Better to be pissed off than Piston (a GDT)

[EricaLubarsky]

Mavs try to finish strong against a team with nothing to fight for and nothing to lose

Playoff implications on the line for us. It's too late for the Pistons to earn the second most balls in the lottery, but they're only 1 game ahead of the Thunder.

Game starts in 3.5 hours.

Kleber/THJ the only two out for us.
Olynyk, MacGruder, Spence, Bagley, Twollington, Joseph, Grant, and Diallo out for them

[tap2390]

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Ha, I just about started the GDT with it's a trap. Just gotta treat every game here out as a must in. Let's do it.

[EricaLubarsky]

What a terrible challenge

So totally an offensive foul

[EricaLubarsky]

This game has awful pacing

[EricaLubarsky]

Bad TO Luka
Bad foul Brunson

[EricaLubarsky]

3 fouls on Stewart in the first 8 min

[EricaLubarsky]

Luka with a truly awful start scoring again

[EricaLubarsky]

This is such a trap game

Mavs even starting slow

[EricaLubarsky]

Pistons 63% from three

Why can’t we stop threes

[EricaLubarsky]

Luka shooting 30% from three with three TOs

[EricaLubarsky]

And just like that we go from +8 to -2

[EricaLubarsky]

Ha! Losing to the Pistons

[EricaLubarsky]

We just allowed a bottom 3 offense to score 34 in a quarter

[EricaLubarsky]

Pistons average 105.5

That quarter has them on pace for 136

[Thespiralgoeson]

OMFG CAN WE GET ONE FUCKING STOP???????

[EricaLubarsky]

That final second we didn’t even get back

No resistance and it’s 100% just unprofessional attitude

[EricaLubarsky]

Maybe don’t allow 54% from the field and 63% from three

[Thespiralgoeson]

Bertans is useless.

[EricaLubarsky]

What is wrong with Luka?

Dude can’t even hit FTs

[EricaLubarsky]

Team that is eliminated from even play-in
Down 7 players
Starting big out with fouls

And we still can’t get a lead

[Thespiralgoeson]

Luka missing FT's and settling for bad 3's. This sucks.

[Melonhead]

That’s the response you want to see from Luka after Detroit brings it to 5.

Asshole Luka is here

[Melonhead]

Dinwiddie (like Bogut) is finding out refs are biased against Dallas

[Melonhead]

Luka needs to really start getting everyone involved when they’re surrounding him

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by Melonhead

Luka needs to really start getting everyone involved when they’re surrounding him

I'm telling you, he doesn't take these teams seriously.

Discipline will be his next level.

[Melonhead]

Getting sloppy here.

[Thespiralgoeson]

MAKE YOUR FUCKING LAYUPS DINWIDDIE!!!!!!

[Thespiralgoeson]

Originally Posted by Melonhead

Luka needs to really start getting everyone involved when they’re surrounding him

He has also just been standing around whenever he doesn't have the ball. No movement at all.

[Thespiralgoeson]

HOLY SHIT THAT PASS!

This is why Luka is a basketball god. Even on night when he's generally been sloppy against a bad team, he'll still do something freaking amazing.

[Melonhead]

The pistons in studio broadcast really said that Cade matched Luka tonight and the Pistons exposed the Mavericks

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Still like having Bertans as he can just score in a bundle despite his otherwise terribleness.

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart

Still like having Bertans as he can just score in a bundle despite his otherwise terribleness.

Bertans = Walt Williams/Peja Stojakovic

[MFFL]

Originally Posted by Melonhead

The pistons in studio broadcast really said that Cade matched Luka tonight

Luka was +17 in his minutes and Cade was -18. Other than that they were twinsies

[Dallas41]

I'm glad the Mavs didn't sleepwalk this game.

They got to get that 3rd seed and it seems as if Kidd is going to keep playing guys which I agree with 100%.

They need to use that week off before the playoffs to work on their defensive rotations again because they are getting really sloppy on that end of that of floor.

Offensively my only concerns right now is their FT shooting. I'm afraid in a close playoff game they are going to shoot around 70% as a team which could be tripling.

[Dallas41]

Also shout out to Green

There was a stat showing his 3-point % was like 40% or something over his last 30+ attempts

It's a small sample because he only takes like 2-3 per game but it does show his improvement from last year.

[Scoobay]

https://youtu.be/TBXdBcglT8M?t=463

Replay of the crazy behind the back flip pass laser but it's awesome to see the reaction of the bench lol. Guys with their hands up, Chriss doing the fake flip, Pinson walking around all smiles... hope the guys keep having fun together.

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by Dallas41

Also shout out to Green

There was a stat showing his 3-point % was like 40% or something over his last 30+ attempts

It's a small sample because he only takes like 2-3 per game but it does show his improvement from last year.

40.6% since the all star break (1.6 attempts)

He was 30% before the break and shooting 0.9

[mac222b]

Originally Posted by Dallas41

Also shout out to Green

There was a stat showing his 3-point % was like 40% or something over his last 30+ attempts

It's a small sample because he only takes like 2-3 per game but it does show his improvement from last year.

He was great in all facets tonight. His energy level is desperately needed some games. So many hustle plays on rebounds, defense, tips, timely passes and baskets. Really impressive.

[tap2390]

Can someone tell me how Chriss looked?