2024 Playoffs Rd 1 Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers

[EricaLubarsky]

Worried about the early game, but I can't find much evidence for it. 4-2 in the regular season and one of the two losses was when we pulled all of our starters and some of our bench.

0-1 in the playoffs, but we just had a rough 20min (-24) and outscored them by 12 in the remaining 28min. Just hoping that that rough start was jitters/playoff hangover and not normal for this team going forward. If we got outscored by 5-10 in those minutes, we'd be 3-0 right now.

[SMC0007]

Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky

Worried about the early game, but I can't find much evidence for it. 4-2 in the regular season and one of the two losses was when we pulled all of our starters and some of our bench.

0-1 in the playoffs, but we just had a rough 20min (-24) and outscored them by 12 in the remaining 28min. Just hoping that that rough start was jitters/playoff hangover and not normal for this team going forward. If we got outscored by 5-10 in those minutes, we'd be 3-0 right now.

I dont love that it's an early game, but home crowd has been great and its the fn playoffs. If you arent ready and motivated to go up 3-1, then what are you?

[LukaMagic]

Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky

Worried about the early game, but I can't find much evidence for it. 4-2 in the regular season and one of the two losses was when we pulled all of our starters and some of our bench.

Ok. But you should do this same analysis for the Clippers too. Do they have early games? How does it work for them? Does this make it easier or harder ON THEM. They play an away game. Is there a time difference? How does it factor in?