No NBA team has been able to overcome a three-game deficit to zero. Not in the final, not in the conference finals, not in the preliminary playoffs. So it would be almost a miracle if the Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic managed to take out the Golden State Warriors, who on Sunday night in the United States (early morning in Spain) 3-0 after beating Dallas 100-109.
The Golden State Warriors are the most regular team in the NBA for the past decade. Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Clay Thompson They won 3 episodes together and reached two more finals, Always with Steve Kerr as a coach. If, as everything indicates, they manage to beat Dallas, it will be their sixth Western Conference title in eight years, and the previous one. Five consecutive victories between 2015 and 2019. Sure, they haven’t won their conference in two years or, whatever, without going to the NBA final against the East Champion.
In the first quarter he misses a shot from the three-point line. There was an endless series of consecutive missed triples in both episodes. And when the outside shot didn’t work, the Warriors, with much stronger inside play, had the upper hand.
with all, Luka Dončić supported the squad, including one of the stratospheric triples at the bell that left the first quadrant with a deficit of only three points (22-25). The 23-year-old Slovenian was already the top scorer with 10 points.
The second quarter began with the usual break for Doncic and Kari, the two protagonists of the two teams. Dallas made better use of it and when the two returned to the field in the middle of the second quarter, the Mavericks took the lead by five points with Spencer Dinwiddie deeply inspired throughout the game (he finished with 26 points) and Bronson who he was recovering. Goal (closed tonight with 20 points). In Warriors, Thompson was far from reality and Green looked out of place. He also had a few fights with the referees because he seemed to pay the price for his inability to see that nothing was right for him.
Up until that point, Carrey wasn’t having her best days either, but a quiet day is better than a good day for anyone. He is the greatest 3-point player in NBA history. Although his coach Steve Kerr (five-time NBA champion, three times with the Chicago Bulls Michael Jordan and two with the San Antonio Spurs) has the highest success rate. Two of his triples put his team back in the lead and he had 16 points on his personal account. The break was reached 47-48 in favor of San Francisco.
Dončić ended the first half with 15 points and 7 rebounds. He was also not comfortable. The defense of the Warriors made them difficult with continuous passes, knowing that he was always the man of the Mavericks to watch. This seemed to affect his aim, as he also missed the indisputable shots he would normally have secured.
Things weren’t going very well for Dallas in the third quarter. Green and Curry were somewhat laden with corruption, but the Golden State Warriors started out as a fast, unstoppable team that moved the ball forward at full speed and perfectly combined outside shots and play in the box. Curry kept control of the game, Kevin Looney and Andrew Wiggins dominated the rebound, Wiggins added (27 points at the end of the game) and Thompson added (19) up front.
Mavericks manager Jason Kidd was unable to find solutions. His city squad was on the run. Desperate, Dondjic sat down, in case of repeating the dynamics of the second quarter, but without success.
Doncic’s pride
He reached the last quarter of the match with a difference of 10 points in favor of the host. If you add to this the fact that the Warriors are the team that closes the games best, there is no reason to be optimistic. In the second game, the California team It was enough for him to play well in the last quarter to win. This time it was enough for them not to ruin it. And they didn’t. Kerr even took the liberty of giving Carrie some rest. Dončić showed his pride, he fought until the end, scored (finished 41 points), assists, rebounded and missed in attack, but it wasn’t enough. Curry, back on the pitch, was responsible for setting the pace that mattered to him. He ended up planning the party.
The San Francisco team that flirts with the NBA final. He should win another game. Never before has a 3-0 team scored four wins together to change a draw. It seems like an impossible task Also for Luka Doncic. Everything indicates that the Dallas people will continue to wait. They have not reached the NBA Final since 2011, when they won the ring with their current manager, Jason Kidd, as the starting guard and With the German Dirk Nowitzki as the protagonist. This Sunday, with 31 points, Curry, 33, surpassed Nowitzki as the 11th player to score more than 30 points in the most playoff games in NBA history. He did it 46 times. Nowitzki lost another record yesterday: Luka Donjic is in fact the player from Dallas who scored 40 points for most of the time in a draw.
The Eastern Conference Final (or the same thing, the NBA semifinals) has its fourth game on Monday night, after Saturday’s heavy defeat against the Boston Celtics on the court against the Miami Heat. Led by strong Pam Adebayo. 2-1 in favor of Florida. Next Tuesday, the fourth game of the western final. We’ll see if the latter.
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