Marc Bertrand: Mavericks are “cooked” now
On Monday’s edition of Zolak & Bertrand, Marc “Beetle” Bertrand made it clear the Mavericks are “cooked” now.
Celtics opened the door for them last night…
Marc Bertrand:
My big takeaway from that game last night is that Dallas should be so disappointed in themselves and really should pack it in and quit at this point because the Celtics opened the door for them to get a win last night and they couldn’t walk through it.
Scott Zolak:
That’s the spot. I’m the same way. I’m with you on that. After that game, I don’t know how they slept because that’s the game they had to have.
Marc Bertrand:
You’re cooked now.
Scott Zolak:
The Celtics couldn’t shoot from the three spot. You even knew it, like around the half, and then into that third quarter where you’re reading the numbers and it’s dreadful shooting wise. Boston had like a four-point lead and then a six-point lead and I’m like this game is over and it’s defeating for the Mavs. Like, that’s the game they had to have. They came out. I thought they were ready to go. They were better in Game 2 than they were in Game 1 and they just don’t have the stamina. They don’t have the team, they don’t have the matchups and say what you want about Luka, that’s one of the weirdest things to watch in sports for me. You look at a guy like Jaylen Brown and how he’s chiseled. Same thing with Tatum. These guys are chiseled, like Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday. They’re all in great and phenomenal shape, that’s every NBA player. I think they’re the best athletes in the world for guys of their size to have the cardio and the type of days that they have and the amount that they have to train and to watch a guy like Luka, something out of a men’s league, just off the back foot and low cut black sneakers with white socks find a way to score over 30 points. Then find a way to get double digit rebounds and assists. It defies sports and what works in sports and what looks the part. He does not look the part, but yet it’s so freaking effective for him. It’s mind boggling. It really is.
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