GET UP | Luka Doncic & Kyrie Irving torch Kevin Durant as Mavericks blowout Suns 123-113 -Tim Legler

GET UP | Luka Doncic & Kyrie Irving torch Kevin Durant as Mavericks blowout Suns 123-113 -Tim Legler

Helling game last night amongst Western Conference contenders you got Luca on one side you got Devin Booker on the other you got Kyrie running the floor absolutely incredible and look as spectacular as well you see the bench reaction they saw it right away nobody else really saw what he did it looked

Like he went to his left he kept it in his right hand the entire time with the scoop and the English in the meantime I mean you were a three-point shooter just just watch Luca well he just gets so dialed in and when he gets going like

This first of all it’s the most Unstoppable shot in all of basketball cuz when he wants with his strength and his size and when he starts hitting it now you got a whole another level of problem on your hand trying to defend this te he was six of 11 from three

Here’s Durant knocking one down in the third quarter he would score 23 and then his buddy Devin Booker would get red hot yeah he was great and he’s got that look in his eye he he he senses it and tastes it too this is his best opportunity this

Year playing alongside Kevin Durant and what a running mate for Durant to have the booker was Sensational he scored 35 that makes it a four-point game fourth quarter it’s a nine-point Dallas lead look at more Kyrie in the painted area he’s electrifying and you know this is

What you miss when he’s not playing and when he’s locked in and engaged like he is right now this is what he’s capable of and you see LCA and Kyrie the chemistry there it’s it’s just at a different level this year Kyrie had 29 Luca had 41 plus 11 assists and nine

Rebounds the two of them score or assist on 100 points last night for the Mavericks so don’t look now but you have been making the point all morning long the new audience joins us here on the at the top of this new hour I can just tell

From the way you’re talking you think the Mavericks have a legitimate shot at something special year I absolutely do and in fact they they made these changes to their roster to Trad de line in just enough time I think Luca donit right now for me might be the front runner to win

MVP in this league they’re going to start to climb the ladder I believe in the west there’s a little bit of a gap there to get the four I don’t know if they can do that if there’s enough time left they’ve got more Road games than

Than home games by a good margin the rest of the year that’s going to be difficult but there there is absolutely something about this team right now when I’m watching them there’s a belief there that was not there before I do think Dallas legitimately could make a run at

Coming out of the Western Conference the way that they’re playing right now assuming that Kyrie Irving stays healthy and he stays this engaged in locked in and he looks this hungry for it there’s no doubt Luca feels that way and now they’ve got enough pieces around him

Greeny I absolutely love what I’m seeing out of this team right now they they made the sorts of Trades before the deadline that don’t get a lot of attention but actually might make a lot of difference and they seem to be heading in that direction so here we go

There’s a fascinating little Dynamic here it was Kevin Durant against Kyrie last night they will always be remembered together for I guess what has to be described as overwhelmingly the worst events of both of their careers from a basketball perspective their ill- fated partnership in Brooklyn which one

Of them you think’s got a better shot at winning a championship Wy KD or Kyrie the Mavericks are better position to compete in the western conference right now I I think if you give the Suns another transaction cycle we may have another discussion but the thing about

It is you really are going to have to play with size if you’re going to win the Western Conference I just don’t see how you’re getting through some of these teams especially the Denver Nuggets without being able to deploy a big lineup the Suns just can’t do it the

Mavericks moves at the deadline brought in guys who can play big plus they just got back Maxi kba who I know isn’t going to make any headlines as an important player to them they’re s and0 since Kyrie came back into the lineup his health is obviously important and Luca

Donic we gave all his attention to Joel embiid when he was having that incredible scoring before his injury take a look at the numbers he’s averaging almost 35 a game himself he’s running away with the scoring title they are a fascinating team again because they’ve added that size that they might

Need in certain matchups yeah Winnie to put it in perspective what Luke is doing right now he’s generating I said 59 points earlier I was off by a c couple it’s 57.4 points per game it’s the highest in the history of this league that any player has generated on a

Nightly basis that’s what Luca is doing right now I mean just name another team that you can look at that’s that’s got this type of isolation players this type of passing this type of shooting and then the Lively bouncy legs they’ve got two lob runners in the middle they’ve

Also got Derek Jones like they’ve got to me they’ve got everything it takes offensively to get it done and defensively good enough they’re not Elite level defensively but they’re good enough when their offense is that good um can’t say it enough and I said it before the training di but once they

Made those trades GRE for me that night I said this cements it for me they are going to be scary going forward now that they’ve gotten more size in the middle and PJ Washington is an upgrade over Grant Williams that stat that embo just had up there I mean for those who know

The history of the league that tiny Archer ball the only player ever to lead the league in scoring an assists in the same season Luca is creating more points this year than tiny Archer ball did then one of the most famous seasons in the history of the sport all right stay

Close second half starting last night and let’s watch the chef cuz he was cooking up some curry last night Stephen the Warriors they’ve been hot no LeBron for the Lakers and early on just look at this pass oh what are we going to do without this guy one day just the

Entertainment value like has no idea where Wiggins is just knows you’re down there somewhere take the Quick Glance make sure he finishes it there something so ridiculously pretty about his game and then little Fall Away here stop on a dime create separation for a guy that’s

Not very big and it just stops and it’s automatically he had 25 points in the first half Anthony Davis had a good night he’s been playing great and he’s big a lot bigger than Golden State’s front line so you knew he was going to put up some numbers he had 27 points 15

Rebounds but again more step I mean they’re just doing what he does better than anybody in the history of the story margin for ER is so small defensively against him cuz he just needs a very tight window to get that shot off they were way ahead now the Lakers sort of

Made this a game we in the third quarter it’s a 10-point game look at step working in the paint how clever like behind the back first to elude Reeves splits the double team and then the reverse angles on the layup and then one more here on a feed from Draymond Steph

Finishes with 32 points eight assists Warriors an easy win and after the game Steph talking about the ups and downs of a season currently pointing up our season’s been all over the place and uh for us to just stay in the moment stay in the present we know if we can

Get in the playoffs we’re a tough out no matter who we play but you got to get there so that’s how we’re focused on well so we’ll put our focus on the current standings in the west and and there you see it now Golden State as we

Speak right now is very much in the playin situation and they will need all kinds of things to happen to get all the way up into that number six spots so that could mean as Steph said getting into the playoffs is the first battle before before you start doing damage

There but Wendy you know you and I were talking before the show this morning for people who haven’t been paying close attention going back for something approaching a month right now the Warriors are playing really well yeah they lost that game the last time they played the Lakers at home it

Was January 27th double overtime Steph’s ripping his jersey coming off the court there were five games under 500 and Steve Kerr got up on the podium after the game and said we’re still going to have a special season and it kind of felt like he was trying to speak it into

Existence but he really did see this team going in this direction it’s 9 and2 cents number two offense in that span number seven defense two big changes to the starting lineup Jonathan kaminga now a main stay in there alongside Draymond Green as their front line their scoring

In the paint has gone way up Brandon pky wi the big gutsy move to put him in place of of Klay Thompson they keep moving the ball much better with him they’re much more efficient and they got a shot you they are a dangerous Team guys when theyve when they’re playing

This well especially offensively they if if I’m trying to pick one of these two teams look you got the two legends you have the defining players of their generation LeBron James on one side Steph Curry on the other all their meetings and NBA finals and everything

Else if I’m trying to figure out which one of them has the dangerous team this year to make the kind of run that La made a year ago which is it coin toss but I would lean Lakers because of LeBron LeBron LeBron factor and what he

Does the defens is in the way that he can just control the pace of the game control everything that happens on that end of the floor for his team and you know that he’s going to play his best when the situation requires it so for me it’s just the physical stature of LeBron

And what he does and what it requires to be able to stop him and guard him and not allow him to control the game at dictate Pace that’s why I would lean Lakers but when the Warriors are playing this well offensively you know it’d be

Scary for anybody to get that team in a best of seven in the first round so so very quickly before I move on to some other games here I I tried to sell my man legler here on the idea that going back to the reporting that with WJ and

Ramona had about right before the trade deadline of the idea that someday these two join forces and I got people yelling at me no greeny this is a defining rivalry of their time LeBron James and Steph Curry don’t have a rivalry they’re teams play each other all the time but

They don’t play against each other magic and Larry had a rivalry Russell and ch had a rivalry because they would go head-to-head LeBron’s doing his thing Steph is doing his I want to see it happen next year before it’s all over I want to see these two historical greats

Wendy I’m asking you to tell me there is a chance it happens before they’re done I think it’s highly unlikely uh because I feel like the Warriors um are not going to go into the tax next year Joe lob has said that they the only way they could do it is by

Trading for LeBron and I think no matter what you want to say LeBron’s playing for that $50 million next year he doesn’t want to leave La he wants to be a Laker I think that’s what happens but if you’re asking me if I can totally

Rule it out I would not and I could not he’s telling me there’s a chance legler tell how you and you’re sitting there as a hater telling me no you want to see this rivalry I I do not look I understand that LeBron and Steph have been the two defining players of their

Generation I understand that because LeBron played most of his career in the Eastern Conference they met in the finals all those times including all those years in a row but at the end of the day I still don’t consider them to be Rivals there’s two they’re too

Friendly to be rivals in my opinion they’re not magic and Larry I want to see it happen before they’re done so you’re going Lloyd Christmas dumb and dum you’re saying I have a chance all that one in a million talk right that’s where you’re at right now I’m going to

Say there’s no chance of it and look LeBron despite all of his cryptic things that he does with his emojis of The Hourglass and wearing the Nicks towel on his neck and all the stuff he does to create that buzz I also believe what he

Said the other day and he said he can see himself and wants to finish his career in Los Angeles I think there’s a big reason why he orchestrated being there in the first place I think he’s comfortable he’s cemented his legacy he knows what he is and where he ranks

Historically right so I don’t think necessarily he’s going to go chasing it now as far as the Steph LeBron thing I will say this I agree they’re not rivals in that sense but they did those two teams had to go through each other year after year after year so there is

Something about you know the old school guy like me or the purist that says no I don’t want those guys to pair up I get it you know what I mean it’s like after all that you’re going to go play together like I think some people wouldn’t want to see that no I

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GET UP | Luka Doncic & Kyrie Irving torch Kevin Durant as Mavericks blowout Suns 123-113 – Tim Legler