Luka Doncic deserves that MVP – ESPN react to Mavericks dominate Bulls to Sweep East Conf road trip

Luka Doncic deserves that MVP – ESPN react to Mavericks dominate Bulls to Sweep East Conf road trip

Listen it it’s to me you know considering the situation that the Bulls have been in all year all right so this isn’t the first time this has happened you know we see we’ve talked about how the season has pretty much been a roller coaster ride we’ve seen good bad we’ve seen really good

We’ve seen really bad you know you basically saw both ends of the Spectrum in the last seven days a really good team the way they went three and one on the road trip and you just saw a team tonight that just couldn’t do anything right all right and then with a team

Like the Mavs who can play the way they have and have a player like Luca he took advantage of the Bulls tonight plain and simple but I I know I keep harping on this but if you can turn around and respond against the Pacers a team let’s be very

Clear now if things stay as they are you might be playing the Pacers to determine if you make it into the playoffs if you can win that first playin game currently which is against the Atlanta Hawks I think right now seven and8 is the 76ers and the Pacers

Am I correct yeah so this game is not just important about hey we need to win because we lost on Monday but we need to prove to the Pacers and to ourselves this is a team we can beat if we get down to a one game elimination to get

Into the playoffs and at least try to end the season on a good note and speaking of Atlanta Hawks they’re dropping like flies right now there’s so many injuries on that team so that would look like a favorable match up a couple of weeks from now if some of these

Injuries persist that Atlanta Hawks Squad uh what more can you say the Great Clips player of the game LCA donic I mean he had nine points six rebounds five assists I believe in the first quarter he goes on to finish with 27 points 14 assists 12 rebounds uh he’s

Absolute magician out there he’s one of the better players in all of the league that’s why he’s getting MVP consideration yeah he is and look guy really knows how to score and and being 6 fo8 being able to handle the basketball the way that he does and also

Having a high usage rate he is going to put up these type of numbers and you know when he got started tonight I just knew it was going to be a long night for the Bulls especially in the first quarter when I believe he almost he had

Six rebounds six assists and 12 points in the first quarter so when you get a guy of his caliber going that early it’s going to be a long night for you hey I mean he average is 35 you held him to 27 yeah yeah last six games you got that

Going for you got triple double last six games so you knoweven seven yeah I mean I mean that’s what that’s that’s one way to hold a guy below his average is get blown out so he doesn’t play enough to get 35 yeah he definitely would have

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Didn’t have the energy in yeah the enthusiasm enthusiasm was there today yeah don’t worry about it you know we’ll get them next time we had it in the pregame show yeah we did no we cuz things were different blame Luca blame Luka speaking of blaming Luca the MVP

Odds were our storyline and Luca coming off a western conference player the week award I mean it is seemingly a three-man race at this point between the Joker Nikola yic and Shake GIS Alexander we put the numbers up in the pregame show in terms of the odds there you go again

Minus 190 for joic plus 240 for SGA and plus 650 for Luca donic yeah you know but I still think it’s it’s you I know you said a thre man race but realistically I think it’s just between Nick Nick Nicola yic and Shay Guild Alexander yeah listen Luca D Don is

Having a great season um but unfortunately I just think those two guys ahead him what happened to Jason Tatum he just dropped out like bam I think I think it’s the fatigue of how well they’re playing and everybody’s getting blown out by them so they don’t

Know who to put it all on if it’s Jaylen brown or if it’s Jason Tatum he’s splitting some of that with Jaylen Brown as well but Jason Tatum definitely should be in that conversation but it seems like it’s a two-man race will yeah there it is this is this is

What the what the not taking can get you I I I concur remember you can add some extra excitement to games this season by signing up with points bet I got we prod can we talk about the trip to Stanford yeah man I mean that would be

Entertaining yeah I mean they’re right I mean you know when they say don’t go if you don’t want to go to Stanford don’t come out here but did I did I hear you correctly that absolutely right you’re thinking about going back to school at Stanford back to school yeah to get my

Master dang I don’t know if I can get in I may have to gas some Palms you know I a you going test in I ain’t going to test in I got to pay somebody to get in in what was that movie dang right like

Um I don’t I forget the name of it class no that was that was a kiding play movie back to school back to school yeah where he did the triple Indie off the off the D remember right hey I was there though I saw it I saw that

Platform back to school anything to keep us from talking about this game all right when we come back we got more to game live for you we going to have to get kg like superimposed on Ry Dangerfield’s body before the night is out that’s bu we got more Toyota Bulls

Post game live for you the Bulls lose by a lot we’ll come back and Cho up a little bit more right here on NBC Sports Chicago no something like that yeah 11 for 12 tonight seven of the 11 were done so the only shot that he right the only

Shot that he missed probably was a jumper he did what he had to do uh speaking of what you had to do sometimes you got to answer for things like this let’s go to the media room and hit it up with Billy Donovan in our Infinity game

Report B you took you took those two early timeouts in the first quarter what was were you just going over the defensive game plan or what what what were you displeased with there well I mean you know I think you know going into the game they you they obviously

Take a high high number of Threes you know and I I think for us going into the game it wasn’t necessarily that you’re going to take away all the threes but what we needed to do is we needed to protect the rim a lot a lot better than we did in that

First quarter and I think in the first quarter they had nine layups you know um they didn’t shoot the ball particularly well like to their standard I would say in that first half uh but I thought the transition easy buckets the offensive rebound easy buckets and then

The layup easy buckets you know coupled with us not shooting the ball well we just you know you dug yourself in an enormous hole to get out of um and uh you know we needed to be better protecting the basket than than than we did and I thought that was the biggest

Challenge because it’s uh you know like listen the I think on the on the west coast trip I think every team we played against over 40% of their total number of shots were threes what hurts you is when you start giving up that that number of Threes but you give up offensive

Rebounds fouls and layups transition stuff and you know we were good out west for the most part the rebounding could have been a lot better if there was one I i’ be critical of but we had none of those things um that we needed to in in

The first quarter Luc is obviously so Dynamic um but in the pick and roll coverage you know in La zubats hurt you guys in the third quarter with that screen roll is there anything you can do to to switch things up right now or what

Well we tried to Blitz a little bit and trap him you know we did some switching and tried to go back and hit we didn’t really execute in in my opinion well enough any of the coverages we were in but I I think part of the reason why G

Gafford uh and Lively had such huge numbers in the game was right there like when when when Vu is or Andre have got to be up to deal with high level offensive players at the point of the screen it’s not so much like I think in

The um in the Clipper game it was zubac’s lobs we didn’t give up a lot of lobs tonight we gave up a lot of rolls to the basket and offensive rebounds we’ve got to be more pulled in than we were you know and I think at times is

He’s coming off in and doing what he does do and he’s got great vision we talked about it before the game we kind of were too worried about getting back out to that three-point line instead of saying hey we’re going to take away the

Role there was a play um you know at the end of the second quarter where Julian pulled all the way in the ball went up for a Lobby deflected and we got a steal we weren’t there enough like that you know and that was that was the biggest

Issue of I think why their big scored so much it was offensive rebounds and it was rolls of us being late you know Billy I know I know rotations are tough but it seems like this game was another example of you know Julian Phillips it seems like more

Often than not when he’s in there he makes a positive contribution and uh did do you think he earned more uh more of a spot in the rotation tonight or anything in terms of he’s he’s been in the rotation well you go four and five minutes the last two games yeah I mean

But some of that’s just going to be matchups and how the game’s going and stuff I have confidence in Julian I put him out there I thought he did a good job while he was out there I think the balance between him and Alex and Tori is somewhat challenging quite honestly

Because they’re all really good players and Alex starts and you’re getting Tori coming back off injury so you’re kind of trying to work him back into it and that probably has impacted Julian some but I do have confidence in him and feel like he’s done a good job I wouldn’t

Necessarily base maybe one game on whether or not you know he should or shouldn’t play even if it was not a great game tonight I wouldn’t sit there and say he he he shouldn’t get any minutes um but you try to you try to get

Him out there as much you can the hard part for Julian quite honestly is in a game like this sometimes you’re using you know when Alex has had to absorb so many of these highlevel offensive players and sometimes when you bring someone like Tori and maybe ahead of

Julian a lot of it is just the experience in the NBA of players that he’s guarded you know and Julian will get better at those things and we’ll learn those things um he’s very bright uh he picks things up he’s a good worker uh but a lot of times when you’re when

They’re staggering Kyrie and and look you’re you’re trying to utilize a guy like Tori because you can’t expect to match every minute you know for Alex with those guys Bulls dropped to 31 and 34 on the season there’s Billy Donovan 127 to 92 is the final score when we come back

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Luka Doncic deserves that MVP – ESPN react to Mavericks dominate Bulls to Sweep East Conf road trip