FIRST TAKE | "Broom ready!" - Stephen A. puts the end for Luka and Mavs after Game 3 loss to Celtics

well there goes that series there goes that series there's no other way to look at it ladies and gentlemen there's no way to look at it nobody's overcoming an 03 deficit in the NBA Finals it hasn't happened there's no reason to believe that it's going to happen now this is not this is not one of those situations where anybody's going to say anything different today so you're not going to get any surprises there we got a whole bunch of people coming on the show but I want to say this I'm a movie buff I like my movie you remember that actor Zach galopus in the movie The Campaign with Will FOH you know what he used to say all the time in that movie we're bringing our brooms because it's a mess first takes in the house in Dallas two Elite scores have found their stroke here in game three from Kyrie chaos here in the first half he's got 20 Tim Hardway on the drive goes right white blocked by white t him down the other [Applause] end brown with the flush Brown continues The Barrage Dallas desperate not to fall behind 03 Corner three-pointer Washington it's good six-point game Brown runs into doic blocking foul and that's it he's fouled out Irving pull up jump shot it's good drives pulls up jump shot puts it they hold off a furious comeback attempt and now have a three nothing lead here in these NBA Finals 3 0 3 0 that's what's happening Ryan wior good to see you this morning of course Stephen A Smith my girl Andrea Carter I'm Molly carum hi everybody how good you're feeling great this morning feel good it's a Friday Eve Andrea feeling real good about my pick how are you guys M I'm just I'm we're just talking about you I'm sure you feel wonderful I will take complete ownership for my I actually wish we had a full screen of my finals picks you know since I joined the show but but it's all good it's okay Stephen A Wendy how are you guys we can talk we we could talk about Molly's final Pickel she wants to Pats herself on the back you know she can do all of that she's more than welcome to do that let me tell you this right now Ser there the S the series ends sooner sooner vacation begins I'm good no matter what I'm good on that note let's get it started the Celtics hold off the Mavericks one win from their 18th NBA title Jason Tatum scored 31 Jaylen Brown had 30 and the Celtics held up a furious Dallas rally to win 10699 and go Up 3 in the NBA Finals the Mavs luuka donic fouled out with 412 remaining Luca is not having it with the refs Luca what did you think of the whistles that went against you in the fourth quarter I mean I don't know um we couldn't play physical so uh I don't know I don't want to say nothing but you know six fall in the NBA Finals where I basically I'm like this uh come on man better than that all right Wendy let's break it down how much blame should luuka get for the loss well the reason the series is 3 0 is because the Celtics are awesome it's a coronation for them they haven't lost in a month they won 10 or nine straight games they're on the verge of doing something we've never seen before which is to sweep the Conference Finals and finals we have to start by saying they're taking it um but it was extremely disappointing the way Luca was unable to be there for his team at the end of this game they very nearly pulled off an amazing comeback that could have pivoted this series because I don't know if Chris HS porz is going to be play again I don't care if the series goes on a couple more weeks I don't know if he's going to be able to and this was a great opportunity for Dallas to really try to get some momentum going and regardless of what you think of the fifth foul or whatever other foul he knew he had five fouls absolutely knew he had five fouls and to commit that foul in that moment is just a terrible lack of judgment by him and the reason it's so disappointing to me the reason I reacted viscerally is that I've seen him do this now several times most most of it is when I've watched him play for the Slovenian national team and I realized that you know FBA basketball is not you know the NBA Finals but it is basically the precursor to it and I watched him in the World Cup last year get ejected in the in in the elimination game when they're trying to qualify for the Olympics when he completely lost his composure I watched him two years ago in Euro basket get fouled a very similar situation playing against a team it's a four-point game with three minutes left he fou fouls out because a technical foul counts as a personal in FBA basketball and he fouls out you know I've just seen it over and over and that's what's so frustrating is that he is such a brilliant player he's such a special talent I really believe he's going to be back in the finals he's going to be holding the gold trophy but he's got to learn from this he and it's not just the six foul it's laying on the court complaining at officials when you give up a basket on the other end he's never going to be a great defensive player I understand that I understand that there's been plenty of guys who've gone to the Hall of Fame who can't defend who he's comparable to but he hurts his team by the way he complains to the officials he hurts his team by the way he lays on the court why he gives up possessions you can get away with that in November and December you can get away with that in the in game one of the first round or when you're ahead in the second round or whatever you can't get away with that in basically an elimination game in the finals and that's got to be the lesson for Luca this could be the pivot point for him because it was a missed opportunity for to be a pivot point in the series yeah I mean this is absolutely going to have to be a moment of growth for Luca moving forward for me defensively there were so many lapses in judgment there were so many moments where he wasn't locked in there were so many moments where he took a bad angle he was out of position and everyone's going to talk about this fifth foul everyone's going to talk about the fifth foul I thought we were about to show it everyone was going to talk about that fifth foul and oh maybe that was the bang bang call that didn't go his way you could Poss say that about the sixth foul even though I 100% thought that was a blocking call but you couldn't say anything about his third foul or his fourth foul the third foul he picked up against Derek white because he was frustrated he lunged for the ball he lunges for the ball completely out of position gets a foul on Derek white and then the fourth foul he gets on Payton Pritchard at half court just trying to defend not not doing anything except lunging left to right so the third and fourth silly fouls the third and fourth careless fouls that he even put his hand up and said yeah I fouled probably thinking they weren't going to come back to bite him later in the game they did those careless moments the the Mindless moments where he is not engaged defensively or lunging defensively those hurt him in the end when he didn't get the calls that could have possibly went his way he's not going to get those calls when you're consistently out of position on defense the referees are not going to give you the benefit of the doubt and that was a hard lesson for Luca to have to learn in that game well first of all Andrea you're absolutely positively on point and I saw you saying it early on get up and I couldn't applo you more because it that third and fourth foul was the most egregious because it made no sense whatsoever it was so far away from the basket I think the third foul that last foul when he was reaching in on PR what are you doing it's it's completely unnecessary and it was nonchalant and it was a pouting foul you're upset that things are not going your way you're complaining to the referees and that's what you elect to do and of course Luca deserves most of the blame for this it was a horrible performance 27 points on 27 shots but it wasn't because of that it was because of the level of selfishness and the lack of accountability you are the Superstar of the team you're supposed to be the leader of the team let's put this y'all in its proper perspective we sit here today with Kyrie Irvin being seen as the reasonable one the levelheaded individual that needs the help and assist in reeling in Luca donic because Luca donic is so petulant and is so petty let's not forget he's screaming at his bench and screaming at his coaches effing challenge the call or whatever we saw that you know he's pointing the finger at everybody but himself and he takes himself out of the game and so we also got to take into into account this statistically do y'all know in these three games of this NBA Finals in the fourth quarter in the fourth quarter Luca donic had has more fouls and more turnovers than field goals in the fourth quarter of the NBA Finals he's only made three he's only shot three of 15 in three games he's averaging like 2.8 points in the fourth quarter of the NBA finals this is Luka donic we're talking about here and primarily because of the petulant but with everything that you've said Andrea with everything that you've said Wendy nobody brought this up I brought this up last night you know what really ticked me off about Luca donic watch the game if you know the game and you know the flow you could see that Kyrie was in his bag I'm not talking about the first half when he exploded had 20 hit them four three point I a talking about that I'm talking about even in the second half he was getting to his spots when he wanted to he was getting in the lane when he wanted to he was getting to the free throw line when he needed to he was drawing cont attack he was nullifying and neutralizing to some degree what Boston was throwing in their Direction especially after they were down 21 and go on a 20 to2 run and they come back and then the next thing you know with him flowing that way Lua would get the ball and Luka wouldn't pass it he's holding the ball he's bouncing the ball he's throwing a bunch of pump fakes he's slowing the pace he you I'm I'm it's Jaylen Brown on you bro

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Keywords: Undisputed, Undisputed Live, Undisputed Today, Skip Bayless, NBA, NFL, Shannon Sharpe, Fox Sports, First Things First, Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, Lakers, LeBron, 49ers, Brock Purdy, Cowboys, Dak Prescott, Michael Irvin, Stephen A. Smith

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Length: 10min 28sec (628 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 13 2024