Inside Guys React To Luka & Kyrie Leading Mavs BLOWOUT Win Over Timberwolves In Game 5 | NBA on TNT

Inside Guys React To Luka & Kyrie Leading Mavs BLOWOUT Win Over Timberwolves In Game 5 | NBA on TNT

and we welcome you back to Inside the NBA presented by Kia on a night when the Dallas Mavericks absolutely blew out the Minnesota Timberwolves on their floor wow 124 103 not nearly an indication of how lopsided this game was Dallas leading by as many as 36 and punching their ticket to the NBA finals where they will take on the Boston Celtics a week from tonight in Boston well they just that’ll be game one it will be uh hey good luck to our friends at ESPN ABC y’all going to do a fabulous job uh we didn’t have to worry about the closes tonight did we no we didn’t no no fourth quarter clutch time stats to uh to Crunch that’s for sure let’s get to the highlights and we’ll talk about this one and it was absolutely U from the start Dallas well you can say Dallas especially that guy there you go Ernie as he said uh he was going to lead the way on this night and he scored 20 in the first quarter Minnesota had 19 just said follow me and this is what the big time players do they step up you know he has this ability along with Kyrie but he just came out he was feeling it listen Ernie when you’re a superstar you hate to have two bad games in a row so if you have a bad game I look for Superstars to come out and show themselves Kyrie was great in game one Luca was now closed in game five the difference is also being able to play one-on-one when you one of the best 10one players in the world makes your job a lot easier yeah what’s funny too Shaq is you say they don’t want to have two bad games in a row and that’s coming off a triple double uh 28 15 and 10 that he had in game four yeah but here in game five 20 in the first quarter finishes 3610 and five yeah but offensive wise you know he took some shots and they weren’t going they were definitely going tonight apparently somebody was in the stands waving the tow calling him a crybaby and he said who’s the crybaby now all right PJ Washington connecting there and this thing starting to get out of hand at 5636 there’s Kyrie 32 and and dude shot a three-pointer off the glass what a pass oh Lively another shot to the Head this one from nas Reed I think he got very lucky I think he was more scared than anything well he did hit him in the head yeah but but what it’s all right one was the call against Reed and this coming to a guy Lively who sat out game four after Carl Anthony towns knead him in the back of the head and caused that uh that neck injury here’s Luca yeah that’s too easy I mean what is that that’s said here it is oneone you know he plays against shamard assistant coach oneone every day like that it’s like there’s no real defense there and the same in here you put guys like this on the island and you’re going to be on Gilligan’s Island well at least it was quick and painless well it wasn’t quick at took 48 minutes uh 36 oh got him 36 for donic 36 for Kyrie that’s 72 Ernie thank you so much Dr O’Neal come on man play 101 you know what’s crazy he was practicing that shot off the glass no he yes he was he was before the game I promise he was he was making that yes 124 to 103 is your final score as the map shoot 55% for the game 43% for Minnesota and uh LCA is the MVP of the Western Conference Finals so there’s your there’s your score uh a 21-point finish but a 36-point lead for Dallas 56 win season for the Minnesota Timberwolves great year comes to a close great year in uh in five games here in the Western Conference Finals here’s their head coach Chris Finch you know luuka came out tonight put a stamp on the game um you know hit a couple bomb threes that kind of got uh got them really loosened up um and then you know offensively we were we were kind of never really settled in their physicality bothered us um and so the game kind of slipped away from us in the first quarter when we missed a lot of easy stuff you know went one-on-one too early just kind of got busted out of any kind of offensive structure um you know and then we couldn’t couldn’t get stopped so that was a game seems like people believe that a younger players younger team have to go through these to before you can get do you believe that was the case where guys just not quite as ready for the moment as yeah I mean I’m sure there’s some of that you know but uh we had chances early on in this series to to to make it um you know more of an even series um you know and there was probably going to be one of these games in this series One Direction or another and you know tonight for us it was uh it went against us in a big way so just that simple uh he had like three shots from the from the logo so pretty much nothing we can do about it how what’s your emotions as the season now comes to an end about what you accomplished and where it fell short uh I just said we’ll be back next year do you think this is something that you just have to go through experience to kind of build on um unfortunately is going through it would have lost but I guess so what do you think of it about he bur to and what do you think about this Mavs group and and their potential of what they could accomplish in in the finals and what do you think you can take from what they did to stop you personally in this series and apply it to next year and Beyond nothing when you kind of look back on on this series maybe early in the series what what do you think this team could have done better especially on the offensive end of the floor to try and and counteract some of what Dallas was throwing at you uh we never clicked all together as a team in this series not not even one game I think that was the main thing like no like um the last two series we was all clicking at one time making shots and stuff we wasn’t clicking at one time now kind of like those lines Shu out of you I know we all have certain feelings when we into a game we’re saying oh I wonder how you know I I feel like if you thought you thought Minnesota at home would blow them out would ride this wave of emotion how do you explain what we saw tonight it’s hard to explain because it’s kind of like game one when they came out and got punched in the mouth and never recovered like when Kyrie came out and punched me in the mouth in game one Luca did that tonight but I was very disappointed because I thought they would ride that wave of last game coming home this place going crazy listen I I really thought we were going back to Dallas but man they they were flat for some reason I mean I’m I’m I’m I’m really it was embarrassing Ernie you know every you you said earlier that final score that’s not indicative how bad how close it was it seems to me that when they they were happy with the once they didn’t get swept yes once they didn’t get swept they were happy and they kind of lost Focus like I was also with Chuck I thought this place was going to be crazy I thought an was going to go off C was going to go off again take it to a game six with the pressure now shifts on Dallas but like we said they came out with no sense of urgency they let Luca get like it’s easier said than done with those two guys but you have to try to show some effort like Luca just came out with the OA defense and he he just went crazy and then he took a couple of minutes off and then Kyrie went crazy and it was over it was over from the start and I want to say something too Ernie you know you said something the other night that’s that in all five games Ken agree or disagree that ain’t the team defensively we saw in game one and game two against Denver no I mean because that’s something close game one game two defensively was some of the best defense I’ve ever seen and they they didn’t play any more games like that in Denver and they didn’t play in any one game like that this series yeah I don’t think you know they made at times Jamal Murray uncomfortable in the perimeter players for Denver and even joic uh here no one felt uncomfortable in the five games even in they loss the one thing about in a wave Ernie I think you still have to have a wave of execution and at no point could could I trust in this series that they were going to execute you know these are the greatest players in the world you know top 50 players of all time probably top 20 of all time yeah you you ain’t top 20 I am top 20 what 23 okay you 23 I was the youngest top players of all time there you go much better there’s a game plan that they they walk into the arena with against the series we talked about that a halftime now let’s say a person who that’s in my position what would be my game plan I’m going to get the ball from free throw to free throw line as fast as I can I’m going to Sprint into my shot once the double team occurs I’m sprinting into threes so you have a game plan I never saw a concertive game plan against Dallas and I saw it change especially on the defensive event they doubled at times they didn’t double at times they they just let them kind of dictate everything offensively which is difficult and maybe next year they’ll know that they have to be a little bit more consistent and I want to say one thing Ernie I talk about the trades that Nico made to make the mou I Gotta Give Luca and Kyrie some credit they actually look like they’re trying to play defense now and as the two best players and the leaders on this team we we talked about it this series we never thought we’ say man that Luca’s playing good defense the Kyrie’s playing good defense but as the two leaders of this team they bought in all them other Defenders but give those two guys credit and and as I as I spoke with Nico Harrison after the game really you go back to the acquisition of Kyrie Irving and then you look at the draft so you don’t make the playoffs and Oklahoma City uh you make the deal the draft night deal Cas Wallace for Derek Lively and Derek Lively becomes an integral piece of this of this puzzle for Dallas at the age of what 19 or 20 years what do all three of those players have in in uh in common because the old MAV team they had just a bunch of little three-point Shooters out there all three of those guys about physicality and size even Derek Jones but when you go back and look when they first put that team together what was the criticism man they just going to try to outscore people yeah Nico bought in all these size Defenders and it changed the whole and rebound the ball cuz their rebound differential was horrible and they get Gafford in there get PJ Washington in there again he’s pushed every button perfectly and uh it’s easy hey it’s a lot easier to pushing buttons when you got them other two nuclear weapons out there yeah sometimes they push the button um so go ahead you can put a period on this yeah when you have two Mega stars and you got nine or 10 others that buy in and you know play their roles to a T it’s easy to win you know a lot of us thought that the Kyrie andca thing wouldn’t work but know Nico made the trade and you got a lot of guys that you know have have have now gotten the opportunity to win so they go out and play hard and they do what’s asked of them they don’t ask for shots they don’t ask for plays they just go out play hard rebound and the good thing about Luca and Kyrie when you work hard they will let you eat y you know how I knew Dallas was going to win this game you know how I knew you know this you only about one you know who I knew knew how I knew God told me God sham God God sham God before the game I saw him on the floor he’s just about to do his daily work with Kyrie and I said you know if this series go no and he just stopped it ain’t going back and he was right get up yeah man shout out to the MS man this was uh this was beautiful like this was like Championship level basketball yeah they’re like no we not going to let them try to steal it down the stretch like they did the last game this game was over five 10 minutes into the second quarter without question those first four games decided by a total of 18 this one was a 36-point game at one point winds winds up being a 21o with 124 to 103 and so Dallas is on to the NBA finals against Boston hey Caleb I went and got two new suits I only need but one of them brother it’s going to be new next year when you use it that’s exactly how he looks too notorious do notorious dog jelly J everywhere that look like you Shaq back fat boy

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