Inside the NBA Reacts to Mavs Eliminating Wolves in WCF

Inside the NBA Reacts to Mavs Eliminating Wolves in WCF

so there’s your there’s your score uh a 21-point finish but a 36-point lead for Dallas 56 win season for the Minnesota Timberwolves great year comes to a close great year in uh in five games here in the Western Conference Finals here’s their head coach Chris fch you know Luca came out tonight put his stamp on the game um you know hit a couple bomb threes that kind of got uh gotten them really loosened up um and then you know offensively we were we were kind of never really settled in their physicality bothered us um and so the game kind of slipped away from us in the first quarter when we missed a lot of easy stuff you know went one-on-one too early just kind of got busted out of any kind of offensive structure um you know and then we couldn’t couldn’t get stopped so that was the game seems like people believe that a younger players younger team have to go through these to before you can get do you believe that was the case where guys just not quite as ready for the moment as yeah I mean I’m sure there’s some of that you know but uh we had chances early on in this series to to to make it um you know more of an even series um you know and there was probably going to be one of these games in this series One Direction or another and you know tonight for us it was uh it went against us in a big way so just that simple uh he had like three shots from the from the logo so it pretty much nothing we can do about it how what’s your emotions as the season now comes to an end about what you accomplished and where it fell short uh I just said we’ll be back next year do you think this is something that you just have to go through experience to kind of build on um unfortunately is going through a would a loss but I guess so what do you think of it about bring and what do you think about this Mavs group and and their potential of what they could accomplish in in the finals and what do you think you can take from what they did to stop you personally in this series and apply it to next year and Beyond nothing when you kind of look back on on this series maybe early in the series what do you think this team could have done better especially on the offensive end of the floor to try and and and counteract some of what Dallas was throwing at you uh we never clicked all together as a team in this series not you not even one game I think that was the main thing like no like um the last two series we was all clicking at one time making shots and stuff we wasn’t clicking at one time man kind of like those lines Shak out you I know we all have certain feelings when we go into a game we’re saying oh I wonder how you know I I feel like if you you thought you thought Minnesota at home would blow them out would ride this wave of emotion how do you explain what we saw tonight it’s hard to explain because it’s kind of like game one when they came out and got punched in the mouth and never recovered like when Kyrie came out and punched me in the mouth in game one Luca did that tonight but I was very disappointed because I thought they would ride that wave of last game coming home this place going crazy listen I I really thought we were going back to Dallas but man they they were flat for some reason I mean I’m I’m I’m I’m really it was embarrassing aren’t they you know you you said earlier that final score that’s not indicative how bad how close it was it seems to me that when they they were happy with the once they didn’t get swept yes once they didn’t get swept they were happy and they kind of lost Focus like I was also with Chuck I thought this place was going to be crazy I thought and was going to go off C was going to go off again take it to a game six with the pressure now shifts on Dallas but like we said they came out with no sense of urgency they let Luca get like it’s easier said than done with those two guys but you have to try to show some like LCA just came out with the OA defense and he he just went crazy and then he took a couple of minutes off and and Kyrie went crazy and it was over it was over from the start and I want to say something too Ernie you know you said something the other night that’s that in all five games can you agree or disagree that ain’t the team defensively we saw in game one in game two against Denver no I mean because that’s some game one game two defensely is some of the best defens I’ve ever seen and they they didn’t play any more games like that in Denver and they didn’t play in any one game like that this series yeah I don’t think you know they made at times Jamal Murray uncomfortable in the perimeter players for Denver and even joic uh here no one felt uncomfortable in the five games even in they lost the one thing about riding a wave Ernie I think you still have to have a wave of execution and at no point that could could I trust in this series that they were going to execute you know these are the greatest players in the world you know top 50 players of all time probably top 20 of all time you know yeah you you ain’t top 20 I am top 21 you 23 you a 23 I was the youngest on the top top players of all time there you go much better there’s there’s a game plan that they they walk into the arena with against the series we talked about that at halftime now let’s say a person that’s in my position what would be my game plan I’m going to get the ball from free throw the free throw line as fast as I can I’m going to Sprint into my shot once the double team occurs I’m sprinting into threes so you have a game plan I never saw a concertive game plan against Dallas and I saw it change especially on the defensive end they doubled at times they didn’t double at times they they just let them kind of dictate everything offensively which is difficult and maybe next year they’ll know that they have to be a little bit more consistent and I want to say one thing Ernie I talk about the trades that Nico made to make the mou I Gotta Give Luca and Kyrie some credit they actually look like they’re trying to play defense now and as the two best players and the leaders on this team we talked about it this series we never thought we’d say man that Luca is playing good defensive he’s playing good defense but as the two leaders of this team they bought in all them other Defenders but give those two guys credit and and as I as I spoke with Nico Harrison after the game really you go back to the acquisition of Kyrie Irving and then you look at the draft so you don’t make the playoffs and Oklahoma City uh you make the deal the draft night deal Cas Wallace for Derek Lively and Derek Lively becomes a an integral piece of this of this puzzle for Dallas at the age of what 19 or 20 years old what do all three of those players have in in uh in coming because the old MAV team they had just a bunch of little three-point Shooters out there all three of those guys about physicality and size even Derek Jones but when you go back and look when they first put that team together what was the criticism man they just going to try to outscore people yeah Nico bought in all these size Defenders and it change the hope and rebound the ball cuz their rebound differential was horrible and they get Gafford in there PJ Washington in there again he’s pushed every button perfectly and uh it’s easy hey it’s a lot easier pushing buttons when you got them other two nuclear weapons out there yeah sometimes they push the button so go ahead you can put a period on this yeah when you have two Mega stars and you got nine or 10 others that buy in and you know play their roles to a T it’s easy to win you know a lot of us thought that the uh Kyrie Anda thing wouldn’t work but you know Nico made the trade and you got a lot of guys that you know have have have now gotten the opportunity win so they go out and play hard and they do what’s asked of them they don’t ask for shots they don’t ask for plays they just go out play hard rebound and the good thing about Luca and Kyrie when you work hard they will let you eat yeah you know how I knew Dallas was going to win this game you know how I knew you know this you only B one you know who I knew how I KN God told me God sham God God sham God before the game I saw him on the floor he’s just about to do his daily work with Kyrie and I said you know if this series go no and he just stopped it ain’t going back and he was right get up yeah man shout out to the MS man this was uh this was beautiful like this was like Championship level basketball yeah they’re like no we’re not going to let them try to steal it down the stretch like they did the last game this game was over five 10 minutes into the second quarter without question those first four games decided by a to total of 18 this one was a 36-point game at one point winds winds up being a 21-point win 124 to 103 and so Dallas is on to the NBA finals against Boston hey Caleb I went and got two new suits I only need but one of them brother it’s going to be new next year when you use it that’s exactly how he looks too notorious dog notor DG jelly jiggling everywhere that look like you sh back a fat boy

Shaq, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson react to the Mavericks win in Game 5 over the Timberwolves to advance to the NBA Finals.

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