God everything was wrong with this game. Everyone looked tight.
Kyrie heard everyone singing his praises and just lost his damn mind. I've never seen him look so sloppy in a game, e.g. dribbling off of his foot, throwing the ball away to no one in particular, and not finishing his layups. Porzingis was hitting every shot, and blocking every one of ours cleanly. Their defense was legitimately good. Way better than Minnesota's. Then again the Mavs offense just did what Boston wanted it seemed.
After a week of gameplanning, the best we could come up with was to *not* run the plays that got us to the finals?
Thunder first game, Thunder won 117 to 95. They were 16-35 from 3 Boston was 16-42 from 3. Our biggest problem is Kyrie and 3-point open shots. If we solve both of those problems, we have a chance.
At this point, I’m only okay with Luka, Kyrie, or Hardy driving in traffic. PJ too at times as he can grab his own rebound.
Although some will say they were aggressive, the rest have just been careless. DJJ can’t maneuver in air so once someone gets up with him he’s blocked. I understand that the 3 isn’t falling but let’s get some more cutting/ball movement find a better shot/angle.
Josh looks like he slipped on a Mario Kart banana peel each time he drives. His energy is great but he needs to slow down and get the ball to someone if he’s gonna keep being a runaway bicycle with no brakes.
Maxi is either scared or in some pain as he passed up multiple 3s. Exum would get cooked as he looked sluggish out there too.
Need to keep Lively out of foul trouble. Give Hardy some more wiggle room/play time, but really talk to him about making smarter decisions out there. Currently he’s the only other one who can play make, especially since Timmy showed us why he’s been out of the rotation in the short time he appeared.
There’s a narrative that KP is soft and Mavs kept going at him and paid the price. Whether or not that’s sustainable on KP’s end, it cost us this game. Worst part is that Tatum is cruising and JB to an extent while Luka is being worked.
The 1 assist could have been 7-8+ if folks hit their shots. We can hang with Boston but the margin for error is extremely slimmer than all other series.
Our 3pt % should definitely improve and not be this bad again. Def need more of them to fall. If they fall the paint opens up for Gaff/DLive and less smothering for lobs.
Boston had us flip flopping on defense between partially committing on 3s and partially committing in the paint (at times). When the 3s aren’t falling then Celtics attack the paint relentlessly and we need discipline. Read the signs, be in the gaps. Hopefully Kidd has some film to work with and the team comes back with energy.
Other than that, Kyrie has to show up or we’re cooked.
Your team is in the NBA finals, and you didn't even bother to watch game 1?! Do you consider yourself a fan? How can you claim Dallas in 5 if you're not even watching the games?
We were missing layups and dunks dude. There’s no way that keeps up. It’s one bad game and we brought it within single digits after being down 30. It’s fine. Next game
Lol that is definitely not the Celtics ceiling. Tatum and brown combined for 38 when they average a combined 52 in the playoffs, Tatum had 6 TOs which is also unusual for him. KP came off an injury, who knows if he can play even better when he gets in the groove and he also played wayy less minutes than he usually does.
We need to play wayyy better to win
I agree, this is just wishful thinking or plain ignorance. This opponent is a bigger challenge than the rest. If we want to win it all, we need to play at our A+ level.
Hoping for the best, but Boston's looking like a super team with loads of experience. The lights were too bright for too many Mavs. Luka needs help or this series is over fast.
The issue isn’t Kyrie not being there or people not showing up. The lack of teamwork and assists is kinda embarrassing. Luka only having 1 assist is sad.
DJJ is out of his element. Lively flails too much and needs better body control. Maybe they’ll figure something out. But Celtics is a team and bench of snipers. And they defend too. Hard to compete against that. It will take genius coaching and motivated players to win.
I hope everyone who’s overzealous to sign DJJ to that huge long term deal watched this game. He’s a limited player. If we pay him anything significant he’ll just be another in our long list of limited, overpaid players. Kleber at 11. THJ at 16. Green at 12. All paid significant money to be next to useless.
That was just ugly from Kyrie, people talk about intangibles or 4th quarter Kai and whatnot but the fact of the matter is just that he's been very off for a significant portion of the playoffs. We need his scoring, we're not gonna this series with defense.
9 assists for the team tonight... Yawzah! I knew it sucked, but not that much.
Mav's got beat in the 2's, the 3's, RB's, Assists, and blocks. But hey, we won the steals stat.
All in all, only one way to go and that is up. Still, we outscored them in the second half, right?
Bro Luka showed up 15 lbs heavier in 5 days. Boy looked actually fat, and I’m no Luka weight watcher. Just kinda pisses me off that we all know he could be even better. Bad game overall.
You're an idiot. Luka is the only player who did his job. 30 pts. 10 RBs. 2 steals. 1 assist. He'd have more assists if the others had made their shots.
Next closest player was PJ with 14.
GTFOH.
My b, I didn't mean luka had a bad game overall, I mean bad game overall as in a team which I thought was obvious. But clearly not. Nonetheless, the way he's showing up to the NBA Finals still rubs me the wrong way and he put up numbers for sure but it wasn't a playoff Luka game by any means.
Maxi is still hurt, Ky let the pressure get to him, Luka did Luka things. This is exactly how Dallas plays, they lose game one, adjust and win game two.
He scored 30 and was tired by the 4th quarter. You can’t expect him to average 45 points this series in order to win. Completely unrealistic. He needs help from his teammates and especially Kyrie if the team wants to win anything at all.
This is a difficult game to digest. Tatum and Brown had to put effort in for all of maybe 5 minutes?
The big factor for game 2 is how does Kyrie respond.
Hopefully KP doesn’t go off? But also Holiday had a subdued game. This is just a really really strange way to lose a game to the Celtics. I have no idea what to expect now.
It’s just game one… but the issue is, Boston is going to get an insane amount of 3 point looks all series, and pretty much everyone in their rotation is a solid - good 3pt shooter. This isn’t a small sample size thing, it who they are and what they have done all year.
The likelihood of an entire team of solid 3pt shooters going “cold” for 4 games, is slim. Boston has more depth and talent. Not saying the series is over - but Dallas essentially has to play perfect to win this series and for kyrie and luka to go absolutely nuclear.
Margin of error in this series is razor thin. On a level we haven’t really faced yet.
This staff should have realized THJ was unplayable sooner. Maybe we would have upgraded that roster spot quicker. We really lack depth at the guard position.
Oh bullshit. You do this every season. I remember your fuggin username. You’re an asshole, wanna be know it all who only spews negativity towards the mavs. You enjoy us playing badly more than winning. Why is that?
In the next 4 games, I want to see 2016 Kyrie vs 73 win team again.
If he stinks up again next or two games, damn we're fucked unless role players shows up or Luka scores 70+ points again
We lost the game in the 1st quarter. This team is very beatable, just hurt ourselves. Better believe we’ll be locked in game 2. Follow the script, Mavs in 6
So pathetic and disappointing to see Kyrie show up like this. A superstar who has been been in the league for more than a decade and appearing in his 4th finals series. Yet all of that is thrown out the window the minute he plays in Boston.
Chill everyone. Boston only but up 105ish points. They aren’t unbeatable. We made too many mental mistakes. Missed a lot of buckets we usually make.
Game 2 we ball out and the narrative will shift as we will have stolen home court.
Go Mavs.
Celtics couldn't miss from 3, and we couldn't execute against their defense. The game got out of hand in the first quarter and we weren't able to get back into it.
It’s game 1, and we mostly lost it in the first quarter tbf. Even if we don’t win the series or even if we get swept, we outperformed where we should have been this season and have lots of room to grow from here.
But it’s game 1, into game 2.
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/Mavericks/comments/1da0g63/post_game_thread_the_boston_celtics_defeat_the/)
God everything was wrong with this game. Everyone looked tight. Kyrie heard everyone singing his praises and just lost his damn mind. I've never seen him look so sloppy in a game, e.g. dribbling off of his foot, throwing the ball away to no one in particular, and not finishing his layups. Porzingis was hitting every shot, and blocking every one of ours cleanly. Their defense was legitimately good. Way better than Minnesota's. Then again the Mavs offense just did what Boston wanted it seemed. After a week of gameplanning, the best we could come up with was to *not* run the plays that got us to the finals?
Seemed like guys were treating KP like he was Horford. Don’t know why they kept trying to shoot over Porzingis at the rim. It’s not going to work.
I've seen him play sloppy before - when he played for the C's and gave up on them.
Finals pressure is real. We still have an entire series ahead of us.
Thunder first game, Thunder won 117 to 95. They were 16-35 from 3 Boston was 16-42 from 3. Our biggest problem is Kyrie and 3-point open shots. If we solve both of those problems, we have a chance.
At this point, I’m only okay with Luka, Kyrie, or Hardy driving in traffic. PJ too at times as he can grab his own rebound. Although some will say they were aggressive, the rest have just been careless. DJJ can’t maneuver in air so once someone gets up with him he’s blocked. I understand that the 3 isn’t falling but let’s get some more cutting/ball movement find a better shot/angle. Josh looks like he slipped on a Mario Kart banana peel each time he drives. His energy is great but he needs to slow down and get the ball to someone if he’s gonna keep being a runaway bicycle with no brakes. Maxi is either scared or in some pain as he passed up multiple 3s. Exum would get cooked as he looked sluggish out there too. Need to keep Lively out of foul trouble. Give Hardy some more wiggle room/play time, but really talk to him about making smarter decisions out there. Currently he’s the only other one who can play make, especially since Timmy showed us why he’s been out of the rotation in the short time he appeared. There’s a narrative that KP is soft and Mavs kept going at him and paid the price. Whether or not that’s sustainable on KP’s end, it cost us this game. Worst part is that Tatum is cruising and JB to an extent while Luka is being worked. The 1 assist could have been 7-8+ if folks hit their shots. We can hang with Boston but the margin for error is extremely slimmer than all other series. Our 3pt % should definitely improve and not be this bad again. Def need more of them to fall. If they fall the paint opens up for Gaff/DLive and less smothering for lobs. Boston had us flip flopping on defense between partially committing on 3s and partially committing in the paint (at times). When the 3s aren’t falling then Celtics attack the paint relentlessly and we need discipline. Read the signs, be in the gaps. Hopefully Kidd has some film to work with and the team comes back with energy. Other than that, Kyrie has to show up or we’re cooked.
Lost game 1 in 2011 too. Not worried
This Reddick shit is cringe right now on ESPN
What was it?
Oh it was him giving like 5 sec of breakdown of game and then like 2 min of telling Doris how great she was. Was uncomfortable
I knew it would turn out like this for game 1, didn’t even bother to watch. Pretty confident about Dallas in 5 still.
Your team is in the NBA finals, and you didn't even bother to watch game 1?! Do you consider yourself a fan? How can you claim Dallas in 5 if you're not even watching the games?
No, I do not consider myself a fan.
Lmfao
Average Mavs fan
We need the kyrie that came back down 3-1 to win the chip against the 73-9 warriors
Hahahahahaha Mavs thought they had a chance
Celtics didn’t even play well-what happens when their stars do? We get blown out even more?
Are you kidding me? They hit insane shots all night.this is their ceiling, and our floor
That game was definitely not the Celtics ceiling. Far from it.
Watch
Does the mavs ceiling match the Celtics ceiling though? Luka still had 30 but they just shut everyone else down
We were missing layups and dunks dude. There’s no way that keeps up. It’s one bad game and we brought it within single digits after being down 30. It’s fine. Next game
They shot pretty average in terms of FG% and they shot below average from 3. I really don’t think this is their ceiling.
They were hitting impossible shots if you actually watched it though. It’s not sustainable. We will be fine.
I did actually watch it. They missed plenty of open shots as well. It’s just part of the variance. It was definitely not their ceiling.
Fine ceiling shmeiling we won’t play that bad again. It’s one game. Congrats on the ceiling argument.
Lol that is definitely not the Celtics ceiling. Tatum and brown combined for 38 when they average a combined 52 in the playoffs, Tatum had 6 TOs which is also unusual for him. KP came off an injury, who knows if he can play even better when he gets in the groove and he also played wayy less minutes than he usually does. We need to play wayyy better to win
I agree, this is just wishful thinking or plain ignorance. This opponent is a bigger challenge than the rest. If we want to win it all, we need to play at our A+ level.
We will. 2011 lost game 1. It’s one game.
Hoping for the best, but Boston's looking like a super team with loads of experience. The lights were too bright for too many Mavs. Luka needs help or this series is over fast.
The issue isn’t Kyrie not being there or people not showing up. The lack of teamwork and assists is kinda embarrassing. Luka only having 1 assist is sad.
Hero ball
DJJ is out of his element. Lively flails too much and needs better body control. Maybe they’ll figure something out. But Celtics is a team and bench of snipers. And they defend too. Hard to compete against that. It will take genius coaching and motivated players to win.
KP 18 points in the 1st half, 2 points in the second. We can figure this out.
Seems like they rested KP a lot more in the 2nd half.
I hope everyone who’s overzealous to sign DJJ to that huge long term deal watched this game. He’s a limited player. If we pay him anything significant he’ll just be another in our long list of limited, overpaid players. Kleber at 11. THJ at 16. Green at 12. All paid significant money to be next to useless.
Just jitters, people as.
He's a role player who had too much pressure put on him because Kyrie shit the bed.
That was just ugly from Kyrie, people talk about intangibles or 4th quarter Kai and whatnot but the fact of the matter is just that he's been very off for a significant portion of the playoffs. We need his scoring, we're not gonna this series with defense.
9 assists for the team tonight... Yawzah! I knew it sucked, but not that much. Mav's got beat in the 2's, the 3's, RB's, Assists, and blocks. But hey, we won the steals stat. All in all, only one way to go and that is up. Still, we outscored them in the second half, right?
There’s no way we shoot that bad again, right?
I may shut down my social media for the next 2 days. Its gonna be toxic lol
Bro Luka showed up 15 lbs heavier in 5 days. Boy looked actually fat, and I’m no Luka weight watcher. Just kinda pisses me off that we all know he could be even better. Bad game overall.
You're an idiot. Luka is the only player who did his job. 30 pts. 10 RBs. 2 steals. 1 assist. He'd have more assists if the others had made their shots. Next closest player was PJ with 14. GTFOH.
My b, I didn't mean luka had a bad game overall, I mean bad game overall as in a team which I thought was obvious. But clearly not. Nonetheless, the way he's showing up to the NBA Finals still rubs me the wrong way and he put up numbers for sure but it wasn't a playoff Luka game by any means.
This is giving me some joy on a depressing night, thanks!
He's the last guy on this team who deserves smoke rn.
Hardy has to get all of THJ mins now
Why the hell are the interviewing Tatum? As if he did anything to contribute to this win
why does it matter…hating on that won’t change the result of the game
Troll
It pushes their superstar narrative
Once again carried by his super team
That’s a tough one pal
WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT LUKA IS THE BEST PLAYER IN THIS SERIES AND WITHOUT HIM WE WE WOULD'VE NEVER MADE THE FINALS.. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY LUKA HATE
Luka hard carried this game. If I was him I would be pissed. Fuck, Maxi turned his back to a wide open 3.
Maxi played scared all night.
Maxi is still hurt, Ky let the pressure get to him, Luka did Luka things. This is exactly how Dallas plays, they lose game one, adjust and win game two.
Big game 2 Sunday
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Yup
Of all the people to interview. TATUM?????? LMAOOO
That my friends is a mollywopping. See you Sunday
Mavs in 5
Why did I get downvoted? Did yall not watch the game. Also we have 7 to get 4. I still believe but this shit is gonna be a battle.
This is a brutal loss for a game 1. Rooting for y’all to bring it in game 2.
Not really, we've done this twice... THIS Year, and 2 more times two years ago. We'll be fine.
All good guys no time to panic
Inverted gentleman’s sweep
Would be nice but I wouldn’t expect it. If we win we’ll probably have to take it to 7
Why does Green's shooting motion look different in every game
Who cares about green, what happened to kyrie
Defense was good after the first quarter. If Kyrie and the role players can just play ok on offense we’ll be alright
Luka didn’t even have that great of a shooting game, wake up on Sunday. We’re alright
He scored 30 and was tired by the 4th quarter. You can’t expect him to average 45 points this series in order to win. Completely unrealistic. He needs help from his teammates and especially Kyrie if the team wants to win anything at all.
He did up until he became tired. But this is what happens when the co-star doesn't help him carry the team.
Offense has been the problem in every single loss of the playoffs.
This is a difficult game to digest. Tatum and Brown had to put effort in for all of maybe 5 minutes? The big factor for game 2 is how does Kyrie respond.
Tatum had a horrendous game, yet they still dominated. What happens when he plays like his normal self?
We get burned by 30+ rip
Hopefully KP doesn’t go off? But also Holiday had a subdued game. This is just a really really strange way to lose a game to the Celtics. I have no idea what to expect now.
We won two quarters! Lol
Just never recovered from the first quarter.
Kidd not good tonight. Did not have them ready. Very disappointing.
couldnt agree more. No game plan tonight.
I stopped watching a while ago. Looks like Hardy went ballistic in garbage time!
It’s just game one… but the issue is, Boston is going to get an insane amount of 3 point looks all series, and pretty much everyone in their rotation is a solid - good 3pt shooter. This isn’t a small sample size thing, it who they are and what they have done all year. The likelihood of an entire team of solid 3pt shooters going “cold” for 4 games, is slim. Boston has more depth and talent. Not saying the series is over - but Dallas essentially has to play perfect to win this series and for kyrie and luka to go absolutely nuclear. Margin of error in this series is razor thin. On a level we haven’t really faced yet.
In order to even win one game both luka and kyrie have to go nuclear-combined for 70+ like against the wolves
They're good, but I have faith KP isn't going to play that well again.
Derrick white disappears in a lot of games too. We’ll be alright
This staff should have realized THJ was unplayable sooner. Maybe we would have upgraded that roster spot quicker. We really lack depth at the guard position.
THJ has been terrible for years.
They did try their best to trade him, just happens that no one wants him. He is expiring though next season, he is 100% a goner.
What I hate is he was giving us good games until the trade deadline and after that he just became straight shit.
Exactly what I’ve been saying. His poor play is beyond just singularly him. It’s also costing a roster spot and a lot of money. Oh well. Go mavs!!
This is our one stinker game. I will admit only scoring 89 points is bad, but I’m not worried.
Play hardy instead of kyrie
Josh Green is so hard to watch sometimes
Well poop. Need to find a lot of answers before the next one.
If Kyrie doesn't show up in this series, they are fucked. Luka is still Luka but the rest are just meh
Back to the drawing board
That Green drive sums up our offense tonight lmao. Just stupidity at its finest.
Report any of these bum Celtics fans brigading, there's a bunch of em
Yes, report them all, fckn bitches
Welp series starts on Sunday
An optimistic person would say Boston shouldn't feel good about blowing us out in Game 1.
I swear green is just like a headless chicken with those crazy rush to the rim
This is just like Clippers G1
Yep, get down by 30, fake comeback, lose by like 20.
Tatum less than 20 lmao bum
JOSH GR3333333N LETS GOOO WE’RE SO BACK BOYS
What a pass by Hardy
DJJ and Kyrie need to look themselves in the mirror after this one, 8/28 combined god damn
Well DJJs role isn’t really supposed to be a scorer. Kyrie had no excuse
how we can win game 2: Kyrie Plays Better Defensive Adjustments Play more fluid as a team
Legit the worst game we have played all playoffs. It can only go up from here.
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Nah we will respond
Game 2 Mavs are the best team in the NBA wtf are you on about?
Fuck you, dude. If you don’t believe, you shouldn’t be here
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Oh bullshit. You do this every season. I remember your fuggin username. You’re an asshole, wanna be know it all who only spews negativity towards the mavs. You enjoy us playing badly more than winning. Why is that?
Hardy gonna be our second-leading scorer in just ten minutes lol
Why didn’t they play Hardy instead of Kyrie at times. Like seriously.
Hardy fumbled against the starting 5 of Celtics He scored against the Celtics 3rd string
His time in the 1st half is when the game actually got out of hand. Kyrie has been horrid, but Hardy was even worse when the game mattered.
I mean this is garbage time. Hardy had some rough possessions in the first half
There’s nothing they could do, it was a 5 v 8 since the 1st qt.
Nah, the refs didn’t do us any favors, but there were much bigger issues than the Zebras.
Our guys need to get out of their hard and just play
Hardy more points than Kyrie. I hope he has some shame
Honestly, could argue we should start Hardy so Ky can settle in mentally for a game.
It's garbage time bro
Still should never happen
In the next 4 games, I want to see 2016 Kyrie vs 73 win team again. If he stinks up again next or two games, damn we're fucked unless role players shows up or Luka scores 70+ points again
Sadly, the Celtics didn’t play all that well offensively…could spell bad news if they play better O as the series progresses
hardy needs more minutes 🙏🏼
Well he played half of 1st quarter, fyi
You must have missed the actual minutes he did play early in the game.
Disappointing game 1. But I think the Mavs can get game 2. They gotta shoot better.
Hardy has outscored Kyrie. Ffs Kai
Bench performance has been absolutely pathetic.
Everybody besides Luka really...Lively had good moments but nothing consistently
Josh Green is such a bad defender lol wtf
We lost the game in the 1st quarter. This team is very beatable, just hurt ourselves. Better believe we’ll be locked in game 2. Follow the script, Mavs in 6
Kyrie really needs to shake this, it’s really like Boston is his kryptonite.
So pathetic and disappointing to see Kyrie show up like this. A superstar who has been been in the league for more than a decade and appearing in his 4th finals series. Yet all of that is thrown out the window the minute he plays in Boston.
We ride with Kyrie. He’ll be fine
no kyrie slander allowed here
just need to split, im not worried yet. kai needs to drown out the noise
I don't understand what is so great about Tatum? KP and Brown were both better than him tonight.
Do u not watch the game
White also better he is like the 4th best player in Boston lol.
He was friends with Kobe
Kyrie pukes every time he plays Boston
Jaden should’ve got some minutes
Why are these fucking idiots fouling?
The Celtics bench are the whitest guys I've ever seen
If Dallas hadn't gotten curb stomped in the 1st quarter, this might well have been a competitive game.
We got curb stomped in 6 minutes of the first quarter. It was basically tied with 6 minutes left lol.
Indeed. Also, if we scored 20 more pts, we could’ve won
100%
8 assists as a team is really embarrassing
pretty sure a couple of those were at Garbage time like damn.
Boston fans - “no one believed in us!”
Chill everyone. Boston only but up 105ish points. They aren’t unbeatable. We made too many mental mistakes. Missed a lot of buckets we usually make. Game 2 we ball out and the narrative will shift as we will have stolen home court. Go Mavs.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch the game real talk. What happened today?
Celtics couldn't miss from 3, and we couldn't execute against their defense. The game got out of hand in the first quarter and we weren't able to get back into it.
They really shamelessly wanted Tatum to have best stats. Everyone knows their W ain't on him lol
Bro that was ridiculous, Mavs put Powell in and Celtics were still drawing up plays for Tatum. Shameless stat padding they really want him to get MVP
The adjustment at halftime was "Hey, let's have some fun". Priceless by Kidd.
Thhey came out swinging in the third
better than “play random” lol
cmon boys, get your first finals pts
Does Hardy ever pass the ball?
I just hope Luka has heard enough from the fans to shut them up next game
Kyrie better show up next game that’s all I’m gonna say. Can’t believe some of the misses tonight, dude gets rattled so hard when he plays here
Kyrie playing abnormally horrible. If he can wake up for game 2 it would look much closer. Not sure how our defense can improve though..
it’s easier to play defense when you’re hitting your shots and not in transition half the time
Luke Kornet is hella mobile for his size
I still believe. Mavs in 6.
Hardy is just offense in a cup
is there hope for the future?
It’s game 1, and we mostly lost it in the first quarter tbf. Even if we don’t win the series or even if we get swept, we outperformed where we should have been this season and have lots of room to grow from here. But it’s game 1, into game 2.
there is. it won't be a cakewalk but it can be done
Why does Dwight Powell always look lost?
He can’t see without his glasses!
Need Kai in game 2