baron's gone off with a leg injury..not sure how serious...but that doesnt sound good for gs fans...also dallas scored 25pts in the first and are yet to hit a two point field goal..all threes and ft's

Davis played 6:50 of q1 with 0/1 fg....injury?

Baron Davis just checked back in.
Injury scare there for the warriors

Dirk - 2 points 6 minutes left in the 2nd qtr

Your 2007 MVP folks

Dirk was up all night watching Baywatch to inspire him for another big 4th quarter

dirk 0 from 5 he needs to pull his shit together stack cant carry the load the whole game. Maybe some one should pour a beer on jackson...ha ha ha say he loses it.

This could be a very widely disapproved of MVP should the Mavs go down and the NBA awards the trophy during the second round.

I like Bill Simmons' arguments against Dirk for MVP.

Nash, Kobe, McGrady would be my preferences.

Maybe he was up watching the drunk footage of the Hoff all night and is so disappointed that he playing like this



Nash has been my pref all year for MVP

It took Dirk nearly the whole first half to make a field goal.....MVP?

Halftime Warriors 50 Dallas 48

Stackhouse 18pts
Davis 13pts 5reb 3ass 5 turnovers

Nowitzki 4pts 1/9 2 turnovers

B-Diddy has a hamstring tear and is basically playing on 1 leg, has hit some AMAZING shots.

Refs again are killing this game.

Stephen Jackson is destroying - 7 of 7 from 3 - Dirk 1 of 11. Incredible!

It's a Jack Attack!

start of the 3rd quarter Jackson his 4 straight 3pointers

5:00 min of 3rd Warriors up 71-57

Jackson 23pts 7/7 3s

Nowitzki 4pts 0/5 3s

I hope Dirk wins MVP so that they have to call a press conference to award it to him

Dallas cant beat GS with Baron and Jackson in the lineup. If they were in dallas im sure the refs would find someway to throw them out so they would have a shot

Goodbye Mavs. Someone put Cuban in a padded cell for a while. 82 games, all for what?

WOW ! 86 -63 at 3qtr time ... the mav-wrecks are back !

end of the 3rd quarter Golden state by 23pts 86-63
Blowout!!

Jackson is red hot Dirk ice cold

i think every time Nowitzki looks at his MVP trophy hes going to see Stephen Jackson

a fresh look in west finals
Golden state Houston or Utah

END OF 3rd

Warriors 86 Mavericks 63

Warriors
Baron Davis:
20 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists (with a slight hamstring tear)
Stephen Jackson:
25 points, 3 steals, 7-7 3pt (career playoff best)
Andris Biedrins:
12 points, 12 rebounds, 3 blocks

Mavericks
Jerry Stackhouse:
20 points, 4-8 3pt
Josh Howard:
16 points, 5 rebounds
Dirk Nowitzki:
4 points, 7 rebounds, 1-11 FG

Is this the end of the Mavs for the season?

This is as far as GS will go (assuming they advance) who's going to stop Yao/Boozer? Battier can slow Baron down i'd assume.

On another note....has anyone else noticed Mark Cuban's Chooper-esque moustache??

Am I being premature in thinking that the GSW could get to the finals.

IMO that Utah will get out of the Houston series. I think they will probably beat Utah - too many horses.

IF Pho get out of the SA series then it will be a run and gun fest - who knows they could win that too.

Warriors went on an 18-0 run in the third. Those pre series concerns about the Mavs facing a team they didn't beat during the regular season seem to hold some weight.

Hey, chill out - Dont get on Dirks back.. he had Matt Barnes guarding him.. hahaha what a choker

Baron Davis has now racked up a Double-Double.....20 points, 10 boards.....

And that last bit about Cubans Mo, should say 'Chopper-esque".....

Dirk for mvp? Yeh right.

Wow what a day... As a power fan i can understand mavs fans question 82 games for nothing. Not to worry, it is great work by the warriors!!

But check out the shooting
Mavs - FG 29/77 (37%) and 3-pointers 9/30 (24%)

GSW - FG 34/74 (47%) and 3-pointers 13/27 (48%)

Dallas 67-15. What a waste a Bigger upset than the
1994 (1)Seattle v (8)Denver

During the regular season.
Warriors were 2-2 vs utah and
were 2-2 vs houston

Hopefully Davis can recover from his hamstring tear, id love to see Phoenix v Golden state in the West finals.

Wow what a day... As a power fan i can understand mavs fans questioning 82 games for nothing. Not to worry, it is great work by the warriors!!

But check out the shooting
Mavs - FG 29/77 (37%) and 3-pointers 9/30 (24%)

GSW - FG 34/74 (47%) and 3-pointers 13/27 (48%)

Hang on a second. Ive figured out why dallas are losing. Their MVP isnt playing! Thats right, Dampier is a DNP.

this is just embarressing for dallas...

Final score
Golden state 111 Dallas 86

i wouldnt want to be in the dallas locker room right about now.
Cuban must want to kick himself,
Sends Nash packing tells Don Nelson wear to go.
Both have comeback to bite him in the ass.

Dunno about it being a bigger upset than Sonics Nuggs '94 but it's close... That Nuggets team had nowhere near the talent of this Warriors team and their coach (Issel) had no place on an NBA bench... Second biggest upset maybe...

94 was a 5 game series tho - I don't think Seattle would've lost 4 times to that Denver team like the Mavs just did to GS. Any 8th seed defeating the 1st has to be up there. How many times has it happened I wonder?

Kemp and Payton those were the days
Nuggets had Robert Pack causing havick back then with Mutombo patrolling the paint.

i think Seattle were 64-18 that year
That series was won in 5 games after the Nuggets recovered from being down 0-2 in the series, and Won game 5 at Seattle in Overtime.

TMC - I think this is only the 2nd time

(8)New york beat (1)Miami in the 99 playoffs on the back of Allan Houstons leaning floater at the buzzer in Game 5.

New york became the only #8 seed to go on to the Finals and lost to the Spurs 4-1

Not forgetting Kendall Gill and Sam Perkins...

Not forgetting Kendall Gill and Sam Perkins...

3rd. Knicks also did it in 99. First time under the seven game format though.

I'd like to thank Foxtel for screwing us once again.... golf clap golf clap.

You wait till tomorrow Foxtel had a time slot for NBA at 12-2:30 but the game 6 of Lakers v Phoenix never happened instead of bringing the time slot forward they have put Euroleague ball on.
there is game tomorrow NJ v Toronto game 6 starts at 9:30 but not on foxtel.
either is Detorit v chicago game 1 on Sunday

Clap Clap foxtel $75 a month for NBA action friday nights at 6:30

Wow what a choke. Just like Goorj choking with his Magic team in 1998 and his Titans in 2002! Wish I had seen some of this series.

very interesting article by Bill Simmons suggesting that the Warriors crowd have a lot to do with getting them over the line. See this Ozhoops thread for details:

http://www.ozhoopsboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=11631

Thankyou Mr Centrebet for offering me brilliant odds on teh warriors at the beginning of the series. I am now 50 bucks richer - yay! I reckon the warriors could've gone deep but theyve got phoenix who will put them away methinks.

They'll have the winner of the Houston/Utah series next. I reckon if Utah get through that one, GS might I have a chance. Houston will probably take the series though, and I can't see the Warriors beating them.

I too noticed them putting the Euroleague on instead of the NBA, who the hell in in charge over at ESPN? Baseball most days of the week, Soccer the rest and now the only NBA we were supposed to be getting is replaced?

According to my guide, we won't be getting ANY NBA next week either....

Can anyone think of a bigger choke ever but a legitimate super star than Dirk's today?

Starks choked big time in that final game vs Houston back in 94 but he was not in the same calibre of player as Dirk.

Think this is gonna be the kinda thing that will haunt him the rest of his career (well unless he wins the title in the coming years).

Just to clear it up that is the 3rd time an 8th seed has beaten 1st seed in the 1st round of the playoffs

More often than not the Franchise Player will step up in the big games - often its his teammates that let him down. Its not very often that you see a choke of the level that Dirk has in this series.

Didn't he also miss some pretty big free throws in last seasons NBA finals against Miami?

MVP MVP MVP...

When is the last time an MVP winner didn't make it past the first round of the playoffs?

as everyone knows im a Dallas boy but had a bit of a laugh when i went to there site and saw a givaway for tickets to Game 7

http://www.nba.com/mavericks/home.html

Baron Davis is the best attacking point gaurd in the NBA. Since his return from injury the warriors have been unstoppable. I don't see much changing in the next round against a slower houston or utah team.