June 13, 2024 • 9 mins
Gill Alexander and Kelley Bydlon recap last night's Game 3 matchup between the Celtics and Mavericks with the Celtics winning 106-99 and taking a commanding 3-0 series lead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
NBA rip pour out of forty for your Mavericks tickets. Man, yeah,
I apologize for this sale. Three to nothing Celtics Best
of seven NBA Finals plural Celtics now up three games
to none with their win last night over the Mavericks
in Dallas. Katie bar the door one oh six ninety nine.
Celtics win it as three point dogs. They went it
(00:20):
out right plus one twenty four in the money line,
uh oh and one hundred and fifty five the NBA
historical record of teams that fall three to nothing in
a best of seven postseason series.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And that is why we say Katie bar the door
for the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Dallas opened up nine to two uh one forty nine
into the ball game yesterday. They led by as many
as thirteen in the first quarter. Did you at that
point have the thought in your head, we're all so stupid.
Of course the Mavericks are going to show up, and
of course this is gonna be a series, and we're
gonna come in tomorrow and this is gonna be a
totally different theme.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Now, really I did for a second.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'm big hon it, no like, and that's but like,
I'd love to be honest, but the when they caught
back up.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I was like, oh, here we go. That is where. Yeah.
Then the Celtics had an eleven and nothing run.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They cut the twenty five to twelve lead to twenty
five to twenty three and Mavericks only led by one
after the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Brutal first quarter beat brutal?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What was it like?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Twenty five to thirteen, twenty five to twelve, twenty five
to twelve.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You're up in the first quarter, and the final.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Two plays of the first quarter Luca jacket up shots,
falling to the ground, complaining to the refs and it's
an easy Boston basket the other way. Five quick points.
Sorry if you had Maverick, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Gonna get to Luca because I see steven A and
Windhorse and all these guys are on. This is the
bandwagon that we first mentioned weeks ago about Luca. Second quarter,
so it's thirty one to thirty Mavericks after one. First
lead for the Celtics was thirty two to thirty one.
That was over two minutes into the second quarter. Was
a high paced scoring first quarter, second quarter grinding to
(01:56):
a halt. Dallas led by one at the half fifty
one to fifty. It was actually pretty entertaining. First half.
Kyrie had twenty, Luca had seventeen, Tatum had twenty for
the Celtics, and then the third quarter began and that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Was all she wrote.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Very Boston second half, very.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Celtics went up sixty six to fifty nine after an
eight to nothing run, then seventy one to sixty one
for the biggest lead, then another seven to nothing run
a little later to go up thirteen. Now they're up thirteen,
Then they led by fifteen after three that was still
their biggest lead. And then they start the fourth quarter
with two threes to go up twenty one, ninety one
to seventy, so, in other words, a forty one to
(02:35):
nineteen run to start the half, and you're like, okay,
well this is done. Well not quite yet, because then
the MAVs did that thing where they like kind of
act like they're going to come back.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
This was like a really big act of coming back.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
They almost did this, a twelve to nothing MAVs run
to cut it to ninety one to eighty two, and
then all told, it was a twenty to two pardon me,
a twenty to two run to make it ninety three
to ninety with over six minutes left.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
This was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
With five pot twenty five to go, same score the
Mavericks had. You know, there's a one possession game. Jason
Kidd calls the timeout and Luca becomes irate with Jason
Kidd for calling the timeout. You see that he's ready
to go down mocking Jason Kidd for calling the timeout.
Dallas has three possessions to cut into the lead further.
They go zero for three in the meantime. Luca gets
(03:22):
his fifth foul with four to thirty eight left, then
his sixth and final with four to twelve left on
a blocking foul, which withstood review. By the way, when
the fowl was called, Luca then looks at his sidelines
and said, you better bleep and review this.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I think that was some carryover frustration from he wanted
to challenge on the fifth foul, which which he was
a little bit more fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He fouls out twenty seven, six and six. The only
six that mattered was another six that was six fouls.
So the Mavericks, if they're gonna do this, are going
to have to do without Luca. Kyrie hits a jumper.
Now it's a twenty two to two run, ninety three
to ninety two Celtics. Did you think at this point
that it was going to happen?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I mean, Luke off the court. I mean, I was
hoping to pray. I was hoping it praying.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Here's where I was like, I have no faith in
this avenue, Like I just didn't. I never really felt
like this was gonna happen at this point.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I mean, you know, if Luca's off the court, you've
seen what him and Kyrie have done the whole game.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And meanwhile, you check the box.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Score and you're like, I've gotten I've got thirty, like
thirty points out of the rest of the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And that's what you have to rely on right now.
Brown on a follow up to make it ninety five
to ninety two. Then an offensive foul on PJ on
a screen on Drew White with a three ninety eight
ninety two, and at that point it was just, you know,
they were never gonna kay. Kyrie was fouled by Drew
hit two free. There was ninety eight ninety four, two
thirty two to go, but a Tatum jam back up six.
Lively followed jam to cut it to four. Tatum did
(04:45):
miss a three and then Lively all alone. I don't
know who how they lost him. Kyrie hit him with
a dunk. It was one hundred and ninety eight, but
then the dagger, as Steve Buckhants used to say in
DC Brown Jumper, one O two ninety eight with under
a minute left. Then a missed three by PJ Celtics
turno over that Al Horford strange turnover where I'm got
a couple by the way, I don't know if he
was out of bounds or like, I don't know if
(05:06):
he was out of bounds or if the ball was
out of bounds. I never saw that he was. And
they're like Mavericks ball Kyrie wild three where he was
fading to the right. No good, White fouled on the
on the rebound Katie bar the door, White hits both.
They're up six at that point anyway, one four ninety eight.
They end up winning at one O six to ninety nine.
(05:26):
Again by the way, short changes one hundred and fifty
six in zero all time for teams up three to
nothing in best of seven series. In the NBA, Tatum
ends up with thirty one Brown thirty eight and eight
Brown is the short shot to win MVP.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
By the way, thank you uh.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I was told yesterday on Twitter that it is a
Nevada Gaming rule that once the series starts, they can't
put up MVP anymore. So thank you Nevada Gaming. You
saved me money as I said they would. By the way,
I know now that I even know that it's a
gaming rule, what's the justification for you?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
What's the reasoning? How dumb is that?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I was I would like to say, oh, that feels
like something we should remember from years past.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I don't remember that, but like I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
It because with what you just said, how does that
make any sense?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Doesn't Kyrie thirty five defeats. So here's again with my
thing with Luca, And we said this weeks ago on
the show I did, which is he is as great
as he is, he's an unesthetically pleasing that was my phrase,
an unesthetically pleasing player to watch. This ain't the Warriors, right,
This ain't Jokic with the passes. This is a guy
who plods, and yes he's wonderful offensively, but he's anesthetically
(06:30):
a pleasing, unesthetically pleasing to watch play basketball. And then
on top of that you add the fact that he's
terrible on d let's just throw that in there too.
But he whines about everything, and now you and we
said this that he's always whining at the refs in
a Rick barr if you want to go back generations,
Rick Barry used to complain every single time he was
(06:52):
called for a foul, like it was just a thing
with him. Luca has gotten to the point that now
he's at the refs, he's at his coach, he's.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All these things.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And now you finally see what I walked in here
Windhorse and steven A finally killing Luca for this, Like,
YESPN has finally gotten on the bandwagon for this. He's
got a change if they're going to get to the
mountain top off.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, I mean I think this was the This was
the perfect example game of that. I mean, you're you
acting like that throughout the game literally cost you the game.
I mean I mean you can look at you can
point the finger at the rest of the guys. I
mean you only got thirty seven points from people not
name Luca or Kyrie. Like I understand that but I
mean we talked about the end of the first quarter,
(07:33):
and there was a lot there were several I'm like,
with a player like him, like Lebron James, like James Harden,
like Giannis like there. Yes, there's a lot of fouls
that happened during the course of a game that don't
get called.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
But you can't let it affect you like it like
it does for him.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And it's Doris Burg pointed out one time he's just
lolly gagging. He didn't go back on d You know
that happens a lot with him. So so game four
and I hesitated even breathe this up. But tomorrow night
potential sweep game. Celtics were a slight favorite last night.
Now the Mavericks are in most places again by a
(08:09):
point point that it's like a point do you want
any part of this at all? To eleven and a half?
Now the total has ticked down a bit, not nearly
as much as the final scores would have you ticket down.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Actually, sweeper gentlemen, sweet right, these are the only options here?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, absolutely, I think it's probably just done it for
I mean, just like like yesterday when we talked about it, either.
There's no reason I'd been going to back Dallas right now.
I just don't know what you've seen. They tried it,
they've tried almost everything at this point. They finally put
hard Away out there no kle, but that didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
That didn't help at all. The one thing I wanted
to bring up real quick though, how like in another.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Universe Luca doesn't foul out they win that game last night.
Oh my gosh, we're sitting here crushing Boston for doing
the same Boston thinger we are.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's why the NBA Playoffs is squorely to be with.
The Game four is when team is up three to nothing,
the scoreliest of all scorely. I don't want no part
of it.
NBA rip pour out of forty for your Mavericks tickets. Man, yeah,
I apologize for this sale. Three to nothing Celtics Best
of seven NBA Finals plural Celtics now up three games
to none with their win last night over the Mavericks
in Dallas. Katie bar the door one oh six ninety nine.
Celtics win it as three point dogs. They went it
(00:20):
out right plus one twenty four in the money line,
uh oh and one hundred and fifty five the NBA
historical record of teams that fall three to nothing in
a best of seven postseason series.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And that is why we say Katie bar the door
for the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Dallas opened up nine to two uh one forty nine
into the ball game yesterday. They led by as many
as thirteen in the first quarter. Did you at that
point have the thought in your head, we're all so stupid.
Of course the Mavericks are going to show up, and
of course this is gonna be a series, and we're
gonna come in tomorrow and this is gonna be a
totally different theme.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Now, really I did for a second.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'm big hon it, no like, and that's but like,
I'd love to be honest, but the when they caught
back up.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I was like, oh, here we go. That is where. Yeah.
Then the Celtics had an eleven and nothing run.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They cut the twenty five to twelve lead to twenty
five to twenty three and Mavericks only led by one
after the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Brutal first quarter beat brutal?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What was it like?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Twenty five to thirteen, twenty five to twelve, twenty five
to twelve.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You're up in the first quarter, and the final.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Two plays of the first quarter Luca jacket up shots,
falling to the ground, complaining to the refs and it's
an easy Boston basket the other way. Five quick points.
Sorry if you had Maverick, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Gonna get to Luca because I see steven A and
Windhorse and all these guys are on. This is the
bandwagon that we first mentioned weeks ago about Luca. Second quarter,
so it's thirty one to thirty Mavericks after one. First
lead for the Celtics was thirty two to thirty one.
That was over two minutes into the second quarter. Was
a high paced scoring first quarter, second quarter grinding to
(01:56):
a halt. Dallas led by one at the half fifty
one to fifty. It was actually pretty entertaining. First half.
Kyrie had twenty, Luca had seventeen, Tatum had twenty for
the Celtics, and then the third quarter began and that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Was all she wrote.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Very Boston second half, very.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Celtics went up sixty six to fifty nine after an
eight to nothing run, then seventy one to sixty one
for the biggest lead, then another seven to nothing run
a little later to go up thirteen. Now they're up thirteen,
Then they led by fifteen after three that was still
their biggest lead. And then they start the fourth quarter
with two threes to go up twenty one, ninety one
to seventy, so, in other words, a forty one to
(02:35):
nineteen run to start the half, and you're like, okay,
well this is done. Well not quite yet, because then
the MAVs did that thing where they like kind of
act like they're going to come back.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
This was like a really big act of coming back.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
They almost did this, a twelve to nothing MAVs run
to cut it to ninety one to eighty two, and
then all told, it was a twenty to two pardon me,
a twenty to two run to make it ninety three
to ninety with over six minutes left.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
This was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
With five pot twenty five to go, same score the
Mavericks had. You know, there's a one possession game. Jason
Kidd calls the timeout and Luca becomes irate with Jason
Kidd for calling the timeout. You see that he's ready
to go down mocking Jason Kidd for calling the timeout.
Dallas has three possessions to cut into the lead further.
They go zero for three in the meantime. Luca gets
(03:22):
his fifth foul with four to thirty eight left, then
his sixth and final with four to twelve left on
a blocking foul, which withstood review. By the way, when
the fowl was called, Luca then looks at his sidelines
and said, you better bleep and review this.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I think that was some carryover frustration from he wanted
to challenge on the fifth foul, which which he was
a little bit more fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He fouls out twenty seven, six and six. The only
six that mattered was another six that was six fouls.
So the Mavericks, if they're gonna do this, are going
to have to do without Luca. Kyrie hits a jumper.
Now it's a twenty two to two run, ninety three
to ninety two Celtics. Did you think at this point
that it was going to happen?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I mean, Luke off the court. I mean, I was
hoping to pray. I was hoping it praying.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Here's where I was like, I have no faith in
this avenue, Like I just didn't. I never really felt
like this was gonna happen at this point.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I mean, you know, if Luca's off the court, you've
seen what him and Kyrie have done the whole game.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And meanwhile, you check the box.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Score and you're like, I've gotten I've got thirty, like
thirty points out of the rest of the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And that's what you have to rely on right now.
Brown on a follow up to make it ninety five
to ninety two. Then an offensive foul on PJ on
a screen on Drew White with a three ninety eight
ninety two, and at that point it was just, you know,
they were never gonna kay. Kyrie was fouled by Drew
hit two free. There was ninety eight ninety four, two
thirty two to go, but a Tatum jam back up six.
Lively followed jam to cut it to four. Tatum did
(04:45):
miss a three and then Lively all alone. I don't
know who how they lost him. Kyrie hit him with
a dunk. It was one hundred and ninety eight, but
then the dagger, as Steve Buckhants used to say in
DC Brown Jumper, one O two ninety eight with under
a minute left. Then a missed three by PJ Celtics
turno over that Al Horford strange turnover where I'm got
a couple by the way, I don't know if he
was out of bounds or like, I don't know if
(05:06):
he was out of bounds or if the ball was
out of bounds. I never saw that he was. And
they're like Mavericks ball Kyrie wild three where he was
fading to the right. No good, White fouled on the
on the rebound Katie bar the door, White hits both.
They're up six at that point anyway, one four ninety eight.
They end up winning at one O six to ninety nine.
(05:26):
Again by the way, short changes one hundred and fifty
six in zero all time for teams up three to
nothing in best of seven series. In the NBA, Tatum
ends up with thirty one Brown thirty eight and eight
Brown is the short shot to win MVP.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
By the way, thank you uh.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I was told yesterday on Twitter that it is a
Nevada Gaming rule that once the series starts, they can't
put up MVP anymore. So thank you Nevada Gaming. You
saved me money as I said they would. By the way,
I know now that I even know that it's a
gaming rule, what's the justification for you?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
What's the reasoning? How dumb is that?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I was I would like to say, oh, that feels
like something we should remember from years past.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I don't remember that, but like I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
It because with what you just said, how does that
make any sense?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Doesn't Kyrie thirty five defeats. So here's again with my
thing with Luca, And we said this weeks ago on
the show I did, which is he is as great
as he is, he's an unesthetically pleasing that was my phrase,
an unesthetically pleasing player to watch. This ain't the Warriors, right,
This ain't Jokic with the passes. This is a guy
who plods, and yes he's wonderful offensively, but he's anesthetically
(06:30):
a pleasing, unesthetically pleasing to watch play basketball. And then
on top of that you add the fact that he's
terrible on d let's just throw that in there too.
But he whines about everything, and now you and we
said this that he's always whining at the refs in
a Rick barr if you want to go back generations,
Rick Barry used to complain every single time he was
(06:52):
called for a foul, like it was just a thing
with him. Luca has gotten to the point that now
he's at the refs, he's at his coach, he's.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All these things.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And now you finally see what I walked in here
Windhorse and steven A finally killing Luca for this, Like,
YESPN has finally gotten on the bandwagon for this. He's
got a change if they're going to get to the
mountain top off.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, I mean I think this was the This was
the perfect example game of that. I mean, you're you
acting like that throughout the game literally cost you the game.
I mean I mean you can look at you can
point the finger at the rest of the guys. I
mean you only got thirty seven points from people not
name Luca or Kyrie. Like I understand that but I
mean we talked about the end of the first quarter,
(07:33):
and there was a lot there were several I'm like,
with a player like him, like Lebron James, like James Harden,
like Giannis like there. Yes, there's a lot of fouls
that happened during the course of a game that don't
get called.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
But you can't let it affect you like it like
it does for him.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And it's Doris Burg pointed out one time he's just
lolly gagging. He didn't go back on d You know
that happens a lot with him. So so game four
and I hesitated even breathe this up. But tomorrow night
potential sweep game. Celtics were a slight favorite last night.
Now the Mavericks are in most places again by a
(08:09):
point point that it's like a point do you want
any part of this at all? To eleven and a half?
Now the total has ticked down a bit, not nearly
as much as the final scores would have you ticket down.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Actually, sweeper gentlemen, sweet right, these are the only options here?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, absolutely, I think it's probably just done it for
I mean, just like like yesterday when we talked about it, either.
There's no reason I'd been going to back Dallas right now.
I just don't know what you've seen. They tried it,
they've tried almost everything at this point. They finally put
hard Away out there no kle, but that didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
That didn't help at all. The one thing I wanted
to bring up real quick though, how like in another.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Universe Luca doesn't foul out they win that game last night.
Oh my gosh, we're sitting here crushing Boston for doing
the same Boston thinger we are.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's why the NBA Playoffs is squorely to be with.
The Game four is when team is up three to nothing,
the scoreliest of all scorely. I don't want no part
of it.
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