“Irving and Luka are a SPECIAL DUO” – ESPN on Mavericks crush Warriors 109-99 for 4th straight win

“Irving and Luka are a SPECIAL DUO” – ESPN on Mavericks crush Warriors 109-99 for 4th straight win

Here and the Mavericks beat the Warriors and of course the Warriors will see the Mavericks two more times in the final 17 games of the regular season they’re going to have to win those two if they want any type of tiebreaker over to Dallas Mavericks but too much Kyrie

Irving too much Derek Lively too much Gafford and a Mavericks role here as welcome everybody to Toyota Warriors post game live Monty pull our Warriors Insider or Hall of Famer I don’t have anybody say Monty Hall of Famer say that for festas on Saturday Festus is zy that

Is Chris Willer of course a Hall of Famer I am Bon Hill you knew it was going to be enough Bill battle here but when you get clay struggling you get CP3 struggling everybody else outside of Jonathan kaminga struggling from the floor mly it’s going to be tough to beat

A team like the Mavericks yeah both teams struggle offensively the Mavericks uh they shoot 54% from the field just 22% from three the Warriors go 40% from the field just 32% from three so points were hard to come by uh and I’d say partially good defense um a lot of

Missed open shots yes um but but the fourth quarter was really The Telltale um fast break points 22 to8 the maveri all the hustle points the Mavericks dominated points in the paint 6846 and you know because they weren’t shooting the three ball and then points off turnovers 2111 so all the hustle points

Went to Maverick’s way you say short-handed the Warriors made it this an ugly game which is what you know it’s fine on the road but the ex the execution and shot making was not there yeah you know with with Draymond out and Well Steph out I think you had to think

That that clay and Wiggins would have to bring some offense to it and and those two guys have combined for 124 30-point games over the course of their careers tonight they combined for 25 together um it’s it’s going to be hard for this Warriors team to find much offense if

They’re going to go a to 25 and and score 25 points and defensively I thought they did a good job on Luca and they kept for the most part kept the role players in check Kyrie Irving was Dynamic he he had a phenomenal game uh but they just wasn’t enough offense

There tonight yeah no Warriors dropped to 0 and3 without Stephen Curry and Draymond Green on the floor together and it was tough as we open up the tape here in the fourth Luka um like I said I thought they did a good job on Luca making him work for everything they did

Um but the Mavericks over the course of the game got everyone involved and I just thought Kyrie Irving was was incredible yeah 6848 when it comes to points in the paint plus 20 Dallas you mention the fast break points mly 22 to8 plus 14 Dallas and of course the points

Off turnovers there 21-1 so you’re Magus in all those different categories the winning categories there and then of course you got to tame Kyrie Irving somehow some way and he started rolling there he had that ball on the string then the fourth quarter he put on the

Show overall 23 points 10 assists and eight rebounds sometimes you forget how good he is because of all the off the court stuff but now he’s down to Dallas playing under to Jason kid and you see why he was the number one overall pick with Cleveland way back when yeah you

Forget be partly because he misses so many games in these past few years you know whether he no matter what team he was on he’s missing a ton of games ton of games and you forget that when Kyrie Irving is healthy he’s a killer and tonight you saw it and he put the

Warriors to sleep you know and again you look at that stretch there and also look at the way Daniel Gafford and Derek lley sort of controled the paint area I mean the Warriors weren’t getting a whole lot there got a lot of shots blocked you

Know and so they were trying to get in there and even on the shot when tjd was able to block one of lively shots you know he wasn’t able to get back to it because he was you know put him out of position and so there wasn’t much help

There it just they were outmanned tonight basically at thought yeah Kyrie Irving in the history of the game there’s not he’s one of the top offensive players he can make every shot he’s got incredible ball handling and once he gets going there’s nothing you could do with him so he was near a

Triple double tonight and we talked pregame about taking something away and the Warriors did a good job of that they took away the three-point shot they kept Dallas off the free throw line for the most part but not enough offense to reward that good defense yeah Warriors

Shoot just 40% from the floor 32% from the three-point line and Dallas struggles six to 47 we bring up Luca donon he was just seven of 18 one of six on the three-point line and he had dropped seven straight Tri triple doubles coming in well he didn’t get one

Tonight he had 21 points nine assists three rebounds they did a solid job on Luca dones man if you walk away from that saying okay Luca didn’t kill us there it was just a little too much Kyrie too many of The Bigs with Gafford and Lively yeah I know I think they did

A fantastic job LCA tried to get going and never really could get a whole lot going um you know he made a couple of big shots but he never got anything going over a period of time you know he’s one of those guys who can score 12

Points in like two minutes he never had no stretch like that like tonight so um The Warriors defensely I don’t have much of a big issue with that you know their defense by and large did okay um it wasn’t great but it was good enough to

To be keep them in the game it’s the offense man offense you can’t beat a Mavericks team scor 99 points you know it’s not enough and the Warriors much like they did to WN Bama made Luca a high volume shooter he had 18 shots to

Get 21 points they did a good job there saw some nice growth tjd initially went for the head fake later on in the game yep another play where he stayed down so that he learned something from that um but but Luca to me you know he’s a he’s

The Warriors would rather guard a guy like Luca although he’s got he would get big numbers than a guy like Kyrie Irving because they have plenty of big bodies with Jonathan Andrew wiggin Moses Moody we saw all these guys physically match up with him now he’s going to make tough

Shots Kyrie Irving’s a different story blow speed and his dnamic so I think matchup wise I think the Warriors their roster is more equipped to deal with Luca than a guy like Kyrie him getting that N1 late in the game with the left that was just nasty you know I mean

Kyrie though I mean there’s not a roster in the league that I think is equipped to stop yeah you could you could sort of contain Luca on a on certain nights but Kyrie when his package is going he ain’t a whole lot you can do no doubt just we’ll

Suffer no you do suffer we’ll break down some tape later on on how the Warriors contain LCA donz and made him work for everything but let’s discuss jonath the kaminga was getting coached up by Draymond Green here during the timeout and look at John de kaminga in seven of

His last nine games he scored at least 20 points he tried to keep the Warriors in it single-handedly 27 points willly four rebounds and much from anybody else so uh we know the Warriors can’t win like that and a game against team like the Mavericks who are you know entered

This game two and a half ahead of them and now they move three and a half ahead of them so um it’s a big loss but you knew going in was going to be tough you just thought you could hang around hang around and maybe uh get make enough

Shots if you had a big nighte from clay or Wiggins you know maybe you have a different outcome well you made a good point earlier today when Chicago losing that to the Chicago Bulls in San Antonio make and there’s a lot of losses we could point in the standings those two

Out there at home 17 games left for the Warriors but don’t forget available tomorrow man mty P the great KB car Burke does Talk podcast special guest Jonathan kaminga and I hear you guys talk for about 40 to 42 minutes Monty yeah he talked about his future what he

Wants to do uh with with the NBA um with his Social Media stuff I mean I’m sorry his social activism um you know he grew up in the Congo and that place has been at War for like three decades and there’s been more than six million

People who’ve died over there so he grew up there and this is a kid who at age 12 was begging his parents for money to go to a internet cafe to watch NBA highlights you know and that’s what he did and so he wanted to get over here he

Got over here when he was 13 he left over there and came over here he been over here ever since and you know he but he grew he’s an old 21 he grew up in that when you grew up in that environment you age you see things you

Know things and and when there’s a lot of conflict and a lot of violence um it changes you a little bit and he wants to just like the Kim Matumbo has done so much for that region he wants to do the same thing yeah one of my favorites and

I think I met him when he was 14 cuz when he came to the states he was in the New York New Jersey area he used to be at St John’s practice facility all the time he came to all our Gams at the Garden I I I just love Jonathan kaminga

Um he’s an endearing charismatic personality really hungry right for for good reason and very grateful yeah to be here he wants to do more than just become a great NBA player he wants to help his family and you said Monty ultimately go help his country yeah yeah

I mean you know and guys do I mean Serge Baka is another one who does a lot for there I mean the Kim’s building hospitals and stuff over the years you know and JK knows that you know and he wants to be like that in that regard he

Wants to be able to do things for people who need it and where he came from there’s a lot of need a lot of need and think about all the stuff we just talked about he’s 21 years old 21 years old got a bright future yeah and been through a

Lot of already right just watching the play though you say he’s hungry you can see it well he’s got that mid-range game that looks really nice when they guard him one-onone he’s got that nice little pullup bodying the guy off him and finishing he’s coming becoming a

Consistent player here in his third year in the league all right let’s go back down to Dallas to hear from fubuki as He foreign spee [Applause] fore E fore Spee Speee speech spee foreign fore speech fore foree Speee Spe spee spee speech okay foreign speech speech foreign speech spee for spe for What for For for You and my Love Spe

“Kyrie Irving & Luka Doncic are a SPECIAL DUO” – ESPN on Mavericks crush Warriors 109-99 for 4th straight win