The cold blood and expressionless stoic morbidity of James Hardenthe one that stops time and restarts it with its deadly change of pace, the one that hypnotizes with its crossovers, stifled the ignition of some Dallas Mavericks revolutionized from the chaos that unleashed Kyrie Irving. La Barba dismantled with bombs the comeback of the Mavs who rose from a disadvantage that reached 31 points, the point guard shooting up to 33 points and 14 in the last quarter to counteract the 40 of a disheveled Irving and give the victory to the Clippers (111-116). The excitement of a 2-2 series intensifies before it returns to Los Angeles in the early hours of Wednesday to Thursday.
Luka Doncic, Despite the fact that somewhat inhibited by Terance Mann’s sticky defense, accumulation of fouls – he ended up with 5 -, he signed a sterile triple-doble of 29 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists while Paul George He complemented Harden with 33 points, 26 of them in the first half.
In the same way that the Slovenian ended up freeing himself from the Clippers’ lush defensive network, George ended up emerging, shaking off the pressure that Dallas put on him in the second half with an accurate and triple savior that returned the advantage to the Los Angeles team with 2:15 left (104-105).
However, the duel between Irving and Harden took control in the hectic eliminator between the California team and the Texas team, gifting fans with that kind of personal matter between the two stars who hated each other in Brooklyn.
La Barba, so lunatic in the playoffs – capable of fading or erupting like last night – took care of the matter personally in the frenetic succession of events of the clash unleashed from the fascinating madness of Kyrie Irvingwhich lit the fuse in the second quarter to prepare the ground for a failed comeback with the break at 49-66 when the Clippers reigned 24-55 in the middle of that second quarter.
The spiral of emotions at times took over the tactical arguments, those through which the team of Tyronn Lue he caught Jason Kidd’s. Terance Mann made Luka Doncic desperate by getting him into foul trouble early, like a tick the forward who attached himself to the Slovenian and cleverly slid across the screens while the Clippers populated the paint. On the other side of the court, Paul George He flew out of indirect blocks and, whatever the difficulty of the shots, both he and Harden sent everything inside, adding in the absence of Kawhi Leonard.
Added to all this was that Harden was playing with Doncic’s patience by constantly searching for a matchup.
Until Irving burst in, as capable of turning everything upside down in franchises like the Celtics and Nets with his frightening and unexpected sudden decisions as he was of doing so by pouring his fascinating talent and infinite imagination on the parquet as if he were painting on a canvas.
The ’11’ took command and his infallible inspiration was a relief for Doncic who was able to take a break from the overwhelm of the fouls and the swarm of Clippers players he encountered every time he faced the rim. Irving’s 16 points marked the path of the Mavericks whose fans began to go crazy due to the sudden show put on by the former Cavaliers, Celtics y Nets.
To all this, P.J. Washington It was presented as a solution first to slow down Harden and then George, on whom the Mavericks tightened their surveillance in the second half by also sending him double defenses. Kidd’s men managed to reactivate Doncic with higher direct blocks and the secondary ones joined the party inaugurated by Irving, with 10 goals for Washington himself, 14 for Derrick Jones Jr. and 8 for Dereck Lively Jr.
Dallas left it only a 78-82 deficit at the end of the third quarter, but the Clippers’ resilience and adjustments were able to reverse the dynamic in the fourth quarter. Deciding to change the blocks with the big one with Doncic with Plumlee Staying with the Slovenian somewhat interrupted the flow of Dallas’ cheerful offensive, while the Los Angeles team found a way to take advantage of the extreme vigilance on George by directing their attacks from the PG side to finish on the opposite side with cuts along the line of background.
The secondary players ended up taking the floor around Harden’s speech with 13 points to go Ivica Zubac11 to Terance Mann and 11 for Norman Powell and the Beard had the final word playing with the fear of a Doncic with five fouls whom the Clippers matched with the 2018 MVP.
In their contrast of ways of expressing basketball and emotions, the undaunted pose of James Harden ended up neutralizing the unbridled madness of Kyrie Irving. Two fascinatingly unpredictable bases and a fast-paced series with an intriguing and exciting uncertain ending.
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