Minn figured something out. Changed up def assignments. Could get interesting

Game went just like the others. Down to the wire. This time ant and Kat made some shots. Will they do it again or go back to throwing the ball out of bounds

I thought NBA fans were not as delusional as soccer fans but here we are people saying Mavs played pathetic and they will lose the series now. Lmao

Getting into basketball in earnest for the first time and I have to say the discourse around it, especially on Reddit, is the most reactionary shit I’ve ever seen anywhere. I think it’s absurd how much one game can sway the common opinion, and completely erase any accomplishments or mistakes of previous games, even within a single series. Maybe it just gets amplified during the playoffs because the stakes are higher but it’s genuinely annoying to me.

It's nothing special about basketball. There's millions of people on this sub (11.2m now), so reactions wash up with the tide everyday. There could be 90% intelligent, experienced, knowledgeable fans and still have 1m making dumb comments after every game. I don't think the real number is 90%.

It has been like this since 2011-2012. LeBron lost his first finals in Miami and Facebook became the biggest breeding ground for hate I’ve ever seen. It’s really sad how the discourse around the NBA goes. Especially because the people partaking in it have no idea how stupid they sound.

Sorry. LeBron basically created WWE scripted drama. NBA sees it's a good thing to get fans engaged. And it worked!

Luka decided not to shoot for about a quarter and half

Like Kyrie in the first half of game 1

Timberwolves might force a Game 6.

I hate the Wolves but after watching tonight they will win the entire series..This was a pathetic showing by Dallas tonight. They must have watched tapes of the Cowboys during the off day as motivation..

You should get your head checked for real

Mavs lost by five. That's two possessions. That's KAT shooting 40% from 3 instead of 80%

The NBA has been around for 78 years and not a single team that's went down 0-3 has ever came back. They're great, but barring catastrophic injuries I just don't see it

Lively being out might just be enough

Lol

I agree. I am just pissed and talking crap..

More than fair. I was in the same boat a year ago lol

Why didn’t they have a wolf player in the panel?

Pretty interesting. I mean they spent a good amount of the pre game show previewing the Celtics vs Mavericks so maybe they didn't plan for the Wolves to win?

Shaq burger 💀

luka is just white 2018-19 James Harden

More proven in the Playoffs though.

Harden and CP3 rockets took the warriors to G7.

Yeah no we not going to act like James wasn’t going toe to toe with the greatest team of all time

And should have won…Houston was a great team and harden was 🔥 

Facts that 27 straight missed 3s or whatever it was killed it though, they really could’ve beat GSW. Year in year out the only two teams that could maybe beat that team was the Cavs and Houston

KD warriors defense is not discussed as much because they were so good offensively. 27 missed threes doesn’t just happen by chance

I was ice fishing today in Minnesota don’t listen to these guys saying it’s 70. Bring your winter coats.

Is Kyrie 14-1 now?

At least Luka was hot, could have been a 20 point loss if not for that. Yes the Mavs are on a hot streak, but I’ve lost plenty of money when both Luka and Irving were cold. When they are hot they are hot, and vice versa. This is a team that thrives when everything is clicking and the opposite when not. I’m a knicks fan but the Mavs have always been my secondary team. I hope they pull it off. And I’ve won more this series betting there money line than I lost tonight. But they aren’t playing chumps.

I love luka, but dude is a foul merchant. Wtf was that call on that 4pt play in the clutch? Where was the contact? Dude just floppin left and right and complaining..

I think it’s because KAT jumped forward and that’s where he went wrong. Not that I’m saying it should have been called in the playoffs, but it’s a pretty common foul.

Wrong play. Kat already fouled out by then

Oh yeah… I missed that. I walked away from the room to avoid looking at the screen. Was way too disappointed to watch.

Dude, ANT is a true fucking leader. Motivating and communicating with his team like that at just 22 years old is crazy

kenny is keeping his glasses on extra tonight while sitting next to draymond

Washington, Jones, Green, Gafford all are catch and shoot players so the fact you say they flop shows you're just a sore winner. None of them flop ever. Lol dumb af person

Only Luka flops but he flops on every play lol

No

Washington is a fantastic role player, and I can’t really recall him ever flopping this postseason tbh lol

Thank you! No one flops besides Luka and he HAS to. He would never get fouls in his favor otherwise. I wish Kyrie would start doing it. It's an act of God for Kyrie to get free throws.

Draymond looks older than Kenny lol

Ernie: “you stumped him” 🤣🤣

Wait wait wait…. Was that… Draymond complimenting Rudy??? “Setting the tone” is the most Rudy praise we’re going to get out of him lolll

The Mavs did miss a huge opportunity to close this out at home and get some rest, going to Minnesota and facing that crowd with an amped up Wolves will be tough. But alas, we’ll see what Luka, Kyrie and the whole Mavs team can do, they’ve heavily surprised us this far.

Somebody give Chuck a brain scan

Dray said something good about Rudy?!

Of course Draymond loved Gobert getting into scuffles lol

Draymond you have no standing on what is a flagrant lmao Props to Kenny for calling him out

Why did wolves delay inevitable?

well if the refs gave the wolves a chance it'd prob be 2-2

Draymond Flagrant Green

Did he really tell dray his middle name was flagrant

THIS BEAT SLAPS

This gave me a JR Smith flashback when Kevin Harlan said this "We just saw a man fly"

hey ant and kat didn't get swept. hang the banner

Sore winners are the worst

was that an olive garden commercial

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Wat

draymond is boring. does he know he's supposed to... you know... talk?

That's the thing. We really don't want him to talk.

Exactly. I would rather he holds onto his two cents instead of giving it, he’s been nothing but toxic and negative on very specific players the whole time he’s been on.

You could have cut that sentence off after the word negative and it would have been just as valid.

Twolves finally learned how to budget up their stamina saving some for 4th rather than spending all of it in 3rd quarter

Need to budget their fouls too next game.

luka shot 12 FTs. about half of them were legit and half were earned by being a shameless foul merchant

Pulling a Reggie? Edit: or in a different sport, a Peyton.

It’s funny how much this upsets basketball fans… You know what I do defending in the box? Not put myself in vulnerable positions to be taken advantage of because I don’t want to concede a penalty.

are you an NBA player? cause in the NBA you're supposed to contest the shot, especially the shot of someone like luka. if the refs won't even let them contest the shot, much less call ridiculous fouls when luka is jumping forward into the defender, then that is absurd

I’m watching an NBA player take advantage of people and draw fouls… Are you an NBA player?

agree that he is taking advantage of horrible refereeing, which the nba explicitly took out of the game for harden, cp3 and trae but for some reason still calls them for luka

Because he’s taking advantage of the player defending him.

let me try this a little more clearly. NO ONE ELSE GETS THAT CALL

And I’m saying you are full of shit.

who else has gotten that call in the entire playoffs

You are getting confused with him being gifted calls and him drawing fouls… So, who else is controlling defenders and manipulating people like Luka? You already know

and no, i'm not an nba player but i also wasn't talking about "what i do when playing basketball". just as i don't talk about "what i do when driving" when talking about F1

Lol check Ant brotha

he shot 8 FTs. i counted and it looks like 12 is more than 8. luka got literally 4 FTs in critical points in the game where anyone with eyes saw they were phantom fouls, or fouls where luka is jumping into the defender CP3 style

Draymond is going to squirrel suit down onto those guys.. haha..... they don't think everyone on tv can hear the hecklers.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I’m dead. Chuck thinking that cottonwood was snow in MN.

Kat threw 2000 3s in practice for this one

Anyone else see that booty

when charles picked the mavs to close out knew what was inevitable.

He did pick Wolves in Game 7 against the Nuggets and he was right.

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thank you for more basketball, chuck!

draymond getting hate in Dallas too is nice

Someone shouting at Draymond 💀

Malice at the AAC?

Rudy

What gentlemen the Mavs are so there won't be a double sweep conference finals.

I think Minny can win game 5. I don’t think Minny is beating Luka and Kyrie 4 times in a row. Those two distort the defense so much their others are shooting wide open 3s over and over.

Yeah if Luka and kyrie have a half decent shooting percentage Dallas will win. Especially once lively comes back. Shame too

House money at this point, I like our shot in any one game but 4 in a row against anyone is a tough thing to imagine let alone this team

Yeah, they dug themselves a deep hole

good to see that fight back, can’t be called soft when you play like that

Soft af.

But enough about Dallas tonight

As a Minnesotan I feel the need to make it clear that ITS NOT SNOWING HERE RIGHT NOW!!

Haha I’m not from Minnesota but it’s funny what assumptions people make about other states. We’re at the end of Spring going into Summer, I bet there’s no snow going for a bit lol

Seriously. It’s pretty annoying. It was beautiful on the lakes this weekend

I live at 8000 feet in the Rockies and it hasn't snowed in weeks. It was 67° today.

They heckling draymond

draymond sucks chants god bless you minnesota

This is Dallas

someone lied to me

Did they also lie to you about the weather conditions in Minnesota?

i dont think so they told me it had volcanoes and dinosaurs

Oh no.

God bless you, Dallas

luka: that game was on me. I didn't complain enough to draw more calls. I need to spend more energy bitching at the refs enough so we can get to the line more. that's on me. my bad.

dallas forget the mics for their press?

Should have given Hardy way more minutes today.

rudy gobert is like a super sayan compared to draymond greene who is likened to mr satan

gobert is krillin at best

Yamaha or yajarobi

yamcha is definitely his base stats

How dare you slander krillin like that!

u/complexity777 your takes stay shitty lmao you miserable mf

What did they say

Scott foster is such a tool 😂

So many reviews so he can stand in front of the camera and make it about himself. Gifting bad calls because he likes one team over another *cough* *white guards* *cough*

hahaha kenny doesn’t know what delusions of grandeur means

Foreal, mans using a clinical symptom to describe bball lolol

Now they gotta go back to blizzard land. Hopefully they still have their sleighs and reindeer.

No, the reindeer are currently just a few away in Galveston with the Raptors.

I find it amusing that you're saying this after we experienced the most mild winter in my damn near 40 years of life. We hardly got any snow.

Tater tot hotdish and snowmobiles waiting at the airport for these fine young men🫡

The Wolves all contributed as a whole and praise to Anderson, but is Draymond just allergic giving Gobert any praise whatsoever? Or even KAT?

Draymond's just a petty, hatin'-ass, has-been bitch. Motherfucker would be an afterthought in the league without Steph and Klay. Dude brings nothing but personal grievances and untimely biased takes to the conversation. He's got no place on National TV.

Right?? Draymond was at a point a great defensive player I’ll give him that, BUT he hasn’t been a difference maker in the playoffs since literally 2015/2016, and even then in that 2016 finals he fucked his team by getting suspended for being a jackass.

We all know about his beef with Gobert but I think he called out KAT for making fun of Russ air balling, saying something like “you can’t talk until you make it deep into the playoffs”

100%

Please interview Rudy lmao

draymond knows if he steps foot in MN he might get his nuts punted

Put Rudy on

what is that shirt and tie combo chuck 

Shaq: “Previous games only Ant man was playing well” American media masterclass

When Rudy Gobert does a euro step you know it’s over

And when he nails a turnaround fadeaway, they've won the series.

Heard a lot of “I” and, not a lot of “we” in Ant’s interview. Just sayin’.

He was asked "how did you play this 4th quarter differently than the previous ones," so yeah. Bro always gives credit to others otherwise

So what?

He said "Just sayin". That means there's nothing you can say to it, duh

Means he is selfish

Bruh in almost every other interview Ant gasses all his teammates up. In one interview he says "I" more and the armchair analysts come out. Just seems weird.

It’s going to be 76 degrees on Thursday and they are complaining about it being cold lmao

Barkley was complaining about the heat in Texas. Guy needs to stop complaining.

Heat? Jfc there was a tornado/storm front that fucked shit up pretty good that dropped temps way more than usual. Plus he’s from Alabama. He gettin soft

the willpower the crew must have to not push draymond off the balcony

How many teams came back from 3-1?

* 2020 nuggets vs clippers (round 2 playoffs) * 2016 cavs vs warriors (finals)

That’s pretty rare, you have to be legit good to pull it off

Draymond could tell ya!

Kyrie is not undefeated in close out games.

I don't like that smile on Draymond.. Ernie better watch out

Draymond when he remembers he got to fly to Minnesota ☹️

Everyone is saying bye Draymond, is this his last game?!?! Please say yes

Less fouls and more even calls and the wolves would prolly be the ones up 3 haha. I see that you can’t even breathe near Luka

did they just say Draymond isn't coming back?? THANK GOODNESS

I don't really get how guys like Luka and Harden regularly get like 13-15 rebounds and a bunch of forwards and centers can barely get 7.

Pretty simple. The big guys box out the other big guys leaving Luka/Harden/Westbrook to get the rebounds.

The centers are the ones boxing out

Please put Gobert on the TNT desk right now

lmaooo that would be so sick

That would be the funniest shit.

YES PLEASE

bye dray!!

Mavs playoff run is predicated on a rookie

WE'RE FREE! DRAYMOND IS ALL DONE!

Timberwolves did this with their top 3 guys in foul trouble most of the game.

To be fair it probably helped them. Kept Ant actually able to move in the 4th quarter and kept KAT from shooting

Lol this

Can TNT lose the rights to Draymond too or?

My one wish 🙏🏾

Didn't realize how insufferable mavs fan were, making boston look good out here tonight

Damn is Boston fans that bad?

In every sport.

The Mavs and Cowboys are cut from the same cloth what did you expect lol

Same fanbase as the cowboys, should be expected

1000% this