| 106 – 99 |
| Box Scores: NBA – Yahoo |
| GAME SUMMARY |
| Location: American Airlines Center (20311), Clock: Final |
| Officials: James Capers, Marc Davis, and Kevin Scott |
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Celtics | 30 | 20 | 35 | 21 | 106 |
| Dallas Mavericks | 31 | 20 | 19 | 29 | 99 |
| TEAM STATS |
| Team | PTS | FG | FG% | 3P | 3P% | FT | FT% | OREB | TREB | AST | PF | STL | TO | BLK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Celtics | 106 | 38-82 | 46.3% | 17-46 | 37.0% | 13-14 | 92.9% | 6 | 43 | 26 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 6 |
| Dallas Mavericks | 99 | 38-86 | 44.2% | 9-25 | 36.0% | 14-16 | 87.5% | 7 | 52 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
| PLAYER STATS |
by edgykitty
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Jaylen Brown sealed the FMVP with this game, absolute takeover and most importantly Kyrie is 0-13
Kyrie, down 4 points with 40 seconds left, spent 15 seconds to shoot a tough fadeaway 3 pointer…
Dallas cuts it to 93-90. Boston misses a shot. Dallas misses a shot. Then Boston misses a shot Dallas gets the rebound gets it to Luka who starts pushing.
JASON KIDD THEN CALLS A TIMEOUT.
Luka was visibly angry. And then Boston found just enough offense and defense to close it out. What an awful decision. RIDE THE WAVE.
Edit: Nick Nurse did this in 2019 Game 5. Raptors were on a 3 minute 12-0 run and he used his use it or lose it timeout. Warriors finished off the game with a 9-2 run and won. Who cares about the timeout being lost if you have all the momentum.
Jaylen doing a complete 180 going from that awful game 7 last year to being on the verge of FMVP this year, props to him
Bring out the brooms
The mavs offense is fucking hilarious. Only two people touch the ball on each possession. The guy inbounding the ball and Luka/Kyrie (who’s ever turn it is to ISO)
awful luka game, overboard on the complaining today
Jaylen Brown is 100% the FMVP!
what a time to foul out from your first playoff game
*Celtics player brings the ball up*
[Luka](https://i.snipboard.io/QqoSBu.jpg):
Nothing gives more heartbreak than the fake comeback
This entire playoffs is a 2k simulation
The Mavs have still failed to score 100 in this year’s finals.
Jokes on you. Boston was just farming clutch time wins so the Bozos on r/NBA that said they couldn’t win in the clutch look silly.
“WCF were the real finals”
The Mavs:
– Led by 13 in the 1st quarter
– Blew the lead in under 7 minutes
– Were down by 6 before being on the wrong end of a 20-5 run.
– Responded to the run with a 22-2 run of their own.
– Saw their star player foul out with 4:20 to go.
– Kept it close until the end before running out of gas.
– Are down 3-0.
What an insane game with a deflating ending (if you’re a Mavs fan like me.)
You have to go down 0-3 to come back from being down 0-3 *taps forehead*
It was a good season. No idea why Kidd called that timeout.
Not a fan of that timout by Kidd with the Mavs on a 20-2 run
a) I’m still confused why Jason Kidd called timeout
b) I cannot *believe* Luka fouled out in a game like this
c) Mike Breen then said “Tim Hardaway entering the game” and I thought “Oh that’s better for the Mavs than if his son came in”
Mazzulla/Tillman legacy game
Jason Kidd calling that timeout after Jrue’s missed shot down 3 to kill all the Mavs’ momentum was certainly a decision.
Shout out to god damn Xavier Tillman playing great defense and somehow stretching the floor. Bench as a whole was huge tonight.
Sam Houser leading the +/- with a +16 like we all thought would need to happen for the Celtics to win this game.
WHY DID LUKA EVEN TRY TO SET A CHARGE WHEN HE HAD 5 FOULS
Doncic’s defense has been exposed really hard by the Celtics
Mavs have gotten exposed for not having a legit 3rd option and a good 6th man
Celtics have multiple
Jaylen Brown, 24 points in the 2nd half. Jaylen Brown for Finals MVP. Not bad for a guy not chosen in the All NBA teams.
Luka with the performance of when you combine James Harden and Rasheed Wallace bad qualities.
Flopping, foul baiting, ref-berating, while playing zero defense
kyrie taking 3 more seconds off the clock to line up a harder shot for the cinemography.. classic
Tim Hardaway Jr. 19 minutes 0 points. WE LIVE IN NORTH KOREA
Maybe if Kyrie didn’t step on the leprechaun and Luka wasn’t so fat
Kleber 8 minutes 0 fuckin points
Hardaway 18 minutes 0 fuckin points
Green 22 minutes 3 fuckin points
Talk about dead weight
Is $300M worth it for a finals mvp? I think it is
Luka needs to rest like 25-30% of offensive plays and 100% of defensive plays hes in.
Haters feasting tonight like we Luka at the golden corral on Easter
Maybe a bit convoluted/bullshit sounding, but I swear “opponent agnosticism” is everything in this series.
Every game looks like every other game Boston has played this year. Regular season or playoffs.
I’ve never seen a team’s gameplan be less affected by their Finals opponents than in this Finals, while at the same time drastically warping the other team’s.
Boston’s defense is completely in control and unworried.
Boston’s offense is completely in control and unhurried.
Mavs defense is still godly, but the way they pack the paint, Boston is going to get open looks, and JB/JT will create for themselves.
Mavs offense looks like they’re a high school team playing against an NBA team (in terms of what is happening scheme vs scheme; Kyrie/Luka will get theirs)
Every single possession from the Mavs feels like pulling teeth, and a god damn root canal if its anything besides Kyrie/Luka creating a shot for themselves. They have no answers. They just seem completely at a loss, as a team, in the face of the Celtics. I watched Payton Pritchard stop Kyrie/Luka in a pure 1v1, forcing a turnover (shotclock violation and out of bounds), on consecutive possessions. I watched Maxi Kleber driving into the paint and putting up a wild layup contested by multiple Celtics. Every Mav is completely invisible besides Luka/Kyrie.
And this is after 2 games where JB/Porzingis had a block party and all the perimeter defenders were getting 1v1 steals.
Boston is letting Luka get wherever he wants and living with whatever shot he can create in the paint as long as his passes out to the perimeter don’t result in open 3s. That has completely warped what Dallas normally does on offense, and they look completely unprepared to how to answer it. Not really sure what you can do besides ask Luka/Kyrie to shoot 30 shots each.
Take a player like DJJ. He looked like an absolute freak throughout the Western playoffs. Like one of the most underrated players in the league. He might as well not even be on their team in these finals. His defense can’t hold up against Tatum/Brown the way it did against previous drivers. He never has space to shoot an open 3, let alone the corner 3’s that Boston simply will not concede.
And it’s not just him. It’s everyone. Lively/PJ are the only ones to show any sign of life whatsoever on the offensive end, and that’s very sparingly (Lively always works his ass off without the ball, and PJ’s streaks have been self-created which isn’t how he normally was scoring in previous series).
A lot of times you just see uncertainty at the end of Dallas possessions. They’re taking some weird, contested shot from someone/somewhere they normally never do. Or they underestimate the depth of Boston’s defense, resulting in a 1v1 block or 1v1 steal.
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Now, the easy response is that I’m just saying Boston is a way better team. And that’s true lol, but I don’t think this only applies to teams Boston is way better than. I think it’s one of their greatest strengths that they play the same way regardless of what’s in front of them. Win or lose, they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do, and it’s simple.
Kyrie Irving is now 0-13 vs the Celtics since he stepped on Lucky The Leprechaun. Don’t fuck with leprechauns people.
Seems strange there’s not more mention that Boston could be the first to ever sweep both conference and league finals. Guess we’ll hear more about it between now and Friday
Jaylen brown might not be our best overall player but I can be convinced he’s our best closer
Derrick: “I fouled him”
Ref: “He aint gonna make the shot anyway bro relax”