Honestly nuts that we held kyrie to 16 points per game and Luka to a 24 point triple double per game
Headlesshorsman02
Yep!!! And we do that strategy again next time, if our role players stepped up and made their shots that they should have this would be us in the conference finals, I am feeling very good about our defense going forward especially if we add a PF to play in for Giddey (probs should be coming off the bench)
Dhr7468
Mark definitely had the right defensive gameplan to let them have the corners. Just needed to find some offense in that series.
PurrySquishyKittens
Kyrie did also say that we were the toughest playoff series he’s ever been in
southpawFA
Yup. It was the dare. We dared Dallas to beat us, and they did, because we knew Kyrie and Luka can absolutely take over a game in iso. It was tough to see what they did with Derek Jones & PJ Washington killing us, but we had no other choice. The only thing to counteract that is to get better offensive shooting, which we did too late.
Aggressive_Slice4620
It’s mostly our offense that let us down. Wide open 3s were clanking for our players then after a couple of misses they hesitated a lot if they wanted to shoot threw them off of their rhythm.
SandyMandy17
Thunder defense > Wolves defense
12footjumpshot
Yep Lu, JDub and Cason did a great job on these two. Ultimately their role players delivered and for the most part everyone but Shai was inconsistent on offense.
SonicPresti
I honestly like Minnesota’s game plan. They had a few blown coverages, but overall forced Luka to make a bunch of long 2s and stepbacks. I’d still double more off of certain shooters, but the main thing is just for ant to be more engaged on offense (not chucking up bad 3s) and kat to be used more in the post to negate the mavs rim protection a bit. If Luka and kyrie both drop 30+ again then fine, change it up, but they’ve yet to do that this playoffs as far as I can tell
tymeli55
We also forced to help in the paint for rim running by Gafford and Lively.
yccbarry
Yeah the strategy was to let the role players beat us, and unfortunately they did, but you’d rather see if PJ or DJJ can beat you for 4 games instead of just letting luka and kyrie cook.
Same thing happened in the heat Celtics ECF last season, the Celtics dared heat role players to shoot lights out against them and they did before returning to regular role players in the finals.
Organic_Shelter_2543
Count DraLuka Lukkake’d on our faces, and now Lukkake’d on Wolves in Game 1
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Honestly nuts that we held kyrie to 16 points per game and Luka to a 24 point triple double per game
Yep!!! And we do that strategy again next time, if our role players stepped up and made their shots that they should have this would be us in the conference finals, I am feeling very good about our defense going forward especially if we add a PF to play in for Giddey (probs should be coming off the bench)
Mark definitely had the right defensive gameplan to let them have the corners. Just needed to find some offense in that series.
Kyrie did also say that we were the toughest playoff series he’s ever been in
Yup. It was the dare. We dared Dallas to beat us, and they did, because we knew Kyrie and Luka can absolutely take over a game in iso. It was tough to see what they did with Derek Jones & PJ Washington killing us, but we had no other choice. The only thing to counteract that is to get better offensive shooting, which we did too late.
It’s mostly our offense that let us down. Wide open 3s were clanking for our players then after a couple of misses they hesitated a lot if they wanted to shoot threw them off of their rhythm.
Thunder defense > Wolves defense
Yep Lu, JDub and Cason did a great job on these two. Ultimately their role players delivered and for the most part everyone but Shai was inconsistent on offense.
I honestly like Minnesota’s game plan. They had a few blown coverages, but overall forced Luka to make a bunch of long 2s and stepbacks. I’d still double more off of certain shooters, but the main thing is just for ant to be more engaged on offense (not chucking up bad 3s) and kat to be used more in the post to negate the mavs rim protection a bit. If Luka and kyrie both drop 30+ again then fine, change it up, but they’ve yet to do that this playoffs as far as I can tell
We also forced to help in the paint for rim running by Gafford and Lively.
Yeah the strategy was to let the role players beat us, and unfortunately they did, but you’d rather see if PJ or DJJ can beat you for 4 games instead of just letting luka and kyrie cook.
Same thing happened in the heat Celtics ECF last season, the Celtics dared heat role players to shoot lights out against them and they did before returning to regular role players in the finals.
Count DraLuka Lukkake’d on our faces, and now Lukkake’d on Wolves in Game 1