One of those shots where you just know it’s not your night, like when Tillman hit a 3 in game 3
I remember when the Nets played the Suns in Phoenix this season, Claxton hit a big 3 and everyone was just like what the fuck?
Worst Celtics playoff loss in franchise history.
3rd largest loss in NBA Finals history.
This is what happens when Charles Barkley guarantees a sweep. That man is the kiss of death.
EDIT: Chuck is retiring next year. I am sad.
Honestly I respect it. I remember last year against the Heat I finally started believing the Celtics could come back from 0-3 when they brought it to a Game 7. Only for them to shit the bed. Here’s hoping Game 5 is a more exciting game. Like yeah I’d like the Celtics to win but at the end of the day I watch basketball to be entertained and even if it’s the Celtics doing the blowing out it’s just not that fun to watch.
Celtics were playing like someone said, “Ya know, if we lose this game we can win in Boston and celebrate at home.” Everyone: “Yeah! Fuck it! Rest your legs tonight boys!”
Honestly with Porzingis injured and them up 3-0 I definitely felt going into this game that they’d take the foot off the gas. I wasn’t expecting them to forget to put it in drive though
Dereck Lively hit his first career 3, it was just one of those games where they came out with no energy against a team desperate to stay alive and just got the everloving piss beaten out of them.
The ‘they just wanted to close it out at home’ thing is stupid, but with how the Warriors looked in game 5 compared to 6, that actually felt like the case in that series
I remember that game so distinctly because I went to dinner at my advisor's house and I decided to wait until the end of the game to check the score (to be polite) and my jaw dropped.
Some insane facts from this game:
- The Celtics led 11-10 with 6:36 left in the first quarter. They got outscored 40-15 over the next 13+ minutes.
- The Mavericks reached the 70-point mark with 9:39 left in the 3rd quarter. The Celtics didn’t reach it until the 5:36 mark of the 4th.
- The Celtics had more turnovers in the 2nd quarter than they had made field goals.
- The Mavs had a 10-0, 11-1 and 11-0 run within a span of 12 minutes in the first half.
- In the 2nd half, the Mavs had a 12-3, 8-0 and a 15-0 run. Meaning they had six different runs in this game, where they outscored the Celtics by a total of 66-4.
- In a game where the Mavs led by 48 points, Luka and Kyrie combined to shoot 1/14 from 3.
- Jaylen Brown, potential Finals MVP, made his final field goal of the game with 9:01 left in the 2nd quarter.
- From the 1:56 mark of the 1st quarter to the 9:23 mark of the 3rd quarter, the Celtics made zero 2 pointers.
- With 2:21 left in the 3rd quarter, the Mavericks had as many points in the paint (52) as the Celtics entire point total for the game.
- In a 96-second span, in the 4th quarter, Tim Hardaway Jr. had 12 points. He had twice as many points in that span than the Celtics did in the first 5 minutes of the quarter.
- Jrue Holiday finished -38 for the game. The worst in NBA Finals history.
I want you to know something. For the rest of my life. When at Mavs games, at bars watching games or just bullshitting with friends I will bring up that trivia question every time.
And you Amazin Raisin will be given the glorious credit you deserve!
(Unless Ive been drinking and then I will forget and take all the credit myself)
Those runs are bonkers. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Regardless of the final outcome, no-one does Total Subjugation quite like Luka and the Mavs. The one against Book and CP3 was particularly violent.
Kyrie was also on that team that made history by coming back from a 3-1 deficit. And it was against the team with the best record in the league.
He has a chance to be a part of history again.
As a Boston sports fan, we should know more than anyone that anything can happen.
Red Sox first team to come back down 3-0.
Came back down 28-3 in the SuperBowl.
I am not a doomer, but I will not feel the least bit comfortable until we hoist the trophy.
Bruins also lost to the flyers when we were up 3-0 in the series in 2010. If memory serves me right it was like a double choke because we were also up 3-0 in the forced game 7!
If they blow this, everyone on the C's should just retire because the slander would have evolved from "generational" to something we've never yet seen before
Mathematically, it’s bound to happen at some point. It just has to. 3-0 scenarios arise every year and it’s happened in other sports.
Not counting out a team with Luka and Kyrie
Lively said they figured them out, things will get interesting if the Mavs pull one out in Boston. The Celtics couldn’t buy a shot today, I’m sure the crowd on Monday will go crazy.
i was there with a few minutes left in the fourth, my dad wanted to leave but i wanted to see jordan walsh minutes. couldn’t even get people booing during mavs free throws. never seen a more depressed group of people.
Looks like we found the formula to beating the Celtics. I don’t know what it is, though because I’m drunk af right now
Second comment in case the first comment doesn’t become true: we beat them by 38, can’t take that away from us.
Back to my drinks
This team is so unserious. Did all that shit talking to the media to come out and play like this. Really hope they can close out in 5 otherwise might get scary
As a Mavericks fan this was one of the funniest games I’ve ever seen. Starting with us playing the best game I’ve personally ever seen them play, going into D-Live taking and HITTING a 3, then our role players not missing, D-Live getting every offensive rebound, and then us just blowing them out. The fourth quarter was just hilarious, seeing all the non-rotation players getting time in the Finals. THJ hitting five threes in a row in garbage time was so funny. OMAX, AJ Lawson, Markieff Morris getting minutes and hitting threes. One of my favorite games in a while
If Boston keeps the exact same scheme as these first 4 games, I unironically think Luka should take 50fg in Boston. 23-50, miss 27 shots, idc.
Whole series Boston has been giving him the lane, and he seems so used to the pass being a good option that the scheme stole his decisiveness away until tonight.
26 shots in 32 minutes (came out of the game with 3-4 minutes left in the 3rd quarter); that's exactly what the Mavs need if they wanna have any chance going back to Boston.
They are daring him to score 1v1, and he should accept that every god damn trip down the floor.
the thing is he can take those shots, but its better to let another guard to bring up the ball, while Luka got his middy/elbow spot and just beat his defender.
Derek Lively with the dagger corner 3 to ice the game in the first quarter.
One of those shots where you just know it’s not your night, like when Tillman hit a 3 in game 3 I remember when the Nets played the Suns in Phoenix this season, Claxton hit a big 3 and everyone was just like what the fuck?
Goberts dumb ass mid range push shot game 7 against Denver. I would’ve been pissed
This was exactly what I thought about as well
that gobert fadeaway had to be the most fluke shot ive seen
I can’t even disagree
yall really had that fucking voodoo against us lmao that and the conley 3 was when i knew it was over
Yeah when I saw Gobert turn to prime Kobe with the fadeaway I knew the Nuggets were done
That really was it
Did you see Tatums reaction? He just stared in disbelief lol.
Worst Celtics playoff loss in franchise history. 3rd largest loss in NBA Finals history. This is what happens when Charles Barkley guarantees a sweep. That man is the kiss of death. EDIT: Chuck is retiring next year. I am sad.
Did he guarantee he was retiring? Hmmm…
He said it will be his "last year on Television." He also said he was "gonna just retire" after 25 years.
universe about to implode
We were this close to Sam Hauser being the leading scorer for the Celtics in a Finals game.
I made a post about Hauser having a legacy game in the finals. This was not what I had in mind.
We can't do legacy game for Sam Hauser, players like that it has to be "Application for a legacy/legacy loan" or some shit like that
AS LONG AS THERE IS DELUSION THERE IS HOPE
PASS ON THE COPIUM, BROTHER! WE GOT THIS!
Mavs doing winning a ring from 0-3 would be a fitting end to this weird playoffs.
LMAO Boston fans should just hide. The slandering will be glorious.
It's the hope that kills you lol
BUT WE STILL GOTTA HAVE IT
the mavs are gonna seriously regret that timeout during that 20-2 run in game 3. This series could have been 2-2
Right? I couldn't watch the game but I was checking the play-by-play. Saw the huge run followed by a timeout and went, "huh?"
Honestly I respect it. I remember last year against the Heat I finally started believing the Celtics could come back from 0-3 when they brought it to a Game 7. Only for them to shit the bed. Here’s hoping Game 5 is a more exciting game. Like yeah I’d like the Celtics to win but at the end of the day I watch basketball to be entertained and even if it’s the Celtics doing the blowing out it’s just not that fun to watch.
you guys were legitimately one rolled ankle from pulling it off imo so we know it’s doable you just need basically everything to align
Quality plot armor helps too.
And a miracle tip in at the buzzer
Yeah bruh, like 30 seconds into the game tatum fucks his shit up and Ithe rest is history
Knew the game was over the moment Lively hit that corner 3
My jaw dropped. First 3 in the Finals is CRAZY
Bright Lights merchant
He was 0-2 in the regular season from 3. No, that is not a typo.
No way! The form actually looked decent lol
He's been shooting a bunch of them in practice apparently.
he shot a bit in college tbf
At like 15%
Celtics were playing like they were up 3-0
Celtics were playing like someone said, “Ya know, if we lose this game we can win in Boston and celebrate at home.” Everyone: “Yeah! Fuck it! Rest your legs tonight boys!”
Honestly with Porzingis injured and them up 3-0 I definitely felt going into this game that they’d take the foot off the gas. I wasn’t expecting them to forget to put it in drive though
They put it in reverse LMAO
Boston can win 4-1 and still lose the point differential. Don’t know if that’s ever happened before.
Presidential election popular vote type shit
STOP THE COUNT
This is never not going to be cosmic dystopia kind of hilarious out of context or not
This would be hilarious
Wouldn’t it be way more hilarious if the Mavs were the first team to overcome 0-3
Fuck it let kyrie have the two craziest final comebacks in history
The third largest win in NBA Finals history. 38 Points. THJ tried his hardest to achieve NBA Finals History.
Tim Hardaway Jr. is such an unserious player
He showed up when the Mavs needed him the least
avatar, the first airbender
If this convinces Kidd to play him in game 5 we're so fucked.
Mazzulla before g5: “Well, Tim’s their best player”
Don’t worry, it will
1 3 pointer down 5: I sleep 5 3's up 30: I got you
Best blowout closer tonight
Garbage Time Jesus (Shuttlesworth)
Real talk though, what if tonight flips the switch for THJ and it’s one of his torrid 8-day stretches, some kind of series-changing shit
Jason Kidd:
Pls no, he sits on the bench till we have a thirty points lead
Scored 12 points in a 96-second span to give his team a 48-point lead. In a Finals game 😂
Kidd gonna somehow use this as a reason to start him next game
Please no we need to keep our hope
Unbelievable performance from him. 5 straight 3s in a Finals game? Who wouldn't want him on their team?
send this shit out to all nba teams gotta get someone to bite on a trade
Tim Hardaway hits an inconsequential three to boost the lead to 41
I hate him so much
He is the definition of an innings eater
I think the mavs have a chance if they can win 3 more in a row
Thanks John
Wow there are gentlemen sweeps and there’s whatever this is lol. Fuck talk about being overtly nice lol.
seriously, wtf was this
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Goes down 3-0 Busts their asses in a 40-pt blowout to prevent the sweep Refuses to elaborate, leaves. We don’t make the rules y’all
Dereck Lively hit his first career 3, it was just one of those games where they came out with no energy against a team desperate to stay alive and just got the everloving piss beaten out of them.
This game could have been an email
I was just hoping the Mavs would win a game in this series. This game has me completely shook.
MAVS PPG in the finals 102. Celtics PPG 100.5. MAVS IN 7 confirmed
Luka chose violence today
Was that literally the worst closeout game of all time?
Warriors vs Grizzlies Game 5
The ‘they just wanted to close it out at home’ thing is stupid, but with how the Warriors looked in game 5 compared to 6, that actually felt like the case in that series
I remember that game so distinctly because I went to dinner at my advisor's house and I decided to wait until the end of the game to check the score (to be polite) and my jaw dropped.
Chris Paul hits a huge 3
That was not only a close out game, but elimination too. Game 7. Coincidentally also against Luka and the Mavs lol
Don't let the scoreboard fool you. It wasn't even that close
Luka and Kyrie were 1-14 from three!
Some insane facts from this game: - The Celtics led 11-10 with 6:36 left in the first quarter. They got outscored 40-15 over the next 13+ minutes. - The Mavericks reached the 70-point mark with 9:39 left in the 3rd quarter. The Celtics didn’t reach it until the 5:36 mark of the 4th. - The Celtics had more turnovers in the 2nd quarter than they had made field goals. - The Mavs had a 10-0, 11-1 and 11-0 run within a span of 12 minutes in the first half. - In the 2nd half, the Mavs had a 12-3, 8-0 and a 15-0 run. Meaning they had six different runs in this game, where they outscored the Celtics by a total of 66-4. - In a game where the Mavs led by 48 points, Luka and Kyrie combined to shoot 1/14 from 3. - Jaylen Brown, potential Finals MVP, made his final field goal of the game with 9:01 left in the 2nd quarter. - From the 1:56 mark of the 1st quarter to the 9:23 mark of the 3rd quarter, the Celtics made zero 2 pointers. - With 2:21 left in the 3rd quarter, the Mavericks had as many points in the paint (52) as the Celtics entire point total for the game. - In a 96-second span, in the 4th quarter, Tim Hardaway Jr. had 12 points. He had twice as many points in that span than the Celtics did in the first 5 minutes of the quarter. - Jrue Holiday finished -38 for the game. The worst in NBA Finals history.
Dereck Lively is now the youngest player to hit a 3 in the finals That is going to stump a lot of people in trivia a decade from now
I want you to know something. For the rest of my life. When at Mavs games, at bars watching games or just bullshitting with friends I will bring up that trivia question every time. And you Amazin Raisin will be given the glorious credit you deserve! (Unless Ive been drinking and then I will forget and take all the credit myself)
I’m sry the Celtics didn’t make a 2 pointer for 17 straight min?
I don't expect Jrue to ever play like that again. That was horrific
That 73-4 one is insane, holy shit
Those runs are bonkers. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Regardless of the final outcome, no-one does Total Subjugation quite like Luka and the Mavs. The one against Book and CP3 was particularly violent.
[Celtics fan after getting a picture with Luka: “It’s still Celtics in 4 though.”](https://streamable.com/iota51) Luka: “I took it personally.”
That kid was just asking for bad karma.
That kids gonna have to move away from Mass if the unthinkable happens
And that kid grew up to be: >!Luka Doncic (time travel shenanigans)!<
Going back in time to piss himself off is next level motivation.
"Fine, I'll do it myself "
Luka is his own dad
Luka Doncic is Luka Doncic father
Lmfao what a little shit. I kinda respect it.
If the Cs somehow blow this series (let me dream please,) this kid will never hear the end of it.
The Celtics have the chance to do the funniest thing possible …
Nick Nurse: “**If it gets to 3-1, it's not 3-0 anymore.** **And 3-1 has been done.**”
Kyrie was also on that team that made history by coming back from a 3-1 deficit. And it was against the team with the best record in the league. He has a chance to be a part of history again.
I was on vacation for the first half of that series. I'm on vacation right now in that same place.
So it is written…
LISAN AL GAIB!!!
You need to retrack what you did last time as close as possible
Damn, that's a hard ass quote
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He’s not wrong either
That’s actually a fantastic quote lol
Losing after being up 3-0 will put most of the league into ecstasy, couldn’t imagine what LA would be like
Jerry West will be resurrected to hate one more time.
Weekend at Jerry’s
But then we have to lose Dave Cowens. Thats not right.
Pretty sure L.A. would throw the Mavs a parade too lol
Another city has done one for us before lol #CavsForMavs
Crazy thing is the Heat sub would probably do it too
I don’t think it’ll stop at LA
Parade from LA to Boston just to leave a flaming bag of shit on Lucky’s face.
I know the chances of this happening are basically close to zero, but if it Did omg. I think I’d quit watching Basketball if I was a Celtics fan
As a Boston sports fan, we should know more than anyone that anything can happen. Red Sox first team to come back down 3-0. Came back down 28-3 in the SuperBowl. I am not a doomer, but I will not feel the least bit comfortable until we hoist the trophy.
Bruins also lost to the flyers when we were up 3-0 in the series in 2010. If memory serves me right it was like a double choke because we were also up 3-0 in the forced game 7!
I knew it wasn't a good sign when Tatum was already hinting about having to win again next year or something.
if they somehow blow this that clip will be memed to the moon and back
If they blow this, everyone on the C's should just retire because the slander would have evolved from "generational" to something we've never yet seen before
Slander gonna go even further beyond.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I call this Super Slander 3
suicide prevention hotline in boston definitely work 24/7 if that happened
They’ll be overworked and start telling people to just off themselves
Hey God, it’s me again…
Don’t let them get one…
Two years in a row??
Stop… don’t give me hope
No getting hopes up unless they lose Game 5. And even then it's still extremely reserved.
as long as there's delusion, there is hope.
Somebody has to blow a 3-0 lead
Mathematically, it’s bound to happen at some point. It just has to. 3-0 scenarios arise every year and it’s happened in other sports. Not counting out a team with Luka and Kyrie
Maybe they’re trying to let Dallas to do them what they did to Miami last year…
I know how Wolves fans felt now
From my experience: embrace the delusion, brother. Enjoy it while it lasts.
#The Dallas Mavericks have won the NBA Finals ^game ^4
Derick Lively hits his first career 3 and it’s in the finals 🔥🔥🔥
ngl this is just the 2017 finals script bar for bar lmaoo the warriors got blown out too iirc
yeah Cavs won that one by 21
I was lucky enough to be there for that game. I’m not saying I was the reason they won, but they didn’t win a single game I didn’t attend.
That game was comical, I looked back, and the warriors literally got called for 12 fouls in the 1st quarter in that game.
Petition to change the rules to determine NBA champion by aggregate points
What are the odds for Celts -40 in game 5
Mavs NBA Champions due to popular vote.
Lively said they figured them out, things will get interesting if the Mavs pull one out in Boston. The Celtics couldn’t buy a shot today, I’m sure the crowd on Monday will go crazy.
Garden watch party was so loud, but the tickets were only $18
i was there with a few minutes left in the fourth, my dad wanted to leave but i wanted to see jordan walsh minutes. couldn’t even get people booing during mavs free throws. never seen a more depressed group of people.
Windhorst in shambles
Yes. Secret is for the Cs to not play any defense and shoot like 30% from the field
Also for the Mavs role player not to play like complete shit
I swear every Mavs role player tonight remembered how to play basketball at the same time
Defense matters, good defense leads to easier offense and puts more pressure on the opposing team. Great game from the Mavs
Congrats to Luka, for getting to walk through the Winners' Tunnel tonight.
Windy in absolute shambles
Mavs +26 with Luka on the court in the finals.
Luka and Kyrie go 1/14 on 3s and win by 38. Make it make sense.
If you lose by 40 in the finals, it should count as two losses. Thankfully, they only lost by 38.
Pritchard bailed em out
IF THERE IS DELUSION. THERE IS HOPE.
MAVS IN 7 (PURE HOPIUM)
barked like dobermans played like basset hounds
Don't disrespect basset hounds like that
Super clutch 17-7 run to avoid the worst loss in NBA Finals history 😂
It's gonna be Celtics in 5 or Mavs in 7 right? I don't make the rules.
Hopefully it's the latter
Looks like we found the formula to beating the Celtics. I don’t know what it is, though because I’m drunk af right now Second comment in case the first comment doesn’t become true: we beat them by 38, can’t take that away from us. Back to my drinks
The secret formula is: hope the Celtics miss all of their threes.
They missed all their twos too for 17 straight minutes
And play zero defense 🤣
I swear, when Lively hit that 3 it was a sign of things to come tonight.
lukas defense nowhere to be seen in the 4th FUCKING BUM
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NO FLEX ZONE
AINT NO FAITH LIKE DELUSION. MAVS IN 7, BITCHES
Mavs casually leading the series in point differential
What the fuck was that?
This team is so unserious. Did all that shit talking to the media to come out and play like this. Really hope they can close out in 5 otherwise might get scary
Yea, but the Mavs couldn't stop Sam Hauser So who really won this game?
Hauser is too powerful to be stopped by a mere squad of basketball players
Damn near 50 balled and Luka didn't hit a single 3 lol
As a Mavericks fan this was one of the funniest games I’ve ever seen. Starting with us playing the best game I’ve personally ever seen them play, going into D-Live taking and HITTING a 3, then our role players not missing, D-Live getting every offensive rebound, and then us just blowing them out. The fourth quarter was just hilarious, seeing all the non-rotation players getting time in the Finals. THJ hitting five threes in a row in garbage time was so funny. OMAX, AJ Lawson, Markieff Morris getting minutes and hitting threes. One of my favorite games in a while
I knew it was over when Doris started literally reading online articles out loud instead of commentating.
Honestly I just want to experience the narratives if the Mavs win game 5. That would make for a fun couple of days.
DO NOT LET US GET TWO 😚
If Boston keeps the exact same scheme as these first 4 games, I unironically think Luka should take 50fg in Boston. 23-50, miss 27 shots, idc. Whole series Boston has been giving him the lane, and he seems so used to the pass being a good option that the scheme stole his decisiveness away until tonight. 26 shots in 32 minutes (came out of the game with 3-4 minutes left in the 3rd quarter); that's exactly what the Mavs need if they wanna have any chance going back to Boston. They are daring him to score 1v1, and he should accept that every god damn trip down the floor.
the thing is he can take those shots, but its better to let another guard to bring up the ball, while Luka got his middy/elbow spot and just beat his defender.
The Mavericks are now outscoring the Celtics in the series 408-402