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Justin Jackson
As you guys can tell the audio
And the intro song from B-Roy
Is in front of the intro
Which is something that I'm doing
For this episode specifically
Cause it is a game for reaction episode
I'm actually recording this
And the game still going on
Because if you guys watched it at all
You guys will know that the Mavericks
Absolutely crushed the Boston Celtics tonight
Historic levels of dominance
And multiple levels
Again, absolutely crushed
The Mavericks
Sorry, absolutely crushed rather
The Boston Celtics
Huge, huge win for the Mavericks
Since they about for elimination
Unfortunately, you guys
I know some of you guys were looking
For the game 3 pod
I posted on all my social medias
That the pod wouldn't happen
Scheduling conflict
I had a church event Wednesday night
I was only able to watch
About a little over a quarter
It seems I watched the most important part of the game
Because that was the part where the Celtics were up 21
And then the Mavericks stormed
To cut it down to 1
I think the announcement says tonight
I thought it was 3, but cut it down to 1
And then the Diodas could never get in front
Luca fouls out with like 4 minutes left in the game
And ultimately the Boston Celtics are winning
Now, going into tonight backing up
A lot of discourse was made
And I've seen it in a product game
I'll watch so I can comment on it
A lot of discourse was made
From Brian Windhorst
Ethering Luca
JJ Reddick talked about him
People on social media first take
And disputed
I mean, first things first
It was popular
Like the thing was
We're going to denigrate Luca Dacic
And I've noticed this with media
I'm in the media
So I've done it occasionally
I will admit to it
But I've noticed it's a thing in media
Whenever they build up a star
I'm talking about mainstream media
Whenever they build up a star
When that star does not deliver to the way
That they anticipate them doing it
Everything that they glossed over during the wins
Becomes an issue in the losses
And so one of the people who do this more now
And I don't know if it's the ESPN influence
If it's Steven Van A's influence
Shannon Sharpe
But Shannon Sharpe, he was on first thing
He was on undisputed rather
Spoke about how
You never accept anything in a win
You wouldn't in a loss
It was a common phrase he said
That one of his coaches told him
I believe Shanahan told him
Mike Shanahan told him
You never accept anything in a win
That you wouldn't in a loss
So Luca's complaining to the officials
Luca's piss poor defense
Luca's sometimes horrible shot
Making bad body language
All of that got glossed over for months
Because when Dallas traded for PJ Washington
Made the move for Daniel Gaffer
They got Grant Williams out
And etc
Luca still did the bad body language
Although not as much
He still didn't play a whole lot of defense
He still whatever
But they were winning
So it got glossed over
It became look at Luca's offense
Look at Kyrie's offense
Look at how those two can carry the offense
While the Dallas team plays defense
Right
So a lot of this stuff
That Luca's had a bad habit of
Since he got in the NBA
Was glossed over
For like I said
Two and a half, three months
Dallas was on this rampage
Through basketball
They finished the regular season 25-5
They beat the Clippers in 6 I want to say
And then they beat the Timbers in 5
And so Dallas ripping through the West
Mind you
There's another series that I'm forgetting
But they're ripping through the West
But again, Luca still is Luca
And so you get to the finals
It's a problem
And specifically it's like it was this build up
It was reports coming out about how teammates
Have asked him not to complain to the refs
And show up in better shape
And there's like I said
Brian Went horse went on an ether
About how nobody in the Dallas facility
Can get Luca to play defense
And not complain and show up to the refs
I mean not complain to the refs
And show up in shape
And hopefully this summer
After the series is over
Luca can find somebody outside the building
To get through
Like it was purposeful
It was malicious
And the media is the media
I expect them to do nothing less
But it was one of those things where
I understood the players
Like the players come out
And they do a lot of their own media
I got it
I understood it
Why they say they want
They don't trust people in the media
Right
That they guys support you
Guys rock with you
And then the second that is popular
To be against you
They're against you openly
I say it was
I haven't seen Brian Went horse
That at somebody probably since the
Comic Sans letter from Dan Gilbert
About LeBron
That was like I said it felt
Not Went horse by himself
But with Went horse and then ESPN
And then first take
And then undisputed
It felt like a malicious attack
On Luca Doncic
Apparently the Mavericks are up for
48 now
Tim Hardaway Jr. is knocking down
Shots which is probably the last thing
The Maverick
Probably the last thing
That I just need is another shooter
They're at 48
Which is the largest finals leading
Last 50 years
Per stats and info
With stats Williams
So
But that's what's going on right now
In game four
But back to what happened at game three
It was this
Like I said it was
3-0 never been come back
Forever
And so everybody immediately
Started writing the obituary for the Mavericks
And it went into slander season
And so I didn't like it
Because I said they were
To me
If Luca doesn't foul out
The Mavericks win game three
And there's no
There's none of that happens
In the last 48 hours
None of it happens in the last 48 hours right
And then starts out coming out
Yes Luca has one of the highest
Blow-by rates
In the history of basketball
I think game one was at like 52-53%
I think games two and three
Were both north
Or right around 60 or north of 60%
So the blow-by rates
Which means
Six out of ten times
Luca was the primary defender
He got blown by
Off the dribble
That's insane
That's insane for a bad high school
Defender in high school basketball
So it's ridiculous for an NBA player
However
Their defensive rating was like 107
Which would have been the best
Defense in the league this year
By a couple of points per 100
I mean that is
Absolutely
So there's
It's kind of conflicting stats
Sorry I got distracted
I'm still half
I'm still keeping my eye on the game
But I got distracted
No there
But that's a conflicting situation
Yes Luca's getting blown by
But they're having an amazing defense
You look at the Boston Celtics
They have not had a big offensive game
In this series
Even the game that I called
Their offensive barrage
I don't think they went north of 110
Was considering for the greatest
Offense in the history of basketball
Not being north of 110
Is pretty
Saying something
Let me actually pull up the numbers
They went
Yeah so in the big game
The huge game they had
With the big giant fourth quarter lead
107
Then 105
Then 106
Right now they're at 77
With about three minutes left in the game
So even when they've gone huge
In terms of three point numbers
Like they had 17 or 18 in game one
They never cracked 110
So defensively Dallas has been right there
Offensively they just haven't been there
This is the first night where the Dallas offense came to play
So I just didn't like the discourse
Finishing it up on game three
Before shifting to game four
I just didn't like the discourse
Surrounding Luca Donchich
Like I said it felt purposeful
It felt malicious
It felt coordinated
It felt like the executive of the Fox called the executive of ESPN
And was like we're gonna bash Luca today
And I can say it was popular to hate Luca
It was pretty popular
You can see it on social media
A lot of social media fed into the narratives
Of Luca being a cone
Of him being a poor D fan
People started calling by his weight again
Like it was bad
And Luca even post game
Talked about how it was a physical game
And he went with the officials again
And that didn't help at all
For the Winnhorst thing
It's like you played a bad game
Defensively you played a horrible game defensively
You played a bad game file wise
And the first thing out of your mouth was to blame the officials
So that didn't help at all
But then it came down to
The next day he sits down
I want to say Malika Angelis
But it might not have been
He sits down and he takes accountability
It's one of those
His emotional answer was one answer
And he thought about it
Probably spoke to the Mavs organization
What they want to put out
And he looks contrite
He looked like he truly was like
I can't do this anymore and win
So every superstar kind of has a grow up, wake up moment
I can kind of go through all of them for everybody
But I won't
But every superstar for the most part
Who wins at a high level
Has a grow up, wake up moment
You may not see it
You may not recognize it as BAM
But as every great player they'll tell you what the moment is
And so to me that was Lucas
That was Lucas grow up, wake up moment
And it may not matter in this series
Boston may ultimately win the title anyway
But it was a moment where
Okay, if I'm going to be successful
I have to do it like this
Occasional emotional about Burst
Are expected he's human
But he was from what I saw
He was rioting the officials
He was complaining about everything
If he got touched in the lane he missed
He was looking for the file
Hell even when he made it he was looking for the file
The only time he really wasn't
Was when they were charging
They made that big 20 to 2 run
And J.Kid called a timeout
And I immediately text my friend in the group chat
Take my friends in the group chat
Horrible timeout J.Kid
Immediately
Because you're running
Boston scrambling
You got him in a transition
Yeah you had a couple of rushed possessions
But they rushed right back
It wasn't like you had a couple of rushed possessions
And then Boston swung swung 3
And then swung swung maybe over 3
But they missed it
And then you're still scrambling
And then you call a timeout like whoa
Before they stretch it back out let's calm it down
Both sides were scrambling
Your scramble looked a lot better than their scramble
He called a timeout kill the momentum
I think Boston's up hitting a shot
And then Luca files out
He was right behind each other
Kind of one of those games where
You can't blame J.Kid totally
But that feels like the J.Kid
Ah why did you do it game
So that definitely gave off that feel in game 4
Through game 3 rather
Kudos to the Boston 7 taking a 3-0 lead
I spoke about the discourse already
Here we come to game 4
It ain't just game 4
And I'm sitting here going man
You know, season's on the line
J.Kid was adamant
We're not losing
I showed the pregame
He said we're not losing to Boston tonight
I said we're not
We're just not going to lose this game tonight
You know and Joe Mazzullo
Was trying to keep his guys into it
They're always locked into him
But what I always say about teams in this situation
There's one team playing desperate
And there's one team playing hopeful
There's one team playing like they're starving
And there's one team trying to finish off their meal
Now you could break the starving team
But you gotta break them
It's much easier
Like J.Kid said
There's moments in this game where you're going to have to hold on to the rope
Like Boston makes a run
And you're going to have to make it up in your mind
Is my season over or do I at least want to fight
And he called it holding on to the rope
It's easier to let that team that's up 3-0
To let go of the rope
You know what we're up 3-0
They hit 7 threes in the first quarter
They're up 15 in the first
We're going to fight to half time
If it's looking bleak at half time
Whatever we will go home and end it
But at the same time that team that's up
Could break the team that's down
Because they're like look we're down all three
If they come out that first quarter
That 37-15 first quarter
You let go of the rope
The roleplayers heads drop
Maybe the stars don't but the roleplayers heads drop
And the season's over
So anyway they come out to it
And it's a competitive game early
Both teams I think miss their first couple of shots
Kyrie gets on the board and gets us started
And then Celtics come back
Boom boom
I think Brown gets a layup and Tatum hits a three
And so now it's starting to move
We're starting to run
We're playing basketball
Lucas hot
Lucas on fire
Early in the game though
There was a couple of times
I thought Lucas got bumped
Right
And he didn't say anything
And that was huge
He didn't look at the refs
He didn't
He didn't look at the refs
He didn't look at anybody around him
He didn't look at anything
He went back down to court and played defense
There was also several moments
Boston tried to switch
Lucas on
Switched Lucas on the primary ball
Angela
Lucas sat in the chair
Slid his feet
Forced bad shots
Huge moments
And they say that all happened like in the first
15, 16 minutes
Where they were really trying to basically get a repeat of game three
We're gonna force him to switch
We're gonna bump him on offense
We're gonna make him frustrated
Like we're gonna make him work
See if we can frustrate him
Once he's frustrated he's out the game
And Lucas stayed calm
Lucas stayed composed
Lucas actually picked that code files
And raised his hand
Like I filed them
Like huge, huge stuff
For what they were trying to get accomplished
Huge for what they were trying to get done
And then the others showed up man
The game has gone final now
1, 22, 84
So I actually can pull up the stats
They actually secured the third largest victory in the NBA finals
His 38 points
But now I can pull up the numbers
Since pretty much none of the starters played
In the fourth
It was one of those nights
And remember how I spoke about Dallas had multiple ways to win
And I kinda said Boston used their main three already
Dallas hasn't
This was honestly
This was the Boston bad night
You know I was like oh
There's gonna be a night where Boston is just awful
You know what I'm saying
Where Boston is just bad
Like they're just not gonna be productive
And it was a mix of Dallas was hot and Boston was bad
Jalen Brown 3 for 12
10 points
By far his worst game
Juholliday 4 of 10
10 points
Jason Tatum 4 of 10
15 points
Sam Hauser was actually the second leading scorer on the Celtics
He finished 5 of 7
With 14 points
But again kinda big for him to see a couple shots go down
Cause he made 4 of his 6 threes
He's gonna be somebody that especially with poor Zing is limited
They're gonna have to go smaller in life
They're gonna have to make his shots
But here's what I wanna look at
First of all Luka Donchis 12 for 26
0 for 8 from 3
He still managed 29, 5 and 5
Kyrie Irvin 10 of 18
He was 1 for 6 from 3
He poured in 21
But look at Daniel Gaffer only played 10 minutes
Derrick Jones Jr only played 17
He had a beautiful in and out crossover finish scoop layup
Pigeon Watcher only played 14 minutes
Tim Hardaway Jr nails 5 threes
Now again the game is over when he nails these 3
But Tim Hardaway Jr had not made any 3 in the finals
He nailed 5 threes
Tonight helped him out big time
Derrick Lively huge
In 22 minutes he had 11 points, 12 rebounds
Including making a 3 of his own
Dante Exum nailed 2 threes
Dallas made 15 out of 37 threes
Which is 40%
Boston made 14 out of 41
So this is the first game they've outshot Boston from the 3.1
Field goal percentage Dallas 50, Boston 36
I spoke about 3.9 already
Dallas again, Dallas has made more free throws
So instead of better percentage
They're probably not going to out percentage Boston
But they made more free throws
Remember how I spoke about that was always
I always said man Dallas should be in a better spot
Because I'm looking at the rebounding numbers
They won the boards tonight 52 to 31
And they won the turnover battle
They only gave up 9
They got 14
And Boston gave up 17 points on third turnovers
Dallas only gave up 9
Dallas also won the fast break points by 5
And they won in the paint 60 to 26
And that is something I don't think is going to be talked about enough
And they, you know, I don't know
I'm reacting pretty instantly
Like I said, the game just went final
That's, to me that's huge
And they're going to talk about Lucas improved defense
And they're going to talk about how they outshot bad Boston shot
And they're going to talk about a lot of things
Dallas tonight
Realized to me that there was no 7 foot 3 person in the paint
Like oh we can go to the rim
And they scored 60 paint points
To the Boston's 26
They kept Boston out of the paint
They slipped their feet
They moved their feet
There has to be Boston's easily Boston's lowest paint point total
In the series
Because Dallas slid their feet
I won't even go
I mean there's not even really a reason to go step by step
The game was over in the third quarter
Boston pulled their starters with 4 minutes left in the third
It was over
Dallas followed suit right at the end of the third
They were done
Things I saw that was different
The energy level defensively from a Luke Kodachis was different
Yes
What did I think?
What we saw?
What the coverage was?
It was overblown
Absolutely
But he also played better defense tonight
His body language towards official was much better tonight
Kyrie Irving continued his consistency tonight
Like I said, you've got to Tim Hardaway Jr.
He may have 5 out of 7 threes
Yes, it was against the Boston Celtics backups
But he made them
He hadn't made them at all at any point in this series
The crowd was raucous
You've got Derrick Lively hit a 3
His energy was insane
Daniel Gaffer was insane
PJ Washington, his energy was all over the place
You had all these different things happen for you at one time
Positively if you're the Dallas Mavericks
If you're the Boston Celtics, you throw the tape away
And we don't even watch it
But we're good
We burn it
We missed a lot of shots
In their minds, they normally would make
They didn't get a lot of their open threes like normal
So that may be something they would look at tape wise
But they shouldn't watch the film more than 10, 15 minutes
And just get rid of it
You go home to Boston
You got a chance to close them on in Boston
Again, 5 in a race, banner 18
Celebrate banner 18 in Boston
Which would, the celebration would be insane
For the Boston Celtics first title since what? 2009?
2008 or 2009 when they beat Kobe Bryant
And so that's the situation in game 4
You saw the Mavericks to me at their best
Locked down defensively
Luka Doncic not complaining
Not bemoaning the refs
Not annoying the refs
Just playing basketball
I said Kyrie Irvin was there
The defensive execution was insane
And also the referee Scott Foster led crew
They called more fouls
Obviously it's not the typical Scott Foster crew
It's kind of like an all star lineup every game
For the officials
But they were calling more fouls
But Dow was also the more aggressive team
So they should have been calling more fouls
I think I had a problem with the officiating earlier in the series
Whenever Boston shot more threes and more free throws
And that's always a weird thing to me
When a team shoots 10, 15 more threes than the other team
And they also shoot 6, 7 more free throws
How? Like how is that possible?
And so this game the free throws matched the pain points
And Dallas outscored Boston by 34 pain points
And they still only shot like 7 more free throws
So the fouls was definitely to me called more fairly this game
Dallas is a more aggressive driving team
Boston drives to kick
Kyrie and Luca drives to me to score first
And if they get stuck they kick to the corner or they swing it around
Plus the lobs and stuff like that
So they are more aggressive at the rim scoring team to me
So they should have more free throws consistently every game
But Dallas also has to make them when they are given the opportunity
But there will be a game five
And before we sign out, I said quick show, it's a reaction show
Before we sign out, before I sign out rather
I want to talk to the Boston Celtics
I want to talk to the Celtics, I do
I want to talk to the Celtics
Boston, you better win game five
And I spoke about this while I didn't have a podcast after 2016
But I told my friends in 2016 about LeBron and that series
I said the Golden State Warriors better beat him in game five
And I'm saying the same thing to the Boston Celtics
You better beat the Mavs in game five
Because if you don't, you're opening up a can of worms I don't think you want to deal with
Justin, what do you mean? They're up 3-0
Ask the Celtics
Last year actually
Ask the Celtics
If the Celtics, they remember
That Red Bull Juholly was on that team pretty much
They were up, they were down 3-0 to the Miami Heat
And they charged all the way back to make it a game seven
And then Tatum sprains his ankle on like the first or second play
And we never know, Boston keeps it semi-close for most of the game
But the game's over when Tatum sprains his ankle
And truly we never know how it ends
But I remember saying in that series
Miami better get them in game five
Because they understand the situation
Boston stayed off elimination at home I believe
It goes back to Miami
Maybe it's reversed, I think Miami's a lower seed
But Boston stayed off elimination in game four
It goes to game five
I'm like you better get them in five
And then Boston wins in five
Now it gets dicey
I'm saying that to the Boston Celtics
Hear me very clearly
Boston, the Celtics, Tatum, Brown, Mazula, Drew, Horford, Prichard, whomever, Brad Stevens
Beat, if you want to have the NBA Championship be as stress-free as possible
You win game five
Because if you don't win game five, now Dallas got you twice
This is the first road loss Boston's had in the playoffs
This is the first time Kyrie Irvin's beaten the Boston Celtics since he left Boston
A lot of firsts happened tonight
This is the biggest lead in finals in the last 50 years
Third biggest win in the finals history
Like this is, what is it, the Memorial Day massacre
Or whatever it was that the Lakers had into the Lakers
Veterans Day massacre, something like that
You better win game five
Because if you don't, let's say you don't
Let's say you don't get blown out again, let's say it's close
Let's say Dallas wins 108-102
Makeup for those late, they win game five
You then go back to Dallas for game six
That is the official last Dallas basketball game besides the wings for the rest of the year
If you're a Mavericks fan, that's the last basketball game for you
You can imagine the energy will be through the roof
And all the pressure is still on you if you're Boston
But now it's pressure and it's doubt because you've lost two games in a row
I don't see Luca and Kyrie losing in that environment, I really don't
Same thing I said about LeBron in 2016, I don't see LeBron and Kyrie losing at home, just don't
I don't see Luca and Kyrie losing that game at home, especially if they've got me two in a row
Again, it won't be like tonight, but they'll win decently comfortably
The shooters will come out to play, they'll win by 15
Then it goes to game seven in Boston and all the pressures on the Celtics
The Mavericks are playing with house money, we're not even supposed to be here
All the pressures on the Celtics
1-10-2, you know what's coming, 1-10-2, 12-2, Mavericks running to go up eight in the third quarter
The arena's stone quiet
And everybody on the Celtics is getting nervous
Because they're wondering, oh my god, how are we even here right now?
But all that can be avoided, Boston, if you just take care of business in game five
Now I had the Mavericks in six, of course my prediction's dead
But all of that could be avoided, Boston, if you just win game five
Because if you don't, you're in for a much longer series than you should be in at this point
But kudos to the Daleks, Mavericks were staving off elimination
They battled, they fought, and they succeeded in what their goals were
Which again was to not get swept
So now we will have a game five tonight's Friday, so they're off Saturday and Sunday
And they'll play game five in Boston on Monday in the TD Garden
And we will be, of course, recording a podcast after that
Game, of course, we'll get back right on that
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