What a time to be a Luka/Mavs fan. I just love the defensive identity they've taken up with the coaching under Kidd, who deserves an apology from Mavs fans for all the hate he was getting in the middle of the season, one just as loud as the disrespect. Love the content as always, man. You're on 🔥
I would agree with you that we owe Kidd an apology, but I need to see it again. I think you can easily make the argument that the team got much better and not the coaching. The difference between getting to start Lively or Gafford and not having Powell out there is crazy. But I will give him credit for now as he’s doing it. It’s also good to remember that the NBA is weird with the coaches. Doc gets all the jobs and yet Mark Jackson can’t seem to get one? Just food for thought.
@@Rickiwitdasticki I can definitely see where you're coming from. His rotations during the middle of the season were indeed very questionable, and that could get to me from time to time. We have more tools at our disposal, but I do think in especially Luka and Kyrie's defense, we can find some of J. Kidd's work. Excited to see where they go from here.
I'll be the first to apologize to Kidd. I despised that guy. We finally started winning when he'd do the exact opposite of what he normally would. Maybe he realized that and grew as a coach.
Derrick Jones jr and PJ Washington are giving some serious 2023 Bruce Brown/Aaron Gordon energy this postseason, thats all ima say lol the mavs and wolves supporting casts are both playing such great basketball, this should be a great series!
-- Agree. Denver this year didn't have enough in Game 7. Bruce Brown and old man Jeff Green, gone. Mavs' front office get a lot of credit to DJJ and PJ.
@@AngelValdez-mr3fq you must be special son, the point being made was that those two last year played a huge part as role players in the nuggets title run last year. If you are so thick that you can't understand this is a compliment and all players involved are deserving then just log tf off because you not only clearly lack basic reading comprehension skills but also clearly don't know anything about basketball.
He would not have made that lay up if foul wasn’t called lol. Everyone stopped. His defender didn’t hustle for the ball when he was closer to the rim when the ball was released
For the NBA as a whole, the Thunder's performance and $35 million in cap space are worrisome. They also don't need to lose a single rotation player. Exciting future 🔥
I feel like PJ had one of his best defensive games, but people only want to talk about his 9 points which happened to be some of the most crucial points in game 6
How fascinating that this loss of OKC is like the loss of the Nuggets, not hitting open 3s and poor offensive boards, the Star starter Jokic and Murray (starlike) did a great job, but the supporting cast just wasn't there.
at the end there, i think some more credit needs to be given to kyrie for his 2nd half performance. its going under appreciated rn but he injected a lot of life into that dallas team in the 3rd&4th
Shai cost Thunder this game. He knows he fouled PJ, which is fine coz that's part of the game, it came from a good defense. But he should've told the coaching staff not to challenge the call because it'll cost them their last time out. They needed that timeout.
I hope people can stop saying that kyrie is just playing off of Luka’s gravity attacking bent defenses and close outs. This whole entire series he was hard hedged in blitzed.😂
I doubt it, I love luka but they'll say anything to discredit him, if he gets the chip this year they'll say he got carried by role players while faking injuries idgi he already has the crown imho
Luka is the best player in the league when he wins the chip and FMVP he will be regarded as the best player in the league, when Mavs go b2b next season that will be a further proof that he is the best and the future GOAT
1:22 this play i cant complain about defense, cause it worked. But offense, luka can see. He was slow to react to plan sight double.. the dude in the corner goofy.. im watching the play but i dont wanna move up to the ball handler to give him another option to pass so he can free himself. No iq
@vidicisthegoat5444 that'll be crazy but this playoffs exposed just how bad jokic is on that interior defense. Nuggets should consider signing an athletic center and add more depth. Trading away mpj might give them that
@@jjcometa9333 Jokic’s interior defence wasnt a problem last night if anything its his perimeter defence thats worse than his interior. As for Mpj I dont think they should ever trade him. They need his size and shooting. Hes shot terribly this series but so has Murray but Murray was a liability defensively. I think if you trade either you trade murray but they really shouldnt trade either. They should let Kcp go in the offseason or trade him if he resigns and try to get something in return for P Wat and Zeke.
This could hurt DALLAS..cuz its the mental and the experience...what ya showing is a VITAL FLAW...not having the basics...will hurt any team...its the playoffa..great take..great take
How's it a vital flaw? They have been extremely tough and quick to adapt all post season. Pretty much every team left in the playoffs lives and dies by their roleplayers
1:11 this defensive play was dum. First off, im not closing out on a pick play that high up away from the basket.. im stayin below the 3 so i can watch that high as pick and see both players and peripheral sight. 2ndly, why no one had the thought of "where did the picker go?". Like bad iq right there
1:35 no iq. They doubling crazy. My man set a pick.. i can hear dude close on my left. Let me pass it to the back since ik he is behinde me.. if need to, ill jump pass it back since im taller then my defender.. but nope. Besides, luka is slow
Nooo..this is great...imagine the WOLVES ...they are gonna wanna see what Luka does...but I think after enxountering Jokic....hmmmmmm...I hooe the WOLVES dont play with their MEAT...
Luka loves different defenses looks to try and contain the mvp. He just laughs and says watch this. He really needs to stop feeding kyrie's ego and tell him to stop playing scared and play 4. This is probably kyrie's last chance for a super star to carry his ass. Luka's value goes up. kyrie's value goes down. Play hard 4 or bye bye. What team wants a part time player
What are you on? Kyrie has been instrumental this season, a vet CHAMP leader who's hit big shots his whole life. He's exactly what Luka needs to grow up mentally.
Tbh OKC isnt even that good unless they get to punish teams do dumb mistakes over and over like the Mavs did most of the Games , they lose in Rebounding and Steals usually . like if OKC had to play Wolves or Nuggets that sht be done in 4 they wouldve got abused after Game1 🤣🤣
I love how you kept talking about shots not falling for the thunders and did not show one instance where the Mavs also missed shots, The entire first half the mavs missed a lot of shots PJ wasn’t hitting shots neither was Kyrie and Hardy yet somehow that escapes you? Crazy how you’re trying to paint a narrative of OKC’s role players not hitting their shots while mavs role players were when in fact in the first half the main reason OKC were up were because that was what was happening to the Mavs, People might think this is great analysis but there is a very clear bias towards painting a particular scenario that just did not happen
You mean when I said “the script completely flipped” and “all of a sudden the Mavs started making shots that they were missing” ? You clearly watched this with a preconceived notion because I talked about everything you mentioned in your comment. Thanks for watching though! Edit: Looking back, the entire 1st half of this video was on OKC’s defensive strategy and how they successfully forced role players into either making decisions or making shots. So now I’m pretty certain you didn’t even watch before drawing this conclusion. 🫡
shai just average. overrated. always uses his elbows on defenders. refs are just turning a blind eye on it. and if he doesn't have free throws, he's just gonna average around 20 pts maybe.
OKC is actually garbage. Woof woof all the way back to OKC. Literally the ugliest team ever assembled. Chet’s a literal twig out there he has to stiff arm you to screen you💀
Ya kjow what you vring me to think..fuck scouting repirts.its about you as a player are YALL COMMUNICATING...CINNECTING..hmmm something to look at..bexause i think all players are locjed in but and i hope...the players are lookin at THIS...and conversating...because DEFENSE us the convo
Mac’s shot 47% percent from three and only won by one point. Considering SGA, that Chet and J-Dub will only get better and we have the Dorture chamber (maybe even a Dorture chamber 2.0 with Cason Wallace)I’d say the Thunder are solid for years to come. Mac’s got lucky OKC missed so many shots this series. Had they shot the ball even just a little better it would’ve been very different.
Mavs wolves conference finals gonna be crazy
Yikes, this didn’t age well at all
It feels so weird because everybody knows the Rivalry between Minnesota and Dallas for hockey
@@devynlich00fr? people watch hockey
@@devynlich00I had no idea Minnesota had a team in hockey. Is their name like lumberjacks or something
@@devynlich00relax man like 17 people watch hockey
Mavs dint stand a chance tho
There's no channel that I click quicker during this playoffs bruh. Hoop Venue = greatness. You and Goat have been fantastic
Thank you so much for the support! 🙏🏻
Fr those 2 have made the playoffs that much better
@@codylilley2668 100000000%
@@HoopVenue Always my guy. Thanks for the reply 😁
Freedawkins too
What a time to be a Luka/Mavs fan. I just love the defensive identity they've taken up with the coaching under Kidd, who deserves an apology from Mavs fans for all the hate he was getting in the middle of the season, one just as loud as the disrespect.
Love the content as always, man. You're on 🔥
I would agree with you that we owe Kidd an apology, but I need to see it again. I think you can easily make the argument that the team got much better and not the coaching. The difference between getting to start Lively or Gafford and not having Powell out there is crazy. But I will give him credit for now as he’s doing it. It’s also good to remember that the NBA is weird with the coaches. Doc gets all the jobs and yet Mark Jackson can’t seem to get one? Just food for thought.
@@Rickiwitdasticki I can definitely see where you're coming from. His rotations during the middle of the season were indeed very questionable, and that could get to me from time to time. We have more tools at our disposal, but I do think in especially Luka and Kyrie's defense, we can find some of J. Kidd's work. Excited to see where they go from here.
I'll be the first to apologize to Kidd. I despised that guy. We finally started winning when he'd do the exact opposite of what he normally would. Maybe he realized that and grew as a coach.
Derrick Jones jr and PJ Washington are giving some serious 2023 Bruce Brown/Aaron Gordon energy this postseason, thats all ima say lol the mavs and wolves supporting casts are both playing such great basketball, this should be a great series!
-- Agree. Denver this year didn't have enough in Game 7. Bruce Brown and old man Jeff Green, gone.
Mavs' front office get a lot of credit to DJJ and PJ.
No! Not 2024 AG
Don't disrespect DJJ and PJ. Those frauds last year didn't beat a single 50 win team. Mavs already beat 2 including the number 1 seed.
@@AngelValdez-mr3fq you must be special son, the point being made was that those two last year played a huge part as role players in the nuggets title run last year. If you are so thick that you can't understand this is a compliment and all players involved are deserving then just log tf off because you not only clearly lack basic reading comprehension skills but also clearly don't know anything about basketball.
@@AngelValdez-mr3fqdon’t have to when you’re the one seed and there’s one other 50 win team
I LOVED that the Thunders season ending was because of SGA fouling someone
live by the sword, die by the sword
Kyrie had the layup tho, Mavs would have the advantage even without the foul
@@Prometeu21woulda been a jump ball
@@SamuelMeyer-w3t how? 😂
He would not have made that lay up if foul wasn’t called lol. Everyone stopped. His defender didn’t hustle for the ball when he was closer to the rim when the ball was released
Having you and GOAT breaking down this historic playoffs is a blessing i wasnt expecting
For the NBA as a whole, the Thunder's performance and $35 million in cap space are worrisome. They also don't need to lose a single rotation player.
Exciting future 🔥
How long do they have until rookies rise for a pay day - 2 more years? that is nice
They will eventually need to choose between JW and Chet
@@kobe2curry4rose1 Chet if he decides to put some meat on him and work on playing better in the paint.
If you say so
Cap space won't scare anyone until they actually do something. Don't get too excited until then.
That bouncy three from Kyrie is when the Mavs won
What are you talking about. They were down 1 point 20 seconds from the finish.
@@tunaphobe flew right over your head eh bud
That and DJJ catching that ball with 2 seconds on the shot clock and hitting an insane middy fade-away over a 7 footer
I cried bro, we were up 17 and started off 4/6 for threes but we just can’t keep making them.
why do you say we like you played in the game
@@mikrobyo1790shut up bro
@@mikrobyo1790 because i did 🤕
😂😂😂😂
He was talking about the “team” he was rooting for tf.😂🤦🏻♂️
Your videos are extremely well done, you just earned yourself a sub! Keep it up man!
Hey man, this is a fantastic video.
Thanks for the analysis. Super high quality.
I feel like PJ had one of his best defensive games, but people only want to talk about his 9 points which happened to be some of the most crucial points in game 6
Love how you been breaking down these games . Hope your page blows up and the youth are paying attention !
Love your game breakdown.
This is one of the best games I’ve ever watched
Awful coaching got all basketball channels stepping they game up😂
Bro took them to North Korea 😂😂😂
We live in North Korea
Yes we do
Only if you're not from Dallas 😆
I live in the Blessed land of the USA
Nepotism coaching
😂😂😂😂
Bro we want a twolves and nuggets analysis!! But still good video like always
Hardy is a bad dude. He won that game
Ahmmm... pretty sure DJJ and late game Washington won us the game. But ok...
@@Smido83his minutes were valuable tho because he’s been better at attacking than exum has
@@bigsmoke7321 than THJ too I think ..
Hardy has played few minutes so far but he has shined
@@robbynkurnia5131perhaps but gotta give thj credit he did help win a game
How fascinating that this loss of OKC is like the loss of the Nuggets, not hitting open 3s and poor offensive boards, the Star starter Jokic and Murray (starlike) did a great job, but the supporting cast just wasn't there.
Kinda but Murray was shooting pure a lot of the series cause of AE’s presses
KYRIE IS MY FAVE PLAYER IN THE NBA RN🤩🤩CANT WAIT 2 WATCH HIM & LUKA VS ANTHONY EDWARDS💯
OKC need pursue Lauri Markannen this coming off-season 😤😤😤😤
The supporting cast are exactly what the doctor ordered. MAVS
You , Goat, and awful coaching should do a collab vid
Great video brother
it's crazy that we could have Sengun and lively on the same team as Chet.
The fact that the Mavs were able to adapt to their opponents bodes well for them to make it all the way. Mavs in 6
let's goooooo Mavs
Offseason is gonna be HUGE !! Lauri or alf Simmons coming 🥲🔥🔥
a hardwood classic!
Now this is what ESPN should be.
With balanced and fair whistle on both sides MAVS win this games very comfortably.
For anyone who still thinks that last call isn't a foul kyrie catches the shot and gets it off before the buzzer.
at the end there, i think some more credit needs to be given to kyrie for his 2nd half performance. its going under appreciated rn but he injected a lot of life into that dallas team in the 3rd&4th
RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFFF
If Luka stays this unselfish when he's double teamed he'll have alot more triple doubles.
3:36 no need to double woth 8 sec on the clocl that far away from the basket. Stay with man
Man shai is so fucking good
see ya next season 👋🏻
The only reason why this went to 6 games is lucky playing with multiple leg injuries.
With a healthy luka, it's a sweep .
Bro they were just never gonna sweep the first seed😭
I love dallas but they not surviving the wolves turning the ball over like that
Dort always sticking his leg out on 3 pointers. What an asshole!
Shai cost Thunder this game. He knows he fouled PJ, which is fine coz that's part of the game, it came from a good defense.
But he should've told the coaching staff not to challenge the call because it'll cost them their last time out. They needed that timeout.
Jdub gives me harden vibes fr
I think that 3 on the forehead is shade to luka😂. They often make it look like an L
Too bad it didn't age well for them 😂
I hope people can stop saying that kyrie is just playing off of Luka’s gravity attacking bent defenses and close outs. This whole entire series he was hard hedged in blitzed.😂
3:23 great offense
Chet is a 7ft small forward
MFFL FOR LIFE FOR LIFE FOR LIFE!
If Luka leads the mavs past Minnesota and beats Boston will he have the crown as best player in the nba in your opinion?
No
I doubt it, I love luka but they'll say anything to discredit him, if he gets the chip this year they'll say he got carried by role players while faking injuries idgi he already has the crown imho
Isn’t that supposed to be the idea? When Giannis won he was the best, when jokic won he was the best, when curry won he was the best
@@chevyjose9449 no
Luka is the best player in the league when he wins the chip and FMVP he will be regarded as the best player in the league, when Mavs go b2b next season that will be a further proof that he is the best and the future GOAT
Who do you think is the tougher opponent for Dallas: OKC or MN?
1:22 this play i cant complain about defense, cause it worked. But offense, luka can see. He was slow to react to plan sight double.. the dude in the corner goofy.. im watching the play but i dont wanna move up to the ball handler to give him another option to pass so he can free himself. No iq
That mav team with a star center will be the best in the league
Lively is going to that dude...
Jokic coming over to make the Dallas Slavs
@vidicisthegoat5444 that'll be crazy but this playoffs exposed just how bad jokic is on that interior defense. Nuggets should consider signing an athletic center and add more depth. Trading away mpj might give them that
@@jjcometa9333 Jokic’s interior defence wasnt a problem last night if anything its his perimeter defence thats worse than his interior. As for Mpj I dont think they should ever trade him. They need his size and shooting. Hes shot terribly this series but so has Murray but Murray was a liability defensively. I think if you trade either you trade murray but they really shouldnt trade either. They should let Kcp go in the offseason or trade him if he resigns and try to get something in return for P Wat and Zeke.
We don't need a Star center. Our centers are already dawgs
WOLVES in 5
Jdub has no business playing PF he's barely 6'4
On the last play of the game they also hacked the shit out of Luka there were like 5 fouls on that play
This could hurt DALLAS..cuz its the mental and the experience...what ya showing is a VITAL FLAW...not having the basics...will hurt any team...its the playoffa..great take..great take
How's it a vital flaw? They have been extremely tough and quick to adapt all post season. Pretty much every team left in the playoffs lives and dies by their roleplayers
1:11 this defensive play was dum. First off, im not closing out on a pick play that high up away from the basket.. im stayin below the 3 so i can watch that high as pick and see both players and peripheral sight. 2ndly, why no one had the thought of "where did the picker go?". Like bad iq right there
1:38 ball hog to its finnest
lively is just to dominant
he is extremely intelligent for a 20 year old
Except it wasn’t strategy. He actually got fouled compared to the bs calls SGA get.
Should Denver move on from Jokic, now he has lost focus, and contract is up
1:35 no iq. They doubling crazy. My man set a pick.. i can hear dude close on my left. Let me pass it to the back since ik he is behinde me.. if need to, ill jump pass it back since im taller then my defender.. but nope. Besides, luka is slow
Nooo..this is great...imagine the WOLVES ...they are gonna wanna see what Luka does...but I think after enxountering Jokic....hmmmmmm...I hooe the WOLVES dont play with their MEAT...
dallas will be playing with their meat after they get a chip hahahahah
Luka loves different defenses looks to try and contain the mvp. He just laughs and says watch this. He really needs to stop feeding kyrie's ego and tell him to stop playing scared and play 4. This is probably kyrie's last chance for a super star to carry his ass. Luka's value goes up. kyrie's value goes down. Play hard 4 or bye bye. What team wants a part time player
What are you on? Kyrie has been instrumental this season, a vet CHAMP leader who's hit big shots his whole life. He's exactly what Luka needs to grow up mentally.
Tbh OKC isnt even that good unless they get to punish teams do dumb mistakes over and over like the Mavs did most of the Games , they lose in Rebounding and Steals usually .
like if OKC had to play Wolves or Nuggets that sht be done in 4 they wouldve got abused after Game1 🤣🤣
I love how you kept talking about shots not falling for the thunders and did not show one instance where the Mavs also missed shots, The entire first half the mavs missed a lot of shots PJ wasn’t hitting shots neither was Kyrie and Hardy yet somehow that escapes you? Crazy how you’re trying to paint a narrative of OKC’s role players not hitting their shots while mavs role players were when in fact in the first half the main reason OKC were up were because that was what was happening to the Mavs, People might think this is great analysis but there is a very clear bias towards painting a particular scenario that just did not happen
You mean when I said “the script completely flipped” and “all of a sudden the Mavs started making shots that they were missing” ?
You clearly watched this with a preconceived notion because I talked about everything you mentioned in your comment.
Thanks for watching though!
Edit: Looking back, the entire 1st half of this video was on OKC’s defensive strategy and how they successfully forced role players into either making decisions or making shots.
So now I’m pretty certain you didn’t even watch before drawing this conclusion. 🫡
@@HoopVenue the video and the analysis are great! I don't know where all these bots come from
shai just average. overrated. always uses his elbows on defenders. refs are just turning a blind eye on it. and if he doesn't have free throws, he's just gonna average around 20 pts maybe.
First 🎉
SGA is the real MVP 🤡
right? Luka’s stats were better than his too if i’m not mistaken
lmao where the nuggets video 😂
It's coming. I can't only cover 1 series at a time lol
@@HoopVenue fair
@@HoopVenuewhen you’re that great of a channel, standards will be crazy i gues ahaha
first
OKC is actually garbage. Woof woof all the way back to OKC. Literally the ugliest team ever assembled. Chet’s a literal twig out there he has to stiff arm you to screen you💀
Ya kjow what you vring me to think..fuck scouting repirts.its about you as a player are YALL COMMUNICATING...CINNECTING..hmmm something to look at..bexause i think all players are locjed in but and i hope...the players are lookin at THIS...and conversating...because DEFENSE us the convo
Very overrated 1 seed
Mac’s shot 47% percent from three and only won by one point. Considering SGA, that Chet and J-Dub will only get better and we have the Dorture chamber (maybe even a Dorture chamber 2.0 with Cason Wallace)I’d say the Thunder are solid for years to come. Mac’s got lucky OKC missed so many shots this series. Had they shot the ball even just a little better it would’ve been very different.
“If the thunder made more shots they would’ve won.” Good analysis.
They were also missing maxi kleiber who is a 38%+ 3pt shooter as a big man. And last time i checked neither gaff, pj or jones are old.
So you won't mention how Dallas played great defense the whole series?
Coping hard
Why okc let them shoot 47% from 3 💀
Man mavs in 5
You don’t know ball mavs are gonna get bullied by all the strong wings they not gonna double luka
@@gameoverjit5565if they don’t double luka, they have a worse chance of winning. luka cannot be guarded.