RS 23/24 - Mavs @ Spuns (1030 PM EST)

Maverick41 · Post #21 » by **Maverick41** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:41 am

Man I knew Metu was killing us but just saw the boxscore and the dude has 19 and 17 right now. Dude looks like a top 5 C whenever he's matched with Grant or Powell :lol:

kacey ring · Post #22 » by **kacey ring** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:46 am

Maverick41 wrote:Man I knew Metu was killing us but just saw the boxscore and the dude has 19 and 17 right now. Dude looks like a top 5 C whenever he's matched with Grant or Powell

Yeah, the Suns big 2 are showing out tonight (Metu and Allen).

ejs78 · Post #23 » by **ejs78** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:55 am

Full Timmy the last 2 plays lol

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kacey ring · Post #24 » by **kacey ring** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:05 am

KD looks like a scrub. Like he’s trying to suck his way out of PHX.

kacey ring · Post #25 » by **kacey ring** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:06 am

Sure makes a difference when Lively is out there. DJJ has done great slashing to middle off the Luka double teams too.

Some good action in the fourth. Good job, Kidd and staff!

kacey ring · Post #26 » by **kacey ring** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:08 am

Love it, 50 piece against Booker and the Suns.

Loved Booker at UK, but can’t stand him anymore.

dirkules_41 · Post #27 » by **dirkules_41** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:09 am

Luka being ruthless to his son on Christmas...

dirkules_41 · Post #28 » by **dirkules_41** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:10 am

Maverick41 wrote:Man I knew Metu was killing us but just saw the boxscore and the dude has 19 and 17 right now. Dude looks like a top 5 C whenever he's matched with Grant or Powell

He made sure to repay it with some key turnovers, so all good.

JWillTheFreak · Post #29 » by **JWillTheFreak** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:14 am

Good win for the Mavs Lively and Jones played well off Luka attacked the rim well.

Maverick41 · Post #30 » by **Maverick41** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:15 am

Good win by the team. Thankfully our Luka/Lively duo was just better then G. Allen/Metu duo.

dirkules_41 · Post #31 » by **dirkules_41** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:16 am

JWillTheFreak wrote:Good win for the Mavs Lively and Jones played well off Luka attacked the rim well.

I actually felt like they didn't utilise Lively well in the third and it resulted in the lead disappearing... he was just waiting under the basket for rebounds and they didn't bring him up to screen and roll, etc.

Captain_Obvious · Post #32 » by **Captain_Obvious** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:17 am

Luka is such a monster. I honestly thought he will never fix his FTs but he did it (for now). He is ready.

Maverick41 · Post #33 » by **Maverick41** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:40 am

Also DJJ and Exum are straight up better then Grant. Kudos to Kidd for benching him and playing a chunk of his minutes as the small ball C. It wasn't great, but it was better then the Powell minutes at least (which doesn't say much).

Post #34 » by **Mavrelous** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:24 am

Unbelievable Luka...

Post #35 » by **Mavrelous** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:28 am

Hahahahaha

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agentofatlas · Post #36 » by **agentofatlas** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:28 am

Best game I've seen from Luka. He was even good defensively most of the night.

I really hope his 3pt and ft shooting is real cause if it is, he might be the best offensive player in the NBA.

41Dirk41 · Post #37 » by **41Dirk41** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:00 am

Luka is a Monster (Lively return was important too) and makes all other players on the court better...he is the new Magic.
Kidd loves playing handicap games so 10minutes Powell is still here.
Probably it's like Squid Games, he wants to test the other guys :lol:

We badly need a good wing.

Bye bye Devin "fake tough" Booker

Dan1970 · Post #38 » by **Dan1970** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:20 am

I wonder if the Suns are regretting giving Ayton away. They could have used him against Lively.

Archx · Post #39 » by **Archx** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:49 am

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Archx · Post #40 » by **Archx** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:52 am

Dan1970 wrote:I wonder if the Suns are regretting giving Ayton away. They could have used him against Lively.

I don't understand anything Suns did in the past two years. They had a nice core of Cam, Bridges, Booker and Ayton plus decent bench. If they were so fed up with Ayton, could have gotten a much better deal later on than they did with Nurkic. Think about it, they fumbled Luka just to get Nurkic later on lol...

Now they have an aging KD, always injured Beal and also often injured Booker with more or less **** bench. They tried to be greedy and might not even get into the play ins.