The Mavs are terrifying, writes SFGATE columnist Alex Siquig, but the Dubs keep proving themselves worthy.
Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks reacts to his bench at halftime of Game 7 of the Western Conference Second Round NBA Playoffs at Footprint Center on May 15, 2022, in Phoenix.It’s been an interesting, often messy, occasionally affirming season of basketball in the Bay Area.
I’m not going to look it up , but my gut feeling is not all that many pundits predicted this particular Western Conference Finals battle — certainly not when Dallas sat well outside the play-in tournament to begin the calendar year. The Mavericks were the dark horse whose unruly gallop only intensified down the home stretch.
The Mavericks are an altogether different beast, even now, still in the early stages of their final evolution. It’s an unfortunate break for the Warriors, drawing this unpredictable new force, and not just because it means we might have to see footage of Mark Cuban and Joe Lacob arguing about who the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy is more attracted to. The Dubs surely would have relished casting down last season’s Western Conference Champions instead.
Moving on from the plodding “will he, won’t he” Kristaps Porzingis Experiment sent a jolt of life through a decisively middling squad and lifted them up. It reinvigorated their fighting spirit. It solidified the identity of the team. It markedly improved their defense. It also secured Dallas a pair of talented underperformers in Spencer Dinwiddie and Davis Bertans, who clearly only needed a change of scenery from that unscrupulous miasma of our nation’s capital to deliver in huge ways.
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