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-- he's putting forth real effort. He knows they are contenders. Energy and active hands can do some defensive damage. Larry BIRD earned 3 second team all defense (w/ neither supreme speed nor athleticism)
@@AB-bx5to i dunno about his rating this play offs but this year he was above avrg with 60 def rating . compared to guys like curry (7 ) or trea (0) , whom media keeps comparing to is just crazy
I just wanted to say, that the Jordan brand, and maybe in turn MJ himself did a great job in picking Luka as their athlete because he has that killer mentality, he is clutch, and he is magic to watch. Yes he does whine to the refs a bit too much, but he does let his opponents hear it too whenever he trash talks. That quote he made for Dbook about talking smack when they up is the prime example of how MJ's tenacity is on the court. Plus Luka's ego being a champ and MVP in the euroleague really shows how much of a talent this guy is.
This is exactly what I try to tell my friends. Look at Lebron , CR7 , Mayweather , Djokovic all the greats in their fields you need that killer mentality , ego and arrogance to force your way to the top and stay there.
Kat has an ego problem, it's all in his head at this point.. He's trying to prove something and "be different" when all he needs to be is a scoring big man to help Ant, regardless of how he gets it done..
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@@nor-in5kj he's a great individual player, he needs the ball in his hands 100% of the time to be effective, that's the problem on why he isn't anywhere near a championship caliber player
Thats not on Ant! Ant wasnt even on the team yet! This is completely on the Wolves Fron Office. No Idea why they didnt trade him when they got Gobert, and then even gave him a Supermax Extension. Dude is soft as Charmin and allways disappears when his team needs him. Allways was, allways will be!
Thats so stupidly good... no clue how that is even possible. You can be great in the clutch... some players are, some arent. But this? This is just unheared of!
Gafford was exactly who the Mavs needed. Lively was the guy they needed and having him and Gaf makes the interior lob passes deadly. The big dudes have to love catching those passes. Those plays energize the bigs and get them playing the whole 94 feet. The trade for Gaf is a GM of the year move. I have been surprised by Washington's playoff shooting. They got Luka and Kyrie the help they needed.
All 3 games were close, despite KAT missing everything. In the end, Ant and KAT crumbled under the pressure in the clutch while Luka and Kyrie showed up and did their jobs as the team leaders.
What hardly anyone is talking about is that the 3 point shooting for Dallas in Games 1 and 2 was 25℅ and despite Minnesota's defense they had a lot of open threes they missed
@@gregorslana7723wrong game 5 was not a dog fight they didn’t get swept it’s clear that’s all they wanted they let Dallas have game 5 not 5at they could have stopped them
I said at the beginning of the season I had the Mavs winning it all and honestly I didn't even fully believe they would do it, now they're only 5 wins away. This has been beautiful to watch
Happy for you, but if we're being honest, it wasn't really that good of a prediction considering the roster at the time. The Mavs don't make it out of the first round without PJ and Gafford
Bro the lob bros are also the block bros bc they been protecting that rim at another level its forcing teams to shoot the 3 more thanthey would like to
Have people forgotten the last time the Mavericks won the ship? In the last quarter of the season they didnt dominate, they closed out close games with great defense and clutch shooting. And just stepped it up from there in the playoffs, there were a lot of close games in that run too. Nobody expected anything out of them in the Playoffs, nobody expected them to beat the young and talented OKC or sweep the Lakers (let alone beating Miami). Only difference is that they have two monsters at the guard position now, but the way it plays out reminds a lot of the last championship run.
These clutch minutes are telling, but it's a testiment to the Wolves tenacity that they got the games close in the end to begin with. Everything offensively on the T-Wolves side is a struggle, more or less. On the flip side, the Mavs keep on getting easy baskets, dunks, layups and open threes. The only harder baskets outside of that is just Kyrie and Luka making insane shots. The difference in playmaking is massive. If not for the Mavs shooting from 3 being quite a bit worse than they normal, the games would be blowouts.
KAT could of done a bunch of things. Sadly just live by the three and died on the three like they Celtics last year. Got to do different things when shots are not going through.
I mean everyone thought ant and kat were going to carry them this series. No one knew that KAT and ANT were going to shoot like less than 30% the first 3 games. Thats literally the only reason why it’s going to be a sweep which is just the Minnesota way. Play the best of the entire nba all playoffs and then choke and play the worst this series. Coaching and inexperience is in full effect rn
You can't blame it on inexperience if it was the Thunder you could. But the Wolves have too many vets to blame it on inexperience. Like Gobert and Conley. And Kat's been in the league for ten yrs as well
@@Dominater2009 you could blame the OKC on inexperience? Also not having a big is mostly the reason. But anyways having 2 vets and literally all of the players(besides Conley and gobert) haven’t made it past the first round ever for Minnesota.
@@aximus11I believe the notion of experience is overrated. Not to say it isn’t important at all. But lack of experience alone doesn’t cause this type of collapse. Antman has big holes in his offensive game, he doesn’t know how to make plays off a double team and lacks conditioning. Rudy gobert is a one dimensional defensive player only useful inside and abysmal anywhere else, also a trash offensive player. KAT has always been overrated and has a reputation for being soft for a reason. All of these things have nothing to do with experience. Notice how guys like nas Reid and McDaniels are playing out of their minds and they’re not experienced.
Up 3-0 and playing great but these games have been CLOSE! Luka hits a tough fall away 3 with 3 seconds left but then Reid’s shot was in and out. And game 3 Dallas pulled it out and won by 9 but with 1:05 left they were Down 5.
What we are seeing is the wonkiness of the KAT/Gobert pairing. KAT is not able to deploy his post up or face up game because of Goberts presence. You can't deploy Gobert anywhere outside the paint because nobody would guard him. The bet Minnesota made was that their defense would be elite and ANT would get them over the top offensively. It's a rock, paper scissors league and Dallas has bouncy bigs who can protect the rim and survive on switches. They also have two elite primary ball handlers. Minnesota beat Denver because they had little rim protection and only one primary ball handler. Denver beats anyone but Minnesota, Minnesota beats anyone but Dallas. Rock, paper, scissors.
Don’t think so. The nuggets issues weren’t just a lack of inside defense. They had no depth and were very limited offensively. I think Dallas beats the nuggets due to their far better offense and their good inside defenders.
KATS has been trash. That being said, this series is the exact reason why the Jazz traded Rudy. He is unplayable in the playoffs. He is horrible on offense. He is horrible for spacing and getting torn up in the pick and roll. If they dont do something next year, this will be their fate again.
You haven’t actually been watching this series then. Rudy has been the least of the problems for the Wolves. Whenever Rudy is out, the Mavs offensive rating jumps a significant amount. Even the 3-point play that Rudy gets beat on, is him knowing Luka’s tendencies of how he shoots the ball. Luka then breaks his tendency by faking a drop to the left and then dropping to the right and shooting with his right hand. That wasn’t Rudy being exposed as a bad perimeter defender. It’s a case of Rudy making a great move based on player tendency, and Luka breaking his shooting motion and still making the shot.
I think it be a great finals really. Like you said to beat mavs have to out score them and the Celtics can absolutely do that. Play big small some matter but Luka and Kyrie gonna get ya two games if role players play great in two more mavs could take it
Porzingis and Luka was supposed to supposed to be what Lively and Luka is now but failed. They could've given it more time but they didn't trust his health. Lively is not a better scorer more energetic, plays better defense and also knows his strengths and goes for efficiency not 3's. If everything goes to plan, Caltics - Mavs will be great. Both Luka & Kyrie are super motivated and have history there.
Mavericks won’t be able to hide kyrie and luka with zone defense against celtics. Not gonna work against the best 3pt shooting team with elite playmakers from 1-4
I scrapped the recaps. The last one I did got 5k views and all 5 recap videos (besides day 1) got under 10k. I couldn’t justify it when I’m doing this full time now. Sorry for that :(
@@hardwood_yt gotcha. Sucks but makes sense. I think part of the reason for that was the length. Short attention spans and all of that. What you could do once finals are settled is review that matchup and how they got there briefly. Like 20 min video. Cause you didn’t miss that many games. And next year you could do something similar to this other UA-camr I watch called “UrinatingTree” where you just overview the games before they start, and then when finals hit briefly break down the series. If you think you can do that and still keep your style at least cause you’re more analytical than he is
Bruh when do people start to understand that fit matters. Teams can get away with it in the season based on having more talent but in the playoffs that always gets exposed. Look a team with a iso scoring guard like Ant Dame and others don't fit with elite big men like Giannis and Kat. Giannis and Kat needs real point guards that's playmakers. Iso scorers like Ant and Dame needs the Rudy Gobert's and Derek Lively
@@Dominater2009the point was Minnesota copied Milwaukee when acquiring Rudy which turned that franchise around. Big men determines championship little guys determines entertainment.
When your 6th man and your second best defender have been your best offensive weapons in back to back games, you will not win a series... Luka > Ant Ky > KAT
KitKats 3 stats have never been replicated in the history of the NBA. Stats that bad habe never happened before. Probably because anyone else would have had an ear chewed and benched.
I loved the video for the most part but alot of It did kinda just feel like you defending ant without directly defending him? Like alot of stuff you said sounded like excuses for him whenever this video doesn't really have anything to do with him and mainly Is about the mavs turn around. Ant Is 100% just as responsible for this team being down 3-0 as much as Kat or rudy or anyone else. Anyhow you still got a new sub and I can wait to see you cover more stuff
The mavericks were one of my top title picks from the beginning, but, with that being said, don’t write off the timberwolves yet. I would give them about a 10% chance to reverse sweep the mavs
10 percent is very very generous. Not only do they have a 3-0 hole, but Kyrie has NEVER lost a series clincher. Almost a decade of clutch is hard to argue against.
@@ArigatoGyroo assuming the wolves have a 50/50 chance for each of the final. 4 games, that would put their chances at 6.25% . I would give them better than a 50/50 chance for each individual game
Didn’t Brunson come out and say last year something contrary to that? I could be wrong. Iirc, Brunson said that they didn’t wanna extend him during the season and that was that for him.
It's crazy how ppl think porzingis is the x factor vs Mavs..... I mean Luka can play him like he plays Gobert. I'm more worried about Ju Holiday, White and Hoffard than the 3 stars in Celtics.
Ok so mavs won’t be the first team to lose after a 3-0 start lol bad hot take wolves gave up but in their defense they couldn’t have stopped luka in game 5 your team was happy with not getting swept after that they gave up they didn’t have a choice honestly
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Luka just had 5 steals and 1 block in WCF game 3. His defense is underrated.
On the dpoy no less 😊
It still goes unsaid by many, but Lukas defense has been insane this playoffs
-- he's putting forth real effort. He knows they are contenders.
Energy and active hands can do some defensive damage. Larry BIRD earned 3 second team all defense (w/ neither supreme speed nor athleticism)
@@AB-bx5to i dunno about his rating this play offs but this year he was above avrg with 60 def rating .
compared to guys like curry (7 ) or trea (0) , whom media keeps comparing to is just crazy
He playing defense now cause Kyrie is taking a burden off the offensive load.
KAT said he was the best shooting big man and then goes 0-8 in Dirk’s house 😂
With dirk sitting courtside
@@enviedeveryday2835 dirk was probably laughing his ass off 🤣
he has been concentrating at knee kicks, 2/2 knees 0/8 trees
Go home KAT... Go home
I just wanted to say, that the Jordan brand, and maybe in turn MJ himself did a great job in picking Luka as their athlete because he has that killer mentality, he is clutch, and he is magic to watch. Yes he does whine to the refs a bit too much, but he does let his opponents hear it too whenever he trash talks. That quote he made for Dbook about talking smack when they up is the prime example of how MJ's tenacity is on the court. Plus Luka's ego being a champ and MVP in the euroleague really shows how much of a talent this guy is.
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Well said
Luka has that Larry Legend trash talking vibe. The rest just barks no bite.
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This is exactly what I try to tell my friends. Look at Lebron , CR7 , Mayweather , Djokovic all the greats in their fields you need that killer mentality , ego and arrogance to force your way to the top and stay there.
It was maddening to watch KAT struggle from three, especially by the late game. You’re 7’ how about a layup?
Kat has an ego problem, it's all in his head at this point.. He's trying to prove something and "be different" when all he needs to be is a scoring big man to help Ant, regardless of how he gets it done..
Honestly KAT needs to get back to his fundamentals but idc go Mavs
That's why Tingus Pingus isn't helping the leprechauns come Finals time
fr Kat's a great shooter but when your shots not fallin u got to go to the basket.
@@hurricanestarang I agree, but he is way better this year. But if they have to trade Ant, Kat, or Gobert, I'm trading Kat. He'll have so much value.
Thank you for respecting the Mavs and not just blaming it on KAT, Gobert and Ant
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@@hardwood_yt wholesome
2 master iso players that can actually play well together and pass, is going to break any defense. Mavericks are on another level right now
Well said
So why Harden and PG didn't work?
Can you explain that?
@@nor-in5kj because Luka & Kyrie are on another level when it comes to basketball IQ and their surroundings. Harden doesn't even play defense
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Nah
prime Harden > ant
Prime Harden > luka
Prime Harden > kyrie
Prime Harden = best offensive weapon the world has even seen
@@nor-in5kj he's a great individual player, he needs the ball in his hands 100% of the time to be effective, that's the problem on why he isn't anywhere near a championship caliber player
Maxi Klieber and Lively are sure to return for the grand final.
If it is a 3rd degree AC tear, Kleber is out until next season unfortunately.
@@Prodigial- he was just training with all the bigs(Maxi), they said it they both returning for finals.
PLEASE KEEP KLEBER AWAY. POWELL TOO
@@IKnowHuh731 Tell me you know nothing about basketball, without telling me you know nothing about basketball.
And... now he's questionable for game 4. We're so back
11:36 "Greatest shooting big man of all time" 😂
15:40 man I remember when the people of Dallas made murals and billboards demanding to give Luka help.
Also, Kidd’s coach challenges are almost always a win.
KAT claimed to be the best 3pt shooting Big man of all time. Dirk must be shaking his head watching this series. Lol
Karl come on man!
Rasheed Wallace is really forgotten lmao
Meanwhile Jokic kills him in shooting amd is in the era....
Luka treats the playoffs like an orphanage, he keeps on adopting sons like crazy
Ant wasnt paying attention when Jimmy Butler spoke about KAT & Wolves...
Thats not on Ant! Ant wasnt even on the team yet!
This is completely on the Wolves Fron Office. No Idea why they didnt trade him when they got Gobert, and then even gave him a Supermax Extension. Dude is soft as Charmin and allways disappears when his team needs him. Allways was, allways will be!
@@Smido83 *always
+40 clutch?! Oh my god.
Madness 😂
Thats so stupidly good... no clue how that is even possible.
You can be great in the clutch... some players are, some arent.
But this? This is just unheared of!
Go Mavs Uncle Drew is cooking
I missed thë upload cuz my phone had æ software upd 😭
Gafford was exactly who the Mavs needed. Lively was the guy they needed and having him and Gaf makes the interior lob passes deadly. The big dudes have to love catching those passes. Those plays energize the bigs and get them playing the whole 94 feet. The trade for Gaf is a GM of the year move. I have been surprised by Washington's playoff shooting. They got Luka and Kyrie the help they needed.
Mavericks kicking that Ass.....no excuses ...... just accept the Fact Right now The Mavericks are on Top of their game...
All 3 games were close, despite KAT missing everything. In the end, Ant and KAT crumbled under the pressure in the clutch while Luka and Kyrie showed up and did their jobs as the team leaders.
What hardly anyone is talking about is that the 3 point shooting for Dallas in Games 1 and 2 was 25℅ and despite Minnesota's defense they had a lot of open threes they missed
Its not over yet. Could easily gone 3-0 in favor of Minesotta. Its over only when its over until then its gonna be dog fight
@@gregorslana7723The only game they could’ve won is game 2. Dont even. Game three wasn’t even close until KAT decided to kick the shit out of Lively.
@@gregorslana7723wrong game 5 was not a dog fight they didn’t get swept it’s clear that’s all they wanted they let Dallas have game 5 not 5at they could have stopped them
love how unbiased you are for being a wolves fan. you really know basketball
Dallas really is the new Lob City. Even Kyrie is catching lobs 👀🔥🔥
Nice to see proper credit being given properly.
I said at the beginning of the season I had the Mavs winning it all and honestly I didn't even fully believe they would do it, now they're only 5 wins away. This has been beautiful to watch
Happy for you, but if we're being honest, it wasn't really that good of a prediction considering the roster at the time. The Mavs don't make it out of the first round without PJ and Gafford
Bro the lob bros are also the block bros bc they been protecting that rim at another level its forcing teams to shoot the 3 more thanthey would like to
I heavily underrated their rim protection.
Damn kyrie gave that jersey away...jealous
Like bro 😭
Kyrie saw Dillon Brooks in the crowd and gave him another jersey to wipe them tears
On second thought, GO MAVS!
Lively and Gafford are huge for Dallas!
Great video. I'm really glad i found your channel.
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First time watching one of your videos. Great editing and a great video. I’ll be back for some more!
Ant has Naz Reid. He should be #2… the wolves coaching staff just do not want to admit it. So Thank you from a Mavs fan 😊
Naz is good and im glad the coach gives him fewer minutes in favor of hot garbage KAT
Absolutely spot on superb job !!!
Have people forgotten the last time the Mavericks won the ship? In the last quarter of the season they didnt dominate, they closed out close games with great defense and clutch shooting. And just stepped it up from there in the playoffs, there were a lot of close games in that run too. Nobody expected anything out of them in the Playoffs, nobody expected them to beat the young and talented OKC or sweep the Lakers (let alone beating Miami).
Only difference is that they have two monsters at the guard position now, but the way it plays out reminds a lot of the last championship run.
These clutch minutes are telling, but it's a testiment to the Wolves tenacity that they got the games close in the end to begin with. Everything offensively on the T-Wolves side is a struggle, more or less. On the flip side, the Mavs keep on getting easy baskets, dunks, layups and open threes. The only harder baskets outside of that is just Kyrie and Luka making insane shots. The difference in playmaking is massive. If not for the Mavs shooting from 3 being quite a bit worse than they normal, the games would be blowouts.
What a difference a week makes 😂 KAT just went cold at the worst time, not sure if he can work in the long run tho
KAT could of done a bunch of things. Sadly just live by the three and died on the three like they Celtics last year. Got to do different things when shots are not going through.
Love that thumbnail, luka now have two sons with the same pic... Edwards and booker ...
Minnesota is getting out coached. Kidd has transformed this Dallas team into an all-around unit. Dallas Defense is very underated.
Dal is cooking.. all cylinders up and running.. whoever wins the west wins the finals
I mean everyone thought ant and kat were going to carry them this series. No one knew that KAT and ANT were going to shoot like less than 30% the first 3 games. Thats literally the only reason why it’s going to be a sweep which is just the Minnesota way. Play the best of the entire nba all playoffs and then choke and play the worst this series. Coaching and inexperience is in full effect rn
FR go mavs
You can't blame it on inexperience if it was the Thunder you could. But the Wolves have too many vets to blame it on inexperience. Like Gobert and Conley. And Kat's been in the league for ten yrs as well
@@Dominater2009 you could blame the OKC on inexperience? Also not having a big is mostly the reason. But anyways having 2 vets and literally all of the players(besides Conley and gobert) haven’t made it past the first round ever for Minnesota.
@@aximus11 Yeah but they've been in the playoffs multiple times in the last few years.
@@aximus11I believe the notion of experience is overrated. Not to say it isn’t important at all. But lack of experience alone doesn’t cause this type of collapse. Antman has big holes in his offensive game, he doesn’t know how to make plays off a double team and lacks conditioning. Rudy gobert is a one dimensional defensive player only useful inside and abysmal anywhere else, also a trash offensive player. KAT has always been overrated and has a reputation for being soft for a reason. All of these things have nothing to do with experience. Notice how guys like nas Reid and McDaniels are playing out of their minds and they’re not experienced.
Up 3-0 and playing great but these games have been CLOSE! Luka hits a tough fall away 3 with 3 seconds left but then Reid’s shot was in and out. And game 3 Dallas pulled it out and won by 9 but with 1:05 left they were Down 5.
The loss for 10 pick gave them Lively.
I don't know if these moves were galaxy brain or good luck, but this is fun!
lively is kinda special. he's playmaking ability is underrated
subscribed! this channel is so cool!
Thank you!!
What we are seeing is the wonkiness of the KAT/Gobert pairing. KAT is not able to deploy his post up or face up game because of Goberts presence. You can't deploy Gobert anywhere outside the paint because nobody would guard him. The bet Minnesota made was that their defense would be elite and ANT would get them over the top offensively. It's a rock, paper scissors league and Dallas has bouncy bigs who can protect the rim and survive on switches. They also have two elite primary ball handlers. Minnesota beat Denver because they had little rim protection and only one primary ball handler. Denver beats anyone but Minnesota, Minnesota beats anyone but Dallas. Rock, paper, scissors.
Don’t think so. The nuggets issues weren’t just a lack of inside defense. They had no depth and were very limited offensively. I think Dallas beats the nuggets due to their far better offense and their good inside defenders.
@sukkimusicofficial7539 As mentioned they only have one primary ball handler. Murray was ground to a gnub by the end of that series.
KATS has been trash. That being said, this series is the exact reason why the Jazz traded Rudy. He is unplayable in the playoffs. He is horrible on offense. He is horrible for spacing and getting torn up in the pick and roll. If they dont do something next year, this will be their fate again.
Yeah idk how a guy who has such big holes in his defensive game can be called DPOY
You haven’t actually been watching this series then. Rudy has been the least of the problems for the Wolves. Whenever Rudy is out, the Mavs offensive rating jumps a significant amount.
Even the 3-point play that Rudy gets beat on, is him knowing Luka’s tendencies of how he shoots the ball. Luka then breaks his tendency by faking a drop to the left and then dropping to the right and shooting with his right hand. That wasn’t Rudy being exposed as a bad perimeter defender. It’s a case of Rudy making a great move based on player tendency, and Luka breaking his shooting motion and still making the shot.
5:56 did the ball just glitch?
Andresson and Reid have to start over KAT and Gobert.
Edwards better attack that rim
I think it be a great finals really. Like you said to beat mavs have to out score them and the Celtics can absolutely do that. Play big small some matter but Luka and Kyrie gonna get ya two games if role players play great in two more mavs could take it
Great video…love the stats
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Porzingis and Luka was supposed to supposed to be what Lively and Luka is now but failed. They could've given it more time but they didn't trust his health. Lively is not a better scorer more energetic, plays better defense and also knows his strengths and goes for efficiency not 3's. If everything goes to plan, Caltics - Mavs will be great. Both Luka & Kyrie are super motivated and have history there.
Nice to see a team exploiting alley-oops so much. It felt like teams were just falling back on floaters and 3s.
The Wolves 8 days ago they was the team of Destiny, but yes Dallas knew it all.
Mavericks won’t be able to hide kyrie and luka with zone defense against celtics. Not gonna work against the best 3pt shooting team with elite playmakers from 1-4
Lob City Clippers would be up there for alley-oops
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Dallas Lob Goblins
ANT now NEEDS Bo Cruz 😂
I recommend using the schwa more often to make your speech sound more natural. "thuh" instead of "thee", "uh" instead of "aye" etc.
So are you doing a series recap, or a recap by round now? (I’m just curious)
I scrapped the recaps. The last one I did got 5k views and all 5 recap videos (besides day 1) got under 10k.
I couldn’t justify it when I’m doing this full time now. Sorry for that :(
@@hardwood_yt gotcha. Sucks but makes sense. I think part of the reason for that was the length. Short attention spans and all of that. What you could do once finals are settled is review that matchup and how they got there briefly. Like 20 min video. Cause you didn’t miss that many games. And next year you could do something similar to this other UA-camr I watch called “UrinatingTree” where you just overview the games before they start, and then when finals hit briefly break down the series. If you think you can do that and still keep your style at least cause you’re more analytical than he is
@@hardwood_yt feel like I should mention I’ll still watch either way. I like the videos!
Bruh when do people start to understand that fit matters. Teams can get away with it in the season based on having more talent but in the playoffs that always gets exposed. Look a team with a iso scoring guard like Ant Dame and others don't fit with elite big men like Giannis and Kat. Giannis and Kat needs real point guards that's playmakers. Iso scorers like Ant and Dame needs the Rudy Gobert's and Derek Lively
Bud your comparing the Bucks to the Wolves thats crazy. Ant's a way better playmaker than Dame. No offense I love Dame.
@@Dominater2009 bruh I'm comparing big men. Bruh stay on page nothing was said about Dame or Ant
@@Dominater2009the point was Minnesota copied Milwaukee when acquiring Rudy which turned that franchise around. Big men determines championship little guys determines entertainment.
@@Dominater2009 my fault. I thought I was speaking on a similar comment I made.
2016. Golden State Warriors choked big time to LBJ and the Cavs after dominating 3-1. It can happen. LOB CITY 2024!!
With this gift, you shall win first place.
The fact Dallas is able to Manipulate them this much and rim run them like that without a Shooting Big tell u alot how overrated the Wolves defense is
But the media especisllt ESPN won't give them the credit. Lol. Kept saying Ant and KAT just didn't play well and not because of the defense.
KAT & Ant must step up in game 4
Also, the series against the Nugs took to much out of Wolves. Took the eye-of-the-tiger from them. Next season.
Ant is 22. He'll be back in this spot if the Wolves end up losing this series. The future is bright for that dude.
Why do they keep flopping after plays?
The Mavs didn’t tank. They sat starters the final 2.5 games. Even if they’d won all 3 of those games, they’d have gotten the exact same pick.
When your 6th man and your second best defender have been your best offensive weapons in back to back games, you will not win a series...
Luka > Ant
Ky > KAT
KAT on his Klay Thompson this series
Kleber is pronounced "Kle-Ba"
He is not!
Its "Kle-ber" like deep-er no clue why this is so hard for americans... like Donchitch not Donchik
Fastest rebuild
Lets go Mavs in 6 against Celtics
KitKats 3 stats have never been replicated in the history of the NBA.
Stats that bad habe never happened before.
Probably because anyone else would have had an ear chewed and benched.
Crazy to think this Dallas team has more lobs than lob city 😂
I loved the video for the most part but alot of It did kinda just feel like you defending ant without directly defending him? Like alot of stuff you said sounded like excuses for him whenever this video doesn't really have anything to do with him and mainly Is about the mavs turn around.
Ant Is 100% just as responsible for this team being down 3-0 as much as Kat or rudy or anyone else. Anyhow you still got a new sub and I can wait to see you cover more stuff
respect from a mavs fan to a wolves fan
Dances With Wolves.
The mavericks were one of my top title picks from the beginning, but, with that being said, don’t write off the timberwolves yet. I would give them about a 10% chance to reverse sweep the mavs
More like 0.1%
Buddy 154-0 Is the record of teams being up 3-0... the wolves have a 0% chance
if they do it they gonna get tested 💉💉💉
10 percent is very very generous. Not only do they have a 3-0 hole, but Kyrie has NEVER lost a series clincher. Almost a decade of clutch is hard to argue against.
@@ArigatoGyroo assuming the wolves have a 50/50 chance for each of the final. 4 games, that would put their chances at 6.25% . I would give them better than a 50/50 chance for each individual game
I stopped when you said “let Brunson walk” they hired his dad..mavericks had zero chance at resigning him..
Didn’t Brunson come out and say last year something contrary to that? I could be wrong. Iirc, Brunson said that they didn’t wanna extend him during the season and that was that for him.
@@hardwood_yt mavericks still offered him
Max, we can’t compete with NY.
It’s not that deep 🙄
Lob city!
Hopefully Mavs sweep the Wovles. 🔥
Jt and jb took the warriors to 6, give me them with a better supporting cast.
It's crazy how ppl think porzingis is the x factor vs Mavs..... I mean Luka can play him like he plays Gobert. I'm more worried about Ju Holiday, White and Hoffard than the 3 stars in Celtics.
Mavs match up really good against Boston
I will bet on kat to take 8 3’s n miss all for max bet 😂😂😂
So mavs dont have a 1st & 2nd in 2027?
Celtics in 6
Kobe mj Wade Luka everyone is else weak
new lob city lol
Karl Anthony Village
Mavs are gonna be the first team to lose a 3-0 lead. You heard it hear first.
I would love that as a wolves fan :)
Ok so mavs won’t be the first team to lose after a 3-0 start lol bad hot take wolves gave up but in their defense they couldn’t have stopped luka in game 5 your team was happy with not getting swept after that they gave up they didn’t have a choice honestly
Do you think any team will ever come back from 0-3 in our life times? 😅
KAT's done nothing? Towns is the ONLY clown who "strikes a pose" for 3 seconds after each BRICK.
What’s the difference between resting players during the entire season versus the last game. Give me a break NBA.
Man I wish the Mavs upset the Celtics.
Always be Humble and not an over smart piece of sheet like Devin Booker.
Ant man starting to act like Booker T now
KAT needs to stop playing like a point/shooting guard.
Mavs take out #1 seed and now will #3 seed in west, the 2 strongest pieces left on chessboard. Celtics weakest piece left. It’s checkmate for Mavs.
Sorry, so KAT is supposed to be the best shooting big man of all time and Edwards is supposed to be the next MJ? LOL what?