniels be too thirsty

McDaniels is weak and has CTE. He is food for Luka

 

[Ozymandeas]

He slow like Luka so it works

McDaniels be too thirsty

Exactly

 

[GoldenGlove]

Nah, let's face it, the T Wolves are too dumb to be taken seriously at this point.

They are a dumb team, but Dallas having all their role players clicking AND Luka and Kyrie performing this well in the clutch is not sustainable. When Minnesota is on their shyt they are washing Dallas TBH.

KAT's inconsistency has put them in a hole this series

 

[Da Bull Ace]

This nikka kat wanna start hitting 3s when I dont bet on him fukk him

 

[Don Homer]

No one should be surprised by Kyrie not coming through

As quiet as its kept, he's been hella inconsistent ALL PLAYOFFS, no matter the opponent

How many times has he done nothing for entire quarters?
How many times has he had to bullshyt and act like he's a swiss army knife because he's shooting 4/13 in the first half?
How many times has he deferred to DJJ and PJ Washington throughout the playoffs, but everyone acts like he's "geTTinG hiS TeaMMatEs InVolVeD"?
He averaged 15ppg in R2. In the closeout game, he shot 9/23. He's been mediocre all playoffs, but is getting by because his opponents are garbage, or his teammates are carrying him

y'all gonna learn that Kyrie is just getting praised like he's a superstar but he's been a role player for this entire run.

His luck gonna run out. It's really just Luka and role players

Y'all heard it here first

 

[fifth column]

They’re dumb but that Denver series shows they can look like a title team for a few games at a time. We will see what happens

What will happen is what has always happened when a team goes down 0-3, Min ain’t winning 4 in a row. If this was 2-2 then we got something

 

[Henry Orbit]

Please bring up Gobert to speak to the crew. I wanna see Draymond stand on business

 

[-DMP-]

Lol they calling out Dray on them flagrants

 

[fifth column]

No one should be surprised by Kyrie not coming through

As quiet as its kept, he's been hella inconsistent ALL PLAYOFFS, no matter the opponent

How many times has he done nothing for entire quarters?
How many times has he had to bullshyt and act like he's a swiss army knife because he's shooting 4/13 in the first half?
How many times has he deferred to DJJ and PJ Washington throughout the playoffs, but everyone acts like he's "geTTinG hiS TeaMMatEs InVolVeD"?
He averaged 14ppg in R2

y'all gonna learn that Kyrie is just getting praised like he's a superstar but he's been a role player for this entire run.

His luck gonna run out. It's really just Luka and role players

Y'all heard it here first

Kyrie already won a chip and his team is on the verge of going to the finals, guess he’s a lucky breh. What’s gonna happen to him once his “luck” runs out

 

[Jplaya2023]

they should be tbh. Luka better enjoy the next 1-2 years while Ant is inexperienced because the next decade gonna be rough.

he a young boy hanging with him. he just need to put it all together.

Luka is 25 Ant is 22. You type as if Luka is 33 or something

 

[Primetime]

Kyle was great today dawg honestly. Guarded luka well, held down primary handler duties to give Ant a break and made a great pass on the late game SLOB play to Naz

This was the real key with Kyle. He can set things up well enough and he makes that unorthodox push shot when probing. This also allows MIN to become bigger defensively, as this is a bad series for Mike Conley on that end.

Kyle's defense vs Luka was cool too but to keep it 100, in prior games he was getting clipped on the picks and put in jail, setting up lobs. MIN played the lobs better tonight tho at the same time Lively was out so it wasn't lob threats for 48 minutes like the prior games.

 

[Don Homer]

Kyrie already won a chip and his team is on the verge of going to the finals, guess he’s a lucky breh. What’s gonna happen to him once his “luck” runs out

hitching his ride to a superstar for the first one, and doing it again

We've already seen what it looks like when he has to lead a team (2019 celtics). He ran away first chance he got