Speaker 1: Woo. The Celtics did the thing that they always do
Speaker 1: in Game.
Speaker 2: Two, and they come out and they stink.
Speaker 1: This was the opportunity for the Dallas Mavericks to steal one,
Speaker 1: and yet they.
Speaker 2: Sit here up to zero. Holden whole court. These are
Speaker 2: the takeaways. Like I said, Game.
Speaker 1: Two, Celtics at the crib, what do they do normally
Speaker 1: loose or they put up a stinker, And that's what
Speaker 1: they did.
Speaker 2: They shot twenty five percent from three to night.
Speaker 1: The threes that they actually did make were in the
Speaker 1: second half. But in this game, they found a way
Speaker 1: to get that shit done. They found a way to
Speaker 1: have timely threes to get a ton of points from
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday. Drew Holiday had a huge game. He had
Speaker 1: twenty six crucial stops. He was like White on Rice
Speaker 1: on Kyrie Irving, as was Dereck White. Speaking of Derek White,
Speaker 1: Derek White saved the game potentially when it looked like PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington was gonna cut it to three with fifty seconds
Speaker 1: left to go.
Speaker 2: But no, not only did he.
Speaker 1: Hit crucial threes, Derek White, he blocked PJ. Washington even
Speaker 1: though Jylen Brown filed PJ. Washington and probably should have
Speaker 1: been two shots, but who.
Speaker 2: Cares either way.
Speaker 1: Derek White, huge game, Jalen Brown looking like one of
Speaker 1: the best defenders in the league right now, picking up
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, picking up Luca, picking up Luca ninety four
Speaker 1: feet and still being able to score. So balance scoring,
Speaker 1: balanced defensive efforts was something that really stuck out. Also,
Speaker 1: Tatum had eighteen yet another game under twenty points.
Speaker 2: But guess what, they didn't need him. They don't need
Speaker 2: him to score.
Speaker 1: He's gotta figure it out though, because like people are
Speaker 1: starting to talk, the streets, the streets is talking, you know,
Speaker 1: Tatum stands are starting to be like a t Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I see it, I see it.
Speaker 2: Another thing that stuck out.
Speaker 1: To me free throw differential, not free throw attempt differential,
Speaker 1: free throw percentage differential. Dallas shot sixty six percent from
Speaker 1: the free throw line. That's unacceptable in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: Unacceptable.
Speaker 1: They started two for seven when they were up like six,
Speaker 1: seven points, and that could have made it so much
Speaker 1: of a chasm that maybe Boston doesn't have any fight.
Speaker 1: Maybe Boston says, yep, this is the game too that
Speaker 1: we always have, Like they did against the Miami Heat.
Speaker 1: Boston shot ninety five percent from the free throw line.
Speaker 1: They were nineteen for twenty. They shot twenty, had twenty.
Speaker 2: Attempts, nineteen from the free throw line. Ooh, that's tough.
Speaker 1: You can't do that if you're Dallas number three. Where
Speaker 1: the fuck are the role players at?
Speaker 2: Where are they?
Speaker 1: Maxi klayba oh for four two points for Derek Lively.
Speaker 2: PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington was actually pretty good, so we will we will
Speaker 1: not bang on him. Nine bench points for the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks nine disgusting.
Speaker 2: Where is Kyrie at? He's not a he's not a
Speaker 2: role player, but he's like acting like a role player.
Speaker 2: He has not made it three this entire series. He's
Speaker 2: oh for eight, seven for nineteen from the field. In
Speaker 2: game two, he and he started off hot. I think
Speaker 2: he was four for five start only made three more
Speaker 2: shots out of that. Fourthly, golly, Luca.
Speaker 1: Donic's is gonna spend the next month in an ice
Speaker 1: bath and getting like soft tissue treatment and probably surgery.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Like it's bad. His knee is bad.
Speaker 2: He had a cardiac thoracic issue.
Speaker 1: Which out of who knows where that made him from
Speaker 1: like definitely playing to like questionable in the game that
Speaker 1: he didn't even participate fully in shoot around. He was
Speaker 1: so mummified. I wasn't sure whether he was gonna make
Speaker 1: it out tough. He looked super hobbled out there. He
Speaker 1: started out really really hot, got Boston a double team,
Speaker 1: and Boston obviously does not trust the role players on Dallas,
Speaker 1: which is totally warranted. His acrobatic passes were getting picked.
Speaker 1: It was sloppy. He looked slow, He looked one dimensional.
Speaker 1: He was hitting buckets, he was getting them now, boy,
Speaker 1: but he did not look right and it really impacted him.
Speaker 1: In the second half. He was eight for eleven on
Speaker 1: his first eleven shots, and then he went three for
Speaker 1: ten the rest of the game, and the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: was even worse. So what does Dallas need to do well?
Speaker 1: Kyrie needs to score thirty. That's just what it is.
Speaker 1: We need Luca in an infrared SA for the next
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. More opportunities for Daniel Gafford. He looked
Speaker 1: really really good in the game.
Speaker 2: PJ. Washington, you need PJ. Washington to bring the ball up.
Speaker 1: I think like you need more of the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands because he's a dynamic athlete. He can make
Speaker 1: place for himself make place for others, and it takes
Speaker 1: wear and tear off of Luca who's getting picked up
Speaker 1: by Jaylen Brown.
Speaker 2: And then you need.
Speaker 1: Another horrendous shooting effort for Boston. They couldn't hit the
Speaker 1: broadside of a barn and yet they still won that game.
Speaker 2: That is big time trouble for you.
Speaker 1: Gonna be really fascinating to see what Jason Kidd does
Speaker 1: for Game three, they go back to Dallas, the booing
Speaker 1: for Kyrie Irving will stop. Oh also a little like
Speaker 1: side note, Chris dais porzingis tweak his cap so and
Speaker 1: maybe it's ankle, So we'll see what happens with that
Speaker 1: SKay tune