Dan Patrick Recaps The Celtics Taking 2-0 Series Lead Over The Mavericks In The NBA Finals | 6/10/24

Dan Patrick Recaps The Celtics Taking 2-0 Series Lead Over The Mavericks In The NBA Finals | 6/10/24

so the Celtics over the Mavs 105 to 98 and we know the numbers trying to come back from a 20 deficit doesn’t bode well for the Dallas Mavericks as the series now goes to Dallas but the Celtics win it and the Celtics have won their last playoff series six of them when taking a 2 lead and uh the first team to have five or more players with at least 30 points through the first two games in the NBA Finals the last time this happened was 1987 Lakers I believe Shad worthy and Byron Scott Kareem Michael Cooper and Magic you have a balanced attack here we said when the series started that Dallas had to have a third person well they need a second person because Kyrie has not played well at all now Luc is getting you 30 and I said he’ll give you a triple double but that’s not good enough if Kyrie is not going to hit from three-point range the team was two for 17 you just don’t have a chance against a Boston team that hasn’t had to play great basketball you had Kristof porzingis in game one Drew holiday game two Derek white in there you’re not even saying hey Tatum and brown you got to put up big numbers they haven’t done that yet this is a balanced team what is underrated is their defense they have a variety of players who can guard a variety of players now you’re not going to stop Luca you can only hope to contain him but they have stopped Kyrie they have contained him PJ Washington you know you’re going to need a superhuman effort by Luca and Kyrie to try to come back and win for the next five but I’m not going to say it’s not possible because I’ve been doing this a long time you can never say never it’s not something that I do but the odds are really really really long that you’re going to be able to do it because I now granted you can say a Dallas has kind of been in these games certainly last night they were in the game yeah they’re in the game but I never feel like they’re going to win the game there’s a difference in that they’re s of they’re kind of there if you’re looking at the overall tone of the game it’s Boston and I’m still waiting for maybe that team effort and of course if you don’t get it in game three then pretty much say good night here um all right P question Satan man if you watch too uh just how much Luca and Kyrie have to work for every single shot yeah it’s a great Point me they must be exhausted I mean every single one is like some kind of like isolation go this go and cut in cut back do this BL just to get a fade away that maybe they hid man they just must be wiped well you could see and Paulie text this to us last night the group check uh text that uh he’s gassed he was gassed you know nine minutes to go you could see where Luca was like plus he didn’t even go down at the other end of the floor he got knocked down and then he was like I’ll get you guys when you come back up here but yeah he’s working a lot more and he’s not healthy uh turning the ball over a lot yeah yeah it’s got to be tough too to be one like those two dudes and just look around and be like can one of you guys just hit a couple shots please yeah haven’t had it yet and granted you could look at the margin of Victory and go well all right you know hit a couple of Threes yes but they’re not hitting those Threes And it almost feels like sometimes they’re too wide open or they’re they’re so contested it’s one or the other there meanwhile with Boston Drew holidays wide open they’re like all right we’re going to check Tatum and brown let me see if you can hit those big shots and he has Drew holiday played really well has played really well throw in Derek White playing great defense I mean it’s just a balanced attack now porzingis not sure he says he’s playing in game three uh got reinjured again last night but now now we got to see the best that Dallas has to offer here is the Boston Celtics head coach Joe moula on the individual players on Boston I’m really tired of hearing about one guy or this guy or that guy and everybody trying to make it out to be um anything other than Celtic basketball and uh everybody that stepped on that court tonight made winning plays on both ends of the floor it’s the most important thing okay and then Jason Tatum he was asked about Jason kid talking about who’s the best player on the Celtics and Jay kid said it was Jaylen Brown where here’s Jason Tatum I’ve been here before and we didn’t win and it’s just like you know we’re so close to what we’re trying to accomplish why would I let my ego or or for my need to score all the points get in the way of that okay I’m fine with that I don’t know if Jay kid goes go down in my lab here what can I do I’m going to create some controversy wow about this I’m going to say Jaylen Brown is the best player on the Celtics okay you could say that he is playing the best on the Celtics maybe he’s not the best player because Ryan scalabrini former NBA player joined us on Friday and he does the C he’s a Celtics analyst and he said no no Jason Tatum’s the best player because he’s taken the best defender usually there’s going to be two guys on him everybody else has the opportunity to then have an easier way either to the hoop or hitting jumpers there so Jason Tatum you know Tatum has had just a nice Series so far hasn’t had to do anything crazy and Jaylen Brown same way you haven’t had to have a monster game out of anybody yet but you will but I think J kid trying to get into the Celtics head of how about this I’m going to have those two they’ll be rivals on the same team that’ll do it uh maybe not yes Mark this feels like if the Celtics pull out this Championship it’s going to be in 10 years hey Tatum won Finals MVP MVP right no no no Drew holiday did really it’s going to be like that like Iguodala that one year not Steph Curry yeah but Boston’s played well but Boston’s a better team than Dallas I think we get caught up in there’s Wishful you know reporting Wishful rooting if you don’t have a dog in the fight you’re like man I’d like to see Dallas Luca Kyrie that’d be fun okay Denver would have been a better match up with the Celtics I know it’s only two games but I said from the outset Boston is a better team and that’s why they were going to win yes Eden that’s going to be one of those things too when it’s like uh Tatum’s up for the Hall of Fame never won a finals MVP that’s where it comes back where you’re like oh my gosh oh we did that we’ve done that to step yeah never won a Finals MVP Durant won those finals MVPs andreala did I’m like okay okay all righty okay

Dan Patrick recaps the Boston Celtics winning game 2 105-98 over the Dallas Mavericks to take a 2-0 series lead in the NBA Finals