NBA Playoffs: Dallas Mavericks with too late comeback! Golden State Warriors are back in the finals

The Golden State Warriors are back in the NBA finals after three years. In game 5, the Dubs beat the Dallas Mavericks with 120: 110, but despite the 25-point lead in the third quarter, they had to briefly tremble again.

• Golden State Warriors (3)-Dallas Mavericks (4) 120: 110 (boxcore), series: 4-1
• Warriors vs. Mavericks: The series at a glance
• season of the Dallas Mavericks ends in game 5
• the most important statistics
• Warriors vs. Mavs: The voices for the game
• The star of the game: Klay Thompson
• The flop of the game: Luka Doncic
• the scene of the game

A 15: 0 run of the guests in the third quarter pressed the deficit again into the single-digit area, but in the final section the dubs caught again and brought the victory over time and won the series with 4-1. The opponent in the NBA finals has not yet been determined, in the east the Boston Celtics are currently leading 3-2 against Miami Heat. The finals will start next week in the night of Friday, the Warriors have home advantage in any case.

And the dubs also used this against the MAVs. Klay Thompson caught a lot of fire in front of a home crowd and was top scorer with 32 points (12/25 FG, 8/16 threes). Stephen Curry (15, 5/17, 9 Assists), on the other hand, held back for a long time and only converted two of his seven three. Instead, it was primarily a round team presentation in which six players scorten in double digits.

Andrew Wiggins (18, 7/16, 10 rebounds) again defended the Mavs of problems strongly against Doncic, Kevon Looney (10, 18 rebounds, 7). Jordan Poole (16) and Draymond Green (17, 6/7, 9 Assists) rounded off the strong Warriors team.

For Dallas, Doncic (28, 10/28, 3/13 threesome, 9 rebounds, 6 assists) was still top scorer, but the best player of the guests was Spencer Dinwiddie (26, 7/12 FG, 5/7 threesome, 7/ 9 ft). Dorian Finney-Smith (13, 6/10) played a strong second half, while Maxi Kleber (7, 3/6, 8 rebounds) was the only Mavs player with a noteworthy minutes to have a positive plus minus rating (+2).

season of the Dallas Mavericks ends in game 5

The Warriors got a dream start. The three fell, Looney got offensive rebounds and the hosts forced ball losses. Dallas took a few minutes, but came into play after a while, even if Doncic left a lot on the ring (and didn't get any calls). Curry limp something and appeared more as a passer (already 5 assists). Golden State still led with 28:23, for Dallas Dinwiddie scored two threes in the last 18 seconds.

Then followed the avalanche, Thompson and Poole, five jumper met in a row (together 17 points), the shotmaking of the dubs was simply incredible in this phase. That didn't change when Doncic returned. The Slovenian was cleared several times on the basket (2/12 FG for the break), on the opposite side Rookie Moses Moody Jumper scored with the clock. Thanks to Dinwiddie, Dallas' offense now took up a little speed, but no stops. Already at the break it smelled of blowout, although Curry (5) had only taken 4 throws (69:52).

And this continued to take shape after the change. Thompson was already seven three, and Curry also came into the zone a few times. The lead grew to 25 points, but with a few threes (Bullock, 2x Doncic), the Mavs suffocated the emerging party atmosphere in the Chase Center. With a 15-0 run, the deficit was suddenly only single-digit, before Poole stopped the bleeding shortly before the quarter. And yet: it was only 94:84 and Dallas had hope again before the final section.

The Warriors had a quick answer before Green had to go to the bench with five fouls. Dinwiddie pulled three fouls in a row, but the Warriors received numerous second chances by working on the board through Looney. That was particularly bitter three minutes before the end when Dallas got a stop, but then eaten a Thompson triangle who, like a Dagger, (115: 100). Two minutes before the end, coach Jason Kidd had the white flag and heralded the Garbage Time.

the most important statistics

Golden State Warriors (3)-Dallas Mavericks (4) 120: 110 (boxcore), series: 4-1

• Dallas looked for the zone, but the Warriors-Bigs were hard. Doncic acted a lot in the post, moved to the basket and yet the Mavs scorten only 4 points in the zone in the first twelve minutes. The Warriors managed to defend well without foul, especially Doncic was looking for contact again and again, but in half-time one only got a shoot foul.
• The second quarter of the Warriors was close to perfection. Of course, the defense of the Mavs looked very bad a few times, but Golden State also had a counterattack for everything. Five out of seven threes went through the Reuse, all three jumper fell out of the middle distance. The hosts scored 41 points (13/19 FG, 10/10 ft), played 11 assists and only made 3 turnover.
• The Mavs came back with defense and threes and also stops in the fourth quarter, but the defensive possessions were not completed. In the final section alone, the Warriors recorded 8 offensive rebounds, which they converted into 9 points. Ultimately, this was the most important aspect for the Dubs to prevent the MAVS come back.
• Before the series, turnover was identified as a key act for the Dubs and the Warriors also made it well in game 5. Dallas won this duel with 8:11, but that was completely within the dubs. 8 MAVS ball losses led to 16 Warriors points, Dallas only achieved 11 points after Turnover of the Warriors.
• The Warriors will be in the finals for the sixth time in eight years. Such a run was the Chicago Bulls around Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen between 1991 and 1998. Under coach Steve Kerr, the Warriors in the Western Conference have not lost a single series in the playoffs since 2014.

Warriors vs. Mavs: The voices for the game

Draymond Green (Warriors): "This is a special moment because nobody believed that we would move into the finals with this group. Klay Thompson has had two bad injuries, Steph broke his hand And two years ago we just won 15 games. "

Jason Kidd (Head Coach Mavs) about Luka Doncic: "I think we agree that this was not his best game. It was a lesson for him and the entire team. I don't want to say that that We played a bad season. We had a bad evening at a bad time. "

Luka Doncic (Mavs): "I hate to lose it, especially like today. I played terribly. Nevertheless, I'm very proud of our team. Nobody believed that we could get that far."

The star of the game: Klay Thompson

The first four games were not his series, but this time "Game 6 Klay" was on the spot in game 5. After only 29 minutes of play, Thompson had scored as many threesome (7) as in the four games beforehand and thus symbolically stood for the partially absurd shotmaking of the Warriors. It is the story of the Warriors season, when Klay runs hot, the dubs are hard to beat. It was only fitting that Thompson hit the Dagger, it was his eighth threesome of the evening.

The flop of the game: Luka Doncic

It was already bitter for the Mavs. The role players such as glue, Frank Ntilikina or Dinwiddie delivered, but Brunson (10, 3/10) and Doncic could not confirm their strong playoffs. Doncic not only hit the field badly for a long time, but was always mercilessly attacked in the defense and had his opponents partly granted without resistance. Another disadvantage of the many awarded casual: The 23-year-old was mostly the last player by extending the last player who switched and brought the Mavs into precarious situations so often in the first 30 minutes. His strong second half was late, the child had already fallen into the fountain.

the scene of the game

To make it clear again that it was not the first half of the Luka Doncic and how good the defense of the Warriors was. Even when the Slovenian opponent Andrew Wiggins wet in the post office, these were not a safe two points because the help was there, in this example Draymond Green, who worried Doncic mercilessly. Striking: Green even helped Doncic afterwards, the respect of the Warriors star for the 23-year-old was already apparent.

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Warriors vs. Mavericks: The series at a glance

Game | Date |

Time | Home | About | result ----|---|---|---|---|--- 1 | 19. May | 3 o'clock | Golden State Warriors | Dallas Mavericks | 112: 87 2 |

21. May | 3 o'clock | Golden State Warriors | Dallas Mavericks | 126: 117 3 | 23. May | 3 o'clock | Dallas Mavericks | Golden State Warriors | 100: 109 4 | 25. May | 3 o'clock | Dallas Mavericks | Golden State Warriors | 119: 109 5 | 27. May | 3 o'clock | Golden State Warriors | Dallas Mavericks | 120: 110