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Aat the beginning they were Magic y Bird. When both of them were about to say goodbye, Michael Jordan. When ‘Air’ decided that his hegemony was over, he was already growing up Kobe Bryant. When Kobe put an end to his magic, dominance was in Kobe’s hands. LeBron James. With ‘The King’ giving its last gasps, the NBA has Luka Doncic, which could reach its first final in its fourth season, just like ‘The Chosen One’ did. Slovenian is now officially the best invention of the 21st century. He has the power of basketball in his hands, in his head, in his heart. And there is no one to stop him.
Doncic He faced the seventh game against the Suns, the one that gives you the right to continue or kicks you home, as if it were just another game, with the idea of having fun, which is the best idea to play basketball. With a monumental recital, 35 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists in just 30 minutesdynamited the Suns project, made it blow up, 90-123, to reach the Western final where he faced his friend Stephen Curry and the Warriors in another fight of giants.
Doncic took it upon himself to crush the drama inherent in every seventh game. There was no competition. He made his first three shots, led his team 57-27 at halftime and ended the series when and how he wanted.
“I’m having fun, and when I’m having fun, that’s when I play better.. But today the whole team was incredible, I never saw such a performance in a seventh game and away from home”, said Doncic at the end of the game. He was right. Traditionally the seventh games are clashes full of emotion and equality. Only the most This is how the greats manage to dominate a game with so much at stake, it must be because Doncic is already a great.
Impossible to forget the match Spencer Dinwiddie. Brutal. In the seventh games, to win them, there has to be a hero, Doncic was, but you need to have a guest star. Y Dinwiddie I went to the appointment.
He formed a lethal couple with Doncic to the point of achieving something that only Kobe Bryant y Shaquille O’Neal they had achieved since 2002. Dinwiddie had 30 points on 11-for-15 shooting. Between the two of them they had owned 48 of Dallas’ 57 points at the end of the first two quarters.
He and Doncic are the first pair of players since 2002 to each score 30 or more points in a seventh game. In history, they are the eighth couple to do so. You have to go back further to find the last pair of players who scored 20 or more points at halftime in a seventh game: Patrick Ewing y Allan Houston in 1997.
are over Suns. At least as we know them. The best team of the regular season fell apart before the talent of Doncic and the excellent work of the Mavericks. This defeat is as painful as it was in the past finals. More if possible because it denotes that the project they had in their hands is not enough. This is the second time in a row that Phoenix abandons a series after leading 2-0. The other time was in the final against the Bucks. An absence of character that falls mostly on its leader Chris Paul.
CP3 He hasn’t been the same since he turned 37. It’s as if that extra year has fallen on him like a crushing slab. He is still in the pools over the best point guards in the League, at least in the last 20 years, but the ability to lose series after leading 2-0, he has done it five times, is a monster that will always chase him. .
In the Suns To understand his shipwreck, one fact is enough: Paul, 0 of 4 and Devin Booler, 0 of 7 at halftime. More than disappeared, subtracting and weighing down his team. Booker is the other leader who comes out more than touched in the series against the Mavs. He finished the game with 11 points and was drowned out by the mediocrity of those who not long ago were the big favorites for the title.
After seven games, there is no choice but to describe the series between Mavs y Suns. In seven matches there was not a single shot at the end of the game, that is, all were resolved so clearly that the last possession was allowed to run out. Three of the first six games were decided by more than 20 points and the final average lead was 19.4 points. The Mavs they even shot down the story that only 23% of visiting teams win an NBA Game 7. After Boston-Milwaukee a few hours earlier, the partial was 110-33 in NBA history.
And speaking of Boston – Milwaukee, there was also no tight end in that seventh game that the Celtics won, 109-81. Beginning in the third quarter, the Boston team ran over the champions to do something unusual in the NBA: Both of the previous year’s finalists left the playoffs the same night. By the way, the Celtics present their candidacy for the ring because they are a team in progress. They had the best defense at the end of the regular League and now they also have a devastating attack.
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