I think they'll have to use Brown and Tatum on Luka. He's probably too big and strong for White or Holiday. That means one of their scorers will likely be getting worn out by Luka and it will be important for White or Holiday to pick up some offensive slack.
The Wolves couldn't figure out how to make Luka play defense. I'll be curious to see if Boston can get him into the action and maybe tire him out a little.
Here we go. Game on, so hyped!
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Mavs seem tentative offensively
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Fun start, so far. Kyrie came to play.
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That mid range shot over 2 defenders was crazy hard. Then he got a hustle play and stole the ball from Brown and caused him a foul the next play. Indeed fun start so far.
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Ugly first half.
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Porzingis proving to be very effective both on offense and defense. Mavs have to really battle hard and play extremely well in the second half for a chance to come back from such a big hole.
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Porzingis playing out of his mind. I don’t expect him to keep up this pace and I expect the Mavs will shoot better but this one might be over.
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Am I smelling a Boston second half breakdown?
Single digit lead, still lots of basketball to play. Game is not over yet.
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Doesn’t look like it. Nice run of their own. I think Celtics are too good to come back from 30 against them. Mavs need to come out sharper in game 2.
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I thought Mavs were going to continue with that run. But Celtics put a stop on it and went on a run of their own. Very hard for Mavs to come back from down 20 in 1 quarter, but I'm still hoping we see something from Kyrie. He's been pretty quiet since a couple of good plays in the first quarter.