Warriors Mavericks Third Quarter

So I'm watching the second half of the amazing Warriors Mavs show tonight that I recorded on the old DVR. I recognize that this game will be wildly underrepresented on the blogosphere - psychballs, so (anyway) I'm telling you what happened.

The Mavs were within 5 points with 7:15 to go in the third. Amazing. They're about to get taken to the cleaners. Stephen Jackson has just hit his third three in the last two minutes of game action. Jackson has just hit his fourth three in the last two minutes of game action. He has scored 13 straight Warrior points. Steve Kerr on the call: "Stephen Jackson just does not care." Isn't that the key to life. When you don't give a fuck you can shine. All of a sudden the Maves are down 12. Dirk is a total non-factor. I'm sure people will lay off that tomorrow in the papes. Austin Croshere is in the game and suddenly is an option on offense.....with decidedly unsexy results.

Don Nelson looks like he's about 8 drinks in. Croshere takes another shot. Austin Croshere takes and misses his third shot in a row. B Diddy gets to the rack hambone and all. 5 minutes to go. Diddy to the rack again and Croshere with the cheap shot foul. Apparently they were high school teammates. UCLA and Purdue in the building. Who wins that? UCLA always, and I'm a UW guy. And a Croshere guy. Mavs down 14 all of a sudden.

Cuban looks like he knows what's about to happen. This series is so good because it's fun to see a billionaire go for something he can't buy and fail. Props to Cuban. America's owner for sure. Stephen Jackson to the line with the Mavs down 16 now. At the half the Warriors were lucky to be in this game. Barry Bonds has rejuvenated Diddy's ham. How about Comcast getting a shit load of pub on those "We Believe" placards? Well played corporate America.

Jet jacks a three and misses with 3 and a half to go and misses. Mavs down 18. Dirk is literally not in the game. Wow. MVP. Can they give it to Nash retroactively? Stack steps out of bounds for another Mavs turnover. Biedrins on the line after the Mavs have employed the hack a euro strategy. Biedrins hits two and that's it. It was meant to be. He's a ridiculously poor free throw shooter form wise and manages to coax two in. Kerr rightfully points out that hacking Biedrins here with 3 to go in the third means that Avery Johnson doesn't think that the Mavs can stop the Warriors. Ahhh TNT coverage. So good.

Broken zone and Matt Barnes BOOOOSH on Dirk's sorry mug. Warriors up 23. Dirk looks about as effective as his facial hair. Baron can't come out because his hamstring might tighten up. Good thing because he's actually getting faster and better as this goes on. Devin Harris hits a three to make the lead 19. Diddy responds going right to the hole and buckets. Howard clanks a three. Devean George is shooting threes for the Mavs for pete's sake. Wow.

Closing possession of the third and George clanks another three. Warriors take the pivotal third quarter 36-15. They're up 23 and conceivably need only about six point and to play average defense to win the game at this point.

Obviously they end up with more and coast. Barkley gets his comeuppance and responds admirably by wearing a G State shirt on the post game show. He also rips Diggler a new one and rightfully so.

My mental soundtrack for this game has been Too Short's "Oakland". Download it. It's a hilarious song that adds to the swagger of the Pacers...I mean Warriors.

Straight from the West/Oakland is the best/Baby it's so fresh!!!