Originally posted by: herkulease
Originally posted by: nkgreen
Not much love for the Mavs here.
I wouldn't even expect it from their own fans. Mavs looked good in the 1st quarter and I honestly felt the warriors would lose the game. As they were making sloppy passes and take unnecessary threes. Then Stackhouse heated up and it looked like it'll be a tie series, especially after some of the questionable blocking fouls Stackhouse got.
But then the mavs seemingly collapsed. They were holding the ball deep into the shot clock and were forced to take throw it up. Dirk seemed out of it until the two back to back 3 balls to make it intersting. He's usually money from the top of the key. Josh Howard disappeared in the 4th. I read he took zero shots in the 4th when he was killing them in teh 1st half and then you have Devin Harris. Seriously was he blind or something. Lets pass it to terry with baron on him and Pietrus floating right by. Josh Howard was wide open and they had plenty of time left to dribble up court and let Dirk once again do a heat check.
I'm sure the Mavs are hitting themselves right now as they had so many chances to bust the game wide open and break the spirit of the warriors. I don't think they ever got more than a 9 point lead.
As for the warriors, yes we're happy, but the series isn't over yet. Lakers were up 3-1 last year and lost the last 3 games. We were fortunate Pietrus showed up and was doing his thing showing some flashes of potential. But he doesn't always so up. Monta Ellis looked like it was game 1 all over again. He was totally lost on the court. Didn't try driving and missed shots he often makes. I wished Nellie during the blow outs games to allowed al harrington to play the garbage minutes. He's in a complete funk. shooting 5 of 27 for the series. He needs to get going and put in his average 15/16 points.
Game 4 was probably the most exciting game of the entire playoffs so far. Back and forth action.