02-24-2025, 01:42 PM
(02-24-2025, 11:42 AM)FireNicoHarrison Wrote: We played the WCF and the Finals in 3 years... I can immagine how tough it was.
Never happened before in Mavs history.
The first WCF run was fun - the team still had a young Brunson paired with their young Luka, and that team overachieved. We knew they weren't as good as GS that season. But, the system they ran seemed smart, fun and had potential. I remember defending Luka back then when he was compared to Harden. OUR version understood team basketball.
Losing Brunson and having to spend the assets to replace him with Kyrie sucked a lot of what I was excited about out of all of this, and then seeing Luka trend farther and farther away from the parts of his game I was excited about made enjoying the team tougher for me. By the end, it was almost all injuries, yelling at the refs, midrange iso and stepback threes at too high a volume. It became about as Harden as it can get, imo.
If he ever gets back to bubble-style Luka, I'll be into that for sure, but the numbers he has put up the past couple of seasons didn't make this offense fun for me to watch, personally. Like, at all.