As a rockets fan, I had a good laugh when John brought up C wood being able to take advantage of Zubac and valuncuianas. I have PTSD from them bullying woods frail ass around the court😂
what joel is forgetting to mention is the emergence of the other dallas players from the past season. Luka's running mate in 2021 was Tim Hardaway Jr and he had Boban Marjonovic playing center. THJ is good but playing boban 30 minutes in a game 7 is utterly laughable and somehow luka took the clippers to game 7 and on the brink if not for a kawhi masterclass in game 6. The Mavs have improved significantly from a talent standpoint with the addition of Dinwiddie and Bullock as well as the emergence of Jalen Brunson who only scored 40 points in the entire clippers series in 2021. Not to mention the Clippers staying healthy is a complete mystery to all while Dallas is a significantly younger team. Oh ya and the mavs just added a center who shoots 40% from three. Mavs>Clippers
Thank you, not once did they mention of our growth as a team or our defense. JB took a huge step, THJ was literally our second best player in the last 2 Clippers series, who by the way didn't play in the postseason, now he is probably the 5th or 6th. Adding Bullock also was big because they got another solid 3 and D player who fits well with Luka. They also forgot about the addition of Spencer Dinwiddie. Also they mentioned that Wood is gonna make our defense worst and let me tell ya'll something. We had Powell as our starting center and we still had a top 5 defense for the second half of the season. Now just add Wood who is a more athletic and skilled. We were heavily undersized for the Jazz and Suns series and we made both their bigs be non factors various times. I'm not really Worried about Wood getting bullied by opposing bigs because we know as an undersized team how to defend against them as a team. Warriors was just a bad matchup for Mavs they had more offensive power and versatility compared to the Mavs and the Mavs just lacked interior presence which allowed the Warriors to get so many boards and second chance points.
@@dalysyt for sure the clippers have improved. the addition of powell and covington for virtually nothing in my eyes is huge for them but everytime I look back at it the clippers are always too good on paper for me too continually say that they are the favorites just for them to let us down, but then again i do believe if Kawhi had never been injured they wouldve played in the finals. For me though, its another year with PG and Kawhi on their legs which have been proven to be brittle and obviously they are both another year older as well as the mounting pressure that they have on them since they havent won yet. I just see Dallas as a younger and more agile team overall and with Wood coming in I just feel it puts them in a better position to win. One thing I am afraid of is the Brunson thing with the knicks and if that goes the way that I hope it doesnt then that obviously makes the clippers the favorite and better than the mavs. But if Brunson stays then I still like the mavs.
@@dlikescheese it's not debatable, Kawhi was the best player in the playoffs last time we saw him and he put the clamps on Luka in those 4th quarters. When Kawhi locks in nobody can f... with him. Nobody.
If after 6 games you are tied, that means either team can win it. Lets not act if Clippers win in 7 they suddenly were gonna win that series every time. So OKC didn't have a chance to win the series in 2016 vs GSW? or GSW didn't have a chance to win the series vs The Cavs? Fully agree with Joel here... if a series goes to a game 7 either team has a good chance to win it. That's the whole point here. The mavs can definitely win a clipper series since it has gone to 7 twice before.
Are we over looking the fact the Mavs had the series 0-2 going back to Dallas and still loss. That mean the following 5 games they were beaten 4-1. To any Mavs fan, looking at the history, would you honestly want to meet the Clippers in the first or second round
Luka significantly better than Kawhi ?! Kawhi top 6-7 ?! Stop it. Kawhi is easily top 4 in the league & there is a case for him being the best player on the planet when healthy.
@@sergiogonzalez9656 hes better than kd lebron giannis luka (currently) 2x mvp jokic and joel embiid? Nah bro the league got tougher since the last clips were bounced in semis
@@sergiogonzalez9656 i thing you have a warped view of the fact that basketball players get better with time through growing and playing big games and players who are injured tend to fall back and take time to get back to where they once were
Clips roster is a little different. They didn't have Norman Powell, Robert Covington or John Wall last time played Dallas. They're definitely better than a couple years ago assuming Kawhi returns to form
Mavs didn’t take the clips to 7 games in 2020 , they lost in 6. An the first yr Mavs loss d excuse was KP got ejected an if he was available they would have won. An the following yr when they lose they blame it on KP. Clippers won those series bcoz they were the more athletic team an they had the best player in series. While Luka is great offensively, he take a lot of bad shots an he is not very efficient from 3. Kawhi meanwhile cud easily score 30 points on 13 shots along with his great defense
@@idrial931 marcus morris, kennard, covington, terrance mann, batum, reggie jackson, norman powell, pg kawhi and zubac. that’s probably the best 10 man rotation in the league besides the warriors
@@yep7493 I think he said leading up to THJ’s injury he “had” been our second best player (especially in the playoffs before this past season)… he could be a really big boost if his shot is falling.
For people who are on the Dallas got better timing lets have a real basketball conversation yes they added pieces but matchups are everything in the league so when some of y’all say Brunson got better, spencer there, THJ coming back blah blah that’s all cool but Lac are also the longest team in the league with the wing depth so when Dallas throwing out that line they did vs phx, the clippers can throw out a lineup of Pg, norm, Kawhi, roco & Nico therefore that means spencer & Brunson will be guarded by length something phx didn’t have now that’s just on O for Dallas now on Defensive that same lineup is now ask to guard the 5 I just named for lac who is Brunson asked to guard let’s say roco or Morris (who can post) because he’s just gonna be in the corner well now that hurts your back line/ help defensive so your not getting much passing lane steals because Brunson & spencer not long enough to affect pg & Kawhi seeing shooters in the corner or cutting. So Dallas would have a decision to make, play Brunson because his scoring juice & suffer with him getting switched on Kawhi, pg or norm or play bullock for the length but suffer more on O and become to Luka heavy
I will pick the Mavericks over the Clippers if they meet in a playoff series right now. Obviously I could change my mind on that by the time the playoffs actually come around depending on what the teams look like at that time.
Udk basketball, if clippers team remain healthy they’re goin to be an all time great team. You can’t name one flaw with this team, mavs team basically Houston with harden
@@deronmohammed7301 Talk about putting the cart before the horse. How about they win even a single championship before you talk about them even possibly being an all time great team.
clipper & warrior are better plus kawhi is bettter then luka; the only way the mavs win is if jalen bruson become an all-star & wood does too plus they trade away tim hardaway jr for a all star level player
All you have to do is watch game 6 of the 2021 playoffs between the Mavs and Clippers an that will tell you who was the best player in that series on both ends it was Kawhi Leonard. Luka wasn't better than Kawhi then an he not better now. Kawhi was the best player in the playoffs last year before he got hurt. Kawhi will prove again he's the best player in the NBA when he comes back next season.
Luka was not playing with another star so say that as well ..kawhi had a way better roster so offcourse clippers should win switch luka and kawhi's team ...kawhi getting packed in 5 games on mavs
@@digontozahid No Kawhi on the Mavs. Their chances increase with them winning. Why? Because Kawhi is better than Luka. Yes Kawhi's team has a better roster that's why Joel is reaching when he says they have a chance to beat the Clippers. I give Dallas a 25% chance.
@@thepullupbasketballpodcast24 it took Kawhi 7 games to beat Luka with PG when Lukas teammates were putting up like 5 a night. They have had so many guys improve (Brunson, Finney-Smith, Kleber) and had so many additions (Bullock, Wood, Dinwiddie) as well as Luka improving that the Clippers just aren't as good of a team anymore even with them two stars. N how u gonna say Kawhi is better because of 1 series (when Luka had little help) when Luka in his career has averaged more ppg, rebounds per game, assists per game etc. Luka has averages less fg % and 3p % but they both are very close and sure you can say Kawhis a better defender by far but basically everything on offense Luka is better. Kawhi is definitely not better, hes won championships because hes joined winning teams and just boosted them a bit more, Luka has played for the Mavs who are not a championship team yet got them to a conference final and carries them throughout the season. Lukas a better player imo
@@idrial931 He's a better two way player which makes him the better OVERALL player. An I can really leave it there, but I won't. He showed it in 2 playoff series and it will show again if they face again. The main reason why the Clippers lost those two games was on Ty Lue. Leaving Zubac and Pat Beverley to guard Luka on the pick and roll.. Once they made the adjustment to put in Nico Batum and Terrance Mann an the small ball they destroyed the Mavs in games 3 and 4. 2. Now you lied with the percentages bro they are not close. In that series. Kawhi averaged 32.1 ppg, 7.9 RPG, 4.6 apg off of 61.2% 2 FG (off of 19.0 shots a game), 42.0% 3 FG, 89.0% FT, while containing Luka when he guarded him. To Luka's 35.1 ppg(off of 28 shots per game!), 7.9 RPG, 10.3 APG (which means he had help lol.) 49.0% 2 FG, 35.0% 3 FG, 52.0% FT! C'mon man that's all you need to know he has holes in his game. What holes does Kawhi have in his game? I'll wait. Kawhi had +/- +19 Luka had +/- +9 so that shows who was more impactful. An who is the more efficient offensive player. Until Luka, learns how to play both sides of the ball he's not going to win a championship. Speaking of championships Kawhi hopped on to teams? Man he's the reason why his teams are competitive. The Spurs went through a 6 year drought from 07-12 til Kawhi developed than he made them contenders again up an til he got traded in 2017 the Spurs haven't been relevant since. He goes to Toronto his first season a team who has never won a championship EVER and has one of the greatest postseason runs of all time wins them a ring. What has Toronto been since? An ok team. The Clippers all of the sudden are a contending team yes they are extremely deep, but Kawhi is still the vital piece you take him off they are not favorites. My point is yes Kawhi has good teams but hes the primary reason why. You're trying to take credit away from him to prove your point when all you're doing is just echoing his greatness.
Mavs can beat the clippers, their system is such that they can beat anyone if their role players are hitting 3s. But will they? Prolly not, cos when shit gets tight that’s when role players start missing. It happened in the last two games in 20-21 and it happened when they got to WCF this year
@@jordanbrownlee7667 Because the one year the Mavs don’t have to face a healthy Clippers in the playoffs, they go to the WCF. Good luck getting back there wit not only them healthy, but every1 else out West as well.
@@latidati714 lmao y’all haven’t even accomplished anything while there both healthy 😭💀 Oh yeah and how rings the clippers have? Finals appearances? Oh okay
Mavs took them to seven twice and the team improved but you still taking the clippers if we all being honest I don’t see why we treat the clippers like they’ve won something and the mavs haven’t either but their best player is still getting better while the clippers get older by the day
First of all the bubble round it went to game 6 and thats with doc rivers. And ty lue was feeling the mavs. Had he went all in from jump its over in 6 or 5.
They would’ve beaten the Dallas again if they were healthy at the end day kawhi can put the clamps on luka and still give you 40 I can’t see luka doing the same on defence
@@enochangbongy3206 luka scored 46 points on 56% shooting and 45% from three in his last postseason game against clippers lmao ...bruh just stop you didnt see shite ...
You do understand luka didnt only matchup vs zubac. Morris, kawhi, and pg who are big wings guarded him for most of the time and he shot 50%fg and 49% fg in those series. Not to mention mikal bridges who should have been dpoy this year guarded him vs the suns and luka shot 65% fg against him. Dont make it seem like luka strugglea vs big athletic wi gs cause he doesnt
I don't think dallas won a game after they took out zubac. Also kawhi locked him up he shot bad vs him and made thier offense predictable because he needed to screen kawhi off him
@@mirrormaster964 wow yeah he made the offense predictable, the mavs shot 30% on wide open threes that he made for others. He got no help and got surrounded by 3 to 4 clippers players when he got into the lane. One vs 5 it was. He shot 42% vs kawhi which isnt even that bad if you take into account there were 5 guys taking turns on him amd were basically fresh because of it
@@nikkrelj471 lol no when Kawhi directly gaurded Luka that man's numbers went way down. Especially in the 4th. Kawhi does that to everybody bro it's all good. He does it to Bron, he does it to Giannis, He did it to Luka. It is what it is.
@@dontrunhedead no its cause luka got tired. He had to control the game for every second and he couldnt taje a break xause as soon as he went to the bench the clippers went on a run
@@nikkrelj471lol whatever you gotta tell yourself bro. I remember when Luka was playing injured in that other Clipper series, he was torching the clippers, but as soon as Kawhi started clamping him you see him making faces and grabbing his arm like was down bad. . Then other people would gaurd him and he was back to laughing and grinning after every made shot. Funny thing about it was a Luka fan pointed that out to me. .
Idek know these dudes names but the Luka/ Mavs disrespect is crazy. They took clippers to 7 last yr and went to the WCF this yr. “But they lost” yeah so did everyone else smart guy. Wood, Hardaway and now Hardy are all just more help
@@blentoot9639 the Jazz didn’t have a single injury neither did the 1st seed suns what’s are you talking about 🤣🤣🤣 in fact mavs we’re missing luka for some of the Jazz series
@@brxndaveli5834 Luka's WCF run this year is same with Trae's ECF run last year.. Watch this Mavs team a 1st round exit this year.. West is already stacked right now, not to mention the rising of Pelicans and Memphis, before we mention Mavs you should be concern about those other team 😂
I mean yall are constantly talking how the clippers got better yet fail to mention that dallas got better too whike the players they already had got better
We just pretending that the Mavs roster hasn’t improved aswell? Or that the coaching isn’t significantly better with Kidd? Or that the defence wasn’t dogshit the year the Mavs lost in 7 but heavily improved this year. I don’t know who wins, but these are all points that weren’t even brought up.
I was waiting for someone to bring this up as well… We were literally giving boban and trey burke heavy minutes in both clippers series. Rick was still our coach and it just wasn’t working out with him anymore. We have upgraded our roster with Bullock and Dinwiddie. I think Mavs could beat the Clippers in 6 with the addition of christian wood
wood alone doesn't make them better than the clippers. Mavs are better than the Clippers because of all the other additions to this roster. plus luka is better player now than before. mavs in 6
Mavs defo take that series in 5-6 games. Luka was in his first playoff series, with THJ as his other guard and Boban at center. Since then they have added Bullock, Dinwiddie and Wood as well as guys like DFS, Kleber, Brunson and Luka all improving in leaps and bounds. They have a great defensive system that now has a lot more options then the Clippers off the bench with a bunch of guys putting up a bunch of numbers. The Mavs starting 5 for most of those games were Luka, THJ, DFS, Porzingis, Marjanovic with a not great Brunson, Kleber, Powell, Cauley Stein and Richardson off the bench. They now got an improved Luka, an improved Brunson, an improved DFS, Bullock and Wood with Dinwiddie, THJ, Kleber, Hardy, Green, Bertans, Powell as bench options. Tell me what team is better. + the clippers stars have been injured throughout last season and are another year older. Btw that shit Mavs team took the better Clippers team to 7. No debate IMO Mavs win this in 5.
if anything I see the Mavs beating the Clippers. Id say 65% Mavs, got way more bench options and team fluidity. They talk about oh PG and Kawhi getting points and how Mavs dont got scorers like that other then Luka but the Mavs have just got a lot of scorers. Brunson, Dinwiddie and THJ all average roughly 15 a game which is 45 right there. Plus Lukas 25-30. Plus C Woods 15-20. Its just dumb 2 stars dont make a team better, Mavs got way better role players and way better bench options with a better star. Id say Mavs in 5/6
Bro Dallas roster has improved drastically from what Luka was carrying back then. Plus luka is a top 3-4 player in the league fr. He carried those teams to a game 6 and 7. If kp had showed up they win that second series for sure.
@@thepullupbasketballpodcast24 Last year it went to 7 and Mavs were playing Powell, Boban and WCS at center. Not to mention Brunson got played off the floor so it was literary just Luka creating for 7 games. Yes they had KP but he was a non factor. Now they also have Spencer. They also have Bullock. Their defense used to be bottom 10 now is top 10. These Mavs aren't the same Mavs. Sure the Clippers are also different. But I think the Mavs new players make more of a difference for Mavs than the Clippers new players make for the Clippers. So I think they have a very good chance to beat the Clippers.
U do know the Mavs were shooting lights out from the three that series, which was an outlier based on their regular season shooting stats but Mavs will be tuff this upcoming season.
@@vantianhergheligiu12 So the reason why the Mavs were even in the series was because the first two games of bad coaching by Ty Lue which he has a tendency of doing getting in a hole. The Clippers destroyed them in Dallas. Than if we look at Kawhi he's a better overall player than Luka we seen that last year. I don't think the additions of Dinwiddle, Bullock, and Brunson are better than Powell, Covington, and Hartenstein. The Mavs have no one close to Paul George that's the key. An the Clippers have more chemistry. The coaching I'm taking Ty Lue but Jason Kidd has them playing hard, but the Clippers in 6.
The last time Wood and Valunciunas matched up:
Wood- 8pts/12reb 3-9fg
Valunciuanas-32pts/10reb 12-18fg
Take that for what it is worth…
The dude gets b!tchsmacked by real Centers, and unfortunately his jumpshot isnt reliable enough to be a true stretch4
@@Notcleverenough There are plenty of guys they consider stretch 4s who don't shoot as well as him.
@@Notcleverenough he shot 40 percent from three on 6 attempts tf you mean it's not reliable
Clippers>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It’s not talked about enough kawhi has 732 points scored in a playoff run the 3rd best behind MJ and LBJ so please respect him
As a rockets fan, I had a good laugh when John brought up C wood being able to take advantage of Zubac and valuncuianas. I have PTSD from them bullying woods frail ass around the court😂
He didn’t watch Evan Mobley skinny ass bully Wood and have a career night lol. Literally Mobleys career points per game came from Wood.
As a rockets fan you shouldn’t be saying shit while your the worst team in the west.
@@jordanbrownlee7667 Christian Wood is the reason why they were last
@@jamieruffin1289 he had the best numbers and Efficiency on your team💀
@@jordanbrownlee7667 but he also allowed the most average centers to destroy him like Zubac, Hartenstien and Dwight Powell
what joel is forgetting to mention is the emergence of the other dallas players from the past season. Luka's running mate in 2021 was Tim Hardaway Jr and he had Boban Marjonovic playing center. THJ is good but playing boban 30 minutes in a game 7 is utterly laughable and somehow luka took the clippers to game 7 and on the brink if not for a kawhi masterclass in game 6. The Mavs have improved significantly from a talent standpoint with the addition of Dinwiddie and Bullock as well as the emergence of Jalen Brunson who only scored 40 points in the entire clippers series in 2021. Not to mention the Clippers staying healthy is a complete mystery to all while Dallas is a significantly younger team. Oh ya and the mavs just added a center who shoots 40% from three. Mavs>Clippers
Thank you, not once did they mention of our growth as a team or our defense. JB took a huge step, THJ was literally our second best player in the last 2 Clippers series, who by the way didn't play in the postseason, now he is probably the 5th or 6th. Adding Bullock also was big because they got another solid 3 and D player who fits well with Luka. They also forgot about the addition of Spencer Dinwiddie. Also they mentioned that Wood is gonna make our defense worst and let me tell ya'll something. We had Powell as our starting center and we still had a top 5 defense for the second half of the season. Now just add Wood who is a more athletic and skilled. We were heavily undersized for the Jazz and Suns series and we made both their bigs be non factors various times. I'm not really Worried about Wood getting bullied by opposing bigs because we know as an undersized team how to defend against them as a team. Warriors was just a bad matchup for Mavs they had more offensive power and versatility compared to the Mavs and the Mavs just lacked interior presence which allowed the Warriors to get so many boards and second chance points.
And they are better defenders now
@@BENOZ30 You know ball
i like this reading without watching but i didnt see you bring up the clippers improving roster wise
@@dalysyt for sure the clippers have improved. the addition of powell and covington for virtually nothing in my eyes is huge for them but everytime I look back at it the clippers are always too good on paper for me too continually say that they are the favorites just for them to let us down, but then again i do believe if Kawhi had never been injured they wouldve played in the finals. For me though, its another year with PG and Kawhi on their legs which have been proven to be brittle and obviously they are both another year older as well as the mounting pressure that they have on them since they havent won yet. I just see Dallas as a younger and more agile team overall and with Wood coming in I just feel it puts them in a better position to win. One thing I am afraid of is the Brunson thing with the knicks and if that goes the way that I hope it doesnt then that obviously makes the clippers the favorite and better than the mavs. But if Brunson stays then I still like the mavs.
Kawhi is better than Luka flat out
I like Kawhi, but this can be debatable. Kawhi before the injury from Zaza is bounds better than Luka. But Kawhi after Zaza is debatable against Luka
@@dlikescheese it's not debatable, Kawhi was the best player in the playoffs last time we saw him and he put the clamps on Luka in those 4th quarters. When Kawhi locks in nobody can f... with him. Nobody.
Christian wood addition still doesn’t make them better than clippers. Just stop
This is funny coming back to given how everything panned out
What is he saying that both times the Mavs played the clippers they went to 7 both times mavs loss and the first matchup it went to 6 not 7
If after 6 games you are tied, that means either team can win it. Lets not act if Clippers win in 7 they suddenly were gonna win that series every time. So OKC didn't have a chance to win the series in 2016 vs GSW? or GSW didn't have a chance to win the series vs The Cavs? Fully agree with Joel here... if a series goes to a game 7 either team has a good chance to win it. That's the whole point here. The mavs can definitely win a clipper series since it has gone to 7 twice before.
It went to 7 once, not twice, the first year it was 6.
Are we over looking the fact the Mavs had the series 0-2 going back to Dallas and still loss. That mean the following 5 games they were beaten 4-1.
To any Mavs fan, looking at the history, would you honestly want to meet the Clippers in the first or second round
As a lakers fan the clips are far better than the mavs
That is obviously not true.
Luka significantly better than Kawhi ?! Kawhi top 6-7 ?! Stop it. Kawhi is easily top 4 in the league & there is a case for him being the best player on the planet when healthy.
Maybe 3 yrs ago not now
@@dafyyyyyy Kawhi is top 2 when healthy goofy
@@sergiogonzalez9656 hes better than kd lebron giannis luka (currently) 2x mvp jokic and joel embiid? Nah bro the league got tougher since the last clips were bounced in semis
@@dafyyyyyyI don’t think you remember who Kawhi is lol
@@sergiogonzalez9656 i thing you have a warped view of the fact that basketball players get better with time through growing and playing big games and players who are injured tend to fall back and take time to get back to where they once were
Clips roster is a little different. They didn't have Norman Powell, Robert Covington or John Wall last time played Dallas. They're definitely better than a couple years ago assuming Kawhi returns to form
Rebounding has become way underrated when it comes to centers or really any player
Right or wrong, I love it 😄😄
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I love this show y’all argue basketball intelligently and you know what you’re talking about
John looks like that One Guy from Chicago Fire lol David Eigenberg
Mavs didn’t take the clips to 7 games in 2020 , they lost in 6. An the first yr Mavs loss d excuse was KP got ejected an if he was available they would have won. An the following yr when they lose they blame it on KP. Clippers won those series bcoz they were the more athletic team an they had the best player in series. While Luka is great offensively, he take a lot of bad shots an he is not very efficient from 3. Kawhi meanwhile cud easily score 30 points on 13 shots along with his great defense
in a clippers vs mavs series the clips have 3 of the top 4 players in the series and they are deeper lmao
how are they deeper may I ask? Mavs got way better options off bench
@@idrial931 nah the clippers are so deep, it is wild
@@idrial931 marcus morris, kennard, covington, terrance mann, batum, reggie jackson, norman powell, pg kawhi and zubac. that’s probably the best 10 man rotation in the league besides the warriors
Who do you consider the Clippers 3rd best player that is supposedly better than any Mav other than Luka?
@@williamroper5422 norman powell
Do he want Dallas to defeat clippers what he got against clippers 😂😂 CW doesn’t fear us clippers will flood them in a 7 game series
Wood is a huge upgrade over Powell. Thj is coming back which was our 2nd best player before he got injury.
THJ is not better than Brunson tf💀
@@yep7493 I think he said leading up to THJ’s injury he “had” been our second best player (especially in the playoffs before this past season)… he could be a really big boost if his shot is falling.
For people who are on the Dallas got better timing lets have a real basketball conversation yes they added pieces but matchups are everything in the league so when some of y’all say Brunson got better, spencer there, THJ coming back blah blah that’s all cool but Lac are also the longest team in the league with the wing depth so when Dallas throwing out that line they did vs phx, the clippers can throw out a lineup of Pg, norm, Kawhi, roco & Nico therefore that means spencer & Brunson will be guarded by length something phx didn’t have now that’s just on O for Dallas now on Defensive that same lineup is now ask to guard the 5 I just named for lac who is Brunson asked to guard let’s say roco or Morris (who can post) because he’s just gonna be in the corner well now that hurts your back line/ help defensive so your not getting much passing lane steals because Brunson & spencer not long enough to affect pg & Kawhi seeing shooters in the corner or cutting. So Dallas would have a decision to make, play Brunson because his scoring juice & suffer with him getting switched on Kawhi, pg or norm or play bullock for the length but suffer more on O and become to Luka heavy
I will pick the Mavericks over the Clippers if they meet in a playoff series right now. Obviously I could change my mind on that by the time the playoffs actually come around depending on what the teams look like at that time.
Udk basketball, if clippers team remain healthy they’re goin to be an all time great team. You can’t name one flaw with this team, mavs team basically Houston with harden
@@deronmohammed7301 Talk about putting the cart before the horse. How about they win even a single championship before you talk about them even possibly being an all time great team.
clipper & warrior are better plus kawhi is bettter then luka; the only way the mavs win is if jalen bruson become an all-star & wood does too plus they trade away tim hardaway jr for a all star level player
All you have to do is watch game 6 of the 2021 playoffs between the Mavs and Clippers an that will tell you who was the best player in that series on both ends it was Kawhi Leonard.
Luka wasn't better than Kawhi then an he not better now. Kawhi was the best player in the playoffs last year before he got hurt.
Kawhi will prove again he's the best player in the NBA when he comes back next season.
Luka was not playing with another star so say that as well ..kawhi had a way better roster so offcourse clippers should win switch luka and kawhi's team ...kawhi getting packed in 5 games on mavs
@@digontozahid
No Kawhi on the Mavs.
Their chances increase with them winning. Why? Because Kawhi is better than Luka.
Yes Kawhi's team has a better roster that's why Joel is reaching when he says they have a chance to beat the Clippers. I give Dallas a 25% chance.
@@thepullupbasketballpodcast24 it took Kawhi 7 games to beat Luka with PG when Lukas teammates were putting up like 5 a night. They have had so many guys improve (Brunson, Finney-Smith, Kleber) and had so many additions (Bullock, Wood, Dinwiddie) as well as Luka improving that the Clippers just aren't as good of a team anymore even with them two stars. N how u gonna say Kawhi is better because of 1 series (when Luka had little help) when Luka in his career has averaged more ppg, rebounds per game, assists per game etc. Luka has averages less fg % and 3p % but they both are very close and sure you can say Kawhis a better defender by far but basically everything on offense Luka is better. Kawhi is definitely not better, hes won championships because hes joined winning teams and just boosted them a bit more, Luka has played for the Mavs who are not a championship team yet got them to a conference final and carries them throughout the season. Lukas a better player imo
@@thepullupbasketballpodcast24 kawhi will struggle to make the playoffs with those mavs teams lol....
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He's a better two way player which makes him the better OVERALL player. An I can really leave it there, but I won't. He showed it in 2 playoff series and it will show again if they face again. The main reason why the Clippers lost those two games was on Ty Lue. Leaving Zubac and Pat Beverley to guard Luka on the pick and roll.. Once they made the adjustment to put in Nico Batum and Terrance Mann an the small ball they destroyed the Mavs in games 3 and 4.
2. Now you lied with the percentages bro they are not close. In that series. Kawhi averaged 32.1 ppg, 7.9 RPG, 4.6 apg off of 61.2% 2 FG (off of 19.0 shots a game), 42.0% 3 FG, 89.0% FT, while containing Luka when he guarded him. To Luka's 35.1 ppg(off of 28 shots per game!), 7.9 RPG, 10.3 APG (which means he had help lol.) 49.0% 2 FG, 35.0% 3 FG, 52.0% FT! C'mon man that's all you need to know he has holes in his game. What holes does Kawhi have in his game? I'll wait.
Kawhi had +/- +19 Luka had +/- +9 so that shows who was more impactful. An who is the more efficient offensive player.
Until Luka, learns how to play both sides of the ball he's not going to win a championship. Speaking of championships Kawhi hopped on to teams?
Man he's the reason why his teams are competitive.
The Spurs went through a 6 year drought from 07-12 til Kawhi developed than he made them contenders again up an til he got traded in 2017 the Spurs haven't been relevant since.
He goes to Toronto his first season a team who has never won a championship EVER and has one of the greatest postseason runs of all time wins them a ring. What has Toronto been since? An ok team.
The Clippers all of the sudden are a contending team yes they are extremely deep, but Kawhi is still the vital piece you take him off they are not favorites.
My point is yes Kawhi has good teams but hes the primary reason why. You're trying to take credit away from him to prove your point when all you're doing is just echoing his greatness.
Mavs can beat the clippers, their system is such that they can beat anyone if their role players are hitting 3s. But will they? Prolly not, cos when shit gets tight that’s when role players start missing. It happened in the last two games in 20-21 and it happened when they got to WCF this year
Clippers are way. Enter than the mavs
Wood better than Bam? Lmaooooo
and now the clips got wall too😂. clips>mavs
luka is not better than kawhi two way player no way in hell im taking luka over kawhi leonard.
In hypotheticals Mavs have already won 2-0, thank you Warriors for humbling this fanbase
Humbling us how lol
@@jordanbrownlee7667 Because the one year the Mavs don’t have to face a healthy Clippers in the playoffs, they go to the WCF. Good luck getting back there wit not only them healthy, but every1 else out West as well.
@@latidati714 lmao y’all haven’t even accomplished anything while there both healthy 😭💀 Oh yeah and how rings the clippers have? Finals appearances? Oh okay
Mavs took them to seven twice and the team improved but you still taking the clippers if we all being honest I don’t see why we treat the clippers like they’ve won something and the mavs haven’t either but their best player is still getting better while the clippers get older by the day
Nah they only took them to 7 once which was on 2021
joel cannot admit when he is wrong
First of all the bubble round it went to game 6 and thats with doc rivers. And ty lue was feeling the mavs. Had he went all in from jump its over in 6 or 5.
That is some bullshit mental gymnastics right there.
They would’ve beaten the Dallas again if they were healthy at the end day kawhi can put the clamps on luka and still give you 40 I can’t see luka doing the same on defence
Health khawi most definitely but mavs team progressed this szn compared to th year before. Can’t wait to see them go at it again next year
Luka avging 35+ ppg vs clippers lol...kawhi never ever clamped him in any way lmao bruh stop saying cliche lines just for the sake of it
@@digontozahid Did you watch the last time the played each other ? Kawhi totally played great defence on
@@enochangbongy3206 luka scored 46 points on 56% shooting and 45% from three in his last postseason game against clippers lmao ...bruh just stop you didnt see shite ...
@@digontozahid still lost my boi I watched that whole series
Clippers are better
Mavs will have better year then Clips next year
It didn’t go to 7 both times in 2020 it went to 6
You do understand luka didnt only matchup vs zubac. Morris, kawhi, and pg who are big wings guarded him for most of the time and he shot 50%fg and 49% fg in those series. Not to mention mikal bridges who should have been dpoy this year guarded him vs the suns and luka shot 65% fg against him. Dont make it seem like luka strugglea vs big athletic wi gs cause he doesnt
I don't think dallas won a game after they took out zubac. Also kawhi locked him up he shot bad vs him and made thier offense predictable because he needed to screen kawhi off him
@@mirrormaster964 wow yeah he made the offense predictable, the mavs shot 30% on wide open threes that he made for others. He got no help and got surrounded by 3 to 4 clippers players when he got into the lane. One vs 5 it was. He shot 42% vs kawhi which isnt even that bad if you take into account there were 5 guys taking turns on him amd were basically fresh because of it
@@nikkrelj471 lol no when Kawhi directly gaurded Luka that man's numbers went way down. Especially in the 4th. Kawhi does that to everybody bro it's all good. He does it to Bron, he does it to Giannis, He did it to Luka. It is what it is.
@@dontrunhedead no its cause luka got tired. He had to control the game for every second and he couldnt taje a break xause as soon as he went to the bench the clippers went on a run
@@nikkrelj471lol whatever you gotta tell yourself bro. I remember when Luka was playing injured in that other Clipper series, he was torching the clippers, but as soon as Kawhi started clamping him you see him making faces and grabbing his arm like was down bad. . Then other people would gaurd him and he was back to laughing and grinning after every made shot. Funny thing about it was a Luka fan pointed that out to me. .
Idek know these dudes names but the Luka/ Mavs disrespect is crazy. They took clippers to 7 last yr and went to the WCF this yr. “But they lost” yeah so did everyone else smart guy. Wood, Hardaway and now Hardy are all just more help
Mavs only went to WCF because most of West teams are injured and disfunction.. A healthy Nuggets team would easily beat this Mavs team lol
@@blentoot9639 the Jazz didn’t have a single injury neither did the 1st seed suns what’s are you talking about 🤣🤣🤣 in fact mavs we’re missing luka for some of the Jazz series
@@brxndaveli5834 you act like Jazz are legit contenders LMAOOOO they also been choking 1st and 2nd round in previous playoffs.
@@brxndaveli5834 if the West was healthy neither of those Suns and Mavs going to past them
@@brxndaveli5834 Luka's WCF run this year is same with Trae's ECF run last year.. Watch this Mavs team a 1st round exit this year.. West is already stacked right now, not to mention the rising of Pelicans and Memphis, before we mention Mavs you should be concern about those other team 😂
Bro luka is the best player in the nba undoubtably
I mean yall are constantly talking how the clippers got better yet fail to mention that dallas got better too whike the players they already had got better
These boys are kids. They talking nonsense..
Y’all are hilarious 😂
We just pretending that the Mavs roster hasn’t improved aswell? Or that the coaching isn’t significantly better with Kidd? Or that the defence wasn’t dogshit the year the Mavs lost in 7 but heavily improved this year. I don’t know who wins, but these are all points that weren’t even brought up.
I was waiting for someone to bring this up as well… We were literally giving boban and trey burke heavy minutes in both clippers series. Rick was still our coach and it just wasn’t working out with him anymore. We have upgraded our roster with Bullock and Dinwiddie. I think Mavs could beat the Clippers in 6 with the addition of christian wood
wood alone doesn't make them better than the clippers. Mavs are better than the Clippers because of all the other additions to this roster. plus luka is better player now than before. mavs in 6
We still can’t talk tho can’t wait for next year
Christian wood can’t be ur 5
Bruh new coaching staff as well these guys are goofy foh Luka and the Mavs coming for ya nuts
Mavs defo take that series in 5-6 games. Luka was in his first playoff series, with THJ as his other guard and Boban at center. Since then they have added Bullock, Dinwiddie and Wood as well as guys like DFS, Kleber, Brunson and Luka all improving in leaps and bounds. They have a great defensive system that now has a lot more options then the Clippers off the bench with a bunch of guys putting up a bunch of numbers. The Mavs starting 5 for most of those games were Luka, THJ, DFS, Porzingis, Marjanovic with a not great Brunson, Kleber, Powell, Cauley Stein and Richardson off the bench. They now got an improved Luka, an improved Brunson, an improved DFS, Bullock and Wood with Dinwiddie, THJ, Kleber, Hardy, Green, Bertans, Powell as bench options. Tell me what team is better. + the clippers stars have been injured throughout last season and are another year older. Btw that shit Mavs team took the better Clippers team to 7. No debate IMO Mavs win this in 5.
Clippers are better than mavs and kawhi and luka can both score they only think is luka is liability on defense
Why are we acting like there’s not even a little bit of a chance for the Mavs to win? Imo the teams are pretty even and it could go either way.
if anything I see the Mavs beating the Clippers. Id say 65% Mavs, got way more bench options and team fluidity. They talk about oh PG and Kawhi getting points and how Mavs dont got scorers like that other then Luka but the Mavs have just got a lot of scorers. Brunson, Dinwiddie and THJ all average roughly 15 a game which is 45 right there. Plus Lukas 25-30. Plus C Woods 15-20. Its just dumb 2 stars dont make a team better, Mavs got way better role players and way better bench options with a better star. Id say Mavs in 5/6
Kid in the white is coming off like a hater my god is he a suns or jazz fan?🤣 talking bout the Mavs like they slayed his girl sheesh
How is Luka better then kawhi
He is
Bro Dallas roster has improved drastically from what Luka was carrying back then. Plus luka is a top 3-4 player in the league fr. He carried those teams to a game 6 and 7. If kp had showed up they win that second series for sure.
All these trash hot takes and you only have 4k views? 😂💀
If you gonna say dumb ish like this at least get 500k views or more. 😂
PAUSE lmbooooo
I would say pg is that much better than Brunson tbh
Bro I’m confident that the Mavs would beat the clippers in a 7 game series
Cap city
Based off what?
@@thepullupbasketballpodcast24 Last year it went to 7 and Mavs were playing Powell, Boban and WCS at center. Not to mention Brunson got played off the floor so it was literary just Luka creating for 7 games. Yes they had KP but he was a non factor. Now they also have Spencer. They also have Bullock. Their defense used to be bottom 10 now is top 10. These Mavs aren't the same Mavs. Sure the Clippers are also different. But I think the Mavs new players make more of a difference for Mavs than the Clippers new players make for the Clippers. So I think they have a very good chance to beat the Clippers.
U do know the Mavs were shooting lights out from the three that series, which was an outlier based on their regular season shooting stats but Mavs will be tuff this upcoming season.
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So the reason why the Mavs were even in the series was because the first two games of bad coaching by Ty Lue which he has a tendency of doing getting in a hole.
The Clippers destroyed them in Dallas. Than if we look at Kawhi he's a better overall player than Luka we seen that last year. I don't think the additions of Dinwiddle, Bullock, and Brunson are better than Powell, Covington, and Hartenstein.
The Mavs have no one close to Paul George that's the key. An the Clippers have more chemistry.
The coaching I'm taking Ty Lue but Jason Kidd has them playing hard, but the Clippers in 6.