Is Clippers Vs. Mavs the Most Important First-Round Series? | The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo talk about the first-round series between the Clippers and the Mavericks.
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34 Comments
What happened to Simmons idol, Daniel Gafford??
Prime arenas was way better than Paul George his knees were just cooked
Solo album Rusilo is a gem
Simmons one of them kyrie haters lmfao
10:19 you can also ask what happens if Harden takes as many shots as Luka :s all the talk about Harden but we've seen how good he can be…
You can see how mann defends luka is different vs any defender in the league.
Mann defends him horizontally and he knows that luka have a long delay in his shot so mann uses that time to close the horizontal space and he does like a fake swipe.
Vs other guys they play luka vertically which gets them out of position.
Luka floppin around like he’s Embid lolol guys never gonna play 1 game in the Finals😭😭😭
Bruh. Imagine if we got a healthy kawhi instead of coffey. Sigh.
im so glad everyone was able to see jason kidd is the worst coach in the league on national television
Coach Ryen and Ast. coach Bill will have HS students drive and kick to the 3 every play 🤣
as great as kyrie played, man he had alot of costly turnovers
That was a lil cheap shit at Gil.🤔 I wonder y
the clippers are getting into luka's head. mann is playing him very very physically and its annoying him. Luka gotta grow up and get in better shape physicaly and mentally
If kawhi was healthy clippers was sweeping
James Harden has a true shooting percentage of 73.1 in the 2024 playoffs (1st in NBA among players with 11.1 or more points per game)
They seemed to forget this is the first time in 4 playoff runs that Luka hasn’t been dominant.
Bill Simmons you know nothing about basketball 😂 pg has dropped 20+ in 21 of his last 22 playoff games
Clippers have home court .
proud of everybody who stayed to see that comeback even if it wasn't consummated in the end
Bill, did you forget that Harden just dropped 40 on your Celtics twice in last year's playoff series?
The harden playoff woes are extremely exaggerated
Bill doesn’t like to talk about the Knicks when things go well for them
Mavs aren’t in same position as suns and clippers. Clippers are all old . Mavs don’t have picks but they have luka, Gafford, lively, green, pj Washington who are all under 25 and have no playoff experience. So they’ll get better. Bill you not watch game 2 luka took the game completely over.
Paul George NEEDS to get more aggressive in the 2nd half, great game for him, but he stopped looking for his shot and just started standing in the corner watching the Mavs chip away at the lead
I don't think bill and ryen understand how SMART harden is…his BASKETBALL IQ enables him to remain effective…I don't expect them to understand that, though…they aren't as good at breaking down plays…like a JJ Redick
I'm waiting for the game where Luka and Kyrie are both hot from the start of the game. It's seems like it's due.
“Who’s this loss worse for?…The team going down 3-1 or the team that gets the series tied on them” is what they didn’t say lol, idiots.
You won’t a greater ‘heads up their own asses’ duo than this pod
Harden playoffs woes have been greatly exaggerated
Dallas bigs need to be bit better, as does Luka’s knee or Clips will move on.
They want to Mavs to win SOOO badly lmao
18:00 absolutely the pressure is on the Clippers after this season. They also have no draft picks for years, and their stars are much older. Dallas’s guys are hella young.
Luka flexing like an idiot when he was having a bad game set harden and PG off, they saw that as the ultimate disrespect
Bill will hate everything about Dallas, kyrie being kyrie he will hate and luka no showing when he’s been dick riding luka for years